Hell’s Reality – Matthew 10:28

This chapter begins with the names of Jesus’ first disciples. Then verse 5 tells us, “These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded…” to preach the good news. After this, the Lord warns them of what to expect as they carried out their evangelistic...

December 14

Students of Baptist history have always found it interesting, if not confusing, that many early Welsh preachers had the same, or very similar, names.  Abel Morgan seems to have been one such name, because it is applied to one Baptist preacher born in this country and...

I Trust in the Lord Jesus  –  Philippians 2:19-30

Epaphroditus was the mailman who carried this letter from Rome to Philippi.  Paul gives us a some information about the man, which we may, or may not, consider in another message.  In addition to being Paul’s messenger, he is a brother, fellow soldier and companion –...

November 2025

Dear Pastor and Brethren:  Mission Activity               Sis. Kim Williams was away traveling to both New York and Virginia, missing three of the five Sundays in November. We are sure happy to have her back in the services again. On the sixteenth of November we had a...

The Happiness of Heaven – Acts 7:54-60

I am in the middle of reading a three volume set called, “The Life and Works of Joseph Kinghorn.” Volume 1 is biographical, illustrated with the letters between Joseph and his father, Pastor David Kinghorn. The son, Joseph, was born in 1766. When he was fourteen he...

December 7

Thomas Moor Rice was a Baptist preacher for two short years.  He was born in Kentucky on this day (December 7) in 1792 to a Baptist mother and a Presbyterian father.  His dad was a farmer who also ran a still.  After only ten months of formal education Thomas was put...

The 4×400 – Philippians 2:14-18

Once again, I’d like use a parable through which to look that these five verses – we have a parabolic lens. In 1908 the a new kind of race was introduced to the Olympic Games, and since then it has taken several forms. I’m talking about the“relay race” in track and...

October 2025

Dear Pastor and Brethren: Mission Activity:  Sis. Kim Wiliams, Sis. Roxanne and I attended the yearly Bible Conference at Bethel Baptist on the Firday night of the conference, enjoying the fine food and spirutal fellowship of the beleivers in attendance there. Latino...

November 30

There are many Baptists these days who seem to love the Reformers, even to the point of claiming a kind of kinship with them.  I am afraid that many of them know neither the history of their own doctrines nor the practice of those Protestant Reformers. On this day in...