Jan 26, 2025 | Sunday Evening
After His resurrection, Christ’s disciples were not sure what to do or where to go next. Eventually the Lord told them to tarry in Jerusalem until they were endued with power. But at some point, Peter, with some time on his hands, said, “I’m going fishing. Anyone want...
Jan 26, 2025 | Sunday Morning
As Brother Fulton reminded us last week, Christ and His Gospel can be found throughout the Old Testament. There are over three hundred prophecies Old Testament of Christ, some of which preceded their fulfilment by a 1000 years. And even the passages which aren’t as...
Jan 25, 2025 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren, One would think that all the pressure Mr. Trump is putting on the Latino community would cause them to return to Mexico or their country of origin voluntarily. We have found that not to be true here in the Stillwater community. Our outreach...
Jan 23, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Johann Oncken was born on this day 225 years ago. After he began his life of Christian service his motto became “Every Baptist a missionary,” and those were not just words. By 1850 the Baptist church he started in Hamburg supported three missionaries, established...
Jan 23, 2025 | Wednesday
Six months ago I brought message entitled: “The Victorious Transference of Peace.” Our texts were John 14:27 and John 16:33. The Lord Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you;, MY peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth I unto you. Let NOT your heart be troubled,...
Jan 19, 2025 | Sunday Evening
Our last Lord’s Day was so exciting that you might have forgotten the afternoon’s message. Its title was “Holyfication,” and its theme was “sanctification” – God’s process of making sinners holy. To refresh your memory, the saint’s holyfication began in eternity past...
Jan 16, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1873, Baptist pastor, Noel, passed away at the age of 74. (I wonder how he pronounced his name. Was it “Noll” or “No-ell”?) I mention that because his name is almost a play on words. Noel was not born a Baptist, but rather as an Anglican. His family...
Jan 16, 2025 | Wednesday
On this page beside verse 1 the publisher of my King James Bible has: “The Roll Call of the HEROES of Faith.” Probably, the publisher of your Bible has printed is something similar, perhaps at the top of the page. While it may be a common thought about this great...
Jan 13, 2025 | Sunday Evening
A very famous sculptor has been commissioned to carve what will be the most magnificent piece in his career. His king would like him to create a life-size image of his only son, the prince, which is to be set in the palace on the day of his coronation. The sculptor...
Jan 13, 2025 | Sunday Morning
This scripture from Isaiah 28 is not particularly pleasant, but it is still relevant. It is directed toward a nation which once claimed to be God’s people, and which continued to make that claim in Isaiah’s day. And in that sense, it is a type of the United States,...
Jan 9, 2025 | Wednesday
I don’t get around very much. I married a wonderful wife 55 years ago, and am usually at home with her. Furthermore, I became your pastor nearly 35 years ago, and I don’t run around on you either. I don’t “window shop,” watching other women or other preachers. I don’t...
Jan 5, 2025 | Sunday Evening
In the will of God, Jesus was to have a special ministry among the gentiles on the east side of the Sea of Galilee, so He and His disciples entered into a little ship and started to glide across the lake. He was so exhausted that during the relaxing ride He fell...
Jan 5, 2025 | Sunday Morning
This morning I feel like Peter stepping out of a boat, in a boisterous storm, in order to walk toward Lord Jesus. This is dangerous, but blessed, territory. I may drown without the Lord’s protection. I’m leaving a place of safety entering into a storm, because,...
Jan 2, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Some of our brethren, confused by the current popularity of the Reformed Baptists, claim that Protestantism has always been friendly toward the Baptists and their predecessors. History proves otherwise. For example, Felix Manz was born an illegitimate son of a Roman...
Jan 2, 2025 | Wednesday
Every week, an Australian missionary friend of ours, Frank Tottingham, emails an article he has written. I think he sends them out on his Monday morning, but I get it on Sunday night. The one I received three days ago, led me toward these few thoughts this evening....
Dec 29, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Have you ever heard anyone say that in eternity – time shall be no more? Please turn to Revelation 22:1-7 with its picture of Heaven – “And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst...
Dec 28, 2024 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: For the Sundays of the tenth, the seventeenth, and the twenty-fourth of this month we had the following attendance: 9, 7, and eight. The Sunday of the third of November I was sick and could not attend the service. Bro. Gaches, who does the...
Dec 26, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Philip Bliss should be a familiar name to Christians today, because our hymnals are filled with his songs. He was raised in a farm home where the Word of God was respected and music filled the evenings. In his twelve year, he was converted and joined the Baptist...
Dec 26, 2024 | Wednesday
The title of our lesson this evening is: “Incarnation, Regeneration and Correlation.” In order to tie things together I have distributed a sheet of paper to the people here in our auditorium. Those of you who are watching on line, or are hearing this through...
Dec 22, 2024 | Sunday Evening
I am going to piggyback these few thoughts onto last Wednesday’s lesson. The title of our last message was: “New Testament Teaching the Old Testament Way.” I tried to apply some of the Hebrew words which speak about teaching Bible truths. This afternoon, let’s think...
Dec 19, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On the fifty-first birthday of Adoniram Judson, another eventual missionary was born in Carleton County, Ontario. In his fifteenth year John McLaurin was saved by God’s grace, and at the age of twenty-two he was called into the ministry, entering Woodstock Institute...
Dec 19, 2024 | Wednesday
When Paul traveled from Athens to Corinth carrying the gospel, he went straight into the synagogue. He testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah that Israel had been expecting for centuries. But the people rebelled against that truth and the Spirit’s conviction...
Dec 15, 2024 | Sunday Evening
We have recently been reintroduced to Satan and to the part he played in the fall of man. That is extremely important theology, because it tells us how you and I became sinners. We are not sinners because we sin. We inherited sin from our first parents. I know that it...
Dec 12, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Leonard Verduin is the author of “The Reformers and their Step Children.” It is a book to which I have referred many times over the years. Verduin was not a Baptist but a part of the Christian Reformed Denomination, and yet his honest histories strengthen the...
Dec 12, 2024 | Wednesday
This is a very strongly worded sentence. Paul says, “In addition to all that I have just written, I beseech you, and I exhort you… “I exhort you – not in my authority as an apostle, but in the Name of our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ… “It is your duty,...
Dec 8, 2024 | Sunday Evening
This message doesn’t directly apply to some of you. In fact, I am preaching to myself as much as anyone else this afternoon. And this points out the fact that there has never been, and never will be, a perfect church on earth. Certainly, if the pastor of one of the...
Dec 8, 2024 | Sunday Morning
There is an acronym which has been flying around more frequently than I remember in the past. It was created sometime in the 90’s, so it has been with us for about thirty years. I am referring to “GOAT” which has come to represent the “Greatest of All Time.” A...
Dec 5, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Morgan John Rhees was born on this day in 1760 in Glamorganshire, Wales. The Lord became his Saviour when he was quite young, and when the Lord called him into His ministry, he made preparations by attending the Bristol Baptist College. After his graduation, he became...
Dec 5, 2024 | Wednesday
The first temptation Satan ever laid before a human heart, has become his most persistent temptation. From day two up to this moment, Satan’s most common enticement to sin has been: “Yea, hath God said?” We have to fight against this in many different areas of our...
Dec 1, 2024 | Sunday Evening
In the light of our reexamination of God’s creation in Genesis, I thought this Psalm would an appropriate codicil. Perhaps there isn’t a distinct division, but generally speaking, in the first half of this Psalm we have a statement of David’s theology, and in the...
