Aug 13, 2023 | Sunday Morning
In this scripture, the Lord Jesus and His disciples were taking a short break from their Israelite ministry. They were in the area of Caesarea Philippi, to the northeast of Galilee, under the shadow of Mt. Hermon. Taking the opportunity to do some doctrinal teaching,...
Aug 11, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
How many people are required for the proper establishment of a Baptist Church? Gustaf Palmquist was born in 1812 into a family of seven children in Sweden. At some point, his mother came under Holy Spirit conviction, but turning to her Lutheran priest, she was told...
Aug 10, 2023 | Wednesday
I know very little about the sport of boxing, and that suits me just fine. But I have heard of the boxer’s use of the “one/two combination.” As I understand it, if he can connect a second punch to a good first punch, he can score a point or two. And it makes sense to...
Aug 7, 2023 | Sunday Evening
We have had many references lately to Hebrews 11 – Paul’s great study of faith. One of the highlights of that chapter is verse 6 – “But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them...
Aug 6, 2023 | Sunday Morning
The Gospel of John goes out of its way to show us the Lord Jesus in an especially brilliant light. It puts the eternal Son of God in the spotlight – particularly in the spotlight of His divine glory. I wouldn’t say that the other gospels don’t also do that, but they...
Aug 3, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Today, I am going to combine our history vignette with our testimony of the day. Jesse Babcock Worden was born on July 18, 1787, into a Christian home. He was the youngest of nine children. Because of his large family, and because there were no schools there in...
Jul 31, 2023 | Sunday Evening
(How can different people read one passage of Scripture and reach drastically different interpretations? One explanation is that we all have a storehouse of information tucked away in our heads and hearts. And as we are reading, those definitions we have learned, and...
Jul 30, 2023 | Sunday Morning
I was visiting with our camp speaker, and he asked me what I was considering for this morning’s message. I told him that I was thinking about “Moses’ Choice.” Out of blue he completely changed the trajectory of my thoughts. He asked, “Don’t you get nervous using some...
Jul 29, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Patient was born in England. After attending either Cambridge or Oxford and becoming a Congregational minister, he came to America to serve the Lord in an atmosphere of freedom. While here, he discovered that he hadn’t been scripturally baptized, so he turned...
Jul 23, 2023 | Sunday Evening
It is easy for a pastor to assume that his church members all believe the cardinal doctrines of that church. For example, he might think that everyone is expecting the imminent return of Christ, and everyone is convinced of the absolute sovereignty of God. Everyone...
Jul 20, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
By the middle of the 16th century the Dutch city of Nijmegen had become famous for its weaving industry, and the family of Jan Block had become wealthy in that trade. Jan became a local celebrity, well-known for his lifestyle of sin and partying. Attracted to this...
Jul 20, 2023 | Wednesday
We have all heard the colloquialism: “as light as air.” This can be a misleading comparison. Actually, air has a bit of substance, weighing 14.7 pounds per square inch at sea level, and about 12 pounds per square inch in Denver, a mile above the level of the sea. In...
Jul 16, 2023 | Sunday Morning
Many of you ladies are wearing a diamond ring. My wife has told me many times how much she loves the marquise diamond I gave her fifty-five years ago. To me, a diamond is a diamond, but to many women, diamonds are important – and so are their various shapes and...
Jul 15, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: A General Report Although several have been sick or absent for some reason, our attendance numbers run as follows for the four weeks of the month: 10, 11, 11, and 6. We had Ellie and her daughter, Mia, Jose’s granddaughter, visit with...
Jul 14, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The history of, John Clough, an early American missionary is too astounding for the average Christian to believe. Certainly it can’t be possible that his ministry lead to the salvation of so many souls that during a period of six weeks, over 8,500 Telugu nationals...
Jul 13, 2023 | Wednesday
We are skipping over five verses in this chapter because they are parenthetical to the theme of this series. I am trying to examine some of the characteristics which make Christians different from non-Christians. And when we bring two dozen Christians with these...
Jul 10, 2023 | Sunday Evening
How can we make our church different from all the other churches in Post Falls? What if we put a 50-foot steeple on the south end of the church building? Would that make us different? How about installing an elevator to lift people from the foyer to the auditorium...
Jul 9, 2023 | Sunday Morning
I preached from this scripture twenty years ago, but my theme was entirely different at the time. That message was on Philip’s evangelism of his friend Nathaniel. This morning, I would like to only glance at those two men as we look into the face of our Lord Jesus. I...
Jul 6, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Joseph Binney was born again at the age of twenty. He joined a Congregational church in Boston, and began to prepare himself to take the gospel to the heathen in the Orient. In one of his courses at Yale College he was to debate another student on the subject of...
Jul 6, 2023 | Wednesday
I don’t know about your neighborhood, but at our house there is only one kind of elegant butterfly. It is the Yellow Tiger Swallowtail. When it flits its way through our backyard I almost always look up to see. When it lands on one of Judy’s flowers, it usually only...
Jul 2, 2023 | Sunday Morning
There is no way of knowing the exact number, but it is estimated that half a million illegal immigrants successfully come into the United States every year. In addition to these, there are thousands of others who enter legally on visitor, student or work visas, but...
Jul 1, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Church This month the sister of Bro. Jose Bautista came on a tourist visa from old Mexico to visit her brother. Elena came for an entire month, and as Jose had promised to bring her to the services, she came three out of four Sundays! We were delighted...
Jun 30, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The work of planting Baptist churches in America’s Midwest was difficult. That was due in part to the cosmopolitan makeup of the settlers and the nature of the terrain along the lakes. Michigan, for example, was described by America’s surveyor-general as low and...
Jun 29, 2023 | Wednesday
According to IRMI, a risk management company which works with industrial insurance companies, about 100 years ago, 80% of the US population was involved in some aspect of farming. Today, it is 2%. And today, the average farm size is 434 acres, but 55% of all US farms...
Jun 25, 2023 | Sunday Morning
After the Lord put this scripture on my heart, I became concerned that you might have heard a lesson on this Syrophoenician woman recently. I knew that Brother Fulton referred to her as part of a recent message dealing with the “Son of David.” But I was fearful that...
Jun 23, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Most people have heard about the infamous, 1692, witchcraft trials of Salem Massachusetts. Two, often highly respected names, Increase Mather and his son Cotton, were at the epicenter of that horrible travesty. “If a woman was seen to gather herbs to boil, she was...
Jun 16, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I am told that the Severns Valley was blessed to have the first Baptist Church in what was to become Kentucky. It was established on this day (June 18) in 1781 between today’s Louisville and Elizabethtown. Eighteen rough frontiersmen and women constituted the original...
Jun 15, 2023 | Wednesday
I make no apology for bringing another lesson from the battle between David and Goliath. There is so much to learn from this event, and I continue to see new things in it. For this lesson, I’m going to assume that you are familiar with the basics. Let’s briefly...
Jun 12, 2023 | Sunday Evening
I read a comment the other day and the Holy Spirit said, “You need to consider that for a message.” So I have. The comment was made by that man from India to whom I have referred several times recently. He wrote: “My hosts in a Southern (American) city…...
Jun 11, 2023 | Sunday Morning
In October, 1987, Walter Wyatt got into his Beechcraft airplane and took off from the Nassau airport. Even though thieves had stolen his navigation equipment the night before, he felt confident that he could make the hour long flight to Miami, and there he would file...
