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Babel and Pentecost….Today!

          Jesus had promised his disciples that the Holy Spirit would come, and so it did. Fifty days after Easter at the Jewish festival of […]

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Babel and Pentecost

These two stories, Babel and Pentecost, cause us to ponder the unity that is disobedience and the unity that is the gift of God, the […]

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Welcome to the Study!

Rev. Dr. H. Stephen Shoemaker has spent more than four decades ministering to God’s people- all of them. You’re welcome here, in this growing archive of  sermons that span decades of his work pastoring, preaching, teaching, learning and loving the word of God.

Dr. Shoemaker is currently the Pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Statesville, N.C.

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Posts

  • Our Needs are Holy to God: the Need to Love and Be Loved
  • Our Needs are Holy to God: The Need for Security
  • Babel and Pentecost….Today!
  • That All Shall Be Saved
  • The City on a Hill and American Exceptionalism
  • A Preacher Turns in Bed at Night Over the Matter of Sacrifice
  • Living in the Meantime
  • Prayer in the Pandemic
  • Herod, Peter, Rhoda and the Church at Prayer
  • Wintry and Summery Spirituality: A Spirituality for All Seasons of the Heart
  • Thomas Our Twin
  • Peace in the Storm
  • When Easter Dawns, April 2020
  • Holding On and Letting Go
  • Baptism as a Living Symbol of the Christian Life: Dying and Rising
  • Comfort in the Storm
  • The Common Weeping and Coronavirus
  • Baptism: A Living Symbol of the Christian Life- New Birth and New Creation, March 2020
  • Baptism: A Living Symbol of the Christian Life- Anointing, Holy Spirit and Calling, March 2020
  • Baptism: A Living Symbol of the Christian Life- Belonging to A Family of Faith, The Body of Christ, March 2020
  • Baptism: Living Symbol of the Christian Life- Turning and Washing, March 2020
  • Baptism: Living Symbol of the Christian Life- Following Jesus and Being the Beloved, March 2020
  • Christian Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
  • How Else but Through a Broken Heart? Ash Wednesday, 2020
  • Transfiguration: Jesus’, Ours, The World’s. Feb.2020
  • In Praise of Praise; or, What did They Sing as They Went Out? Feb.2020
  • Salt and Light: Being Different for Jesus’ Sake and the Kingdom’s Feb.2020
  • Following Jesus, Now! Jan.2020
  • Joys and Sorrows; A Cello Sermon, Jan.2020
  • Naming and Being Named, Jan.2020
  • How to Begin a New Year and a New Decade 1/20
  • Christmas in a Time of Terror 12/19
  • Peace, Goodwill to All 12/19
  • It All Begins With a Woman and a Child
  • When Peace Blooms, When the Kingdom Comes 12/19
  • The Way of Peace 12/19
  • Living God’s Dream of Peace 12/19
  • Home Economics, Church-Style 11/19
  • The Secret of Living 11/19
  • Living with Loose Ends 11/19
  • The Jeremiah Real-Estate Faith Test 11/19
  • Politics as an Approximation of the Kingdom of God and Politics as Baal 10/19
  • A Topsy-Turvy Tale on Prayer and True Spirituality 10/19
  • The Rascally Manager 10/19
  • Jesus Saves and God the Savior 9/19
  • Members of One Another in the Body of Christ 9/19
  • Salvation as Blessing: 14,000 Things to be Happy About 9/19
  • God and the Human Creature 9/19
  • God and the World Religions 8/19
  • God and Prayer 8/19
  • God and the Bible
  • God and the Cross 8/19
  • God and the Poor 7/19
  • God and Morality: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion 7/19
  • God-Language: The Color of Water; Or, Language that is Reverent, Emancipatory and Inclusive. 7/19
  • God and Nation 7/19
  • The Shepherd, the Flock, the Voice, the Arms 5/19
  • The Care of the Earth as a Form of the Love of God and Neighbor 5/19
  • The Continuous Conversion 5/19
  • Easter Appearances in John 4/19
  • To Seek and To Save the Lost 4/19
  • A Certain Man Had Two Sons 3/19
  • The Great Feast 3/19
  • Room at the Table: The Rich Man and Lazarus- 3/19
  • The Better Part 3/19
  • Dr. Shoemaker’s latest book
  • A Man Went Down From Jerusalem 2/19
  • Mystery, Faith, and Miracles 2/19
  • Elder Disciples: Simeon, Anna and Us 1/19
  • What Turned a Respectable Congregation into a Lynch Mob? 1/19
  • We Have a Kind and Generous God. And so…? 1/19
  • The Way of Compassion 1/19
  • Being a Prophetic Community in Statesville 1/19
  • Seed, Soil and Spirituality
  • One
  • The Bible, Homosexuality and Us
  • The Struggle for Truth in America 8/18
  • Welcome One Another 8/18
  • The Honda and the Bar Mitzvah 8/18
  • What About the Book of Revelation? 8/19
  • What We Wear To Church 7/18
  • What About Mary Magdalene? 7/18
  • We Have This Ministry 5/18
  • A Word To Our Graduating Students
  • God Is So One and So Threesome
  • The Love Commands of Christ
  • Credo- I Believe
  • When Plans Change
  • The Gospel to the Uttermost
  • Take Up Your Cross
  • Esther
  • Shake off the Dust
  • Ruth
  • Jesus the Stranger
  • Sell and Give
  • David
  • Consider the Lilies
  • The Jolting Generosity of God
  • The King’s Priests vs. the Prophet of God
  • To Risk Something Big for Something Good
  • Learn of Me
  • Let Your Light Shine
  • Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up: The Historical Jesus for Today
  • Jubilation!
  • The Worshipping Church
  • Jesus in the imperative: Follow Me
  • The Saving of Liberal Christianity
  • Retelling the Biblical Story: Joseph
  • Has God Given President Trump the Authority to “Take Out” Kim Jong Un?
  • A Sermon on the Occasion of an Inauguration: the Year the American Presidency, as We Have Known It, Died
  • Christian Faith and the Care of the Earth: The Witness of Wendell Berry (Revised 2019)
  • Four Friends, Faith that is Seen, and a Contested Miracle
  • Feast of the Kingdom
  • Abraham, Father of Faith
  • Jesus the Boy, the Baptized, the Beloved
  • A Meditation on John 6
  • How Far is it to Bethlehem
  • Come to the Party
  • The Celtic Christian Way
  • A Tale of Two Cathedrals
  • Jonah, God’s Little Comedy
  • Babel and Pentecost

Welcome to the Study!

For nearly 50 years, the Rev. Dr. H. Stephen Shoemaker has been ministering to the people of God- all of them.
Here you will find an ever expanding archive of Dr. Shoemaker’s lifelong desire to preach, teach, and love all Holy Scriptures.
Dr. Shoemaker is currently the interim minister of Grace Baptist Church in Statesville NC, and professor of World Religions at Johnson C. Smith University.

Recent Posts

  • Our Needs are Holy to God: the Need to Love and Be Loved
  • Our Needs are Holy to God: The Need for Security
  • Babel and Pentecost….Today!
  • That All Shall Be Saved
  • The City on a Hill and American Exceptionalism

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