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Final Sermons: Fear Free (Video and Manuscript)

By on Thursday, September 28th, 2017 | No Comments

Today’s post is another sermon from the series leading up to the final worship gathering of the Patterson Avenue Baptist Church. One of the things my congregation (including myself) was experiencing during this time was the emotion of FEAR.  That’s normal when facing the death of a loved one – including a beloved institution like […]

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A Faustian Bargain

By on Sunday, April 12th, 2015 | 1 Comment

Richmond, VA was the capital of the Confederacy and was home to one of the largest hubs for slaves trading, second only to New Orleans.  The slave trading culture of the time is a shameful and sorrowful part of our heritage.  Slavery made one person the possession of another and with that led to a great deal of despair, spiritual […]

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What is Freedom?

By on Friday, January 23rd, 2015 | No Comments

  If there is one virtue in our nation, which we all would readily applaud, it would probably be freedom.  We would no doubt have some disagreements over certain social issues, taxes, the national defense, and whether McDonald’s or Wendy’s has the best cheeseburgers, but we would all probably agree that freedom is good.   […]

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Words of Founders, Baptists and Others about Church and State

By on Sunday, November 20th, 2011 | No Comments

Words of Founders, Baptists and Others about Church and State Early Baptists “An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.” –Roger Williams (founder of First Baptist Church in America), The Bloody […]

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Easter Gift: Freedom

By on Friday, April 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

Read John 8: 14-36  In John 8:14-36, we are reminded of the fact that as human beings apart from grace, we are enslaved to sin.  We will also learn that Jesus meets our needs by teaching us that the only way to experience real freedom is through becoming a disciple – a follower of Jesus […]

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Freed From Guilt

By on Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 | No Comments

Imagine the scene.  Jesus and His disciples are at a dinner party in the home of a prominent Pharisee.  Everyone is talking theology and politics.  The dinner is quite peaceful.  All of a sudden, the tranquility of the evening is shattered, as a prostitute walks across the room, anoints the feet of Jesus and wipes […]

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“Free To Be…” – Jeana Murray-Nieporte

By on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 | No Comments

On February 20th, Patterson Avenue Baptist Church celebrated “WMU Focus Sunday.” The women of Patterson Avenue led worship – as they so effectively lead in all areas of congregational life. Our guest preacher was my lovely wife, Jeana Murray-Nieporte, and she did a terrific job. Her text was Hebrews 12:1-2 and Acts 2:16-18 (which is […]

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They Kicked God Out…

By on Thursday, December 30th, 2010 | No Comments

“I’m just saying…” I read this sign in a restaurant earlier today:  “They kicked God out of the public schools, but He is still welcome here.  Feel free to pray!”  The sign included a family, around a table, holding hands, heads bowed. Let’s set the silly notion aside for this post that God could be […]

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