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...

Ascending the Peak – Philippians 2:1-11 (9-11)

In 1989 something was done in Yosemite National Park that had never been done before. Mark Wellman ascended the nearly vertical face of the 3,000 foot granite monolith, El Capitan. He wasn’t the first man to ever climb that famous peak, but he was the first paraplegic...

The Mind of Christ – Philippians 2:1-11

Have you ever seen what happens when a drop of gasoline hits a puddle of water? What takes place is called “thin-film interference.” The gasoline spreads out and floats on top of the water – perhaps as single molecules. And when the sun hits it, it displays a swirl of...

November 23

On this day in 1853, in Roman Catholic France, the account of an exhumation was published, stirring a variety of emotions.  Close to the holiday residence of Napoleon III was a small village in which the well-to-do Andru family lived.  A Baptist, J. B. Cretin had...

Fulfill Ye My Joy – Philippians 2:1-4

There was much in the church in Philippi that filled the heart of Paul with joy. He remembered with a smile those first converts and how they bonded together. And throughout the years they supported him time and time again. And now there were many others, some of whom...

Becoming the Gospel  –  Philippians 1:27-30

I have given this message a strange and potentially misleading title – ”Becoming the Gospel.”  I had seven other titles under consideration, but I chose one that relates to verse 27 –  “Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel.”  Out of those seven options...

November 16

Abraham Marshall, the son of Daniel Marshall, who was our subject a few weeks ago.  On this day in 1786 he returned to his Georgia home after journeying by horseback to Connecticut to take care of some his deceased estate.  Everywhere he stopped on that trip he tried...