Lee Roberson Quotes

       Lee Roberson
       1909-2007
      
       Dr. Lee Roberson, loyal pastor of the Highland Park Baptist Church, and founder and president of Tennessee Temple Schools in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is world-renowned in religious circles.
      
       Brother Roberson entered Old Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky in 1926, and finished the first year. From Old Bethel College, he went to the University of Louisville to complete his college work with a major in history. He also completed his work for a degree at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. At the age of nineteen, he was called to a church in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, which he did not accept.
      
       On the first Sunday in November 1937, Dr. Roberson became pastor of the First Baptist Church in Fairfield, Alabama. After five years with the Fairfield church, Dr. Roberson was called to the Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in November of 1942. Whether he be speaking from the pulpit of the Highland Park Baptist Church, the chapel platform of Tennessee Temple Schools, to his Men's Bible Class, or at one of many other special services, his messages are always fresh, fervent, and filled with the power of God.

Folks don't want to be shaken. They would rather sit still. They want to come to church Sunday morning, listen to you for an hour, get up and walk out the door, go home and eat dinner, and forget about what you said.     Topics: Apathy Nothing but encouragement can come to us as we dwell upon the faithful dealing of our Heavenly Father in centuries gone by. Faith in God has not saved people from hardships and trials, but it has enabled them to bear tribulations courageously and to emerge victoriously.     Topics: Encouragement, Victory If I win a soul to Jesus Christ, the bells ring now, and they will ring forever and forever in this world and in the world to come!     Topics: Evangelism Faith is made up of belief and trust. Many people believe God, but they do not trust themselves into His keeping and care; consequently, they are filled with worry and fear.     Topics: Faith In all true faith there is complete committal to God.     Topics: Faith, Commitment Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.     Topics: Friendship, Boasting Remember, God knows about every tear which comes to our eyes. Christ cares and is concerned about us. Your heartaches are known to Him.     Topics: God Some people have the power but not the willingness to help. Others have the willingness but not the power. God has both.     Topics: Helping The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through this world in the midst of tears.     Topics: Life, Heaven As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.     Topics: Prayer If we don't stir up people, move people, we have failed. If you can preach Sunday morning, Sunday night and Wednesday night, and no one is stirred to go out and do what God says, you haven't done much.     Topics: Preaching Will the sin of this nation stir us? We are a part of this day and time. We have a job to do. We ought to be stirred in our souls against sin and condemn it in every sermon. In every way possible, let people know your attitude.     Topics: Preaching, Sin