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Explore the bible with Pastor Larry Bertrand.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Escogidos para ser santos y sin mancha. En esta serie expositiva exploramos la carta a los Efesios, y como somos escogidos para ser santos y sin mancha. Mensaje basado en Efesios 1:4Chosen to be holy and blameless. In this expository series we explore the book of Ephesians and how we where chosen to be holy and blameless. Message based on Ephesians 1:4To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Jesus warns us not to chase treasures that fade, but to invest in what lasts forever. He calls us to make Him our greatest treasure, trusting that when our hearts are set on His kingdom, He will provide all we need. True joy is not found in what we keep but in what we give, living generously as a reflection of our faith. Message based on Matthew 6:19-34Quotes:Jim Elliott: He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.Charles Haddon Spurgeon: You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.Monk: I hope your stay is a blessed one. If you need anything let us know, and we'll teach you how to live without it.Sue Powell: Money isn't everything.Duane Brooks: The "things" are never the point. They must not be the treasure that we give our hearts to.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Explore the bible with Pastor Larry Bertrand.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Las bendiciones espirituales del creyente. En esta serie expositiva exploramos la carta a los Efesios, y las bendiciones espirituales del creyente. Mensaje Basado en Efesios 1:3The Spiritual blessings of a believer. In this expository series we explore the book of Ephesians and the spiritual blessings of a believer. Message based on Ephesians 1:3 To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Matthew 6:1-6,16-18To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Explore the Bible with Pastor Larry Bertrand.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Nuestra Identidad en Cristo: Santos y Fieles. Efesios es una carta que nos enseña, como cristianos tenemos que vivir una vida espiritual abundante y no indiferente, que nuestra identidad es basada en Cristo. Mensaje basado en Efesios 1: 1-2Our Identity in Christ: Saints and Faithfuls. Ephesians is a book that teaches, as Cristians we should live and abundant spiritual and not to be indifferent. Our identity is based on Christ. Message based on Ephesians 1: 1-2To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Matthew 5:17-20To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

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Los gemidos actuales y la gloria venidera. Pablo nos dice en romanos, que las aflicciones del tiempo presente no son comparables con la gloria venidera. Mensaje basado en Romanos 8: 18-27The current wails and the glory that will be revealed. Paul tells us in romans, that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Message based on Romans 8:18-27To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Porque nos cuesta vivir en santidad. Si proclamamos conocer a Dios, porque nos cuesta vivir en santidad? Tenemos que buscar vivir en la santidad de Dios Mensaje Basado en 1 Pedro 1: 14-15Why is it difficult to live in sanctity. If we proclaim to know God, why is it difficult to live in sanctity? we must strive to live in the sanctity of God. Message based on 1 Peter1: 14-15To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Jesus, our King, still speaks through Scripture, in prayer, and through the lives of believers. Our role is to listen, be transformed, and allow Him to speak to and through us to reach others with His love. Message based on Hebrews 1:1-4Quotes:Tyler Ballard: Spend time with Jesus, become like Jesus. Love people who Jesus loves in the way that Jesus loves them. Listen to Jesus. He's still speaking. Bob Goff: You want to know where Jesus is? Are you trying to find Jesus? Well, he's not hiding. He's made it really clear where he is. He's with the hungry, he's with the thirsty, the naked, the sick and those in prison. Jesus is with those in need. So if you want to find him, go find those people. Because since he has come, that's where Jesus hangs out.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

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 Matthew 5:13-16To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

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Dios consuela en medio del dolor. cuando hay tragedia y dolor, podemos encontrar consuelo en la mano de Dios. Mensaje basado en 2 Corintios 1: 3-4God comforts in the mist of pain. When there is tragedy and pain, we can find comfort in the hand of God. Message based on 2 Corinthians 1: 3-4To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

