Pastor’s Blog
Dr. Richard Kremer
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The Power of Encouragement (Philippians 4: 14-17)
Many years ago I pastored a large, mostly-white, downtown congregation in Charlotte, even as, simultaneously, I was also the Director of Missions for a small but thoroughly multi-cultural Baptist Association. I had a vision: I wanted our little Association to sponsor...
Think Upon the Best (Philippians 4:8-9)
Paul suspects that he does not have much longer to live. Always a man of hope, Paul nevertheless senses that Rome has begun to realize the threat that Christianity poses to its claim of absolute truth and its demand of absolute fealty, and they are not likely to let...
“Go Tell It On the Mountain!” ( Luke 2: 8 -14)
I grew up in the era of great Broadway musicals – The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, West Side Story and the like. I must admit that as a child I had little use for these extravaganzas because they seemed so false at heart. Nobody in real life...
The Gift of Fezziwig (Proverbs 12: 25)
“Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down; but a good word makes him glad.” On this First Sunday of Advent, our gaze turns irrepressibly toward the climactic, glorious moment of Christmas Day and the celebration of the birth of the Christ gift, even as we enter this...
The Simplicity of Our Faith (Matthew 22: 34-40)
A new verb has entered our vocabulary. This verb may not yet be included in a modern dictionary, but it has certainly entered the modern lexicon of usage. It is the verb, “to google,” as in “I heard my wife tell my daughter, ‘I was looking for a recipe so I googled...
The Shaping of Our Character (Matthew 4: 1-11)
If you abandoned a young tadpole, a young snake and a human infant at the edge of a pond, the tadpole would enter the water immediately and swim away, the snake would find a hole in which to curl up – and the human infant would die. The human baby’s potential far...
The Power of Passivity (Mark 9: 25-29; Acts 1: 3-5)
Never forget that in this situation the disciples were trying to do a very good thing. They were trying to heal a young boy of epilepsy. They had watched Jesus perform similar healings many times. They knew exactly what words he had said, knew exactly what actions he...
A Love That Surpasses Loss (John 15: 12-17 ; Acts 4: 32-35)
On Broad Street in Rome, Georgia, there is a plaque commemorating the life and achievements of Rosalind Burns Gammon. Frankly, this plaque is a meager tribute to a woman who had the most enduring influence on Southern culture of any Floyd County citizen who ever...
When the Trumpet Doesn’t Sound (Matthew 2: 13-18)
We could start this sermon virtually anywhere. We could begin with the wailing women in Pharaoh’s Egypt, lamenting their massacred Hebrew babies, even as little Moses floats serenely in his boat of bulrushes. We could begin in New York City on the eleventh day of...
Seized By a Great Idea (Matthew 4: 18-22)
A couple of times a year I follow the example of Jesus and retreat from people to engage in a couple of days of isolation, fasting, prayer and work. My dog usually travels with me on these occasions, and on this particular trip I was accompanied by my golden retriever...