God's Alternative
Series: Walking Among the Giants
Roger Thomas
John 3:16
Today we continue our walk among the giants. Each week we are looking at one of the great passages of the Bible. All of the Bible is important, but some passages seem to stand head and shoulders above the rest. Reading such a passage is like walking among the giant redwoods. We are overwhelmed and silenced by their majesty. Today we will loo at another giant Bible passage and one of the most familiar.
Today's sermon is one you will likely remember for a while. For a couple of reasons: first I am going to preach my sermon backwards today. I am not going to read this popular text until toward the end of my message. Despite first appearances, my message will be about this one specific passage of scripture. If you wish, you can guess at it as I proceed. I would rather that you simply listen, let the ideas soak in, and then let our giant text tie it altogether. That's one reason you will remember this sermon. It's backwards. But there's another reason.
Actually the gist of this message is based on a sermon I heard E. V. Hill preach about twenty years ago. E. V. was one of my favorite preachers. I have heard him a number of times on TV and radio. I was blessed to hear him preach live on two or three occasions. This was one of those.
E. V. was an African American preacher. For over forty-one years, he preached for the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Time magazine once named him one of American's greatest preachers. He passed away in 2003 at the age of 69.
Good black preachers have a style all their own. E. V. was one of the best. His sermons always started real slow, very conversational and folksy. I always thought to myself at the beginning of his sermons, "Why does everybody get so excited about this?" But then very gradually, somewhere between the first ten minutes and the end of sermon (that could be an hour later), he would graduall ...
Series: Walking Among the Giants
Roger Thomas
John 3:16
Today we continue our walk among the giants. Each week we are looking at one of the great passages of the Bible. All of the Bible is important, but some passages seem to stand head and shoulders above the rest. Reading such a passage is like walking among the giant redwoods. We are overwhelmed and silenced by their majesty. Today we will loo at another giant Bible passage and one of the most familiar.
Today's sermon is one you will likely remember for a while. For a couple of reasons: first I am going to preach my sermon backwards today. I am not going to read this popular text until toward the end of my message. Despite first appearances, my message will be about this one specific passage of scripture. If you wish, you can guess at it as I proceed. I would rather that you simply listen, let the ideas soak in, and then let our giant text tie it altogether. That's one reason you will remember this sermon. It's backwards. But there's another reason.
Actually the gist of this message is based on a sermon I heard E. V. Hill preach about twenty years ago. E. V. was one of my favorite preachers. I have heard him a number of times on TV and radio. I was blessed to hear him preach live on two or three occasions. This was one of those.
E. V. was an African American preacher. For over forty-one years, he preached for the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Time magazine once named him one of American's greatest preachers. He passed away in 2003 at the age of 69.
Good black preachers have a style all their own. E. V. was one of the best. His sermons always started real slow, very conversational and folksy. I always thought to myself at the beginning of his sermons, "Why does everybody get so excited about this?" But then very gradually, somewhere between the first ten minutes and the end of sermon (that could be an hour later), he would graduall ...
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