Sep 12, 2022 | Sunday Evening
How many times have you been sitting in a reception area, waiting for someone to call your name? How many times in the last month have you been in a doctor’s waiting room? The last time I was in such a place, my wife and I had been there for more than hour before a...
Sep 11, 2022 | Sunday Morning
I would like to take this opportunity to add another lesson to our current Sunday School theme. Last week I introduced the idea that we can learn about New Testament soul-winning by examining some of our evangelical ancestors from the Old Testament. So we considered...
Sep 8, 2022 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
In July, 1750, Samuel Cartledge was born into the family of a Quaker/Anglican family. As a young man he became a constable for Richmond County, Georgia. In that capacity, one day he was sent out to arrest Daniel Marshall, because that man had been preaching Christ...
Sep 8, 2022 | Wednesday
Abraham Marshall was the second pastor of the first Baptist church in Georgia. The Kiokee church, was started by his father, Daniel, near Augusta, across the Savanna River from South Carolina. In 1786, Abraham, rode his horse from Georgia to Connecticut. He had two...
Sep 5, 2022 | Sunday Evening
In the first paragraph of this chapter, Peter was writing to Christian women married to unsaved husbands. “Ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While...
Sep 4, 2022 | Sunday Morning
Picture yourself walking up to a stranger on the street and boldly asking, “Would you like me to tell you how you can be born again through the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ?” Generally speaking, how do you think that is going to go? Probably not much farther...
Sep 1, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
With this little biography I am going to tie together two consecutive days. Henry Jessey was born on September 3, 1601. He died a day after his sixty-second birthday on this day in 1663. Henry was the son of a Church of England clergyman, and he followed his father...
Sep 1, 2022 | Wednesday
One of the things which made the timing of Christ’s incarnation so exciting was the way in which God providentially brought many factors together. Only “when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son…” Things like the Greek language and the unity...
Aug 28, 2022 | Sunday Morning
My primary interest this morning is the last verse in this chapter. “For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.” You saints of God should live unto righteousness now that you have been brought to Christ – the...
Aug 25, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Rather than give you another anecdote about the Culpeper jail, in which Anderson Moffett (born on this day in 1746) was incarcerated, I’ve decided to share another birthday, but it is not of a Baptist preacher. George Pillsbury was born on this day in 1816 in Sutton,...
Aug 25, 2022 | Wednesday
Let’s put you into what I hope is a familiar picture. You are an 8-year-old boy, living with your parents and two sisters. Your father works 14 hours a day as slave labor, laying brick, and you started several months ago making those bricks, baking them under the hot...
Aug 22, 2022 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: New Visitor On the seventeenth of July we had a new visitor come to our Sunday morning service. His name is Matthew Williams. Matthew lives with his mother, Kim, who has been attending our services for quite sometime now. He is a...
Aug 21, 2022 | Sunday Morning
Mining for gold, sliver and other important minerals and materials has always been a dangerous occupation. Through the years, thousands of miners have died in cave-ins, explosions, faulty equipment, the misuse of equipment and dozens of other causes. One danger they...
Aug 18, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1773, Nathaniel Saunders, the pastor of the Mountain Run (Baptist) Church was arrested in Culpeper County Virginia, charged that he did “Teach & Preach contrary to the Laws and Usages of the Kingdom of Great Britain, raising Sedition and Stirring up...
Aug 18, 2022 | Wednesday
Let’s say that you are walking down a busy downtown street, and you find yourself among three strangers. No one seems to know anyone else, and there isn’t any talking between you. After a minute or two, you hear the siren of a rapidly approaching police car – two...
Aug 15, 2022 | Sunday Evening
I hope that some of you can remember when your English teacher asked you to diagram sentences. The technique was used to help us learn the various parts of a proper sentence, and to speak correctly. We were taught the rudiments: the subject, the predicate and the...
Aug 11, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
There may be several things about the following document I don’t particularly like, but it also contains some interesting information about one of our Baptist forefathers. In the records of the First Baptist Church of Salem, New Jersey… “Be it remembered that on...
Aug 11, 2022 | Wednesday
Having just read this scripture, you may be thinking that this will be some sort of “filler message.” The preacher needs to look at these words only because they are in the context. You may think, this scripture doesn’t apply to 21st century Americans, because none of...
Aug 7, 2022 | Sunday Morning
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 is one of the best known and most beloved verses in the Bible. It is familiar to people of every faith and...
Aug 7, 2022 | Sunday Evening
I read a statement a few weeks ago which I saved to put into the bulletin some day, but I’ll use it right now. Jim Petersen asked, “Why didn’t Jesus go back into the temple after His resurrection?” That is an interesting question with several possible answers, but...
Aug 6, 2022 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren Health Update First of all, thank you all for your prayers concerning my heart health needs. Although I am much better, I am still having problems with extreme fatigue due to a low ejection fraction which also causes shortness of breath, low...
Aug 4, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Anyone who has a love for American history, knows the name Daniel Boone, or Dan’l, Boone. Far fewer people know the name “Squire Boone,” Daniel’s brother. On the first day of May 1769, Daniel and five other men set out from North Carolina to penetrate unchartered...
Jul 31, 2022 | Sunday Morning
It seems to me that the Book of Job is becoming more and more applicable these days. By that I mean more and more people are finding their lives running parallel to this man named “Job.” For those who don’t know his history, Job was enjoying the greatest blessings of...
Jul 29, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
God’s providence and guiding hand are often wonderful things to behold – in looking back – but perhaps not so pleasant at the time. Jonathan and Deborah Wade were missionaries in Burma, where Brother Jonathan served for fifty-seven years, during which time he took...
Jul 21, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Aeltgen Baren, an elderly lady, and Meyken Wouters, a woman of about twenty-four, were brought to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and were baptized by immersion upon their declaration of faith. This behavior could not be tolerated at that time by the Netherlands...
Jul 21, 2022 | Wednesday
Are you familiar with the Rorschach Inkblot Test? Back in the 1920s Hermann Rorschach came up with the idea that someone could reveal their soul by describing the image created with ink dropped onto a piece of paper which was then folded and reopened. What does this...
Jul 18, 2022 | Sunday Evening
The Statue of Liberty stands on a rock in New York Harbor. Tens of thousands of immigrants have passed it before disembarking at Ellis Island and entering the U.S. That statue, sometimes called “Lady Liberty,” is about half as tall as Seattle’s Space Needle. Green in...
Jul 17, 2022 | Sunday Morning
Before he became a supervisor, our son Kraig worked directly with various forms of nuclear waste. He was employed at the Hanford Nuclear site in Washington State and then at the Oakridge facility in Tennessee. Between those jobs, he was at the Savanna River Facility...
Jul 14, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
David George was born a slave in 1742. At some point another slave began to witness to him of the grace of God, and he came under deep conviction. Eventually, repenting of sin and putting his trust in Christ Jesus for deliverance and forgiveness, he became a child of...
Jul 14, 2022 | Wednesday
Peter reminds us that it is the will of God we submit ourselves to the ordinances of men. And as we have seen in earlier lessons, the purpose of this submission is for the glory of the Lord and the evangelism of the lost. He also adds a couple of qualifications and...