God is the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort. He meets us in our suffering and walks with us through every storm. We may not understand all the reasons for our sorrow, but we know this: we are not alone. We are held, heard, and never forsaken. In Christ, comfort flows to us and through us to others. Message based on 2 Corinthians 1:3-7Quotes:John Donne: No man is an island entire of itself.William Barclay: God did not stop that accident at sea, but he did still the storm in my heart. So that somehow my wife and I came through that terrible time still on our own two feet.John Henry: God does not comfort us to make us comfortable. He comforts us to make us comforters.Duane Brooks: We can weep with those who weep. We don't have to explain it. We don't have to have all the answers. But we can say to those who are broken that they are not broken alone. Because we feel very deeply the loss that they feel, because that's the way our Heavenly Father is.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

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El pecado y la gracia. El pecado corrompe la vida de la humanidad, y la unica esperanza en limpiar nuestro pecado, es por medio de Cristo. Mensaje basado en Romanos 6:23Sin and grace. Sin corrupts the lives of humanity, and the only hope to wash our sin is through Christ. Message based on Romans 6:23 To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

United with Christ. This is where true identity begins. In a world that defines worth by appearance, achievement, and approval, how do we discover who we really are? Our value comes from being with Christ. We are not what we do or what others say; we are richly blessed, deeply loved, and fully forgiven. This is the identity that lasts. God has spoken. His word is clear. Why search for worth anywhere else?  Message based on Ephesians 1:1-8Quotes:A.W. Tozer: What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.John Neesley: United with Christ, I am a richly blessed child of God.Benjamin Warfield: When you use the name Redeemer, it's the name specifically of the Christ of the cross. Whenever we pronounce it, the cross is postered or placarded before our eyes. And our eyes are filled with loving remembrance that not only that Christ has given us salvation, but he paid a mighty price for it.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

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Israel en la biblia. Pablo escribe a los romanos ha desechado Dios a su pueblo? Exploramos lo que la biblia dice sobre Israel. Mensaje basado en Romanos 11:1Israel in the bible. Paul tells the romans has God rejected his people? We explore what the bible says about Israel. Message based on Romans 11:1To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Can we truly be blessed in a world that prizes power, wealth, and self-promotion? In a culture driven by noise and achievement, Jesus offers a different path. One marked by humility, mercy, and dependence on God. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus redefines what it means to live a blessed life. Message based on Matthew 5:1-12Quotes:King George VI: Take the hand of God and walk out into the unknown. It will be better to you than a light.A.T. Robertson: These beatitudes assume a new heart. Because for me to be the kind of person he's describing, I'd have to have a different kind of heart than I was born with.Duane Brooks: Jesus started something. We're in the now kingdom. He said, the kingdom of God is among you. Don't look and say, is it over there or over there? No, it's in you.Dallas Willard: The Beatitudes served to clarify Jesus' fundamental message: the free availability of God's rule and righteousness to all of humanity through reliance upon Jesus Himself. They do this simply by taking those who, from the human point of view, are regarded as most hopeless, most beyond all possibility of God's blessing or even interest, and exhibiting them as enjoying God's touch and abundant provision from the heavens.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

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El trato de los padres a los hijos. Pablo escribe los Efesios, Honra a tu padre y a tu madre. Nosotros como hijos honramos a nuestros padres? Y padres honramos a nuestros hijos?    Mensaje basado en Efesios 6: 2-3The treatment of parents towards their children. Paul writes to the Ephesians: Honor your father and your mother. Do we as sons honor our parents? and parents do we honor our children?   Message based on Ephesians 6: 2-3To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Prayer is not about performance, but relationship. Jesus didn't just tell us how to pray. He told us to whom we're praying: our Father. Not a distant figure, but Abba—close, personal, and full of love. Message based on Matthew 6:5-13; 7:7-11.Quotes:Duane Brooks: Jesus wants His Father to be our Father. J.I. Packer: You sum up the whole of the New Testament religion if you describe it as the knowledge of God as one's Holy Father. If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much they make of the thought of being God's child and having God as a father.Bill Gladden: I've got a room. I've got an actual closet. I go into that room. If I wake up, I get up. And if I get up, I pray up.Joy: I want to become a follower of Jesus like my dad.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Explore the Bible with Pastor Larry Bertrand.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

