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...
Dec 1, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Jim, one of our recent visitors, was telling me that in downtown Spokane, across the street from the main bus terminal, there is a street evangelist with a microphone. He isn’t permitted onto city property, but from a few yards away he shares the gospel with people...
Nov 28, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Mason Peck and his wife left their home in the East to travel into the wilderness of the American Midwest. On his day in 1817, after 129 days of travel by wagon, on foot and by boat, they reached St. Louis, Missouri. The trip had taken its toll on the future...
Nov 28, 2024 | Wednesday
Paul refers here in verse 3 to something which plagues us all from time to time. When was the last time you became “wearied and faint in your mind?” If it hasn’t been recently, then you are a rare and blessed person. Most of us, from time to time, get emotionally...
Nov 25, 2024 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Sis. Kim, Sis. Elaine, Sis. LaShonda, and Sis. Connie were all absent from our services three out of four Sundays mostly due to sickness or travel. So our attendance has been low during all the month. Nevertheless, we have had good services...
Nov 24, 2024 | Sunday Evening
This episode in the life of the Lord Jesus took place very early in His ministry. This is John 2, not John 19. Chapter 1 records Jesus’ baptism by John, and then the gathering of some of the first disciples. Chapter 2 begins with the “beginning of miracles” which “did...
Nov 24, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Looking at your phone one day, your news feed tells you there has been another gruesome murder. This time it isn’t far from where you live, or it occurred at a place where you once spent some time. So your interest is piqued, and over the next few weeks you follow the...
Nov 21, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Many of God’s greatest preachers and pastors were supported by unnamed or unsung women – their patient wives. Susanna Mason was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in about 1725. Her family had been Baptists for several generations, going back to the old country. ...
Nov 21, 2024 | Wednesday
I do a lot of my reading while exercising on an elliptical treadmill. I have a pencil in the machine’s cup holder and a little wire gizmo which keeps the pages of my book open. Whenever I see something which is worth remembering, I put a little pencil mark beside it...
Nov 17, 2024 | Sunday Evening
Most of the people in our auditorium this afternoon are children of God; born again souls. We were dead in trespasses and sins, but the Lord, in His grace, resurrected us to eternal life. And for those who are not born again Christians, we yearn for your salvation,...
Nov 14, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1843 Joseph G. Binney and his wife Juliette set sail from America to give their lives for the salvation of souls in Burma. The life of a “missionary wife” was severe, and in time Mrs. Binney’s health began to fail. Anticipating her departure to Heaven,...
Nov 14, 2024 | Wednesday
The title of our little message for this evening is: “How to Make a Fool of Yourself.” This is a subject about which I am an expert, so I may have some insights you might be able to use. Our scripture is not unfamiliar. I think several preachers here over the last...
Nov 10, 2024 | Sunday Morning
At the very beginning of His earthly ministry, the true identity of Jesus Christ was exposed by Satan. Jesus was born like any other child, and in many ways He had an ordinary childhood and young adulthood. At the age of 30, He came to John and requested baptism, at...
Nov 7, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Like our subject from last week, William Cate was born and raised in East Tennessee, apparently in Sevier County. On this day in 1837, he and his wife, after their public professions of faith in Christ, were immersed and joined the local Baptist church. Three years...
Nov 7, 2024 | Wednesday
I wonder if it would be too bold to say that Christians are commanded to sing? I know for a fact that King David often exhorted his citizens to sing and praise the Lord. And the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah did the same. “Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent...
Nov 4, 2024 | Sunday Evening
In the margin of my King James Bible, editors summarize this paragraph saying: “Sanctity of the Lord’s Supper.” But the words “Lord’s Supper” are not mentioned here in this scripture. It is not until we get to chapter 11, verse 20 that we read about “eating the Lord’s...
Oct 31, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Richard M. Miller is not a name you’ll find in William Cathcart’s 1881 book, “The Baptist Encyclopedia.” Most likely, it is because he didn’t do anything to draw attention to himself. Brother Miller was born on this day in 1815 south of Knoxville, Tennessee, in Sevier...
Oct 31, 2024 | Wednesday
I was going through one of my sermon idea notebooks, and at top of one page there was the word: “Christian.” Beside it was a scripture II Timothy 3. The rest of the page had only six words: “Undistracted soldier;” “Rule-keeping Athlete,” and “Hardworking Farmer.” I...
