Sound Words

Beginning March 2nd Ashland Avenue Baptist Church  (where Pastor David serves as Pastor of Vision and Preaching) will begin meeting in a new facility at 483 West Reynolds Road in Lexington Kentucky.  The journey of constructing this new facility has been full of challenges and the prospect of meeting for corporate worship in the new facility for the first time is wonderfully exciting.  But would it be possible for a new church building to quickly become a 50,000 square foot idol?  Do God’s gifts sometimes become His greatest adversaries?  In this sermon, Pastor David turns to Deuteronomy 8 and unfolds the warning Moses provides God’s children on the banks of the Promised Land about the spiritual danger of plenty.  If you are in the Lexington Metro- Area and would like to find out more about the opening services in the new facility check out Ashland Avenue Baptist Church’s website. 

How do you respond to loving rebuke?  The answer to that question reveals a great deal about your relationship or lack of relationship with Jesus Christ.  When someone rebukes or corrects you what is your immediate reaction?  Do your senses go crazy?  Heart pounding, defensive, angry, after all how can they say that to you - do they think they are perfect of something?  Is it possible to love rebuke?  To find out more listen to Pastor David as he preaches the Word of Christ from the book of Proverbs.  

Have you ever heard the voice of Jesus speak from an ant hill?  If so, He may have told you to get out of bed and get a job.  Or maybe He told you to get off the internet and finish the assignment your boss gave you to do two weeks ago.  While no one likes to think they are guilty of laziness,  with the wisdom of Christ, the ant says something different to all of us.  Whether its your work at home, school, or in the business world, Jesus calls for the same sort of aggressive diligence we see in the life of an ant.  Join Pastor David, in chapter 6:6-11, as he continues a study through the book of Proverbs.   

Does your Christianity have anything to do with how much sleep you get?  Is it possible to seperate the Wisdom of Christ from the way you relate to your boss on Monday?  Join Pastor David as he begins a study through the book of Proverbs.

As a kid that loved baseball, Ted Williams was one of my heroes. He was not playing at the time I was growing up but my dad and many others considered him the greatest hitter to ever play the game of baseball. Carl Yastrzemski played left field for the Red Sox when I was a child but Ted Williams’ shadow still loomed large. Read More

The Exodus account begins by describing what God had done to keep His promise to Abraham that He would multiply his descendants into a great nation (Genesis 12:2; 17:5-7). “But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them” (Exodus 1:7). The multitude of Israelites was a living expression of the mighty blessing of God that had triumphed over seemingly insurmountable circumstances.

But when Pharaoh looked out at that very multitude he saw a curse. He said, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us” (Exodus 1:9). His theological understanding of the world led him to oppose and oppress what God declared a blessing (Exodus 1:11-22). Pharaoh’s response was a self-protective move that revealed that he rejected what the true and living God had declared was a blessing. The unfolding of God’s promise was working against his plans, desires, and agenda.

We live in a generation of professing believers who have embraced a little Pharaoh Theology. God said “Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28; 9:1) and “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward . . . Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!” (Psalm 127:3, 5). Yet many believers do not celebrate and treat a full quiver as a reward. Far too often children are seen as necessary liability to carry on the family name but something you should not get carried away with.

It is always a dangerous thing to take what God describes as a blessing and call it a curse. It is not uncommon among Christians for those with the fullest quiver to be treated like they must be crazy to have or to want that many children. “Glad it is you and not me” is a frequent refrain. Is the fruit of the womb a reward and a blessing or not? And who has the right and the authority to define the answer to that question? Is it acceptable for us to disagree with God concerning this one issue?

The Bible calls us to celebrate life on every front. We must oppose the systematic war on children taking place in modern day death camps known as abortion clinics. We must be willing to rescue children who are in danger from every corner and crevice of the globe through adoption; just as our Lord has rescued us from every, tribe, tongue and nation. And every time we cast our gaze on gathered multitudes of children in parks, malls, and even church picnics and begin to think “Oh no!,” we must immediately say “Get thee behind me Pharoah! It is written - Blessing!”