John Thweatt is a child of God seeking to introduce other people to his Father. He is a husband to Kim and a father to Hannah, Hope, Hollie, and Kimberly Joy. He has served as pastor of three churches and has been teaching/preaching in the local church for over 20 years and is currently the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Pell City, AL.
John graduated from Boaz High School, Boaz, AL and then received a BS in Education from Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL.
He received a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, TX and a Doctor of Ministry from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, New Orleans, LA.
His main gifts lie in preaching and teaching and he is committed to teaching through the Bible book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse, and word by word.
When he is not with his family or working John enjoys running (he tries to complete a marathon or a half marathon every year) and an occasional round of golf.
Dec 24, Jesus Made That
John 1:10 tells us, “He was in the world, and the world was made through him…” Genesis describes the process John states as fact. The writer takes us through each day of God’s creation with the climax of the Genesis account being the creation of man.
The climax of John’s account was the fact that the God who created all that we see and know as our universe became a man. Wesley said, “Our God contracted to a span, incomprehensibly made man.” Yesterday I shared a picture of a star 40 light years away from us. Today I want to share a picture of our own milky way galaxy.
I’ll never forget eating dinner on a dry river bed in Tanzania and looking up to see the Milky Way. The stars seemed close enough to touch. I remember thinking the same thing I thought when I saw this picture–Jesus made that! That little baby born in Bethlehem was the same One who said “Let there be…” and this happened. That’s our Jesus!
