Jul 5, 2018 | Wednesday
In chapter 6, the Spirit told us – “These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to...
Jul 2, 2018 | Sunday Evening
One of the benefits of studying history is that it helps to keep one’s current situation in proper perspective. That is, history SHOULD keep things in perspective. But like everything else, people have a tendency to look at things through prejudiced eyes. For...
Jul 1, 2018 | Sunday Morning
Without a doubt this Psalm of Asaph is speaking about Israel. It was written some time during the reign of David. This Asaph was one of David’s chief musicians. But we can’t be sure of the occasion, so we don’t know the particulars. This may have come during the...
Jul 1, 2018 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Visitors in May The first Sunday in May the Lord sent us eight visitors! They were the relatives of Bro. Phillip McGee: his mother and stepfather, his brother Gary and his wife and family. Those relatives are members of two other churches of...
Jun 28, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
During the mid 18th century the official state church of Norway and Denmark was Lutheran. King Christian VI had been sprinkled as a child and was called to defend Protestantism against the Catholics and others who might proselytize her members. Spiritually, he was...
Jun 28, 2018 | Wednesday
This theme is found all over Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. Like many others, it is so common that it is easy to overlook. We need to teach ourselves to slowly and with meditation read the Word of God. The Holy Spirit may point out something new with a blessing hiding...
Jun 25, 2018 | Sunday Evening
What is the difference between “fast,” “faster” and “fastest”? Isn’t it obvious? “Fast” means that something goes quickly. “Faster” means that something goes more quickly than the thing which only goes...
Jun 24, 2018 | Sunday Morning
There are very few things which so clearly demonstrate God’s hatred sin as the sacrifice of the Red Heifer. For example, this is a blood sacrifice which was made – not for the wicked – but for professing believers. This came after all the sin offerings,...
Jun 23, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Pastor David Jones served as a Baptist chaplain under General Horatio Gates. There was such a bond between the two men that when, on this day (June 24) 1798, there was a son born to pastor Jones, he named him Horatio Gates Jones. When Horatio was 21, he was born...
Jun 14, 2018 | Wednesday
There are many great and provocative statements among these proverbs. We could build a message around so many of them – some being stronger than others. Many are as obvious as the sun in our eyes, or the blast of a blizzard in our face. Yesterday, I jotted town five...
Jun 13, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Jones was born on this day (June 17) in 1762 in the country of Wales. Under the itinerant ministry of the Scottish Baptist, Archibald McLean, William, who had earlier apparently been born again, came to understand Baptist doctrine and was baptized in the Dee...
Jun 11, 2018 | Sunday Evening
Solomon has spent six chapters describing life in some of its darkest shades. “There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men.” Actually there are lots of evils under the sun – and hiding from the sun – which the news throws...
Jun 10, 2018 | Sunday Morning
This scripture contains a wonderful promise about one of the most important of all things. It speaks about salvation from sin though the Lord Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, this is a scripture which is also very often abused. It is highly mis-used by ignorant people...
Jun 7, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1535, Charles V, Emperor of the unholy Roman Empire, issued a decree that Anabaptists – those who rebaptized believers, and who refused to recant of this act, would be put to death by fire. Also those who provided hospitality to these...
Jun 7, 2018 | Wednesday
It is the temptation of every preacher, including this one, to make his messages cute in some fashion. Particularly after 25 years or more in one place, there is a felt need to make the next sermon unique and attention-grabbing. But not only is that unrealistic and...
Jun 4, 2018 | Sunday Evening
Solomon keeps coming back to a familiar theme. Verse 19 – “Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?” Sometimes he changes the key words, while still asking the same question. In verse 20 he asks, “What GOOD is there...
Jun 3, 2018 | Sunday Morning
It’s been a few weeks now, but one morning last winter you awoke not feeling your usual perky self. You felt listless and unenergetic – you woke up tired – but not your usual tired – this was different. You didn’t have any appetite for breakfast and then later in...
May 31, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In the records of the men who were first responsible for the evangelism of India we find the following: “On June 3, 1784, at the Association of Nottingham, it was agreed to hold a prayer-meeting for the general spread of the gospel on the evening of the first...
May 31, 2018 | Wednesday
As we proceed deeper into this book, we find more verses bearing themes we’ve already addressed. Common subjects are expressed in slightly different ways; some of them are more profound or provoking than their earlier cousins. For the most part there isn’t any need...
May 28, 2018 | Sunday Evening
After we get to know people, there are often certain things which come to mind as we think about them. It might be the man’s job – Joe is a carpenter, John is a doctor, and we think of them in their vocations. Or it could be that person’s hobby – she has a green...
May 27, 2018 | Sunday Morning
As I read these words, it is with an emotion which is entirely human. No human being, poet or prophet, has been spiritual enough to fully understand these divine emotions. But I THINK I hear an anguish – a tear if you like – in the voice of God as He reasons with...
May 24, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Henry Dunster had been president of Harvard College before he came to understand the Biblical teaching about baptism, ie. only believers should be baptized and that by immersion. Dunster’s decision influenced others to consider the subject of baptism and also to...
May 24, 2018 | Wednesday
It is possible to read though any of these chapters from Proverbs looking for a theme or subject and then to develop that subject into a study – all within that particular chapter. Because these are usually only an accumulation of statements we can’t necessarily...
May 20, 2018 | Sunday Evening
With what we know about his father, we might assume that if Solomon were alive today, he would have been raised in church. David had his spiritual ups and downs like every other human being, but he was essentially a man of God. He was often on the road, even living...
May 20, 2018 | Sunday Morning
Four or five weeks ago we considered the circumstances of Saul’s conversion to Christ – His salvation. The Lord sovereignly intervened in the life of a man who was determined to whatever he wanted to do with his three score and ten years on this earth. But he was...
May 19, 2018 | Timothy Parrow
Busy Month! Resurrection Sunday the Lord blessed us with 23 people present! Six come once a year for the Resurrection Day service. They are relatives of Bro. and Sister Gaches. Outside of our regular eleven attendees the rest were lost folks who haven’t come...
May 17, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
After preparing this vignette, I’ve determined to read more of the books of Abraham Booth. Booth was born on this day (May 20) in 1734. The place was in Derbyshire, England. At the age of ten the Lord saved him from a life headed toward debauchery and hell. At the age...
May 17, 2018 | Wednesday
We’ve all seen it, if we haven’t experienced it – the tree with a shallow root system blown over in the storm. I confess to a little worry about the larch which Jackie and I transplanted into our back yard. It is growing like a weed, sometimes as much as 3 or 4 feet...
May 14, 2018 | Sunday Evening
Solomon, the royal preacher, is musing about life – its qualities, problems and purpose. He has tasted, tested and eventually rejected a great many things which lesser men think are important to life. He deals with the same things men and women are pursuing nearly...
May 13, 2018 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
I need your help this morning. After spending more than four hours developing this message on Friday, as I was looking at it yesterday it appeared to be very confusing. I considered scrapping it, but didn’t feel the Lord’s approval in doing that. So I am asking you...
