Oct 12, 2023 | Wednesday
I need to remind myself from time to time that our primary Wednesday night purpose is prayer and worship. And then there is the fact that some of us have come from work; we are tired and perhaps a little tried. Of course, there are always things we need to hear again,...
Oct 9, 2023 | Sunday Evening
I have no idea how I came up with this outline, but I have had it for years. And it is obvious to me that it is not an Oldfield original, although I’ve adopted and adapted it. I prefer to preach textual messages, drawing out and applying the meaning of a particular...
Oct 8, 2023 | Sunday Morning
You might soon be thinking that I am wasting my time this morning. You may think that I am preaching to the choir. But as you can see we don’t have a choir. I have something to teach which you may think is unnecessary, because you already firmly believe it. My theme...
Oct 5, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1664, the Baptist pastor, Benjamin Keach was found guilty and sentenced to a fortnight in jail and a day in a public pillory for what he wrote and published in a children’s book, entitled, “The Child’s Instructor.” The charge against Keach stated, “Thou...
Oct 5, 2023 | Wednesday
Every time I have read this Psalm over the last three weeks, I have seen new things. We must never think that we have intellectually conquered any portion of the infinite Word of God. Perhaps one of our occupations in Heaven will be mastering new material from the...
Oct 2, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Let’s think about attitudes this evening; particularly the attitude of discontentment – dissatisfaction. As we begin, some people may be thinking that this is going to be a negative message. Certainly some aspects of discontentedness are sinfully evil. But at...
Oct 1, 2023 | Sunday Morning
The words of this scripture can be made into a pretty good homiletical outline – but I won’t use it today. Paul prayed for wisdom to understand the will of God in three areas: The hope of our Heavenly calling – verse 18. The riches of the glory of His inheritance...
Sep 28, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In about the year 1808 the first Baptists immigrated into southern Alabama. Holcombe, one of the earliest Baptist historians tells us that the meeting houses were more like wigwams than anything else, and the preachers often preferred to stand outside under the trees...
Sep 28, 2023 | Wednesday
John Bunyan, the Baptist preacher, wrote more than one book – several of which became immensely popular. His 1666 autobiography, “Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners,” is well worth reading. He also wrote more than one extended allegory, including “The Holy War.”...
Sep 27, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Three New Visitors! Since the educational systems are starting their fall schedules here in the Stillwater area, we were blessed with three college-age visitors the last Sunday in August. Rhiaynn, Jacob, and Logan were seated in the...
Sep 24, 2023 | Sunday Morning
Theologians argue with non-theological evangelists whether prayer is a part of the “formula” for salvation. The Bible says such things as: “For by grace are ye saved through FAITH; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: it is the gift of God, not of works...
Sep 21, 2023 | Wednesday
It has been said that Baptists don’t, or didn’t, believe in an educated ministry. While there have been a small minority bearing the Baptist name who believed that ministers should rely on the Holy Spirit alone, to the exclusion of teachers and reference books, and...
Sep 21, 2023 | Wednesday
Most of you know my inclination to comment, from time to time, on the hymns that we sing. Sometimes there is a bit of criticism; sometimes I simple raise a question; sometimes it is to highlight something that I think is good. I rarely interrupt our singing to make...
Sep 17, 2023 | Sunday Evening
I would like to piggy-back off Bro. Fulton’s message last Sunday night. If you’ll remember it was titled: “How to Watch.” Hopefully I wont be contradicting anything Austin said, but I’d like to take his message a step farther, emphasizing for what things we should be...
Sep 17, 2023 | Sunday Morning
I read the story of a gospel minister whose sister lived with him and his family. The woman loved the Lord and would often go out in the evenings to listen to various people preach the Word. One night, when she came home, her brother asked, “Did you hear a good sermon...
Sep 14, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Brother John Kerr was the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia. Even while serving his state as a member of the United States Congress, the Lord blessed his church with at least two periods of great revival. In 1831 the church recorded 555...
Sep 14, 2023 | Wednesday
Half a century ago, when I first arrived at Bible school, I entered its doors as an impressionable teenager. Three years later, as I graduated, I was not quite so pliable and malleable. I had a tiny bit of education; I was married by that time; I could almost grow...
Sep 7, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I have often referred to the religious persecution which was legal in many of the first American colonies and which was then carried over into some of this country’s first states. Over time, and with much hard work, eventually religious liberty became a matter of law....
Sep 7, 2023 | Wednesday
At our prayer meeting last Saturday, I shared James 4:8 with the men who were there. “Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.” After a few of my simple remarks, one of the men asked: “How do we draw nigh to the Lord?” Quickly I fired off a couple more shallow...
Sep 4, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Let’s say that a man drove up and parked a brand new Lamborghini Urus automobile in your drive way. Then he walked up to your door, rang the bell, handed you the keys and some paper work and walked away. Let’s say some extraordinarily rich person gave you a $250,000...
Aug 31, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Henry Jessey, the son of an Anglican minister, was born on this day in 1601. His father wanted Henry to follow him into his Protestant ministry, so he was sent to some fine British schools. It was quite apart from that education, that the Lord brought him to his knees...
Aug 31, 2023 | Wednesday
I make no apology for coming back to yet another consideration of the doctrine of the devil. As I have said several times recently, Satan is a real and powerful spirit creature. He has us on his radar, and I am sure that he has been disrupting our efforts to bring...
Aug 27, 2023 | Sunday Evening
We call it “Noah’s Flood,” but it wasn’t Noah’s at all; it was the judgment of the Almighty God on other sinners. It was, without question, the most astounding, mind-boggling event in the annals of time. It was the most creation-changing, the most negatively...
Aug 24, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Adoniram Judson was this country’s first foreign missionary – serving in Burma. When he and his wife left this country, sailing for the Orient, the couple were going as missionaries of the Congregational denomination. During the long voyage, in preparation for his...
Aug 24, 2023 | Wednesday
There are churches whose primary doctrine is to have no doctrine at all. I know that sounds ridiculous, but what I mean is they deliberately have no doctrinal position on much of anything. For some denominations, like the Quakers, that is their official policy. They...
Aug 20, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Let’s begin with a brief explanation of this scripture. Peter begins with the gospel – Christ died in order that wicked, ungodly people, like us, might be saved. “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to...
Aug 19, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: One New Visitor! On the sixteenth of this month, we had an unusual visitor come into our service on Sunday morning, late and apologetic for so being, and very courteously acting for interrupting my preaching. We took the time to...
Aug 17, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Jehu Shuck was a Virginian, born in that state in 1812. He was born again as a young man, and the Lord called him into the ministry. Two days after marrying, Henrietta, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J.B. Jeter, the Shucks set sail for China as missionaries. Mrs. Shuck...
Aug 17, 2023 | Wednesday
There are people who are willing to do the hardest and most extreme things in order to be saved. There are people who beat and cut themselves, thinking they earn God’s forgiveness for their sins. There are people who starve their bodies, and starve their emotions, in...
Aug 14, 2023 | Sunday Evening
The other day I was sitting at my desk, taking a break from my studies when I began to feel sorry for myself. Yes, your pastor is a sinner just like everybody else. There was no lust or envy involved, no jealousy, and I may be wrong, but I don’t think there was any...
