Dec 23, 2018 | Sunday Morning
Last Sunday morning, the title of our message was “The seven Days of Noah.” The theme revolved around the week during which Noah was in the ark before the flood began. They were days of testing and trial for Noah and his family, but they were days of...
Dec 22, 2018 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Thanksgiving Praise! Our hearts are full of the joy of the Lord as we contemplate all of His blessings to us. They are ours daily as we read His Word and meditate there upon. If we did not have the Word of God, we would know absolutely...
Dec 21, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Joost Joosten had a beautiful singing voice, and for that reason he was a part of the choir at the Roman Catholic church in his Netherlands hometown of Goes. When King Philip II visited the community, he heard the tenor voice of the boy and desired to take him from...
Dec 20, 2018 | Wednesday
How many of you have visited the Tower of London? I haven’t either. That so-called “tower” is a thousand year old castle in the heart of England’s capital. From the pictures it looks to be no more than 4 or 5 storey’s high. The first segment of the...
Dec 16, 2018 | Sunday Evening
Let’s say you have an acquaintance who is willing to talk to you about the Bible and the Lord. He was raised Roman Catholic, or Mormon, Episcopalian or any number of other “Christian” religion. As you talk to him, you easily recognize that his faith is...
Dec 16, 2018 | Sunday Evening
Was there or was there not a world-wide flood about 6,000 years ago? This is one of those watershed questions which have divided people for two centuries now. Religions divide over the answers to this question, and so do eminent scientists. Sociologists categorize...
Dec 14, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
This little historical note only touches on the edge of Baptist history, but it is still pertinent. During the 18th century the British were ruling the American colonies with an iron hand. They passed and enforced laws upon the colonies which adversely affected them....
Dec 13, 2018 | Wednesday
Once again we have a comparison between the wise man and the fool. How often has that been thus far in Proverbs? I have no idea and no desire to try to count. Let’s just say that it has been many, many times. But with that being true, how important is this subject...
Dec 10, 2018 | Sunday Evening
These words are only the third recorded utterance of the Lord Jesus. The first came from a 12-year-old boy: “Wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?” Oh, how I wish that all 12-year-olds would say – and mean – such words. If I had said...
Dec 9, 2018 | Sunday Morning
For several months now, I have been pasting a daily devotional onto the church Facebook page. I have no idea if anyone reads it, but as it is a part of my morning routine and I am blessed in reading it and forwarding it. My source right now is Spurgeon’s little...
Dec 6, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Noah Alden was a great-grandson of John Alden, one of the men who signed the Mayflower Compact. Noah was born into a Congregational home on May 30, 1725. While many of his peers trusted in their infant “baptism” for favor with God, at the age of sixteen,...
Dec 6, 2018 | Wednesday
Our bodies and lives are so complex that it takes a great many things to keep us alive. For example, if we don’t get enough oxygen to the cells which make up our bodies, we will get sick and die. So this means we have to have air to breathe, and lungs to collect and...
Dec 2, 2018 | Sunday Morning
These words are among the last ever spoken by Moses under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Not only as a man of God, but also as a seasoned veteran of life, he has something to say. Moses has lived nearly twice as long as the average man. He has experienced the...
Nov 29, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Billington Sanders was born on this day in 1789. By the age of 9 he had lost both his parents, but he was then raised in another godly home in Appling Georgia, where he attended the Kiokee Baptist Church. After the Lord saved him, he was baptized by Abraham Marshall...
Nov 29, 2018 | Wednesday
We have been looking at Solomon’s Proverbs long enough now to run into the repetition of various themes. It’s not so much that verses are repeated, but some of the ideas are. And in some of these cases, to look at a second or third verse much like the first would...
Nov 26, 2018 | Sunday Evening
When Missionary Johnson was here a couple weeks ago, he spoke about his intended work in Thailand before preaching during the morning service. Years ago, I was in his shoes, preaching in different churches every Sunday, and often driving between cities the rest of...
Nov 25, 2018 | Sunday Morning
It was 45 years ago that Judy and I were sitting in the living room of Missionary Ken Johnson for first time. We had been in Lethbridge, Alberta, for the better part of a year, while he and his family were in living in South Calgary about a hundred miles to the...
Nov 24, 2018 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Return Visitors This Month! Mrs. Lashonda Dale and her boys, Dona’te and Deonta continue to come to our services as well as Brayden and Gaven Torres and Jacob Mason. We have lost Billie Barzee and Earl Oswalt, and so we now have eight...
Nov 22, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1583 a book of hymns was published in Germany. Among them were several which had been written by Leonhart Schiemer. Schiemer spent six years of his life as a Fransciscan friar. When, by the grace of God, he came to see the false religion in which he was raised, he...
Nov 22, 2018 | Wednesday
Why does one person have good health at age 70 while another dies of cancer at 35? Why does one family bask in the warmth of wealth while another struggles to pay their meager bills? Why is one aspiring young basketball player 5’4″ while a genius-level,...
Nov 18, 2018 | Sunday Evening
Our church has supported the work of missions from its inception. Even when we had very little money, we helped to keep a few missionaries on their respective fields. For decades now, we have taken a tenth of our general offerings and put that money into missions....
Nov 18, 2018 | Sunday Morning
What does it mean to be a “Christian?” There are dozens of different answers, and sad to say, few of them are correct. Why do I even have to say that attending a Christian church doesn’t make a person a “Christian”? I have to say it is...
Nov 15, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Cathcart was born on this day in 1826. Despite his parents’ Scottish ancestry, his birth place was in Ireland. He was raised in Presbyterianism. He was converted to Christ at an early age, and at nineteen, when he was convinced of believer’s baptism, he was...
Nov 15, 2018 | Wednesday
You probably remember the ancient puzzle: “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” When I was a kid, and still entrenched in Darwinism, I mulled that over and over. “Let’s see, did the fish evolve into a bird or did that fish lay a hen’s...
Nov 9, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day (November 11) in 1790, Thomas Baldwin was installed as the pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Boston. Thomas was raised in Canaan, N.H. by his mother and step-father. He was given a good education which he hoped to use in the legal profession. He...
Nov 8, 2018 | Wednesday
How much or how often do you think about Heaven? Young people rarely do, because they have so much earthly life before them – but they should. Older people – those saints who are nearing the end of their earthly lives, may consider it more often. But we should all...
Nov 5, 2018 | Sunday Evening
From time to time, you will hear me use the term “Jacob’s Trouble.” I believe that this is one of the Eschatological Absolutes – one of the assured events of the future. When I use that term, I am using it as a synonym for the seven year...
Nov 4, 2018 | Sunday Morning
A month ago we had the first in a series of messages entitled “Eschatological Absolutes.” My plan is to address those areas of prophecy which I think are unassailable – Biblical absolutes. Printing presses around the world, produce hundreds of new books...
Nov 2, 2018 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: New First-Time Visitors This Month! The Lord has sent us five first-time visitors this month. Thurman and his wife, Needra, visited with us the third Sunday of the month as well as LaShonda and her teenage boys Dante and Deonta. LaShonda and...
Nov 1, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Henry Novotny was born in 1846 in Czechoslovakia during a period when that country was thoroughly Roman Catholic. When he was still a youth, he attended a secret Protestant meeting and was so impressed that he began reading the forbidden Bible and other literature....
