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“What Real Faith Looks Like: No Partiality” (James 2:1-4 sermon)

Posted on 2024/07/22 by Shawn Thomas

At one point during the U.S. Civil War, Northern General Ulysses S.Grant gave President Abraham Lincoln and the Secretary of War a list of 8 major generals and 33 brigadier generals whose service he said “the Government ‘could dispense with … Continue reading →

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“The LORD in His Holy Temple” (Habakkuk 2:12-20 sermon)

Posted on 2023/11/13 by Shawn Thomas

Virtually everyone in our country knows George Washington, our first, and one of our greatest presidents of the United States. Washington had a very charismatic demeanor about him. Men who were fleeing in battle would suddenly turn around and face … Continue reading →

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“The God Who Reigns in Evil Days” (Habakkuk 1:12 sermon)

Posted on 2023/09/25 by Shawn Thomas

Years ago someone I knew had lost a loved one in a tragedy, and a friend of theirs asked them: “How do you manage to still look to God in a time like this?” They said, “In a time like … Continue reading →

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“What God Wants From Us” (Micah 6:8 sermon)

Posted on 2022/08/29 by Shawn Thomas

Both the public schools, and our Angleton Christian School have resumed classes now. And I’m sure as classes began, most teachers shared with their students their expectations, right from the beginning: here’s how we need you to act, in your … Continue reading →

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“The Call To Holiness” (I Peter 1:14-16)

Posted on 2019/06/03 by Shawn Thomas

Duncan Campbell was a Scottish minister who lived in the mid-1900’s. He was involved in an amazing revival in the Hebrides Islands in the northwest of Scotland. Years ago he said, “Holiness — a demonstration of godly living — is … Continue reading →

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“The Golden Rule” (Matthew 7:12 sermon)

Posted on 2017/10/09 by Shawn Thomas

When our kids were little, I started listening to a CD with the greatest hits of the British comic operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. These operas were written in the late 1800’s, and they poke fun at all kinds of … Continue reading →

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“Our Just God” (Genesis 18:25)

Posted on 2012/03/11 by Shawn Thomas

Some months ago, a woman wrote to the editor of a New Orleans area newspaper, upset that someone had suggested that homosexuality is forbidden in the Bible. “My God,” she wrote, “is a God of love, and not a … Continue reading →

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