Embracing Generosity

A Sermon Series by Dr. Clay Hallmark

Let’s learn how to create an environment of generosity in our lives, homes and church that is contagious! Let’s learn how to move our hearts instinctively to become generous so that it is normal, natural, and the easy thing for us to offer up something we genuinely love or value for someone we choose to love and to love more.

Message 1: Contagious!


Message 2: Cultivating


Message 3: Courageous


Message 4 Commanded

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Generosity is Cultivating

In the previous message, we learned that Generosity is Contagious. Your generosity is spread from God’s love for us and then shared with others. Now we learn that Generosity is Cultivating! In other words, once generosity gets planted into our hearts and minds, like seeds planted in the ground, it begins to grow, multiply, and produce a harvest of generosity in others. 

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Sermon Series by Dr. Clay Hallmark

Dr. Clay Hallmark was called as pastor of First Baptist Church on January 10, 2016 after having pastored almost 15 years in Arkansas, as well as churches in Alabama. Dr. Hallmark currently serves as the President of the Tennessee Baptist Convention and the past Chairman of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. He also serves as a Trustee and is on the Board of Regents at Union University (Jackson, TN), as well as a Trustee at Carson Newman University (Jefferson City, TN). From 2009-2011, he served as President of the Arkansas Baptist Convention. He has also served on the SBC Executive Committee, and as a Trustee of Ouachita Baptist University (Arkadelphia, AR). He holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Master of Divinity from Beeson Divinity School at Samford University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Union University. He is married to Leslie (Reeves) and they have 2 grown daughters: Cassie Zawacki (Chad) and Kayla Wood (Josh). He also has two granddaughters, Elizabeth and Natalie Zawacki, who are both a little spoiled. Moving to Lexington in 2016 is coming home for the Hallmarks who have family throughout the community. You can follow the pastor on Twitter @clayhallmark and on his blog page. You may purchase his book, “From Death to Life: The Heart of Church Revitalization” on his ministry website