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,...
Nov 9, 2023 | Wednesday
As James concludes his epistle, he exhorts us to “pray for one another.” Coming in chapter 5 instead of chapter 1, should we conclude that this is some sort of afterthought? Is this: “Oh, by the way I think it would be good if you prayed for one another?” As taught by...
Nov 6, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Let’s say that you and your neighbor are chatting one day. He knows that you are a Christian. You have shared your testimony with him on several occasions and invited him to church. But, as he has said that “he is satisfied with his religion.” You know that he was...
Nov 5, 2023 | Sunday Morning
I plan to use both messages today to consider the subject of “the law.” My subject is not the United States Constitution or the 200,000 pages of the Code of Federal regulations. There is a message in those two documents, but as I say, that is not my theme. I will...
Nov 3, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1855 William Bagby was born. He was born again under the ministry of the pioneer Texas Baptist, Rufus Burleson, and he was educated under the ministry of B.H. Carroll. In January 1881, Brother Bagby and his wife sailed from Baltimore toward the Bay of...
Oct 30, 2023 | Sunday Evening
John 17 is one of the Bible’s holiest chapters. It rivals or surpasses any of the Psalms. That is because we get to overhear a conversation within the Godhead – the Son speaking to the Father. This is not the prayer of a godly saved person, like David, speaking with...
Oct 28, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: More Visitors Natasha, who is studying veterinary medicine at OSU, and Jeff, from California, an old friend of Bro. Gaches, and Ally, the lady friend of Bro. Hunter Northern all came at least once this month to visit with us. Of them all,...
Oct 26, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Harris most likely would not be called “a great preacher.” He wasn’t an orator, or filled with lots of education, or even blessed with a good imagination. But he was always close to his Saviour, and he was blessed with the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Brother...
Oct 26, 2023 | Wednesday
Let’s pretend you wake up one spring morning, feeling a slight itch on your right forearm. Looking down you see a small spot and think that while working in the garden the day before, you got poked by a raspberry or rose bush, or maybe it is a bug bite. Six months...
Oct 22, 2023 | Sunday Evening
I’m going to come very close to breaking one of my personal, homiletical rules. “Homiletics,” by the way, is a fancy word for sermon preparation and preaching. I really dislike it when I hear preachers read a scripture to begin a sermon and then never return to it. I...
Oct 20, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: More Visitors Natasha, who is studying veterinary medicine at OSU, and Jeff, from California, an old friend of Bro. Gaches, and Ally, the lady friend of Bro. Hunter Northern all came at least once this month to visit with us. Of...
Oct 19, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Lord blessed the United States in the late 18th century with souls saved and multitudes turning directly to the Bible for their spiritual direction rather than listening to their Protestant preachers. In New England hundreds, if not thousands, of members of...
Oct 19, 2023 | Wednesday
I was talking to our missionary Tim Parrow the other day when he mentioned that one of their church people hasn’t been in the services for several weeks – it may have been as many as six weeks. There hasn’t been any problem with the church. It appears that the...
Oct 16, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Last Sunday, Brother Haug gave us a heart-warming rendition of Augustus Toplady’s hymn “Rock of Ages.” Some people claim that “Rock of Ages” is the number one best and most popular hymn in Christendom. Some make it equal to “Amazing Grace” – which has far less of a...
Oct 15, 2023 | Sunday Morning
When I was child, my parents, like thousands others, were terrified by an epidemic which was sweeping world. COVID hadn’t been invented yet, and the Spanish flu had run its course, but this was just as frightening. I remember, shortly after moving to Denver, my sister...
Oct 12, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1774, Benjamin Cole became the second, full-time pastor of the Hopewell Baptist Church in western New Jersey. Its earliest preachers were all itinerant visitors, but God blessed, souls were saved and a church was established. In fact, Hopewell was one...
