Fanny Crosby wrote in a hymn a century ago, “To God be the glory, great things He hath done.” She ends the chorus with “O come to the Father, thro’ Jesus the Son, and give Him the glory, great things He hath done.”

This morning I want to identify four “great things” God has given to His children and specifically apply them to Alabama Baptists.

God has given us the Great Commission

A pastor friend, David Dykes, shared in a sermon the story of Coca-Cola. The discoverer of the soft drink was John Pemberton, a pharmacist in Atlanta in 1886. Coke was not marketed overseas very much until the 1970s. It was then that the company set a goal to make it available to everyone in our world. (continued…)

– Read the full story at The Alabama Baptist Newspaper at: http://www.thealabamabaptist.org/print-edition-article-detail.php?id_art=35034#sthash.ZNvfCiSs.dpuf