http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Hard-to-Love-10-27-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Hard to Love (Luke 6:27-35) Date: October 27, 2019 Do you remember some of the phrases your dad said a lot when you were growing up?  Every dad has these.  It’s part of the secret dad creed (but if you tell anyone I’m afraid the consequences will be quite grave […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Uncomplicated-Relationships-10-13-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Uncomplicated Relationships (Romans 12:9-21) Date: October 13, 2019 Around about the time that I was coming through my early teenage years, schools were just beginning to transition from having junior high schools to having middle schools.  My own school district followed the trend pretty closely.  When I was a freshman […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A-Slower-Pace-10-6-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: A Slower Pace (Exodus 20:8-11, 31:12-17; Mark 2:23-28) Date: October 6, 2019 Do you remember going on vacation as a kid?  I remember several different vacations we took.  I remember seeing Disney for the first time and marveling at the magic found there.  I’ll never forget the first time I […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Use-It-Well-9-29-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Use It Well (1 Timothy 6:3-19) Date: September 29, 2019 By a show of hands, how many of you have heard of Benny Hinn?  The televangelist is a longtime peddler of the Prosperity Gospel.  The Prosperity Gospel is a uniquely American heresy (that we have unfortunately exported around the world) […]

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.  […]