http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/The-Cleasing-Flood-5-19-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: The Cleansing Flood (Genesis 6-9) Date: May 19, 2019 Have you ever gone back as an adult and watched a TV show you remembered from your childhood only for it to seem like a totally different show that you remembered?  Over the years with our boys I’ve tried a few […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Passing-the-Torch-5-12-19.mp3 Passing the Torch One of the national highlights when a particular country gets to host the Olympic Games is the Olympic Torch.  Each Olympics, the climax of the opening ceremonies is the lighting of the Olympic Torch.  The main flame is always lit by a smaller torch that has usually been on a journey […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/You-Want-Me-to-Do-What-5-5-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Bible Stories to Make You Squirm: You Want Me to Do What? (Genesis 22:1-19) Date: May 5, 2019 Have you ever watched or read something that just wasn’t good?  It’s not necessarily that it was bad, it just wasn’t good.  You just didn’t enjoy it.  I remember watching Adam Sandler’s Punch […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/So-What-Is-a-Baptist-Chuch-Anyway-4-28-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: So What Is a Baptist Church Anyway? (1 Peter 2:9; Matthew 28:19-20) April 28, 2019 Have you ever stood in line for something without really knowing what the line was for?  You just saw a bunch of people standing in line and figured it was the right place to be?  […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/The-Resurrection-Changes-Everything-4-21-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: The Resurrection Changes Everything (1 Corinthians 15:12-20) Date: April 21, 2019 So, I love Monty Python.  That may tell some of you more about me than you wanted to know.  Meanwhile, others of you are thinking, “Who’s Monty Python?”  Monty Python was a British sketch comedy troupe popular in the […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Full-Contentment-4-14-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: Full Contentment (Ecclesiastes 11:7-10; 12:12-14) April 14, 2019 One of the things I have actively encouraged you guys to be doing is spending daily time in the Scriptures.  This is something I’ll keep encouraging and keep encouraging and keep encouraging because of how utterly transformational this practice is to the […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/The-Problem-with-Wealth-4-7-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: The Problem with Wealth (Ecclesiastes 5:10-20) April 7, 2019 Have you ever felt like the system is rigged in favor of the wealthy and at the expense of the not-so-wealthy?  The odds are that unless you happen to feel like you’re part of the “wealthy”—that ubiquitous class of people who […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/The-Problem-with-Work-3-31-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: The Problem with Work (Ecclesiastes 2:18-23; 3:9-13) March 31, 2019 Have you ever done something that you knew, even while doing it, was a waste of your time?  I worked at OfficeMax in the print department while I was in seminary.  I really enjoyed the job and had a great […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The-Problem-with-Wisdom-3-10-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: The Problem with Wisdom (Ecclesiastes 2:12-17; 7:23-24) March 10, 2019 College holds a special place in our cultural narrative.  In books, movies, and TV, it is heralded as a time for young people to go off to pursue higher learning and to grow in wisdom—a journey that cannot be completed […]

http://fbcoakboro.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The-Problem-with-Pleasure-3-3-19.mp3 Reverend Jonathan Waits Sermon: The Problem with Pleasure (Ecclesiastes 2:1-11) March 3, 2019 There are some things people enjoy that require…training to be able to actually enjoy.  Fine art is one of those.  I haven’t quite developed enough of a taste for it to be able to enjoy it as thoroughly as others do […]