Jan 4, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Carey took his wife and family with him to India, where he and his team became pioneer missionaries. Carey had four sons. Three of them were saved by God’s grace and had begun to serve their Saviour – two of which were missionaries themselves. However their...
Jan 4, 2024 | Wednesday
For some reason, unknown to me, our lesson last Wednesday was relatively well-received on Sermon Audio. It was heard by at least sixty people from around the world, almost four times as often as is usual for us. That is in no way an expression of pride, because many...
Jan 1, 2024 | Sunday Evening
Nearly every verse in this great Psalm could be developed into sermon. Furthermore, we could take several verses and come up with thoughts for the beginning of a new year. For example there is verse 3 – “Thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name’s...
Dec 31, 2023 | Sunday Morning
Today is the 365th day of 2023; the last day of the year. In asking the Holy Spirit for a message, He laid on my heart the words, “in the last day…” “In the last day, the great day of the feast,” the Lord Jesus cried to the crowds in the temple, “If any man...
Dec 28, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Oliver Hart was born in 1723. As a young man he was born again and joined the Baptist church in Southampton, Pennsylvania. When he was twenty-five, he surrendered to the will of the Lord and was ordained to the gospel ministry. Shortly after that he traveled to...
Dec 28, 2023 | Wednesday
For what is Noah best known? If you didn’t assume this was a trick question, wouldn’t you say Noah is best known for building the ark? Extending our answer, we might point to the deluge, which is erroneously called “Noah’s flood.” After a little thought you might say...
Dec 24, 2023 | Sunday Morning
At this time of year, every year, we are inundated with cliches. They are on Christmas cards; on billboards and in songs; we hear people repeat them; they are ubiquitous. In addition to the common greetings, we see and hear such things as, “Put Christ back in...
Dec 23, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren, In order to be able to attend our services one must have an interest in learning about the Lord Jesus Christ and His interests and activity as recorded in the old King James Bible. Our ministry is mainly a preaching and teaching ministry...
Dec 23, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren, This month started off with a visit to Bethel Baptist Church’s Bible Conference, Bro. Royce Smith, Pastor, in Choctaw, OK. We went down on the Friday night of the conference thanks to Bro. Phillip McGee who picked us up and brought us...
Dec 21, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Josiah Goddard was the son of a missionary couple. He was born in Singapore in 1840. When he was thirteen, he was sent to America for training at Worcester College in New York, but before he arrived it had closed its doors, and this young teenager was left on his own,...
Dec 21, 2023 | Wednesday
Let’s say that you want to bake a simple, lemon-flavored cake. In order to do that you have two options: the hard way and the easy way. You could mix the correct amounts of butter, eggs, flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, lemon flavoring and a few other organic,...
Dec 17, 2023 | Sunday Evening
We have a special purpose this afternoon: the ordination of our first deacon in more than thirty years. Some time ago, in preparation for this day, we had five lessons on the office of deacon. I have no intention of repeating those lessons now, even though they may...
Dec 14, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
One of the large, early earthquakes in American history occurred on this day in 1811. Its epicenter was under the Mississippi River, but it was felt as far away as Boston. Jacob Bower, living in Kentucky at the time, was so startled by the quake that he cried out,...
Dec 14, 2023 | Wednesday
I don’t usually tell you how my messages come to me or how they are developed, but this time I will. For several weeks I have been thinking about bringing a message on the subject of “worship.” After prayer and deliberation, the Lord gave me a topical outline on the...
Dec 10, 2023 | Sunday Morning
This morning, I would like to tie together a New Testament scripture with something from the Old Testament. As you have heard, the New Testament is illustrated in the Old Testament, and the Old is fulfilled in the New. The pastor who preaches only from the first...
Dec 7, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Dutton Lane sounds like it could be the title to a 1967 Beatles’ song, but it is actually a man’s name. After settling in North Carolina and establishing the Sandy Creek Baptist Church, Shubal Stearns and Daniel Marshall began to minister and preach the gospel in...
Dec 7, 2023 | Wednesday
Four times the Bible uses the words “the faith of Jesus Christ.” Have you ever thought about the faith that Jesus must – or might – have had in God His Father? That is our subject for this evening. But there isn’t a single scripture anywhere which speaks about that....
Dec 3, 2023 | Sunday Morning
Last week – thinking about the perfection of our salvation in Christ – I took our text from John 10. The Lord Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish…” Earlier in...
Nov 30, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
There is a registered historical home near Fairfax, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC. Interestingly, it has a few graves in its backyard. One historian wrote of the house: “the significance of the Hutcheson House lies in the fact that it is one of the few…...
Nov 30, 2023 | Wednesday
How many miracles carried out by the Lord Jesus are recorded in all four gospels? This is the only one. For that reason, it may be one of the most commonly preached. I didn’t check my records to see how many times I have taken my text from one of those four chapters....
Nov 26, 2023 | Sunday Morning
Sixty years ago, I knew a little boy. He was just like every other child in the neighborhood. An average little kid. He played outside from after breakfast until the street lights came on in the evening. The only thing making him slightly different from others was his...
Nov 24, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On September 6, 1732, John Newton was born – (not that John Newton, but this one). The place was Kent County, Pennsylvania. Like the other John Newton, this Newton was raised in the Church of England. But when he was about twenty-years-of-age, he was born again,...
Nov 23, 2023 | Wednesday
Our message this evening bears the silly but appropriate title: “How to Kill Thanksgiving.” It has nothing to do with killing the thanksgiving turkey. And in that regard, why have “turkey” and “thanksgiving” become synonyms? Why do some people call Thanksgiving...
Nov 19, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that most people want what Jeremiah was talking about here. At least the part about “the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.” If nothing more, no one is looking for, searching for, or hoping for – unhappiness and sorrow. I don’t know...
Nov 19, 2023 | Sunday Morning
I don’t know if they do it any more, but it used to be in rich, respectable Southern Society, when a young lady reached a certain age, her family held a “Coming out Party” in her honor. There would usually be a large gathering of social equals, celebrating with music,...
Nov 17, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In Barnstaple, England, there lived a nineteen-year-old man named Charles Veysey. Through reading the New Testament he came under deep conviction for his sins, and trusting the Lord Jesus alone, he was given the peace of salvation from sin. Seeing from the Bible that...
Nov 16, 2023 | Wednesday
During their years in the wilderness, Israel was to worship God at His Tabernacle. I hope you can picture that place. First, there was the courtyard surrounded by a wall of curtains. Inside were several things, including the inner tabernacle made up of the Holy Place...
Nov 13, 2023 | Sunday Evening
If you don’t know already, pastors are human – afflicted with some of the same maladies as you. We not only get colds, in-grown toe nails, and fatigue, but we have some of our own peculiar problems. But three pastoral pestilences, which can infect any of us, include...
Nov 12, 2023 | Sunday Morning
The Jews, both ancient and modern, have had a problem in saying or writing “Jehovah” – the name of God. Some called it “the ineffable Name” – the unutterable, inexpressible and unspeakable name of God. Instead of writing it out, they often abbreviate it into four...
Nov 9, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Bunyan had been married for several years, and that dear lady gave him four children, including one blind little girl. Three years after his wife’s death, he married Elizabeth. She willingly took on the responsibility of loving and caring for the Bunyan children,...
