Sep 20, 2026 | Sunday Morning
It was a bright, sunny July day in Calgary, Alberta. Judy and I joined thousands of others, lining up along the road from the airport to the Palliser Hotel downtown. There she was, as beautiful as always, with a light-colored jacket and a matching hat, waving to all...
Sep 17, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
It is always difficult to successfully follow the ministry of an eminently God-blessed pastor. Time and time again, churches have been destroyed during the decade after the death of a long and God-blessed pastor. And almost as often, the succeeding pastor has been...
Sep 3, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
“Swearing Jack Waller,” should be a name known to all Baptists. He had been a vulgar, sinful man before the Lord saved him. He went on to be the pastor of the Baptist church in Spotsylvania, Virginia. Jack’s brother was a member of that church and into his home...
Aug 30, 2026 | Sunday Morning
As every American patriot knows, an event took place at Harper’s Ferry, WV, in 1859, which helped launch the Civil War. An abolitionist named John Brown led eighteen armed men into the little town at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. They not only...
Aug 27, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Hezekiah Johnson was a true pioneer missionary here in the United States. When a few Baptist families moved across the Mississippi from Illinois into Iowa, the first church in the new territory was constituted in Burlington in 1834. The first “settled” pastor of the...
