Apr 10, 2025 | Wednesday
Let’s start with a show of hands. How many of you know the story about Abraham’s offering of his son, Isaac? That sacrifice on the top of Mount Moriah is one of the great mountain peaks of the Bible. It strums so many strings and plays such wonderful music. There are...
Apr 6, 2025 | Sunday Morning
When was the last time you did something with absolutely no purpose for doing it? For example, when was the last time you got in your car, or mounted your bike, with no specific destination in mind? You might say, “There was a day back in the Fall, when I had nothing...
Apr 3, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Ansley was born on this day in 1769. He was sprinkled and raised in the Church of England. Following the Revolutionary War, his family moved from New York to New Brunswick, where he continued in his Protestant church, but with a growing spiritual...
Apr 3, 2025 | Wednesday
To the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, despite being the infinite God, He never coerced people into doing His will or into believing what He told them. He simply laid out the facts, or people’s responsibilities, and left them to make the right decision. How very...
Mar 30, 2025 | Sunday Morning
This first chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Christians in Colosse is huge. It is at the deep end of the pool. Preachers from 300 years ago might have said that it is one of the most “pregnant” chapters in God’s Word. It is full of important doctrine and...
Mar 27, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Absolom Backus Earle was born in 1812 in Charlton, New York. He was converted to Christ at the age of sixteen and two years later he began preaching the gospel before being ordained at the age of twenty-one. For the next five years he labored as a church planter in...
Mar 24, 2025 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren, Spanish Outreach Although we have lost the Jose Bautista family, we continue to reach some of the Latino community with our personal contact and gospel tracts. The following names are those persons with whom we have had contact during the...
Mar 23, 2025 | Sunday Evening
Let’s put this Psalm into the context of one of the modern lawyer/crime stories. It might have been written by David Baldacci or perhaps more likely – John Grisham. The hero is a lawyer, and, believe it or not, he is a good man, who has spent his career fighting crime...
Mar 23, 2025 | Sunday Morning
We need to go back from time to time, to the place where Jesus gave His life to purchase our souls. Paul said to the Christians in Corinth, “Ye are BOUGHT with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” The price for the...
Mar 20, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1660 the “Vestry Law” was adopted in the Colony of Virginia. It, in effect, described how vestries were to be organized throughout the region for the primary purpose of collecting taxes for the support of the officially recognized religion. Members of...
Mar 20, 2025 | Wednesday
Much of what took place in the Garden of Gethsemane is a mystery to me. I don’t know how to explain the emotions of the God-man, because I don’t know where the Son of God begins and where the Son of Man ends. So, this evening, I’m not going to dig into what Jesus was...
Mar 16, 2025 | Sunday Morning
Both secular and Bible history tell us that the first Israelites spent time in an Egyptian prison. Their exodus or departure from Egypt – took place about 3,500 years ago. Even though hieroglyphics recount some of the material we have in the Bible – that event, so...
Mar 13, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I have conflicting information about the birthday of Thomas Hume, Sr. One article begins by saying he was born on March 16, 1812 and then later says on this twenty-first birthday, March 17, 1833 he became pastor of the Baptist church in Portsmouth, Virginia. When I...
Mar 13, 2025 | Wednesday
As we read this chapter, do we ever consider the emotion which must have originally lay behind it? I confess to reading these words academically – prosaically – without emotion or genuine concern. Paul says, “I was raised as a Hebrew of the Hebrews, a Benjamite of the...
Mar 9, 2025 | Sunday Evening
This epistle to the church in Thessalonica is considered to be the first of Paul’s inspired letters. And most Bibles have this note after the end – “The first epistle unto the Thessalonians was written from Athens.” After preaching Christ in Thessalonica, Paul made a...
Mar 6, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Hickle was born on this day in 1807. When quite young he put his faith in Christ and soon joined the Little Flat Creek Baptist Church in Tennessee. When he was twenty, and newly married, he surrendered to the Lord’s call to preach the gospel, and he faithfully...
Mar 6, 2025 | Wednesday
The Bible illustrates Christ’s churches in several ways, two of which are a body and a family. I expect that you are familiar with both, because they come up fairly frequently in our messages. But just to refresh your memory, Paul, in I Corinthians 12 spends time...
Mar 4, 2025 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Church, As the new year begins, I look back at the blessings of our Lord upon our ministry and my health. During the last year I preached on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and then on some of our Articles of Faith. Such a study was a great blessing to...
Mar 2, 2025 | Sunday Morning
As God tells us in the verses we read from Isaiah 55, His thoughts are infinitely higher than any of ours. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways (and thoughts) higher than your ways and thoughts.” Of course, the man who doesn’t know the Lord,...
Feb 27, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
A few months ago, I shared with you the salvation testimony of Samuel Houston. It is from this man that the city of Houston derived its name. Sam Houston is revered by most Texans, but he should also be honored by the children of God around the world. Sam was born...
Feb 27, 2025 | Wednesday
It is safe to say that Peter’s deliverance from Herod’s prison was miraculous. That Peter was asleep under the circumstances was itself somewhat miraculous, but that is not the point. More literally, it was a miracle that one of God’s angels appeared in a locked...
Feb 23, 2025 | Sunday Morning
As gold is to fools gold, so is the Bible to all other books. While many books are helpful for one reason or another, only one is of infinite value – the revelation of God. A knowledge of the Bible means an acquaintance with the God of eternity. Having said that, we...
Feb 20, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
James Smith Coleman was born on this day in 1827. He was born again early in life and at the age of eleven was received into the Beaver Dam Baptist Church in Kentucky following his immersion. When he grew into maturity, he was elected the sheriff of his county, but...
Feb 20, 2025 | Wednesday
Ha-BAK-kuk, the man with the crooked name, is one of the celebrities of Heaven; one of the friends of God. I will try to pronounce his name “Ha-BAK-uk,” because both my first Bible and my current Bible, give him that pronunciation. But I have to admit that my...
Feb 14, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Joseph Davis was born into a Puritan home in seventeenth century England. Joseph’s father, because of his nonconformist stand, lost all his possessions, and his son was forced to grow up in godly poverty. While apprenticed to a silk dealer in Coventry, he learned...
Feb 13, 2025 | Wednesday
I know that you ladies looked at this scripture last Saturday, but none of us men were there. I feel led of the Lord to share with the rest of us, what you all learned the other day. Some people like to say that Job is “a picture of patience.” Despite what our...
Feb 9, 2025 | Sunday Evening
If I asked: who said, “Speak Lord, for Thy Servant Heareth,” 98% of Christians would answer incorrectly. Not only would most not know that statement came from this chapter… Even those who did, would say that those were the words of Samuel. But the correct answer...
Feb 6, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Some great soldiers for Christ were actual soldiers. Major General Henry Havelock was one such man. Henry Havelock and his siblings were raised under the influence of the Word of God; his mother read the scriptures to her children every day. But the family grew up...
Feb 6, 2025 | Wednesday
There are hundreds of statements in the Word of God which were spoken to specific individuals or groups. For example, when Jesus said to His disciples, “Let’s go to the Garden of Gethsemane to pray,” it was not something which we must literally obey. We don’t have to...
Feb 2, 2025 | Sunday Morning
“It is time.” The little boy is told by his mother that it is time for his bath. The little fella is not excited too about it, but he agrees to stop what he’s doing and head for the bathroom. The woman who is his servant – his mother – knows exactly what temperature...
