Tallowood Baptist Church

Message based on 1 Peter 4:1-11. If your life went the way you wanted it to go, what would the end result be? What is the goal? Peter’s encounter with the risen Lord changed the trajectory of his life. Conscious of time, he proposed that the scattered, suffering, strangers would live the rest of their lives to bring glory to God. What can we do, starting today, to live for God’s greater glory?  Qu...

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Message based on 1 Peter 1:21-2:3.  On this Mother’s Day we give thanks for our moms. Cyprian said, “No one has God for their Father who does not have the church for their mother.” My mom took me to church and taught me the scriptures. The children we dedicate today will be nourished with food so that they can grow up. Just so, all of us need to be fed the truth from God’s message to us. The same...

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Message based on 1 Peter 3:13-22. Are you scared? Peter knew all about fear. To save his own skin he denied Jesus three times. But the resurrection changed everything. As Peter lived in holy love and fear of the Lord, his other fears all fell away. He wrote about it in his first letter. How do we live fearlessly? When we live with a holy fear of the risen Lord, all other fears may fall away. Quote...

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Message based on 1 Peter 2:4-10 What is happening to us? Something is happening to every one of us. We are either moving closer to Christ and becoming like him, or farther away and losing our resemblance. Peter, the Rock, knew rocks. The One who rolled the stone from the empty tomb was still turning Peter into the Rock he would become. Peter wrote to first century believers to remind them that the...

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1 Peter 1:13-21 What do we know about holiness? Addison Road sings a song that convicts me. “What do I know of holy?” Is it possible for us to become holy? Why would we want to? Peter answers these questions in his letter to the scattered suffering strangers in the first century. Good news: the same Spirit who gives us hope is working to make us holy. Quotes: Oswald Chambers: God has one destined...

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

1 Peter 1:1-9 “How I wish there were some place called the land of beginning again . . .” Do you ever wish for a new start? Peter found his in relationship with the risen Lord. Later as he wrote to scattered, suffering Christians he reminded them that we are born again into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. What does the resurrection really mean for followers of...

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

John 20:1-9, 21:15-19 He is risen! Who needs Easter? I know so many of us love this special holy day. But I wonder, who needs it most?. Today, we begin a seven-week Eastertide series called The Rock that Moved. We will look at the life of Simon Peter and listen to his words in the letter of 1 Peter. Dealing with his guilt and grief, Peter needed a new beginning on that first Easter. So do we. We w...

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John 15:1-8 In Hershey Park, grape vines grow among the foliage. They don’t look like much now, but experience tells me it won’t be long. Every year I pick a bowl full of grapes. Every branch grows off of a vine. The vine draws life from the ground and produces fruit. This is God’s design. Jesus may have pointed up to the cluster of grapes on the facade of the temple as he walked toward Gethsemane...

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John 14:1-7 Who is Jesus to you? Our one thing this year is to know Christ better. Jesus knew exactly who he was and he wanted his disciples to know. In fact, he told them with seven powerful “I am” statements recorded in the gospel of John. We know for sure that Jesus is who he is! The question is: are we willing to walk with, trust, and live under the Lordship of the great “I am”? Jesus’ identit...

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John 11:17-27 Can we trust God? Jesus loved the three siblings who lived in Bethany. Their house had been a place of rest for the one who had no place of his own to rest his head. They asked Jesus for help, anticipating he would drop everything and run to them. Instead, he waited, they wondered, and Lazarus died. When he arrived, they had some hard questions for Jesus. He asked them to trust him....

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Matthew 21:8-11 To discover more messages of hope, go to tallowood.org/sermons/ . Follow us on X and YouTube @tallowoodbc Follow us on Instagram @tallowood.baptist 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 X and YouTube @tallowoodbc Follow us on Instagram @tallowood.baptist Follow us on FaceBook @tallowoodbaptist

Message from John 10:11-18. Do you know the difference between voice recognition and speaker identification? Using voice recognition, our electronic devices can send our voice messages as texts. But speaker identification means a device can discern that you are yourself. We all recognize certain voices. But have we come to identify Jesus’ voice as he speaks to us and leads us? As our worthy Shephe...

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

John 10:1-10 Have you found your way? Some say there are many paths to life. Jesus said there is only one. Thieves come to steal, kill, and destroy. Jesus came to offer abundant life. When we enter life through him, we are saved and sustained. Welcome to worship in the presence of the great I am.  Quotes: Samuel Shoemaker wrote:   I stand by the door. I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out....