La iglesia se fortalece en medo de las pruebas. En estos tiempos la iglesia es atacada de muchos lados, pero en medio de esas pruebas la iglesia se fortalece. Mensaje basado en Hechos 9:31The church strengthens in the mist of trials. In these times the church is attacked on all sides, but through trials the church strengthens. Message based on Acts 9:31 To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

We are reminded that the Holy Spirit still moves today—not just to comfort us, but to confront us. To call us out of self-righteousness and into God's righteousness. To turn our hearts toward repentance, obedience, and purpose. What is the Holy Spirit doing? Maybe the better question is: What can we obey? Message based on John 16:7-15; Acts 2:37-42.Quotes:Duane Brooks: There are so many funny jokes about hell. And you know who's not laughing about it? The people who are in hell. They're not laughing about it.Josh Howerton: Hell is the only place where it is fair. In hell everyone gets what they deserve.William Temple: Nobody can be indwelt by the Spirit of God and keep that Spirit to himself. For where the Spirit is, he flows forth. And where there is no flowing forth, he's not there.R.A. Torrey: If we think the Holy Spirit only has an impersonal power or influence, then our thought will constantly be, how can I get hold of that and think about Simon in Acts? How can I get hold of that and use the Holy Spirit? But if we think of him in the biblical way as a divine person, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely tender, then our thought will constantly be, how can the Holy Spirit get hold of and use me?To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

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El propósito eterno de Dios para sus hijos. El mayor regalo es Cristo en nosotros, esperanza para esta generación, esperanza para la ciudad de Houston. El propósito eterno es Jesús. Mensaje basado en Juan 1:11-12.The eternal purpose of God for his children. The greatest gift is Christ in us, hope for this generation, hope for the city of Houston. The eternal purpose is Jesus  Message based on John 1: 11-1212To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Will we finish the task? 2033 will mark the second millennia of Christians in the world. Where are we going? How do we as Christ-followers find and fulfill his plan for our lives in real time? God has not concealed his plan from us. The risen Lord commissions his people to make disciples of all nations. These have been our marching orders for nearly two thousand years. Jesus has sent us his power, shown us his purpose and sustained us with his promise for all this time. Why would he fail now? Message based on Matthew 28:16-20.Quotes:                                                                                                                         William Temple: Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His Holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.Duane Brooks: I don't care if anybody knows the name of Tallowood. I don't care, but I want them to know the name of Jesus.Andy Crouch: Why is power a gift? Because power is for flourishing. When power is used well, people and the whole cosmos come more alive to what they were meant to be. And flourishing is the test of power.Mike Breen: Many of us serve in or lead churches where we have hundreds or even thousands of people showing up on Sunday. But we have to honestly answer this question: do their lives look like the lives of the people we see in Scripture? If you set out to build the church, there is no guarantee you will make disciples. It is far more likely that you will create consumers who depend on the spiritual services that religious professionals provide. Bill Hull: Our work is not to build a great church or a large church, church building is God's work.  Our work is to make disciples who make disciples , the rest of it is window dressing.  Eugene Peterson: The most important question isn't “What does this mean,” but “What can I obey?” Simple obedience will open up our lives to a text more quickly than any number of Bible studies, dictionaries, and concordances.D.A. Carson: This is not a general ‘I will be with you,' but rather an emphatic, comprehensive, and personal assurance that Christ's presence accompanies the disciple daily, continuously, and completely.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

