Prayer Problems – Hebrews 10:19-22

What would you say is greatest blessing that we have as Christians? Is it the forgiveness of all our sins – past, present and future? Is it the ability to live above our temptations with assurance of victory through Christ and the Spirit? Is it eternal life and our...

February 2024

Dear Pastor and Brethren: Bible Studies Month                As I am in the work of finishing the preaching on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and preaching precisely on, “The Holy Spirit’s Divine Work in the Preservation of the Holy Scriptures,” I find people who...

March 17

Elisha Andrews was born in Connecticut, on September 29, 1768. After his family moved to Vermont, he ended up in New York, where the Lord saved him. He was baptized by Elder Joseph Cornell, after which he united with the Baptist church in Galway. Then soon after that,...

Sitting Close to Jesus – Ephesians 2:1-7

Before we return to Ephesians 2, I would like to take you back to John 13. You don’t need to turn there; I will just try to stir your imaginations. John doesn’t follow the same outline as the Synoptic Gospel, but it is all there. Christ and His disciples were alone in...

On the Fifth Day God Created Vultures – Matthew 24:28

A few days ago, along with two of our church members, I spent a wonderful week in rural southeastern Oklahoma at a Bible conference. In going back and forth to the meetings, and taking a short drive through the rolling hills one afternoon, I was soaking up the...

How Much Grace is Too Much? – Acts 4:32-35

Judy and I read from a couple sources during our devotions together. The other day, I was reading Spurgeon’s “Morning and Evening,” when I came across these words: “Think how much grace one saint requires… So much that nothing but THE Infinite could supply his...

The best known, early American Baptist historian is Isaac Backus.  In the early 19th century he wrote “Church History of New England from 1620-1804” and some other notable books. Prior to Backus, another man, planned to become a Baptist historian, but, while gathering...

The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth – John 3:1-16

This evening I’d like to share some of my perspective on the meeting at Indian Mission Baptist Church. In doing so I’d like to point to something which many Christians might think strange, but which happens fairly frequently in Holy Spirit controlled meetings. When...

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy – Ezekiel 36:16-28

When we first meet Ezekiel, he is beside the river Chebar in Babylon/Chaldea. Ezekiel had been born in Judah, but when King Jehoiachin was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, he was among the people who were carried away. When his ministry began, there were still a few...