A Southern Baptist pastor for almost 35 years, I currently serve as Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Angleton, Texas, and post my weekly sermons on this site, as well as a brief overview for Sunday School teachers of the weekly Lifeway "Explore the Bible" lesson.
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- The Drink Offering: Don't Waste Your Life
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Tag Archives: wicked
When Tolerance Is No Virtue
“He plans wickedness upon his bed; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he does not despise evil.” (Psalm 36:4) The first verses of Psalm 36 describe the ungodly person. Verse 1 labels him the “ungodly”, and … Continue reading
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Tagged compromise, evil, Psalm 36:4, tolerance, toleration, wicked
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The Wicked Will Be Punished
“Evil shall slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.” (Psalm 34:21) God makes clear in this verse what the end of the wicked will be. Their punishment is inescapable: “Those who hate the righteous will … Continue reading
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Tagged evil, judgment, Psalm 34:21, punishment, salvation, wicked
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Are Your Thoughts Just?
Proverbs 12:5 declares: “The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.” Like many Proverbs, this verse gives a striking parallel between the righteous and the wicked. Most of us would undoubtedly tend to … Continue reading
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Tagged conviction, inner man, justice, mind, Proverbs 12:5, righteousness, salvation, thoughts, wicked
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Admiring Wicked Men
Psalm 15 speaks of those who are able to stand in the fellowship of God, and verse 4 includes an interesting quality: “In whose eyes a reprobate is despised”. Here we find one of the symptoms of the compromised Christianity … Continue reading
Pregnant With Trouble
Psalm 7:14 has a word for the wicked — and for those of us who fear that they are going to “get away with it.” They won’t! The verse reads: “Behold, he travails with wickedness, and he conceives mischief and … Continue reading
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Tagged judgment, pregnancy, Psalm 37, Psalm 71:4, Psalm 73:19, unrighteous, wicked
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