A Prayer to Prepare for Easter
This is a guest post from my good friend and colleague Dr. Randy Millwood, Church Services Consultant for the Maryland/Delaware Baptist Convention, FBC Frederick member, and best Real-Beard Santa Claus in the world. He wrote it as an email to the ministers of BCMD for Maundy Thursday, but it speaks to our situation on this Holy Weekend and so I offer it to you, with the necessary alterations, to help you in your preparation for Resurrection Day. In the Christian calendar, the Thursday of Holy Week is...
A Maundy Thursday Prayer (Psalm 88)
Despair is difficult when the Resurrection hovers nearby. For two millennia the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection have been told and retold, celebrated and feted. Everyone knows how the story ends. It doesn’t end with “It is finished.” Rather, with “”Why do you look for the living among the dead? He isn’t here, but has been raised.” It’s difficult, therefore, to read the Passion–the betrayal, the arrest, the beating, the mocking, the...
The Relevant Temptation
The other day our son Austin asked Pam and me if we had ever gone through anything like the COVID-19 pandemic before. The answer, of course, was no. These are unprecedented times. People are fearful, anxious. Angry. Some are complacent. Some are in denial. We are isolating ourselves from each other. If ever we needed a word from God, it is now. As one who weekly speaks to people about God, on behalf of God, and maybe, every once in awhile, delivers a word from God, I feel the weight of that need to hear...
You Don’t Learn Wisdom From a Book Like Proverbs
Let’s talk about the Book of Proverbs. Hey, wait, where are you going? Get back here! Sheesh, hear me out for a second. I know it doesn’t sound very exciting, but hang on, I’m gonna bring on the excitement in a minute. Well, no, probably not, but hang with me for a second anyway. The Book of Proverbs has been called “God’s Instruction Book for Life,” which sounds awesome. Not content with that pithy title, another person said, “Proverbs is actually a book of instructions on how to live a life pleasing...
Posted by Larry Eubanks on Apr 11, 2016 | 0 comments
Larry L. Eubanks, First Baptist Church, Frederick, Maryland, April 10, 2016 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior. Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their...
Marriage in the Modern Wor...
Posted by Larry Eubanks on Apr 3, 2016 | 0 comments
A few years ago I attended a pastor’s roundtable luncheon with about a dozen other pastors. We would meet 3-4 times a year, have fellowship, enjoy a nice meal in a private room at a nice restaurant, and then have a discussion on some topic related to the contemporary church. This particular luncheon was a few weeks after Maryland had passed a law that some—but not all—of our pastors had opposed. One...
Persecuted—or Just W...
Posted by Larry Eubanks on Apr 3, 2016 | 2 comments
Photo by © Can Stock Photo Inc. / goldenKB 1st in the series, “Modern Family?” Ephesians 5:21-6:9 Larry L. Eubanks, First Baptist Church, Frederick, Maryland, April 3, 2016 This morning we begin a series on the family, and we’ve given it the title of “Modern Family?” but with a question mark. What we are experiencing is a revolution in the concept of family, and it’s one that has a lot of Christians...
From Biblical Family to Mo...
Posted by Larry Eubanks on Mar 28, 2016 | 0 comments
For Christians the resurrection is of supreme significance, but can we articulate why? I’m not so sure. Our first instinct may be to say that Jesus’ resurrection proves his divinity, but I think it in fact proves God’s divinity, which is rather redundant. If you think about it, a god being raised from the dead is actually expected; it’s a human that needs special intervention once they are dead. Raising...
What the Resurrection Demo...
Posted by Larry Eubanks on Mar 27, 2016 | 0 comments
This is the 3rd message in the series, “The Genius of Three.” Part One was, “Three Crosses.” Part Two, “Three Days.” Larry L. Eubanks, First Baptist Church, Frederick, Maryland, Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016 That video you just saw showed some of the “three’s” associated with the life of Jesus, and in this three-part series I’ve been talking about some more. There are three crosses on which hang three...
Three Questions
Posted by Larry Eubanks on Mar 25, 2016 | 2 comments
One semester in graduate school I taught Beginning Hebrew to master’s level students at seminary. On this same morning, Good Friday, I woke up in a cloudy mood, and I didn’t know why. At first I dismissed it as the last day of a long week, having to get up early enough to shower, put on a coat and tie, get 3-yr.-old Angela up, fed, dressed, and dropped off at day care in time to be in my classroom a few...
What’s So Good about...
Posted by Larry Eubanks on Mar 24, 2016 | 0 comments
In the weeks leading up to Jesus’ arrival in Jerusalem, there is a change in his demeanor. There’s more sadness, he’s perhaps more confrontational yet less optimistic that people are going to get it. The crowds dwindle, his disciples argue more, and the religious authorities seem to be painting a big target on his chest. Though individual lives, and many of them, have been touched and changed, on the...
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