Great Opportunities – Great Responsibility

Posted at Monday, February 1st, 2010 by Timothy McGhee

One of the great things in being part of First Baptist is our long heritage in global missions.  God has so richly blessed us with a multitude of opportunities to take the gospel to the far reaches of His world.  From teams walking the dusty paths of West Africa, to teams ministering to MKs in [...]

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Help Haiti!

Posted at Monday, January 25th, 2010 by Timothy McGhee

Great Project to reach out to Haiti
Looking for a way your family or LifeGroup can make a difference for the people of Haiti.  Check out this great and inexpensive project.
Buckets of Hope . . . You may have heard some about this worthwhile endeavor that is being sponsored by the Tennessee Baptist Convention in conjunction with The [...]

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The Sad State of News In Knoxville

Posted at Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 by Timothy McGhee

As I sit at my desk on this Wednesday afternoon I am struck at the sad state of affairs in our country.  No I am not referring to the health care bill or the latest Washington scandal.  My little corner of the world has been turned on it’s ear because a football coach resigned after [...]

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PARADISE LOST AND FOUND

Posted at Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 by Timothy McGhee

Hebrews 2:5-9
Introduction
In his Epic poem “Paradise Lost” John Milton chronicles the fall of Adam and Eve and its lasting effect on mankind.  Milton states that his purpose in “Paradise Lost” is to “justify the ways of God to men and elucidate the conflict between God’s eternal foresight and free-will.”
The author of Hebrews fulfills a similar [...]

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Ramblings of a vacated mind

Posted at Friday, September 11th, 2009 by Timothy McGhee

Ok, I have been on vacation all week. Sleeping late, relaxing by the pool, touring Savannah and Charleston, and most of all enjoying so alone time with Carla. Yet, this week has not been completed spent in non-intellectual endeavors. I have managed to finish one book, “Paradigms in Conflict” and read two [...]

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Here Am I, Send Me

Posted at Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 by Timothy McGhee

Last week I had the privilege of spending three days in Baltimore, MD. It was my first trip to “Birdland” as the Orioles fans like to call it. Baltimore is much like a number of cities in the industrial northeast. In some ways its a city who’s greatest days seem to have [...]

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Enough is Enough

Posted at Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 by Timothy McGhee

I recently had the privilege of traveling to West Africa where I spent a week with some of God’s choice servants. These believers work hard every day in order to simply survive in one of the harshest environments I have every experienced. In addition they live under the constant threat of persecution. [...]

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A Life Well Lived

Posted at Thursday, August 13th, 2009 by Timothy McGhee

On Tuesday evening of this week, our church lost a wonderful saint and I lost a friend. With the home going of Jeff Brownfield, FBC lost a wonderful godly man, who was a true scholar and student of the word of God. To my knowledge Jeff never attended a day of Bible college [...]

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Beware of the Wolves

Posted at Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 by Timothy McGhee

Galatians 5:2-12IntroductionIn chapters 5 & 6 Paul makes direct application of the truths he has so faithfully taught in the preceding chapters. In these two chapters he focuses not on justification but on sanctification. He affirms that the life of faith involves both orthodoxy and orthopraxy.He begins by warning the Galatians of the [...]

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