Mar 10, 2022 | First Peter, Wednesday
Last October Judy and I traveled to Ohio and the Winton Place Baptist Church where I was scheduled to preach. Pastor Daniel Holt had made a reservation for us to stay at the Marriot Hotel in north Cincinnati. We drove up to the front door of that hotel, walked in,...
Mar 6, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Morning
You can grow up in the same house, eat the same food and sleep in the same room… You can share the same baseball glove, and wear each other’s hand-me-downs… You can read the same books, listen to the same music and attend the same church… You...
Mar 4, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Hezekiah Johnson was born in Maryland on this day in 1799. His Father was a Baptist preacher and the family moved to Ohio in 1816 to serve the Lord. Hezekiah professed faith in Christ when he was 26 and two years later he was ordained, moving to Iowa to plant a...
Mar 3, 2022 | First Peter, Wednesday
Tonight I was going to go to Peter’s next major thought – “To an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled, and fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.” But I’m going to postpone that, because in order to fully understand it, we need to take a step back. Before...
Feb 28, 2022 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren January has proven to be a difficult month due to sickness and bad weather here in Oklahoma. I was sick with a bad head cold and missed one Sunday and then the weather with snow caused us to cancel yet another Sunday service. Then our...
Feb 28, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Morning
If you were asked to rank the importance of salvation in your life, what rank would you give it? If you understand the depths of your sinfulness, and if you understand the heights of God’s righteousness, then you’d need to give salvation a rank of 10 out of 10. And if...
Feb 27, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Morning
Jalen was born into an athletic family. His mother played soccer in high school, and his father was a college basketball player. When Jalen was just a youngster he began playing ball with his friends on the street in front of his house. By the time he was in high...
Feb 24, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Stillman was born on this day in 1737. The first eleven years of his life were spent in Philadelphia, after which he resided in Charleston, South Carolina. There he came under the gospel preaching of Oliver Hart. Still in his youth he saw himself as a sinner...
Feb 18, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Andrew Gifford was born into a home where his father and his father before him were both Baptist pastors; and both suffered for their faith, being persecuted and imprisoned. At an early age the testimony of his parents bore fruit, and Andrew trusted Christ as his...
Feb 13, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Morning
In the course of His conversation with Nicodemus in John 3, the Lord Jesus used a relatively rare word. Even more rare than the Greek word itself is the way it is translated in that passage. “For God so loved the world that he gave his ONLY BEGOTTEN Son, that...
Feb 11, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Benjamin Miller was born in 1715. As a child he and his family attended the Presbyterian church pastored by Gilbert Tennent. Under the peaching of the Protestants, Benjamin was born again. When Tennent encouraged young Miller to study for the ministry under the...
Feb 7, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Evening
The title of this message is: “The Father’s Role in the Birth of His Child.” If you read that and are hoping for a sensational or licentious message, you are going to be disappointed. I am thinking of a very special and holy Father, and the birth is special as well....
Feb 3, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Richard Major was born near Pennsbury, Pennsylvania on this day in 1722. His parents were Presbyterians, and under their teaching and the preaching of the Protestants, Richard periodically came under conviction as a sinner. To thwart the power of guilt, he would then...
Feb 3, 2022 | First Peter, Wednesday
Why did Peter begin this epistle with a prayer for grace and peace? Wasn’t it because the people to whom he was writing were in midst of a sea of “heaviness” and “manifold temptations” (verse 6)? Wasn’t it because their faith was under trial (verse 7)? There had been...
Jan 31, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Evening
The Apostle Peter was writing a letter to a specific group of Christian diaspora. He was writing to the saints scattered across what we now know as Turkey or Asia Minor. We don’t know how many churches had been established there by Paul and others, but this epistle...
Jan 30, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Morning
I intend, this evening, to come back to these verses and preach them under title: “The Progression of Election.” But in an attempt to be more evangelical this morning, let’s consider the last two points of that upcoming message: “obedience” and “the sprinkling of the...
Jan 28, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Tidence Lane was born the son of an ardent, Baptist-hating, Anglican in 1724. When the family moved from Maryland to North Carolina, Tidence came under the preaching of Shubal Stearns. In 1743, after the Lord saved his soul, the young man surrendered to preach the...
Jan 24, 2022 | First Peter, Sunday Evening
We are beginning this evening, what I hope will be, a two pronged study. Since I have only a couple more decades of ministry ahead of me, and there is so much Biblical material, I’m going to try to combine two subjects in this study: the life of Peter and Peter’s...
Jan 23, 2022 | Sunday Morning
A study of the Book of Hebrews is as intricate a study as Astrophysics. Astrophysics is the branch of science that deals with the physics of stellar phenomena. It is the study of things so mysterious and so far away there are new discoveries almost every day. But much...
Jan 21, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
When I read that on this day in 1881 Charles Tupper died, my heart leaped just a bit, because as every educated Canadian knows, Charles Tupper was one of Canada’s “Fathers of Confederation,” serving as that country’s sixth Prime Minister. But when I saw that Prime...
Jan 16, 2022 | Sunday Evening
As we wrap up our study of Malachi, I don’t want you to move on thinking ONLY that this is the last book of the Old Testament. Of course it is, but… There were no more books added to the canon of scripture until we turn the page into the New Testament. Sometimes...
Jan 14, 2022 | Timothy Parrow
Faithful Attendee Dies Bro. Alvin Christian went to be with the Lord sometime between Dec.1st. and Dec. 5th of this year. Roxanne and I had been picking him up and taking him home each service for several weeks before his passing. We were awaiting his phone call on...
Jan 14, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Hezekiah Harman was born on this day in 1763 in Chatham county North Carolina. His father was the county sheriff, and young Hezekiah grew up very familiar with the firearms of his day. When he was seventeen years old he picked up his long gun and joined the state...
Jan 13, 2022 | Wednesday
If you were to describe the conclusion of this book, would you say it was moving in an upward direction? Does it reach a conclusion, or does it simply stop? Would you say that these last verses excite you, or does is leave you hanging, wanting more? Does it end in a...
Jan 10, 2022 | Sunday Evening
I don’t remember which year it was, but I do remember the season: it was early Autumn. Our brethren in Colorado were organizing as a church, and I was invited to participate. Steve and Kathy Kjeldgaard accompanied Judy and me. Sunday evening, after the organizational...
Jan 9, 2022 | Sunday Morning
On Israel’s greatest Pentecost, Peter and the others stood before a large crowd in the court yard of the temple. When some smart alecks accused the brethren of being full of new wine, Peter replied, “These are not drunken as ye suppose…. But this is that which...
Jan 6, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I wonder if in Heaven we will learn about all those who suffered and died for the cause of Christ. Or will we be so focused on the Lord and His blessings that such matters will not be discussed. If not then, at least now, we need to be stirred by the sufferings of our...
Jan 6, 2022 | Wednesday
One day, as the Lord Jesus came into the community of Bethsaida, a blind man was led up to Him by friends. Together they plead with the Lord for an ophthamolical miracle. You can read of this in Mark 8:22-26. Jesus listened to the request, and then He led the man out...
Jan 3, 2022 | Sunday Evening
On January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy took the presidential oath of office. After that he began his first presidential address to the nation. I wonder how many of us can remember, or have been taught, the most famous line in that speech? It was: “Ask not what your...
Jan 2, 2022 | Sunday Morning
As Christians we love what the Lord tells us in John 14. “Let not your heart be troubled (you disciples): ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I...
