http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Key-to-Contentment-9-22-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: The Key to Contentment (Philippians 4:10-14) Date: September 22, 2019 Where is your happy place?  Come to mine with me for a minute.  Imagine sitting on the porch of a cabin up in the mountains.  It’s cool, but not too cool.  The kind of cool where you could put a […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/A-Centered-Life-9-8-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: A Centered Life (Matthew 6:25-34) Date: September 8, 2019 Do you ever want more?  That’s kind of a broad question.  More of what?  Well, anything.  If we’re going to stay that broad, then of course you do.  I do too.  Now, not of everything.  But sometimes we want more, right?  […]

Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Love like Jesus (John 13:34-35) Date: September 1, 2019 By the time I reached my senior year of college, I was so deep into my chemistry major there was no turning back from that.  I say that, because by that time I had already agreed to pursue God’s call to ministry […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Irreducible-Complexity-8-25-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Irreducible Complexity (1 Peter 4:7-11) August 25, 2019 Some of the fiercest and most significant debates happen in places where nobody sees them.  These are often inner-disciplinary debates among scholars on a single topic.  And the stakes for these are a lot higher than it would seem.  For instance, a […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Return-the-Favor-8-18-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Return the Favor (1 Peter 1:13-16) August 18, 2019 Just out of curiosity this morning, how many of you have both been called and actually served for jury duty?  Thank you for that.  We don’t often thank jurors, but they contribute a vitally important service to our nation’s judicial system.  […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Keep-at-It-8-11-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Keep at It (1 Corinthians 15:58) Date: August 11, 2019 Have you ever wanted to give up?  You pick the reason.  Have you ever been at a point where you were seriously considering throwing up your hands and walking away from something?  I think we all hit those places at […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Staying-on-Track-8-4-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Staying on Track (1 Corinthians 9:24-27) Date: August 4, 2019 When I was growing up, I had the great fortune of going to a church with a whole bunch of godly men to watch as examples of how to do the Christian life well.  It was a gift that has […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/What-Do-You-Know-7-28-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: What Do You Know? (Matthew 22:37) Date: July 28, 2019 Do you know where the annual U.S. sailboat show takes place?  Any takers?  Do you know who else didn’t know the answer to that question?  James Holzhauer.  Name ring a bell?  He was the most recent super candidate on the […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Get-Your-Head-on-Right-7-21-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Get Your Head on Right (Philippians 4:8) Date: July 21, 2019 I grew up in a hymn-singing church.  Every single Sunday morning we sang hymns.  As a result, the great hymns of the faith are like a warm, familiar embrace for me.  I suspect that in this room, I’m not […]