Apr 13, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Moore was born in 1821. Following his conversion to Christ, his call to the ministry, his marriage, and his ordination, he and Mrs. Moore set sail for Assam on this day in 1849. They served in that country and in Burma for five years before Brother Moore...
Apr 13, 2023 | Wednesday
Israel’s King Solomon took the materials prepared by his father, David, and built a magnificent temple in which to worship and serve God. When it was completed, he also had a temporary ten foot high pulpit set up in the temple courtyard. II Chronicles 6:13 says, that...
Apr 10, 2023 | Sunday Evening
In our on-going study of the principles of faith I would like to expand a point made in this morning’s message. Believe me, I am not mad at anyone, even though I might get a little heated about this. This is just one of the basic principles about faith, and therefore...
Apr 9, 2023 | Sunday Morning
One Wednesday, more than two thousand years ago, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was crucified. In His death, the work of our salvation was accomplish – completely finished. The blood of the Lamb had been shed for the redemption of many. There was nothing left...
Apr 6, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Calista Holman was born on this day in 1807, and she was born again as a teenager. Throughout her life she was often sick, and during one of those illnesses, when it was feared that she would die, she insisted on being baptized. On a cold day in March she was carried...
Apr 3, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Picture, if you will, an ancient valley community, clinging to the banks of a rushing river. Against that village there is a terrible army, coming to kill, loot and destroy. The poor community has no natural defense other than the river to its back. So the male...
Apr 2, 2023 | Sunday Morning
This message is a cousin to the one we shared last Sunday morning. Last week I tried to address “the Servant of Jehovah,” the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ Jesus was a servant by coming to do the will of God. He died on the cross to bear the sins of many. I introduced...
Mar 30, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Metropolitan Tabernacle, also known as Spurgeon’s Tabernacle was opened on March 18, 1861. A few weeks later, on this day, there was a fellowship meeting of Baptist pastors from London and across Britain. In greeting those preachers, Spurgeon made the following...
Mar 27, 2023 | Sunday Evening
For what reason did the Lord redeem us and bring us into His family? What should be the goal of our lives? What are we trying to do with our three score and ten years? The general answer should be: to bring glory to God through our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. More...
Mar 25, 2023 | Sunday Morning, Timothy Parrow
In the early eighteenth century two young men felt called by God to share the gospel with the slaves on the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix in the Carribean. Johann Dober and David Nitschmann, applied to the Dutch West Indies Company for permission to settle in...
Mar 23, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
David Thomas was an early Baptist preacher who spent most of his ministry in Virginia, experiencing the hatred and persecution of the religious unbelievers in that area. Thomas endured their attacks willingly, having made the deliberate choice to move to Stafford...
Mar 23, 2023 | Wednesday
Picture a vast swath of land – about the size of the Oregon, Washington and Idaho. For two years there hasn’t been any rain and relatively little snow over the entire area. Crops have failed. Wild fires have swept through the region. Homes have been destroyed;...
Mar 20, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren, As another year begins and the prospects for the blessings of the Lord lay before us, we rejoice in the blessings of last year. We have had several visitors some of whom have stayed with us, and we are running between 9 and 14 people coming...
Mar 16, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Many of my references to the early Baptists in Virginia point to the persecution they endured. Forty-four were incarcerated for preaching without permission from the government and the Episcopal church. But the fact is there were other preachers whom the Lord...
Mar 16, 2023 | Wednesday
In this series of lessons I am trying to provide examples of practical faith in the Lord. And if we are talking about real life then at some point we have to include our lives at home. At the very least, we begin our day and end our day at home, and for many of us 95...
Mar 12, 2023 | Sunday Morning
Our title this morning is – “Jesus’ Friend, Judas” – taking, as our text, Christ’s words in verse 50 – “Friend, wherefore are thou come?” You might think, somewhat incorrectly, that this is more about Judas than the Lord Jesus. Let me assure you that this is about our...
Mar 10, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Pownal is a small community in the southwest corner of Vermont. In 1772 Benjamin Garner arrived in Pownal from Massachusetts, and a Baptist church was formed. During the following year some sort of disease swept through the area, and the Lord used it to awaken...
Mar 9, 2023 | Wednesday
Let’s start with a silly question: Where on the map of God is your faith? If it was required that you pinpoint its exact location on a spiritual map, where would your faith be? I don’t know if it is true in real life, but in fiction, when the authorities want to find...
Mar 6, 2023 | Sunday Evening
The title of this message is: “Faith for the Storm,” which is something quite different from faith in the storm. We may eventually come to that lesson, but not tonight. In this scripture Elijah put his faith in God in order to receive a much needed storm. And right...
Mar 5, 2023 | Sunday Morning
People who attend our church only on Sunday mornings may grow tired of what they hear week after week. At this hour each Lord’s Day, I endeavor to share a message relating to Christ and the Gospel. I try to make each sermon a little different, but there are only a...
Mar 2, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas van Imbroek of Cologne, Germany was arrested for his Christian faith in 1557. For nearly a year he was kept under guard, during which time religious and state officials tried to persuade him to change his mind about salvation and infant baptism. Thomas’...
Mar 2, 2023 | Wednesday
I am calling this message: “Carmelite Faith.” That word may accurately encapsulate our subject, but it might mislead a few people who know one of the special meanings of the word “Carmelite.” There is as a Roman Catholic religious order of nuns and monks who use that...
Feb 27, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Elijah is a truly interesting Old Testament character, with many practical lessons to teach us. He was useful to the Lord for many years, including his mentoring of Elisha. Then while preaching to the king of Israel, he was also commissioned to anoint a future king of...
Feb 26, 2023 | Sunday Morning
The title of this message is: “Addicted, but not Ashamed.” The word “addicted” is found once in our King James Bibles in I Corinthians 16:15. Speaking of a particular church family, Paul says, “ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and...
Feb 23, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Picket was a Baptist preacher who ministered in Virginia just prior to the Revolutionary War. There were times when he would invite neighbors to meet him in a grove of trees or in an open field, and he would preach the gospel to them. On those occasions if the...
Feb 19, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Esther, also known as Hadassah, the cousin of a Jew named Mordecai, became the wife of the Persian king, Ahasuerus. She was providentially (even miraculously) placed in that position by God in order to save Israel from genocide. Haman, an anti-semite, was able to...
Feb 19, 2023 | Sunday Morning
What would you think if I walked up to you and said, “I’m mad?” Would you automatically think that I was angry, or would you picture something else? Would your opinion change if I said, “I am really, really mad?” Would you ask yourself: “Oh, no, what have I done?”...
Feb 16, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1874, Victoria, British Columbia, had a population of about four thousand people, but it had no Baptist church. In December of that year, about a decade before there was a rail link between eastern Canada and the Pacific, Alexander Clyde and his family emigrated...
Feb 16, 2023 | Wednesday
Generally speaking, all of our lessons thus far have been positive. Noah needed faith to trust the Lord’s revelation and to build the ark. By faith he completed the Lord’s will. Moses and Joshua needed faith to move forward, trusting God to across uncharted waters....
Feb 13, 2023 | Sunday Evening
The Bible which I use and study is a King James Version with notes edited by Frank Charles Thompson. It is called a “Thompson Chain Reference Bible.” I have used it for nearly fifty years. It isn’t perfect, so I also employ other tools, but I like it and don’t see...