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Bendiciones que posee el creyente en Jesucristo. Todo creyente debe saber lo que nos pertenese cuando confiamos, aceptamos y caminamos con un salvador que es Cristo Jesus. Mensaje basado en Génesis 27:34Blessings that believers posses in Jesus Christ. Every believer should know what belongs to us when we trust, accept and walk with our saviour Jesus Christ. Message based on Genesis 27:34To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Some years ago, we sat around a fire with good friends in Montana. Justin Whitmel Earley says good things happen around a campfire. John mentions a charcoal fire twice in his gospel. Peter was present at both. At the first fire, he denied his faith. At the second fire, he found it again. Our failures are not fatal. Today is a new day. Gather around the fire with us in worship. The same Lord who called us before is calling today. Will we follow him? Message based on John 21:15-19.Quotes: C. S. Lewis: On the whole, God's love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him.Peter Marshall: When a person comes to Christ, it is never again ‘business as usual.' Abraham Lincoln: You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time . . . but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Duane Brooks: And we can never fool God.J. I. Willard: That room lit up with the glory of God. I saw a figure. I did not see a face, but I recognized it to be the person of Christ. I felt a hand on my shoulder, and I heard a voice that said, ‘Feed my sheep.Soren Kierkegaard: Jesus never asks for admirers, worshipers, or adherents. No, he calls disciples. It is not adherents of a teaching but followers of a life Christ is looking for.William Temple:  Forgiveness does not consist of remission of penalty. To forgive is to restore to the old relationship. So the forgiveness that Christ wins for us is not chiefly a remission of penalty; it is the restoration to the affectionate intimacy of sons with their Father.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

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Are you struggling with doubt? How do we choose between faith and reason? Actually, we don't have to. As he tells Thomas's conversion story, John contrasts faith with sight. After the ascension, every believer has placed confidence in the testimony of the eyewitnesses. What conditions are we placing on our faith today? Believe and you will see. Message based on John 20:24-31.Quotes: Fyodor Dostoevsky: I believe in Christ and confess him not like some child; my hosanna has passed through an enormous furnace of doubt.Aldous Huxley: I had reasons that I did not want Christianity to be true, because if it were true, I would have to change the way I lived. Madeleine L'Engle: We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.Duane Brooks: Jesus will stop at nothing to get to the one who is still not believing.N. T. Wright: The Quest for the Historical Jesus. "T" Teacher, if the European scholars have lost Jesus, that is their problem. We have not lost him. We know him. We love him. T. S. Eliot: Seeing is believing . . . There is another way.Craig Groeschel: Either we believe God or we are just playing church. Thomas the wonderer becomes Thomas the worshiper becomes Thomas the witness. Henry Drummond: It ought to be placed in the forefront of all Christian teaching that Christ's mission on earth was to give men Life. "I am come," that ye might have Life, and that ye might have it more abundantly.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

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Gratitud y servicio. Honra a tu padre y a tu madre, que es el primer mandamiento con promesa. Mateo 8: 14-15Gratitude and service. Honor your father and your mother, which is the first commandment with a promise. Matthew 8: 14-15To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Mother's Day and Eastertide converge again this year. What do moms really want? Is it flowers? Or perhaps a beautiful card? From observation, I would offer that moms want all their chicks to come home to the nest. This is not always possible. Jesus' mother was with the other disciples and apostles when Jesus appeared among them.  Jesus revealed that he had come back to life. Then he gave the greatest gifts to the gathered disciples. Jesus' resurrection kept his promises to his disciples in the first century and extends those same gifts to us today. Will we receive them?  Message based on Luke 24:36-49.Quotes:William Ross Wallace: All the world is in the cradle, and the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. John Quincy Adams: All that I am, my mother made me.John Wesley: My heart was strangely warmed.William Barclay: Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.Wolfhart Pannenburg: The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live.William Willimon:  I don't need a resurrected Jesus. Come to think of it, I'm not sure I want a resurrected Jesus. In fact, [in one sense] a resurrected Jesus is a real nuisance for me, personally. I've got a good life, I've figured out how to work the world, on the whole, to the advantage of me and my friends and family. My health is good, and everybody close to me is doing fine. I have the illusion that I'm in control, that I'm making a so significant contribution to help Jesus … on my own. No, I don't need a bodily resurrected Jesus. In fact, [once I truly embrace the resurrection of Jesus], my life would become much more difficult.Paul Eshleman: The crowd exploded as if a dam had burst.  Everyone began cheering and dancing and hugging one another and jumping up and down.Jurgen Moltmann: God weeps with us so that we may someday laugh with him.Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Lack of repentance is the root cause of powerlessness in the church, in this materialistic, self-indulgent age. There can be no spiritual power in a non-repentant church.George Whitefield: God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.Duane Brooks: I woke up this morning thinking about my momma and her front row seat in heaven today, and she loved Mother's Day so much. And this is what I thought, what would mom want me to do? I tell you what my mom would want to do. In her present position, in the peace of Christ, seeing the power and glory of God, she would want me to tell you about her savior. And so I have. #promise #peace #repentance #resurrection  To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

