Fairdale Pastor’s Blog:

No Servant is Greater than his Master

  • mother’s day sermon

    You can listen to yesterday’s Mother’s Day sermon here. I jumped around from various texts, but I mainly looked at Proverbs 31:28 “her children rise up and call her blessed”. I didn’t want to preach to mothers as much as I wanted to preach to everyone who has a mother. Here were my 3 points:…

  • the goal of parenting

    One of the books that I am currently reading is Our Covenant with Kids by Dr. Timothy Sisemore. I am really enjoying the book. If you are passionate about wanting God to use your parenting to help your kids love Jesus, then I highly recommend this book to you. Here is an excerpt from the…

  • how much do you hate sin?

    Last night at church we discussed this quote from Anselm: “If hell were on one side and sin on the other, I would rather leap into hell than willingly sin against my God.” This quote raised a good discussion. We had a few people quickly say they didn’t like it. They had good motives. They…

  • short-term missions, you should go!

    Our church is continually getting stronger and stronger in the area of Short-Term Missions Trips. For this reason, I thought you may like this article coming out of some research done at Baylor University. This article is “Researchers study return on short-term missions.” It is enough to make me want to go more. Here is…

  • the ending of kings

    My good buddy, Josh Honeycutt, has another great post here about the ending to the two books of Kings. You will like it. Here is an excerpt: “I don’t believe in randomness in the weaving together of the grand biblical narrative so when something seems out of place that to me is a tell-tell sign…

  • my reaction to the announcement of Bin Laden’s death

    As of Sunday evening, late, the whole world knew that the U.S. was announcing that Osama Bin Laden had been killed. Just about as quickly as that news came, it appeared to me that most people were ready to announce via facebook, twitter, text, etc. their own opinions and comments about this historical moment. As…

  • what a statement about Gospel/Christian ministry

    Perhaps there has never been a greater and more clearer statement about the Gospel/Christian ministry than what Paul writes to the Corinthians in 2 Corinthians 4:5: “For what we proclaim is not ourselves” Now that is absolutely a loaded statement. Think about that for a while. Again, there may have never been a better statement…

  • leading up to discipleship

    This past Sunday I preached on Luke 5:1-11. You can listen to the sermon here. As we are walking through the Gospel of Luke, Sunday after Sunday, we are really beginning to see what Luke meant in 1:1-4 when he tells Theophilus that he is writing this to him as “an orderly account” of the…

  • in case you have forgotten, or just haven’t heard it in a while

    “Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father, There is no shadow of turning with Thee; Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not; As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be. Summer and winter, and springtime and harvest, Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above. Join with all nature in manifold witness To…

  • lecrae battle -he is the real thing

    This short little video helps you see how grounded Lecrae is in his faith.