Category Archives: Discipleship

Monday Exposition Idea:
Success and Failure Under God
(Selected Scriptures)

By Franklin L. Kirksey, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Spanish Fort, Alabama, and author of Sound Biblical Preaching: Giving the Bible a Voice. These expositions by Dr. Kirksey are offered to suggest sermon or Bible study ideas for pastors and … Continue reading

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Monday Exposition Idea:
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
(Selected Scriptures)

By Franklin L. Kirksey, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Spanish Fort, Alabama, and author of Sound Biblical Preaching: Giving the Bible a Voice. These expositions by Dr. Kirksey are offered to suggest sermon or Bible study ideas for pastors and … Continue reading

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Justice vs. Mercy: Take Mercy Every Time!

By Joe McKeever, Preacher, Cartoonist, Pastor, and retired Director of Missions at the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans. “All I want is what’s coming to me!” Henry was being obnoxiously persistent in the church business meeting. Finally, in exasperation … Continue reading

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Going Inward: Taking the Gospel to an Unlikely Place

Marilyn Stewart is a weekly religion events columnist in the New Orleans Times-Picayune and is a free-lance writer for the Louisiana Baptist Message and other publications. *names in this article are changed to protect identities. It’s only Wednesday night, but … Continue reading

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Monday Exposition Idea:
Do you believe this?
(John 11:25-26)

By Franklin L. Kirksey, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Spanish Fort, Alabama, and author of Sound Biblical Preaching: Giving the Bible a Voice. These expositions by Dr. Kirksey are offered to suggest sermon or Bible study ideas for pastors and … Continue reading

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Established Faith Begins at The Cross

By Bob Williford, former director of the Hope Migrant Mission Center at the Migrant Farm Labor Center near Hope, Arkansas (a ministry of the Arkansas Baptist Convention), and author of Fence Post Digest blog. Colossians 2:7-15 7 having been firmly … Continue reading

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Monday Exposition Idea:
The Saint’s Highest Calling
(Isaiah 66:1-6)

By Franklin L. Kirksey, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Spanish Fort, Alabama, and author of Sound Biblical Preaching: Giving the Bible a Voice. These expositions by Dr. Kirksey are offered to suggest sermon or Bible study ideas for pastors and … Continue reading

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Monday Exposition Idea:
The Servant of the Lord
(Psalm 143:1-12)

By Franklin L. Kirksey, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Spanish Fort, Alabama, and author of Sound Biblical Preaching: Giving the Bible a Voice. These expositions by Dr. Kirksey are offered to suggest sermon or Bible study ideas for pastors and … Continue reading

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Monday Exposition Idea:
I Met God There
(Matthew 6:25-34)

By Franklin L. Kirksey, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Spanish Fort, Alabama, and author of Sound Biblical Preaching: Giving the Bible a Voice. These expositions by Dr. Kirksey are offered to suggest sermon or Bible study ideas for pastors and … Continue reading

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Monday Exposition Idea:
Professing God
(Titus 1:16)

By Franklin L. Kirksey, Pastor, First Baptist Church of Spanish Fort, Alabama, and author of Sound Biblical Preaching: Giving the Bible a Voice. These expositions by Dr. Kirksey are offered to suggest sermon or Bible study ideas for pastors and … Continue reading

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