January 14, 2018 taught by Ken McGarvey First Baptist Church of Tellico Village, Tennessee Background Following the Flood God gave instructions to Noah and his family to multiply and fill the earth. In the next few hundred years many of them did so pretty well. As they multiplied they began Read more…
taught by Ken McGarvey First Baptist Church of Tellico Village, Tennessee January 7, 2018 Why do we bow our heads and look at the ground when we pray, instead of looking to heaven where God is? Let me broaden the question: should we pray standing, sitting, kneeling, prostrate, looking Read more…
January 5, 2018 I’m talking about our health once we reach our 60s. There are sometimes good things about being sick or injured. No, I’m not talking about life-ending incidents, but the everyday inconvenience of our health being less than optimal and our comfort level much below what we hope Read more…
December 31, 2017 taught by Ken McGarvey First Baptist Church of Tellico Village, Tennessee Where are the dead in Christ before he returns? Are they asleep someplace? There is a belief called “soul sleep,” taught by Jehovah’s Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists and others. It states that when a person dies, Read more…
December 17, 2017 taught by Ken McGarvey First Baptist Church of Tellico Village, Tennessee How much of the traditional Christmas story as we know it is accurate? Believing the Bible is the totally trustworthy word of God, I believe the Christmas story, like the rest of the Bible, is totally Read more…
January 2, 2018 The word sends a chill into a conversation, fear into the mind, empathy into the heart, memories into the consciousness. Two weeks ago my wife Joy was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Our consciousness harbors the word in the background behind every conversation, every game or movie on Read more…
December 17, 2017 How does your society dispose of its trash, garbage, refuse, waste? Well, much of the human waste and other organic things are processed, sanitized and redistributed. How about the other stuff? Some people recycle aluminum, paper and some kinds of plastics. But mostly we just throw it Read more…
It seems that every day we see reports of new accusations of sexual harassment or abuse, usually of young women at the hands of men who were over them in the social or business world. News media carry their stories and name the offenders. Much of the country is upset Read more…
The other day I heard another Christian complimenting a clerk on saying, “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays.” There are even songs out complaining about “Happy Holidays.” I’m not inclined to take that road at all. I think many professing Christians are just what I call “Bumper Sticker Christians.” They Read more…
October 8, 2017 taught by Ken McGarvey First Baptist Church of Tellico Village, Tennessee Throughout Christian history there have always been a few people with the vision and the drive to go to other cultures and share the name, the love and the redemption of Jesus. However, for centuries it Read more…