Jul 11, 2022 | Sunday Evening
The Bible describes life in a number of ways. James says that it is a vapour, a puff of steam, “that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.” David, approaching his earthly end, described his life as nothing more substantial than a passing shadow. Job...
Jul 7, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Edmond Botsford was born again under the ministry of Oliver Hart of Charleston, South Carolina. In March, 1773, he was ordained and shortly thereafter he began an itinerant ministry, preaching throughout the Carolinas and Georgia. On this day in that year (1773) he...
Jul 7, 2022 | Wednesday
Good sermons begin with a text of scripture and as the Lord directs, other scriptures, explanations, illustrations and applications are used to bring that scripture home to the heart. We have an example of this here in this passage. The scripture text is made up of...
Jul 1, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Zachary Lewis immigrated from Wales to America in 1692, settling in Virginia. There he became quite prosperous. Like most of his neighbors, Zachary was an Anglican, and he brought up his seven children in this religion. The youngest child of the family was Addison....
Jun 30, 2022 | Wednesday
I was driving one of our members back from a medical appointment at the VA hospital one afternoon. While on Francis Street I glanced over and saw a small office with a sign above the door reading: “Abstemious Outpatient Clinic.” I was confronted with a new word:...
Jun 27, 2022 | Sunday Evening
How odd should the people of God be in the eyes of the world? Some might criticize my use of the word “odd,” but note that I am using it in the context of the unsaved mind. We might prefer the word “peculiar,” but we know it in its Biblical context, whereas the world...
Jun 26, 2022 | Sunday Morning
Peter, was probably on high alert as he walked beside the Lord Jesus that day. It was dangerous for Christ and His disciples to be in Jerusalem. Just a day or two before, Jesus had been confronted by a group of Pharisees, escorting a woman who had been taken in...
Jun 24, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
When John Borum was thirty years old, he and his family moved from Virginia to Tennessee to start a new life. In 1807 he joined the Round Lick Baptist Church just east of what was to become Nashville. Very quickly he began serving the Lord and soon was preaching God’s...
Jun 23, 2022 | Wednesday
Not very long ago, I preached a series of messages from verses 9 and 10. At least it doesn’t seem very long ago to me, because they were such a blessing to my heart. I have no idea whether or not you remember them. I hope you do, but forty months can seem like a...
Jun 19, 2022 | Sunday Morning
Let’s say you have been experiencing horrible pain behind your left eye, and now it seems to be in both. You finally relent and go to an ophthalmologist, where you receive a thorough examination. When finished, he tells you that you have a rare form of cancer. If you...
Jun 16, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
It was on this day in 1834 that Charles Spurgeon was born. He was the first of seventeen children. His ancestors had come to England from Holland. His grandfather, James, was the pastor of the Independent Church in Stambourne, Essex, for 54 years. His Father, John...
Jun 16, 2022 | Wednesday
You have just spent half hour at the grocery store, looking for the supplies you need for a camping trip. You have been planning this little get-away for a month, and in your pocket is the cash you’ve been laying aside to pay for it. As you go through the store, you...
Jun 13, 2022 | Sunday Evening
I mentioned in our last lesson that one of the ways the Holy Spirit keeps His Word relevant is with the use of timeless illustrations. For example, babies have been essentially the same from the day in which Eve first gave birth. The Spirit uses what we know about...
Jun 11, 2022 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Health Difficulties I had been living and preaching under the burden of atrial fibrillation since about the middle of last December and did not know it. I remember having begun to slow down in my activities but thought that such was the...
Jun 9, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
James Madison, was not a Baptist preacher. He was raised an Episcopalian, and there is no indication that his doctrinal position was ever changed. He became the fourth President of the United States, and some call him the “Father of the Constitution.” Madison began...
Jun 9, 2022 | Wednesday
One of the ways in which God keeps the Bible relevant throughout the ages is by using timeless illustrations. And for our instruction, the Holy Spirit has given us one of those illustrative metaphors right here. “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word,...
Jun 6, 2022 | Sunday Evening
I very much enjoyed preaching through I Peter chapter 1. There is a lot of great material there, including the gospel. With chapter 2 Peter’s subject changes from salvation to practical Christian living. And to be honest with you, I seriously thought about bringing...
Jun 2, 2022 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren, The Lord blessed us with a special Resurrection Day. We had 21 people in attendance and a Fellowship Dinner afterwards. Sis. Connie Gaches was able to attend for the first time since her double back surgery, and the Gaches’ grandson Kenneth...
Jun 2, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Knowing what you now know about salvation, how far would you travel in order to hear the gospel of God’s saving grace? Half way around the world? Nathaniel Williams was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1784. His parents were Unitarians, and thus, Nathaniel was raised...
Jun 2, 2022 | Wednesday
This chapter introduces material which is not particularly welcomed or believed in this world. There is, of course, God’s condemnation of the sins of Sodom. And it’s not just that the city was destroyed for its homosexual immorality, but it’s that Jehovah has the...
May 29, 2022 | Sunday Morning
We are surrounded by all kinds of news. For example, there is a great deal of seriously bad news – news about bad things. I heard an article on the BBC World News about China’s persecution of some of her own people. Thousands of Chinese citizens are being jailed,...
May 26, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Gano was ordained to the gospel ministry by the Baptist church in Hopewell, New Jersey, on this day in 1754. John’s mother was a Baptist, but his father was a Presbyterian, so the young man was raised under a cloud of theological confusion. After his conversion,...
May 26, 2022 | Wednesday
In addition to our text, let’s add two other scriptures. Psalm 126:1-6 – “When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD...
May 23, 2022 | Sunday Morning
Peter’s reference to “being born again” is quite different from Jesus’ exhortation: “Ye MUST be born again.” Nicodemus, the man to whom the Saviour was speaking, needed to be regenerated; made spiritually alive. But the readers of Peter’s epistle are people who had...
May 19, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Joseph Ivimey came into this world at Ringwood, England on this day in 1773. I mentioned him a week or two ago, because the Lord saved him and called him into His ministry. In his youth he was sent to live with his uncle to learn a trade, and it was through that...
May 19, 2022 | Wednesday
In concluding chapter one of I Peter, the Holy Spirit blends together three subjects: the new birth, the eternal Word of God and the weakness of human flesh. In order to fully understand any one of these, we must understand to some degree the other two. Why do we need...
May 15, 2022 | Sunday Evening
Paul and Silas were directed by the Holy Spirit to sail across the northern tip of the Aegean Sea from Troas to Philippi. Their lives then intersected with the life of Lydia, who was working there, but who actually lived in Thyatira. She responded positively to their...
May 12, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
J. E. Feisser was a minister in the Dutch Reformed denomination in Holland during the 19th century. The early part of his life was not pleasant. He lost his wife and two children, then his own health began to deteriorate, and he lost his right eye. Immersed in...
May 12, 2022 | Wednesday
There have been a number of life changing events in each of our lives. When you were born, your previous life, (and I’m not referring to some pre-incarnate spirit existence, because there was no such thing). When you were born, the life you enjoyed inside your...
May 8, 2022 | Sunday Morning
Do you believe in God? Do you really believe in God? I can ask that question in the context of a sermon, because no one has to take it personally. There are a lot of pitchfork Christians in churches. When the preacher lays something objectionable at their feet, they...
