http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Love-Done-Right-3-1-20.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Love Done Right Date: March 1, 2020 How many of you have seen the movie Michael with John Travolta? Leaving aside the terrible theology for a moment, the movie itself is great. John Travolta plays the archangel Michael who has come to earth apparently to have a great time, do […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Dirty-Words-2-23-20.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Dirty Words (Ephesians 5:22-33) Date: February 23, 2020 My boys enjoy Legos. A lot. In addition to having two of them on Lego Robotics teams at school, I think we are on a good approach for having every Lego set known to man before they graduate from high school. Over […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Getting-Things-Right-2-9-20.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Getting Things Right (1 Peter 3:1-7) Date: February 9, 2020 We’ve talked about this a few times before and will talk about it again in the future, but one of the challenges of being a follower of Jesus committed to the idea that the Scriptures are right and true in […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/A-Higher-Purpose-2-2-20.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: A Higher Purpose (Ephesians 5:22-33) Date: February 2, 2020 I have a little quiz for you this morning. I hope you studied. Some of you who were never very good test takers in school are already starting to get a bit nervous, aren’t you? There’s just one question to this […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/What-Is-Marriage-1-19-20.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: What Is Marriage? Date: January 19, 2020 I figured he could probably say it better than I could. Believe it or not, I’ve done a wedding in which I was asked to start with those lines in character. In any event, we are talking this morning and for the next […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Stay-Focused-1-5-20.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Stay Focused (Nehemiah 6:1-4) Date: January 5, 2020 Have you ever been distracted? So, just the other day I was looking at the NFL schedules for next year. Guess who faces off at some point in the season? The Chief and the Panthers. In Kansas City. Boom. We’ll have to […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Keep-Seeking-12-29-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Keep Seeking (Matthew 2:1-12) Date: December 29, 2019 So here we are on the other side of the big day. Did anybody wake up Thursday morning and think, “Now what?” I mean, Wednesday we were all like, “Ho, ho, ho!” But Thursday? It was perhaps more like, “Oh, oh, oh…” […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/A-Savior-for-Nobodies-12-22-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: A Savior for Nobodies (Luke 2:8-18) Date: December 22, 2019 Another cold night. Just like the last one. And the one before that. And the one before that. I can’t even remember the last time I was warm. I mean, the sun is nice during the day, but man do […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Faith-in-the-Hard-12-15-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Faith in the Hard (Matthew 1:18-25) Date: December 15, 2019 They’re finally asleep, thank the Lord! You would think that exhaustion from the journey alone would have made that particular task significantly easier than it has proved to be lately, but you would be wrong. These are the things no […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Big-News-12-8-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Big News (Luke 1) Date: December 8, 2019 In a season when busyness seems to be the name of the game, sometimes it’s hard to remember just what exactly it is we are supposed to be celebrating at this time of year.  Many of us know the story of Christmas […]