Jun 27, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Sutcliff was a pupil of Caleb Evans at Bristol Baptist College. Sutcliff was a good student, but not a great orator, and after graduation and the beginning of his first pastorate, he became disheartened and wondered whether or not he should be in the ministry....
Jun 27, 2019 | Wednesday
I can’t tell you if Solomon or the Holy Spirit intended these verses to be considered a paragraph. But that is what I’d like to do. At least for our purpose tonight, I think they all talk about the same general subject. For the purpose of an introduction I take you...
Jun 24, 2019 | Sunday Evening
I’d like to talk to you about the Lord’s work in Loveland, Colorado. Almost from the beginning, I have thought of that work as a mission of our church. But it is not something which our church has determined to do; it has just been my perception so far. I think that...
Jun 23, 2019 | Sunday Morning
I was reading Spurgeon the other day when I ran across these words. “It is a marvel that any man should be a Christian at all…” When we come to understand the depth of our wickedness – our sinfulness – it is incredible that God should save us. And...
Jun 23, 2019 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Unusual Weather Month The beautiful spring weather that blessed us in April turned into severe weather that swamped us in May. In the last three weeks of May we had over thirty inches of rain as measured in my rain gauge in our front yard....
Jun 20, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Medley was born on this day in 1723. At age 16 he was an apprentice in the cloth trade when war broke out between England and France. He was permitted to leave his apprenticeship, if he agreed to serve on one of his majesty’s ships. With the thrill of the fight...
Jun 13, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Baynham was born into a wealthy Virginian, Episcopalian family. At the age of 21 he earned his degree, intending to practice medicine. Then during the summer of 1834, through the preaching of William Broaddus, he was converted to Christ. It is reported that...
Jun 13, 2019 | Wednesday
In Deuteronomy 8, Moses was preaching to Israel, commanding obedience to God and pointing out the Lord’s past lessons and blessings. In verse 3 he said, “And (God) humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not,...
Jun 12, 2019 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
William Baynham was born into a wealthy Virginian, Episcopalian family. At the age of 21 he earned his degree, intending to practice medicine. Then during the summer of 1834, through the preaching of William Broaddus, he was converted to Christ. It is reported that...
Jun 9, 2019 | Sunday Morning
Despite all our technological gadgets, our toys, the entertainment industry, including sports, and an army of psychiatrists with all their drugs, we live in the midst of millions of very sad people. Despite all the casinos, comedians and carnivals, death still...
Jun 6, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day (June 9) in 1865 several members in good standing were released from three different churches in Charleston, SC in order to form the Morris Street Baptist Church. Their first pastor was Jacob Legare, who served the church for the next twenty years,...
Jun 6, 2019 | Wednesday
The theological principle behind verse 12 should be obvious to any mature Christian. “The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge,and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.” In other words, the sovereign God is in control of His creation, including...
Jun 2, 2019 | Sunday Morning
Have you ever noticed how many maritime songs are in our hymnals? I googled the question and the list given to me had 156 nautical hymns, some of which we still sing. “Let the Lower Lights be Burning,” “Pilot Me,” “Sail on.”...
May 30, 2019 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Springtime Blessings The Lord is blessing us with a most beautiful spring, rain, moderate temperatures, and verdant lush plant growth. Spiritual blessings are ours also by His hand with attendance numbers climbing for three of the four...
May 30, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Two weeks ago our history involved Lewis Craig who led his church to move from Virginia to Kentucky, settling eventually at South Elkton. Today marks the anniversary of the ordination, in 1770, of his brother Elijah Craig. Elijah was born again in 1764 under the...
May 30, 2019 | Wednesday
As I was preparing our devotional for two weeks ago, I determined what my subject would be this evening. But whereas I thought I’d have time to prepare while we were gone, such was not the case. As it turned out today was the only day that I would have to prepare,...
May 16, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1662 the “Act of Uniformity” received royal assent, after being passed by the Anglican-dominated British Parliament. It required that every minister in England had to receive episcopal ordination, and before August 24 of that year they must...
May 16, 2019 | Wednesday
Every once in a while the Bible presents us with a hypothetical. With “such and such” as a hypothesis, we are presented with various options. These hypotheticals are not always in the form of a question. We have one here in verse 1. “A good name is...
May 13, 2019 | Sunday Evening
It can be safely said that no Christian has a prayer life as deep, as spiritual and as thorough as it ought to be. Paul exhorted his friends in Thessalonica to “pray without ceasing” because they were not. But he probably wrote those words without...
May 12, 2019 | Sunday Morning
Modern Mother’s Day was first observed in 1908 at the request of Anna Jarvis of Grafton, West Virginia. It was not the affair that it is today. Anna asked her Methodist pastor to hold a service in memory of the deceased mothers of their church. It happened to...
May 9, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
If there ever was ever a “Bible belt” in Canada it was in the Maritimes, but unfortunately it lasted for only a short time. I understand that there are former Baptist churches empty all over the eastern provinces today. One of the men of God working in the...
May 9, 2019 | Wednesday
Two or three months ago we looked at Proverbs 19:21 – “There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.” I approached the verse in a general sort of way; a way which is absolutely true. In other words a...
May 6, 2019 | Sunday Evening
Brother Fulton and I were chatting the other day, when he mentioned that he had enjoyed teaching through a passage full of genealogies. We agreed that if God put something into His Word it must be there for a reason. My Bible has about 1,300 pages, but it could be...
May 5, 2019 | Sunday Morning
This morning I want to return to a text from which I preached only 2½ years ago. That was a textual message presented with the intention of bring glory to the Lord Jesus Christ. We looked at Christ’s creative power, His sympathetic heart, and His undeniable glory....
May 2, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Many religionists are content in gathering only two or three times a year. Some of the more faithful try to come together at least once every week. The true children of God, however, love their Lord enough to want to worship and learn of Him more frequently than once...
May 2, 2019 | Wednesday
A well-taught Christian might be surprised by Solomon’s declaration in verse 18. “The WICKED shall be a ransom for the RIGHTEOUS; and the transgressor for the upright.” When the Christian reads the word “ransom” he might automatically think...
Apr 28, 2019 | Sunday Morning
I trust that no one has any doubt whether or not I believe God that raised this little boy from death into life. There is no question but that He did. It took place exactly as it is described here, even though we don’t have some of the smaller details. That being...
Apr 25, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas T. Martin was born on this day in 1862. The place was Smith County, Mississippi. His father was a Baptist preacher and college professor, but T.T. wanted to become a lawyer. That was not the Lord’s will. God had given him several special gifts, and He intended...
Apr 25, 2019 | Wednesday
We have in verse 3 one of those scriptures which can be easily distorted into soul-damning heresy. “To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.” Any of a huge number of sects and cults might point to that and say, “The...
Apr 21, 2019 | Sunday Morning
On this one day of the year, most of Christendom celebrates the RESURRECTION of Christ. I hope that many of those people also take time to remember the death and burial of the Lord as well. The death, burial and resurrection of Christ go together – they are a...
