a-new-roof-isaiah-52-7-10-12-25-2016 A New Roof A Christmas Homily for Sardis Baptist Church Bob Stillerman 12-25-2016 Isaiah 52:7-10 Years ago, Edwin McNeill Poteat, a famous Baptist minister from Raleigh, wrote a sermon about friendship. He remembered the four friends in Mark’s gospel, who so dedicated to their paralyzed friend, lowered him on a gurney through the roof of a house, in the hopes that Jesus would offer healing. Jesus noticed this gesture and told them, “Go, your faith has healed your friend.” What was interesting to me about Poteat’s sermon, is that he didn’t......

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