Henderson Community Baptist Church

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Installation of Rev. Lauren McDuffie, Senior Pastor

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

WE MAY IMAGINE CHRIST’S APOSTLE PAUL AS A LONER, BUT HE NEEDED AND HAD A LOT OF SUPPORTIVE COMPANIONS ALONG THE WAY - AS DO WE!

Overwhelmed? Have some more!

“WE LISTEN, WE HOLD OUR TONGUE, WE TEMPER OUR ANGER SO THAT WE CAN DO WHAT GOD WANTS US TO DO RATHER THAN WALK IN THE WAYS OF THE WORLD UNTHINKINGLY.” CASEY THORNBURG SIMON; ST. PAUL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

IF YOU LIVE IN OBEDIENCE TO ALL THE WAYS THAT JESUS TELLS YOU, “NO!”, YOU MAY DISCOVER THAT HE IS GUIDING YOU TO HIS WONDERFUL, “YES!

Is Abraham the Energizer Bunny of The Bible - or is it God?

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

“GOD GAVE THE CHURCH TO THE WORLD NOT TO POSSESS THE SPIRIT BUT TO SERVE THE SPIRIT.” PROFESSOR JOHN HOLBERT; PERKINS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

IT IS FAR SAFER, FAR LESS DEMANDING, TO BE A SPECTATOR THAN A WITNESS. THE ASCENSION MEANS THAT CHRIST HAS TRANSFERRED THE WITNESSING JOB TO US.

GOD’S SPIRIT WILL WORK DESPITE, THROUGH, OR PRIOR TO OUR RITUAL CONSTRUCTIONS. THE SPIRIT COUNSELED PETER TO ACCEPT WHAT HAD ALREADY BEEN TRUE ABOUT GOD.” PROFESSOR MITZI J. SMITH; COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

“I have begun to feel that there is resurrection now. God has touched me. For this, I thank God. I believe that there is something more.” Andrew Prior, Minister; Uniting Church in Australia

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Easter

Palm Sunday

“…that God chose to localize love in a human body… that God (became) human… was a good idea.” KAROLINE LEWIS; PROFESSOR OF PREACHING, LUTHER SEMINARY

"QUIT FRETTING, WORRYING, COUNTING THE MISERABLE PENNIES AND EMPTY PEWS. THERE’S A BIG WORLD OUT THERE THAT NEEDS GOD’S LOVE. GO. BLOOM IN THE IMAGE OF CHRIST.” SHARON BLEZARD

“IF THERE IS A DISEASE IN PREACHING… IT’S NOT THAT WHAT THE MINISTER SAYS IS WRONG. IT’S THAT IT IS JUST TOO SMALL.” REV. DR. FRED CRADDOCK

EVEN IN OUR WEAKNESS, MAYBE EVEN BECAUSE OF IT, WE BECOME CREDIBLE WITNESSES OF SAVING NEWS IN THIS FRANTIC, FEARFUL WORLD.” SALLY BROWN; PRINCETON SEMINARY

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

“OUR FAILURE DOES NOT NEGATE (CHRIST’S) VOCATION.” BISHOP WILL WILLIMON; UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

Knowledge and expertise are wonderful, God-given gifts. But don't allow them to get in the of God's surprises!

"One remedy for your own discouragement is to get busy doing God's work." Doug Bratt, Pastor

Being "blessed" by God is not equivalent to getting your/our way; it is being assigned to a vocation of blessing others, whether we like it or not

Human beings, left to our own devices, can do stupid and cruel things. How - and why - does God work with that?

Radical hospitality is the name of the game for God’s people. The Church keeps the porch light on.

THE BEATITUDES ARE A CALL TO ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF CREATING THE WORLD GOD IMAGINES.” KAROLINE LEWIS, PREACHING PROFESSOR

“‘(JESUS) BECAME FLESH,’ THAT IS, LIKE EVERY OTHER MAN, WHO HAS FLESH AND BLOOD, BODY AND SOUL.” FROM MARTIN LUTHER’S SERMON FOR THE PRINCIPLE CHRISTMAS SERVICE, 15

“(EARLIER) TODAY WE HEARD THE (CHRISTMAS) STORY AND WHAT IT IS ABOUT. ENOUGH OF THAT. NOW YOU WILL HEAR HOW TO MAKE USE OF IT.” FROM MARTIN LUTHER’S DECEMBER 25, 1531 SERMON “TO US A CHILD IS BORN”: SERMON ON ISAIAH 9:6

Christmas Eve

“(MARY’S) YES DIDN’T SIGNAL THE END OF MYSTERY. MYSTERY HAD ONLY BEGUN.” DEBIE THOMAS, FROM HER SERMON “THE PAUSE BEFORE YES”

“TRUE REPENTANCE SPENDS LESS TIME LOOKING AT THE PAST AND SAYING, ‘I’M SORRY,’ THAN TO THE FUTURE AND SAYING, ‘WOW!’” FRED BUECHNER

EVEN THE FAITHFUL, LIKE ZECHARIAH, NEED TO RECOVER THE VITALITY OF WORSHIP.” R. ALAN CULPEPPER, FORMER DEAN, MCAFEE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

"Truth is tested and faith is confirmed not in idle speculation but in the crucible of adversity" R. Alan Culpepper, for Dean, McAfee School of Theology

The kingdoms of the world could hardly be more different than the kingdom Jesus has in mind. His cannot be reduced to a Roman or Jewish or Christian kind of kingdom. Nor is it enough to say that God’s kingdom is opposite of ours; it has to be “more than”. More than a “place”, God’s Kingdom is an embodied reality. What does it look and sound like in this world? Have a look at Jesus! Listen to Him!

Community Baptist Church Henderson Kentucky (KY)-Pastor Dr. Tim Hobbs (a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship affiliated church)

Jesus promises, and invites us to actively wait for, a world in which justice will not be a crude compromise bought by those with enough money to afford it, but in which new life will rise out of the ashes of crushed hopes and dreams.