Jun 8, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Hervey Jenks was the son of Godly parents. But like so many others, he grew up with his father’s religion, but not his Saviour. With plans to become a lawyer, he began attending Brown University, America’s first Baptist school of higher education. During his final...
Jun 8, 2023 | Wednesday
I briefly shared this scripture with the men last Saturday morning, but I didn’t develop it very far. It hadn’t developed in my heart very far. But the Spirit has kept it on my mind, and now I hope there might be a blessing in it for all of us. For those of you who...
Jun 4, 2023 | Sunday Morning
It is said that for several years, while the Roman Colosseum was under construction, that thousands of people throughout the city were starving. There was very little grain and other foods grown locally, and most of that went to the wealthy. For years Egypt had been...
Jun 1, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In September 1772, William Elliot married Dorothy Merrill, the daughter of the pastor of the local Congregational church. Into this family six children were born, and as you might guess, they were all christened as babies. But as William continued to read and study...
Jun 1, 2023 | Wednesday
Generally speaking, we can’t go wrong if we make David one of our Biblical examples. Of course, the man was a sinner, and especially while standing in God’s spotlight, we see his flaws and sins. But twice in God’s Word we are told that he was a man after the Lord’s...
May 29, 2023 | Sunday Morning
I pay no direct attention to the world of rap singers or any of the modern music culture. But every once in a while one of them comes up on the news, either being killed or arrested for murder. And also periodically, in a movie I’m watching, an entertainer is one of...
May 29, 2023 | Sunday Evening
The church from which this church sprang was named: “First Missionary Baptist Church.” You might say that it was the Antioch of this church, just as Antioch in Syria was the means of starting the churches in Lystra, Iconium and Derby through their missionaries. The...
May 25, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Richard Curtis was born in Virginia on this day in 1756. Sometime after the Lord saved him, he began to have a burden to live in Mississippi. With that in mind his church licensed him to preach and began to encourage him in prayer. At that point, the Curtis family...
May 25, 2023 | Wednesday
We are told in the inscription of this Psalm that this is one of the “Songs of Degrees.” The meaning of that phrase is a mystery, but there are several possibilities. One opinion is that with each of these fifteen special psalms there is a slight rise in spiritual...
May 22, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Church Resurrection Sunday We had a wonderful service on Ester Sunday morning with sixteen in attendance, special music, and a sermon entitled, “The Role of the Hoy Spirit in the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Three of the four...
May 21, 2023 | Sunday Evening
A couple months ago, I was re-reading Alfred Edersheim’s classic study of Christ – “Jesus the Messiah.” In the course of discussing Mark 4, and the other gospels about this event, he made a passing comment. For some reason or other it caught my eye, so I put the...
May 21, 2023 | Sunday Morning
When Paul was making what he thought was his final trip past the Roman province of Asia, he stopped in Miletus, and from there he invited the elders of the church in Ephesus to meet with him. In the few hours they had together, they talked about of some of the...
May 18, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1882, while razing an old adobe church building in Santa Fe, New Mexico – a building which had been used by the Presbyterians for years – the demolition team found the original cornerstone. On it, along with other information, was the date May 21, 1853. It proved...
May 18, 2023 | Wednesday
I have been using this particular Bible for decades. I may have had it even before I moved here in 1990. As I’ve told you before it is a Thompson Chain edition of our old King James. I don’t know anything about Mr. Thompson, but I would guess that he was a fundamental...
May 15, 2023 | Sunday Evening
It must be remembered that this Sermon on the Mount was delivered by Christ to His disciples. This was a sermon to Christians – believers – those already redeemed. It was not shared as a gospel message with instructions for the salvation of the wicked. This isn’t a...
May 14, 2023 | Sunday Morning
If you have a computer, and if you use email, then from time to time you get spam advertisements. I got one of those, trying to entice me to buy someone’s specialty mats to put at our front door. Their gimmick was in the interesting logo’s printed on them. The...
May 12, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Evan Jones was born on this day in 1789. We don’t have any information on when he was born again. In 1821, after he moved from England to this country, he and his wife began a ministry as missionaries to the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. For ten years prior to...
May 11, 2023 | Wednesday
Three times in this Psalm, God’s penman uses the word “selah.” That word is found 77 times in the Bible, with all of them in the Psalms except for twice in Habakkuk. Only once is it ever used other than at the end of a verse, and most of the time it marks the end of a...
May 8, 2023 | Sunday Evening
History has recorded a letter which the Athenian philosopher Aristides wrote to the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Hadrian died in 138 AD, so this letter was written around the beginning of the second century. Aristides, describing the Christians he had observed, wrote:...
May 4, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Elias Morris was born into a family of slaves on this day in 1855. At the close of the Civil War, his parents moved from Georgia to Tennessee and then on to Alabama. There Elias learned the shoemaking trade, and his natural organizational skills resulted in turning...
May 4, 2023 | Wednesday
I mentioned a couple weeks ago that the Judgment Seat of Christ has come up twice in my personal reading. Since then, I have been thinking quite a bit about the Lord’s judgment of the Christian. For example, things I have taught and other books and lessons on...
May 1, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren, We are very happy to announce that Sis. Kim Williams joined Victory Baptist Mission on the 5th of March, Sunday morning! She comes by letter from a church in Virginia of like precious faith called Maranatha Baptist Church whose pastor is Bro....
May 1, 2023 | Sunday Evening
How important is faith to the work of the ministry? To put that question another way: what relationship does faith have to what we are doing tonight? Here we are taking another look into the Word of God. That is always a good and profitable thing. We are here with a...
Apr 30, 2023 | Sunday Morning
As we wind down our series of messages on practical faith, it might have occurred to you that perhaps the most practical and the most important aspect of the subject is our salvation from sin. Certainly nothing is more practical than life and death. Nothing is more...
Apr 27, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Early in its history Connecticut was known as a place of severe persecution against anyone who was not a part of their official Congregational denomination. As a result, the first known Baptist baptism took place in 1767, when Abigail Dorchester testified of her faith...
Apr 27, 2023 | Wednesday
When Paul stood before Festus and Agrippa, he shared with them his testimony of salvation and his commission to minister the gospel of Christ. Keeping in mind a message Austin preached recently, while you notice that Jesus said he was calling Paul, ”To open people’s...
Apr 24, 2023 | Sunday Evening
The editor of my Bible has as a title for Hebrews 11. He calls it “The Roll Call of the Heroes of the Faith.” There are a great many eminent servants of God found here. They were not just saints; they were above average saints. And yet it wasn’t because they were...
Apr 20, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1528, a report was presented to Emperor Charles V by the Council of the Archbishop of Cologne about the growing number of Anabaptists. The document stated that the Anabaptists call themselves “true Christians,” that they practice baptism by immersion, and they hold...
Apr 20, 2023 | Wednesday
We have a tool at our house that my wife and I call our “grabber.” This three foot long instrument has two rubber-coated claws on one end. On the other end there is a handle with a triggering mechanism to close those claws around various objects. We use it to grab...
Apr 16, 2023 | Sunday Morning
I’ve given this message the title: “Katapult to God’s Blessings,” spelling the word catapult with a “k” not a “c.” I want to give you that up front, to create a little curiosity. But you will have to wait for my explanation. I hope that you are yearning for God’s...