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La victoria sobre la tentación. Todo los días enfrentamos tentación, pero nuestra victoria sobre la tentación esta en Jesus. Mensaje basado en Mateo 4:1-11Victory over temptation. Every day we face temptation,  However our victory over temptation is in Jesus. Message based on Matthew 4:1-11To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Have you heard of anybody deconstructing their faith? This has been a hot topic in recent years. It is not as new as some would have us believe. After Jesus' crucifixion, two of his disciples decided to defect. They were heading home to Emmaus. Incognito, Jesus joined them and asked about their sorrow. Then he taught them about himself from the scriptures. He saw them, spoke to them, and stayed with them when they arrived. When he revealed himself to them, they remembered how his teaching about himself ignited their hearts. It could happen to us!  Message based on Luke 24:17-27.Quotes:Robert Browning:. . . and I find it hard to be aChristian as I said!Still every now and then my headRaised glad, sinks mournful--  all grows drearSpite of the sunshine . . . But Easter day breaks!  but Christ rises!  Mercy every wayIs infinite --  and who can say?Duane Brooks: Jesus opened the tomb, opened the scriptures, opened their eyes to see him, and opened their minds to believe.  What did Jesus say?  What is Jesus saying to us today?Lewis Smedes: Hope is to our spirits what oxygen is to our lungs. Your spirit dies when hope dies. They may not bury you for a while, but without hope you're already dead.Dr. Carl F. H. Henry: Jesus planted the only durable rumor of hope amid the widespread despair of a hopeless world.John Claypool: Every exit is an entrance.Duane Brooks: When sadness stops us in our tracks, we may listen for his voice and know that he will come looking for us because we are his own. Duane Brooks: Even if we walk away, Jesus is seeking us; he will find us. Jack MacGorman: The Bible has always been for me a meeting place with God. Eugene Peterson: You don't live in a mechanistic world ruled by necessity; you don't live in a random world ruled by chance; you live in a world ruled by the God of Exodus and Easter. He will do things in you that neither you nor your friends would have supposed possible.Eugene Peterson: The most important question isn't “What does this mean,” but “What can I obey?” Simple obedience will open up our lives to a text more quickly than any number of Bible studies, dictionaries, and concordances.Fleming Rutledge: Any manifestation that reveals Jesus' true identity occurs because the power of God is at work upon the eyes, ears, and hearts of the recipients.John Stott: We live and die. But Christ died and lived!  Mike Yaconelli, in his book Dangerous Wonder: The Christian life is more than just finding Jesus; it is following Jesus.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Explore the Bible with Pastor Larry Bertrand.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Jesús resucitó y no hay duda. Después de la resurrección, Tomás no creyó; sin embargo, nosotros creemos y vivimos por fe, no por vista. Mensaje basado en Juan 20:24-29.Jesus resurrected and there is no doubt. After the resurrection Thomas did not believe, however we believe and walk by faith and not by sight. Message based on John 20:24-29.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Jonathan Haidt wrote the Anxious Generation to describe the reality of anxiety in our world. What frightens us most these days? How do we overcome our fears? After Jesus rose from death, his words empowered his disciples to live fearlessly. What if we lived by the red letters? Message based on Matthew 28:1-10 and Revelation 1:17-18.Quotes:John Updike: Seven Stanzas at EasterMake no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell's dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall.It was not as the flowers, Each soft spring recurrent; It was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled eyes of the Eleven apostles; It was as His flesh; ours.The same hinged thumbs and toes The same valved heart That—pierced—died, withered, paused, and then regathered Out of enduring Might New strength to enclose.Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence, Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded Credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.The stone is rolled back, not papier-mache, Not a stone in a story, But the vast rock of materiality that in the slow grinding of Time will eclipse for each of us The wide light of day.And if we have an angel at the tomb, Make it a real angel, Weighty with Max Planck's quanta, vivid with hair, opaque in The dawn light, robed in real linen Spun on a definite loom.Duane Brooks: This is what's happening in heaven, and it happens every time the people of God come together and worship him, heaven is coming to earth. And the hope is that maybe in our midst is somebody who doesn't yet know Jesus, but by the way we worship says that must be real. That must be true because we give God his worth.Japanese proverb: There are four things to be afraid of—fire, storm, earthquake, and one's father.Robert Murray McCheyne: If I knew Jesus was in the next room praying for me, I would not fear anything in the world. The distance makes no difference.  He is praying for me . Eugene Peterson: The most important question we may ask of the Bible is not:  what does this mean, but what can I obey.Thomas a Kempis: Instant obedience is the only kind of obedience there is; delayed obedience is disobedience.Duane Brooks: There are three words that could change the lives of every person we meet, every person we encounter. The words, he is risen. That changes everything. How do I know? Because it changed my life. Duane Brooks: "He is risen" changed your lives and it will change the life of every person who comes to believe it. We worship fearlessly. And the good news is because Christ is risen, we don't have to be afraid of dying, nor do we have to be afraid of speaking publicly about what Jesus has done in our lives. And this is the way the church has transformed culture for two thousand years.#worship #witness #faith #hope #courage To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Explore the Bible with Pastor Larry Bertrand.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

