Biographies of the Herods’

Introduction In this Brief Biography of the Herods’ it will help you understand a bit better numerous events in the New Testament and which Herod it was that was involved. Herod Antipater I the Idumaean (73 to 43 B.C.) is the founder of the Herodian Dynasty and the...

What Christmas Are You Celebrating?

Audio Sermons: www.sermonaudio.com/fbcoc The idea for this message came from the tract titled A Christmas Trio by Trumpet Tract Ministries of Milwaukee. A husband-wife team recently started this tract ministry and they have a number of good tracts! I am enclosing a...

Holiday Humbug

Presented 12/12/2004 Introduction I suppose the place to begin this message is to define humbug. According to the Mirriam-Webster online dictionary humbug is something designed to deceive or mislead. Therefore, the title of my message could be Holiday Deception. The...

Lent & Palm Sunday

Sermon Delivered 04/04/04 Why We Do Not Celebrate Lent Later in this message, we will take a look at the Bible passages dealing with what is called Palm Sunday. But, before I do that, I want to shed some light on why we do not celebrate Lent. While the basic answer is...

Bringing Christmas Into Focus

Sermon Delivered 12/25/03 Last week when I was walking down the hall to my office, a brother handed me an article written by Cal Thomas titled There’s more to Christmas than the almighty dollar. In part, here’s what the article said… I’m not sure it’s worth keeping...