Sep 1, 2019 | Sunday Morning
Let’s go back to last week’s lesson before moving on. While the Lord Jesus was at the top of Mt. Hermon being transfigured before Peter, James and John, the rest of the disciples were down below in the valley struggling to help some people in need. This is described...
Aug 29, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I use three primary sources for these vignettes, consulting with others for corroboration and background. For September 1, two of my books referred to the death of Sarah Boardman Judson. Sarah (nee Hall) was born in 1803. The Lord saved her soul, and she became a...
Aug 29, 2019 | Wednesday
We have already touched on each of the themes in this last third of chapter 24, with one exception. “Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.” There is some really sound advice in verse 27,...
Aug 23, 2019 | Timothy Parrow
Two New Visitors. July has been a very hot month with real temperatures soaring up to as high as I():’) degrees in the afternoons. The humidity is also very high and that makes the heat index even higher. Thank the Lord for air conditioning which makes it...
Aug 22, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Vermont has a unique Baptist history. It begins with the birth of Aaron Leland in Holliston, Massachusetts. He was born a second time and became a member of the Baptist church in Bellingham in 1785. Shortly after receiving a license by that church to preach the...
Aug 22, 2019 | Wednesday
Many Bible principles are so plain and obvious they don’t need the spot-light of a lesson or sermon. But that might be only in the mind of the preacher – or perhaps in your mind. We sometimes forget there are younger Christians and children of Christians who don’t...
Aug 18, 2019 | Sunday Morning
I was reading a book the other day by a well-known, modern, Christian writer. It is always good to be alert when you read the works of others – read with “your eyes open.” This is especially true when you read the works of “well-known, modern,...
Aug 15, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1846, General Samuel Kearny took possession of New Mexico in the name of the United States of America. Soon after he raised the flag over Santa Fe, two Baptist missionaries, H.W. Read and Samuel Gorman, entered the new territory in the name of Christ...
Aug 15, 2019 | Wednesday
You who know me, realize that I am a citizen of the earthly country of Canada. Even though I have lived here about 60 years, I have no plans on moving my membership to the United States. It’s not because I love this country any less than I do Canada. It’s because I...
Aug 12, 2019 | Sunday Evening
Along with the plain and simple, there are some strange and interesting things in these verses. For example, Paul “beseeches” us – that is certainly not unusual in itself. But we have to look hard to see about what it is he is beseeching us. He doesn’t...
Aug 11, 2019 | Sunday Morning
Have you ever heard the words, “Keep your old Baptist doctrine; just give me Jesus”? Maybe it was, “I want a church which tells me how to enjoy life, not which dictates what to believe.” “I am looking for a church which uplifts my...
Aug 8, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1829 the first Baptist church in the territory of Kansas was organized with David Lewis and his wife, and John Davis, a Creek Indian, and three black men – slaves of the Creeks. The group had traveled from Michigan with Pastor Isaac McCoy and his son-in-law...
Aug 8, 2019 | Wednesday
After the Lord instructed him to love his neighbour, one of Israel’s lawyers said, “And who EXACTLY is my neighbour”? Luke 10:29 tells us that what prompted the question was the man’s desire NOT to obey – “But, he, willing to justify himself, said...
Aug 3, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Eleazer Clay was born on this day (August 4) in 1744. After the French and Indian War he settled in Chesterfield County, Virginia where he married, settled down and began to prosper. But that changed somewhat when the Baptists arrived. Clay was drawn by the Holy...
Jul 25, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In Norway, before there were any Baptist churches, there was a growth of Baptist principles, including salvation by grace through faith, and as a result, the rejection of infant baptism. Strangely this religious insurgency took place among the disciplined soldiers of...
Jul 25, 2019 | Wednesday
We have already touched on many of these proverbs in earlier lessons, and there is little reason to review them. For example, we looked at Christian envy just a couple of weeks ago. And there have been a couple lessons on various aspects of wisdom versus...
Jul 22, 2019 | Sunday Evening
In verses 4, 5 and 6 David speaks of “the house of the Lord,” God’s “pavilion” and His “tabernacle.” Are these three things – or places – the same? Most commentators think that they are, and I agree. Well then, does David refer to...
Jul 20, 2019 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Return Visitors On the thirteenth of June, our Thursday service, we had Angie visit with us again and on Sunday the twenty-third, LaShonda came without her two boys. We had thirteen in our service that Sunday morning, with Al Christian...
Jul 18, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
According to all that I have read, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), the famous patriot, scientist, printer and Post Master General, was a moral bankrupt for most of his life. Like many intellectuals in this day, at least as a young man, he may have professed to be a...
Jul 18, 2019 | Wednesday
Most of this chapter of proverbs is self-explanatory – to people who are relatively mature – particularly for Christians – people’s whose eyes have been opened by the grace of God. Most mature Christians have no problem understanding what the Holy Spirit is saying....
Jul 15, 2019 | Sunday Evening
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could go to our medical professional, and he could deliver us from the penalty of our sins the way he might set a broken leg? If we could take a newly developed pill which could cure us of the effects of the curse of sin, we might be...
Jul 14, 2019 | Sunday Morning
A few years ago, in Manila, Philippines, a devout Roman Catholic named “Mendosa” was “crucified.” He had been fasting and praying for more than a week, constantly encouraged by his priest. On what is commonly called “Good Friday,”...
Jul 11, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In the case of John Taylor, missionary to Siam (Thailand), one of the key events to his “success” was the death of his wife. Taylor was raised a Congregationalist, becoming a Baptist while studying for the ministry. In 1828 he was baptized and joined the...
Jul 11, 2019 | Wednesday
I need to do more research on this, but hasn’t the expression of envy changed over the last hundred years? Just think about it – 150 years ago advertising, as we know it, didn’t exist, making envy a bit different. A shop keeper might put up a sign in his window...
Jul 8, 2019 | Sunday Evening
We can’t be sure where exactly the healing of this lame man took place. Jerusalem, yes; the temple, yes. But I have seen dozens of depictions of the temple in Jerusalem, and they are all a little different. Nowhere else in the Bible are we told about the...
Jul 7, 2019 | Sunday Morning
This message was ignited by an article in the “Institution of Creation Research” magazine “Acts and Facts.” It was written by Brian Thomas, who has a PhD in paleobiochemistry from the University of Liverpool. That article was entitled...
Jul 4, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
There are no less than seven men with the last name of Wightman listed in Cathcart’s Encyclopedia. As I made a quick survey, I wasn’t surprised to see that they were all related – sons, grandsons, great-grandsons. When a family is so closely linked together in the...
Jul 4, 2019 | Wednesday
For the two summers before and after my final year of high school, I worked for a uranium company. It was my job of lay out mining claims in central Wyoming so that drillers could come in and pull out core samples to see what was under the surface of the ground. For...
Jul 1, 2019 | Sunday Evening
Wednesday, when we were going over our prayer requests, I mentioned our need of revival. I immediately heard a few “amens” and some other heads were nodded – we need “revival.” “Revival” is a good, old-fashioned religious word,...
Jun 30, 2019 | Sunday Morning
Knowing basically what I’d find I looked up the word “tolerance” in my biggest dictionary. It had six definitions, and three of those were a bit more fine-tuned into sub-definitions. It also listed about two dozen synonyms – including words like...
