Yesterday (4/26/26), I preached another man’s sermon! Last week, my good friend, Pastor Jason Calhoun told me about a sermon that Pastor Nathan Holmes of the First Pentecostal Church of North Little Rock had preached. He preached it on their mid-week service about the fear of the Lord from Proverbs 9:10. I didn’t catch it until Friday morning of that week, but I ended up listening to it twice that day and then again, another time on Saturday. It was so compelling that I ended up transcribing it and preaching it on Sunday here in Dothan. We rarely hear this kind of content being preached from our pulpits these days. There were times in the past when the fear of the Lord used to be a very common subject. I can remember being deeply moved by O.R. Fauss, Curtis Spears, and A.D. Spears preaching at the Alabama camp meetings at the old Pike Road schoolhouse back in late 1970’s and early 1980’s on the matters of the fear of the Lord and subjects like that. They were incredibly convicting and sobering messages to hear. I look back and perhaps some of it is nostalgic feelings but at the same time, those messages impacted me in such a way that I understand now they were greatly directional for me.
