Oct 28, 2024 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren Sunday Service Numbers The first Sunday the Lord sent us nine persons to attend the service. The second Sunday the Lord sent us eight people as well as on the third Sunday. The fourth Sunday we had seven in attendance and the fifth Sunday we...
Oct 27, 2024 | Sunday Morning
When I was a child, every once in a while I’d see someone who was blind, walking down the street with the help of his seeing-eye dog. Sixty-years ago, that was about the only “Service animal” I’d ever see. But today, things are very different. We can hardly go to the...
Oct 24, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
History tells us that Thomas Goold was used of the Lord to establish the first Baptist church in Boston. It also says that Brother Goold died on this day in 1675. That little body of believers was persecuted by the colonial government and its officially-recognized...
Oct 24, 2024 | Wednesday
I hope you are reasonably familiar with the Old Testament prophecies about the Lord Jesus Christ. I’ve never counted them, but I have read that there are 333 such prophecies. I remember that because it is such a symmetrical and easily remembered figure. Beyond the...
Oct 20, 2024 | Sunday Evening
I am looking at this theme today because in the love of God we have one of the Lord’s superlatives. There is no more powerful love than God’s love. Nearly all love originates in God’s love. And those for whom the Lord has a special love, He cannot fail to bless for...
Oct 20, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Let’s begin by calling Him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus – the baby born in Bethlehem Judah; the child raised in Nazareth Galilee – was the most divisive person in Israel in His day. He was completely polarizing. Very few people in the days of Herod and Pilate had no...
Oct 18, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Ward was born on this day in 1769. In the spring of 1793, his cart got in front of his horse, so to speak. Ward, who was living in Derby at that time, had become a printer. One day William Carey providentially happened to come up beside the young man...
Oct 17, 2024 | Wednesday
Several years ago, in my reading, I heard an author utter three words on prayer without making any explanation or development. They struck me, so I jotted them down in my sermonic notebook, where they have been sitting ever since. Looking through that notebook on...
Oct 13, 2024 | Sunday Evening
Rarely, but once in a while, I preach from an outline which is not original to me. I purposed years ago, to be honest with you and to tell you when I feel led of the Lord to share another man’s message or outline. This is one of those occasions. I was blessed earlier...
Oct 13, 2024 | Sunday Morning
I have no idea how many people in Central Florida are repeating the words of this Psalm today. David said, “I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvellous works.” The CHRISTIANS who have suffered through Hurricanes Helene and...
Oct 10, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
James Garnett was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1792, but when he was a child the family moved to Kentucky. It was there he was born again, during his nineteenth year, and there he was baptized. When the Bullettsburg Baptist Church recognized God’s spiritual...
Oct 10, 2024 | Wednesday
Job had been struck down with disaster after disaster. He lost his wealth and his health; his children were killed and his wife, in her pain, had turned against him. He has been used by psychologists to illustrate the various stages of grief. At first he was...
Oct 6, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Like you, I have seen images and heard about what Hurricane Helene has done up and down the East Coast. But I admit that my heart is still filled with the images and experiences I had in Canada two weeks ago. Not only have we heard about destruction and devastation,...
Oct 4, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
This is a somewhat backhanded piece of Baptist history, as you will see. Eugenio Kincaid was born into a Presbyterian home in Wetherfield, Connecticut, but in his youth the family moved to Pennsylvania. There, under the preaching of a Baptist evangelist, the young man...
Oct 3, 2024 | Wednesday
Perhaps II John 4 and III John 4 don’t apply to me as directly as they did the Apostle John, but I’ll still use them. The Apostle wrote two separate letters in which he said in one: “I have NO GREATER JOY than to hear that MY children walk in truth.” And earlier he...
Sep 23, 2024 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren We are having a drought here in Oklahoma with temperatures often in the hundreds. Please pray with us for rain as well as for spiritual blessings. Only the Lord can provide these needs for us. On the 4th of the month we had two of Bro. Jose...
Sep 22, 2024 | Sunday Morning
It has been several years now, so my memory of the details may not be spot on. But as I remember it, one day the church phone rang, and I heard a woman’s voice. She mentioned her name and that she was then at the mini storage place at the corner of 12th and Highway...
Sep 19, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Fredrick Rymker was born in Stige, Denmark, on this day in 1819. He learned the trade of shoemaking, but at the age of twenty he went to sea. When an accident struck him down, he was fitted with a wooden leg, and from then on looked like the proverbial peg-leg...
Sep 19, 2024 | Wednesday
I wonder if the Lord will ever let me know how many times during my life I have quoted this verse of scripture. Has it been a thousand times? Ten thousand times? I know that I have preached from the context of Romans 8:28 several times. And what a wonderful context it...
Sep 15, 2024 | Sunday Evening
Acts 9 is the chapter which describes the salvation of Saul of Tarsus, before he became the Apostle Paul. As a former champion of the Jews and a leader in the persecution of God’s saints, his conversion to Christ radically changed the religious landscape in Israel. ...
Sep 15, 2024 | Sunday Morning
I would like to begin with a quote from the well-known preacher, A.W. Tozer. Tozer was a Christian Missionary Alliance pastor. This comment was made most likely about 75 years ago. He wrote – “Something has happened to the doctrine of justification by faith…...
Sep 12, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Slater immigrated to this country from England, bringing with him his work in two different fields of interest. From memory he reproduced the cotton machinery he used back home, and in so doing becoming the founder of the American cotton industry. In 1793 he...
Sep 12, 2024 | Wednesday
I have been to the Fall Bible conference at the Bryan Station Baptist Church, in Lexington, several times. Each year I was there, on one of the last evenings of the conference, all of the preachers were invited into the choir loft, and we sang the hymn “How Great Thou...
Sep 9, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Some of the silliest commercials on television are a series promoting a brand of men’s hygiene products. One of the earliest in this long series was particularly funny. The first ran for a few weeks, and it was apparently so popular that they came up with a sequel,...
Sep 8, 2024 | Sunday Evening
Before considering our Lord’s words here in John 14, please turn to what He said Matthew 7. We are turning from the “Upper Room Discourse” to the “Sermon on Mount.” Look at verse 24 – “Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a...
Sep 5, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In the struggle for religious liberty in this country the following letter was submitted to the General Assembly of Connecticut: “To the Honourable Genl Assembly of ye Colony of Connecticut, to be convened at New Haven on ye second Thursday of October next. The humble...
Sep 5, 2024 | Wednesday
Obviously, we are going back to the text of Austin’s message two weeks ago and to my sermon last Sunday. I am also returning to a comment the Holy Spirit made in three recent Sunday School lessons. First, let’s consider the Lord’s introduction to His answer to the...
Sep 1, 2024 | Sunday Morning
The Book of Isaiah is filled with wonderful scriptures which are well-suited for the preaching of the gospel. One example is found in the passage we just read: “I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.”...
Aug 29, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Sarah Hall was born in 1803. As a teenager she came under the conviction of the Holy Spirit and was born again. Soon she joined the First Baptist Church of Salem Massachusetts, and immediately became obsessed with the spiritual needs of others. Providentially...
Aug 29, 2024 | Wednesday
I will come back to our scripture in a few minutes – after we start with an illustration. Let’s say that you are a highly skilled college athlete. You could pick any sport and become a star player. After some consideration, you’ve chosen to play professional...
