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Archive for the Sermons Category


A Visit From The Christ Child (a poem)

In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem, originally called “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”   In many American homes is it read on Christmas Eve.   It begins ‘Twas the night before Christmas’ and redefined the image of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of children, who had never before been associated with a sleigh or reindeers! […]

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Light a Candle – Video Sermon

Do you remember the “Hee-Haw” variety show? One of my favorite scenes each week was when a couple of fellows in a field started to sing: “Gloom, despair, and agony on me – Deep dark depression, excessive misery. “If it weren’t for bad luck – “I’d have no luck at all, “Gloom, depair, and agony […]

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Some Guy Jumped Me At The Mall

A few weeks back, as the Christmas shopping season began, I was jumped by a guy at the mall.  The guy did not have a knife or a gun.  His weapons were a collection of Gospel tracts.  His desire was to make sure I was “SAVED.” “If you were to die tonight, do you know whether or […]

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Ready or Not, Here I Come – Advent 1 Audio & Video

          Whew, what an ordeal…. Patterson Avenue Baptist Church has a new video system, allowing us to record worship and post sermons (and other content) on the World Wide Web.  We even have the capacity to LiveStream – broadcasting LIVE on the Web.  Basically, we can have out own internet television station. […]

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Lavish Love – Audio & Video

The Sunday sermon at The Patterson Avenue Baptist Church on November 20, 2011, was based on Ephesians 1:15-23.  The title of the sermon is “Lavish Love.” If you would like to watch the sermon, you are invited to CLICK THIS LINK NOW!  The link will open a new window and you see a neat intro followed […]

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Stewards of Life

Below is a link to the November 6, 2011 sermon preached at Patterson Avenue Baptist Church. The text was 1 Thessolonians 4:13-18. I want you to pay particularly close attention to the first sixty seconds, or so.  Discover what a free/shareware program called Audacity can do – when partnered with a microphone and a $19.00 […]

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Do Something New

This is the final sermon post from the “Rooftop” series, based on Acts 10:1-11-18. The messages aims to inspire the congregation to do the NEW THING All of the sermons in this series are posted on this blog, or may be found at Patterson Avenue Baptist. CLICK HERE NOW TO HEAR TODAY’S POST!

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Opportunity

Moments of “crisis” are dangerous times – but they are also times of great opportunity.  This fourth sermon in the “Rooftop” series (based on Acts 10:1-11-18) explores the mindset necessary for a believer and congregation to be opportunity focused. In this sermon you will hear things like… Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff It’s Not About […]

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Rooftop Crisis

The church (especially in the west) is experiencing a major crisis.  This might me the end.  Or it could be an occassion for an awakening – an opportunity unlike anything the Christianity has seen in 1000 years.  Or it might mean both, really.  It really depend on how we respond.  How will you respond? Click this […]

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Going to Church

My friend Dennis Pethers asks an interesting, TRANCE-BUSTING question. What’s more difficult, getting people outside the church interested in Jesus OR getting people inside the church to be interested enough in those outside the church to go to where they are to tell them about Jesus? Oh, no!  We’ve got to get people to “come to church” […]

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