Sermons

According To Luke: Watching and Working Opening Illustration: Have you met Jessica? Jessica is one of our hard working custodians. Jessica shows up to work on time. She shows up to work ready to go. No doubt about it, Jessica is the hardest working woman at Eastern Shore Baptist Church. Every time I see her, she has worked up a sweat. She vacuums. She cleans. She takes out the trash. She does all of this with a huge smile on her face.  The other day, I told her that she could take a break. After all, she was making the rest of us look bad. Without missing a beat, she replied that taking a break was not going to vacuum this floor. Good for her I say. I really like Jessica because I love hard workers. I find them inspiring. Answer this question for me this morning, who is the hardest working person you know? Fill in that blank for me today.  Who Is The Hardest Working Person You Know? So who is it? Is it your husband, your wife? Is it someone here in the chu...

Wise Words: Sowing The Seeds Of Peace Illustration: Are You A Sunflower or Venus Flytrap  The Venus Flytrap is found in nitrogen and phosphorus-poor environments, such as bogs and wet savannas. Small in stature and slow growing, the Venus flytrap tolerates fire well, and depends on periodic burning to suppress its competition.The nutritional poverty of the soil is the reason that the plant relies on such elaborate traps: insect prey provide the nitrogen for protein formation that the soil cannot. The Venus Flytrap is not a tropical plant and can tolerate mild winters. Some Christians Are Like The Flytrap... -They Are Planted In The Wrong Place -They Love Burning Their Competition -They Suck The Life Out Of Everything Around Them -Because They Are Not Planted In The Right Pace, They Never Make It Through The Winter Be Like The Sunflower. Sunflowers are planted in rich soil, they grow tall and are rich in color. The flower head will actually track the s...

According To Luke: Whipping Worry Opening Illustration: At the time it was completed in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world. During the first phase of the project, 23 men fell to their death. There were very few safety devices, and things seemed to be going from bad to worse. So when it was halfway completed they decided to take another look and to make some changes. Here is what they did. They reorganized and they built the largest net ever made and attached it under the area where the men were working. Was it worth the cost and the time it took to do that? Well just ask the 10 men who fell into the net! Not only did it save the lives of those 10 men, the work was actually done sooner than planned because they no longer lived in fear of falling. Point: After reading that story, I realized that is the way that many Christians live. They live in fear that they may fall and faulted and that no one will be there to catch th...