La Resurrección, pilar de la fe cristiana. Hace 2000 años, Jesús fue crucificado y murió por nuestros pecados. Su resurrección es el pilar de nuestra fe cristiana. Mensaje basado en Mateo 27:27-28.The Resurrection, the pillar of the Cristian faith. 2000 years ago Jesus was crucified and died for our sins. His resurrection is the pillar of our christian faith. message based on Matthew 27:27-28.To discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Have you ever experienced tenacious, relentless love? Mary Magdalene loved Jesus a lot. People who are forgiven much love greatly. The first to see Jesus after the resurrection, she held on to Jesus like her life depended on him. Imagine being loved that much. Ponder a love that will never let us go. What if Someone loves you like that? Message based on John 20:1-2, 11-18.Quotes: Duane Brooks: There is something about Mary Magdalene; When you lose something you go back to the place you last saw it. Duane Brooks: Mary loved a lot. Her love would not let Jesus go.Charles Spurgeon: In thinking over this subject, I have come to the conclusion that Mary Magdalene was selected to see Christ first because she loved him most. John loved Jesus much, but Mary loved him more.  John looked into the empty sepulchre, and then went away home; but Mary stood there, and wept, until her risen Lord appeared to her. Love, you know, is a keen-eyed grace. Love will look for Jesus, and discover him where none else can. Mary stayed right there.Eugene Peterson: Following Jesus doesn't get us where we want to go. It gets us to where Jesus goes, where we meet him in Resurrection surprise, “My Lord and my God.” Those who expect Easter, experience Easter. Peter Larson:  Despite our efforts to keep him out, God intrudes. The life of Jesus is bracketed by two impossibilities: a virgin's womb and an empty tomb. Jesus entered our world through a door marked "No Entrance" and left through a door marked "No Exit."G. K. Chesteron: On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but the dawn.Herman Bavinck: The image of God is much too rich for it to be fully realized in a single human being, however richly gifted that human being may be. It can only be somewhat unfolded in its depth and riches in a humanity counting billions of members. George MacDonald:  Troubled soul, thou art not bound to feel, but thou art bound to arise. God loves thee whether thou feelest it or not. Duane Brooks: God's grip won't slip! Who is holding on to you?  The Risen Lord of Life is holding on to us to give us life. Because he is holding us, we may release all of our fears.Duane Brooks: Christ is risen truly, indeed, he is risen. And because Christ lives, we can face tomorrow. #easter #community #faith #resurrection #connectionTo discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Explore the Bible with Pastor Larry BertrandTo discover more messages of hope go to tallowood.org/sermons/.Follow us on Instagram, X, and YouTube @tallowoodbc.Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist