Celebrating 75 Years Podcasts

Celebrating 75 Years Podcasts

This collection is a treasure chest of personal stories as well as interviews and sermons which honor and celebrate Myers Park Baptist Church’s 75 year history.

Episodes

Forgiving Southern Baptists

April 14, 2018 • 32 mins
J. DANIEL WHITE, Ph.D. – Gene, Ann and I had been good friends since the early ’60s in eastern NC, so, when I came to Charlotte in 1971, I immediately gravitated to my old and dear friends and came to MPBC for worship.  At the close of one of my first Sundays visiting, a woman sitting at...
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Boy With Egg

April 14, 2018 • 1 min

TILLIE TICE - “Tillie Tice remembers a young boy who was challenged by an egg and the high ceiling of Heaton Hall. Hear how he ‘made his mark’ on our church...”

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MPBC Moments and Stories

April 14, 2018 • 13 mins
BOB THOMASON – One of Bob Thomason’s first memories was how, when he was diagnosed with a childhood illness, his family received a note from Dr. Heaton promising that the church would take care of them. In this interview, Bob shares the MPBC moments and stories that have touched his life throu...
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Ben Boswell: Sermon – A Community of God’s New Creation (02-07-2016)

April 13, 2018 • 22 mins
In his first sermon as Senior Minister of Myers Park Baptist Church, Reverend W. Benjamin Boswell drew on the words of our covenant for inspiration. He focused on two sentences in particular: “We covenant to be a community of God’s new creation and affirm that we are open to all and closed to none. ...
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John Walsh: Sermon – Caring for Creation (04-23-1995)

April 13, 2018 • 25 mins
John Walsh takes a fresh look at the Genesis story of creation, in lieu of the environmental degradation we see all around us. He pays particular attention to the new covenant that God established with living things of every kind after the story of Noah and the flood. He makes a passionate plea for ...
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Steve Shoemaker: Sermon – The Bible, Homosexuality and Us (07-15-2001)

April 13, 2018 • 31 mins
Dr. Shoemaker introduces this sermon as the beginning of a discussion on homosexuality, and asks the question of whether we can be both a biblical people, and a people who honor homosexual persons in our community. He acknowledges the Christian Community to be a community of grace and compassion. Th...
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Carlyle Marney: Christmas Eve Sermon (12-24-65)

April 13, 2018 • 22 mins
This is Dr. Marney’s controversial 1965 Christmas Eve sermon which was broadcast live on the CBS network. Critics claimed it focused on man instead of Jesus. It emphasized peace and social justice and called for “a new kind of man.” He called for all men to transcend nationality, race and tribe. He ...
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Carlyle Marney: Where Hope Makes Sense

April 13, 2018 • 21 mins
In this sermon, Dr. Marney criticizes the church, and the nation, for whitewashing its history. We “report favorably” and avoid honesty and reality. We must confess honestly before God. The future is “not with Caesar but with Jesus.” The future is “not with the bank director downtown but with a baby...
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Gene Owens: When the Ordinary Becomes Holy

April 13, 2018 • 10 mins
In this beautifully delivered, short sermon, Dr. Gene Owens tells us that the ordinary becomes holy through an act of dedication. Where in your life is the ordinary becoming holy through your dedication? Worship is the opportunity to dedicate the ordinary – to dedicate our ordinariness to God....
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Gene Owens: The Glory of Their Times (circa 1979)

April 13, 2018 • 16 mins
We are our ancestors plus ourselves but we live and act in our own time. Truth is the ticket and is particular to a particular time. In the late 1930s the German church said Hitler was using the church the same way Henry VIII used the church in England so why should anyone object? Time and context a...
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Gene Owens: The Unshakeable Kingdom (July 73)

April 13, 2018 • 10 mins
In this November 1973 sermon, Dr. Owens notes the chaos, worry and discomfort in the outside world. Vietnam was winding down painfully and Watergate was ramping up. Vice President Agnew had just resigned. Charlotte was into its second year of forced busing and there was a national energy crisis, com...
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Gene Owens: ’92 Farewell

April 13, 2018 • 13 mins
Gene Owens preached this sermon, his last before his retirement, on June 28, 1992. It was his swan song after 23 years as Senior Minister of Myers Park Baptist Church. He states that he started at our church with “a title and a task” and the he “ended with love.” His focus is on relationships and, i...
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Dick Cornwell, Acolyte

February 17, 2018 • 2 mins

DICK CORNWELL - Our second Sr. Minister, Dr. Carlyle Marney, was an internationally known theologian and preacher renowned for his prophetic voice. He also had a wicked sense of humor as this story told by Dick Cornwell illustrates...

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Worth the Drive

December 20, 2017 • 1 min
BARBARA HERRING – While on a business trip, my father happened to be seated next to a gentleman (Dr. George Heaton) while traveling. They became engaged in conversation and Dr. Heaton (then a Senior Minister at MPBC) invited my father to come to hear him speak. My parents were impressed with D...
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