Dec 1, 2016 | Wednesday
Fads come, and fads go. I remember one from my high school and college days; and perhaps you remember it too. I haven’t heard it mentioned in some time, so maybe it has passed away just as many fads do. But then again, maybe I’m just too old, and not running around in...
Nov 28, 2016 | Sunday Evening
As you can see we return to the text which we used this morning. Earlier I pointed out that there is a progression of revelation in these words. They move from the revelation of God in nature to that of His Word and then to the heart of the Christian. But there is a...
Nov 27, 2016 | Sunday Morning
After a particularly hard, long winter the lady went to her garden to check her blueberry bushes. She returned quite delighted because there were buds on almost all of the branches. Oh, but how disappointed she would have been if there was never anything more than...
Nov 24, 2016 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Sad Event On October 8th, Roxanne’s father died. The event was very sad because Mr. William Robertson was not a believer, although both Roxanne and I had witnessed to him on several occasions. Furthermore her entire family is...
Nov 24, 2016 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Our Postal Project Update Victory Baptist Church of Loveland, Colorado, pastored by Bro. Justin Fulton, has sent us $700.00 for our postal advertising project in addition to their regular support of the work here. Now we have a total of...
Nov 24, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Ebenezer Lee Compere, was born in 1833. He was the son of English former missionaries to Jamaica who, because of health problems, moved to Charleston, S.C., but then on to work among the Creek Indians in Alabama, where he was born. After E.L. was converted to...
Nov 24, 2016 | Wednesday
The calendar tells us that this is “Thanksgiving Week.” But we know that beyond the day-off from work there is very little genuine thanksgiving. And you know that Friday is extremely important in the world of commerce. Also the ink of Black Friday has been...
Nov 20, 2016 | Sunday Evening
There are several dozen doctrines which will never be compromised as long as I am pastor of this church. One of those doctrines would be in regard to the Bible we use in our services and in the preacher’s study. Someone might reply saying that the version we use is...
Nov 20, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Beginning nearly fifty years ago, I spent nearly three years attending Bible school. I should make it clear – I didn’t attend seminary; it was a Baptist Bible school. It was not designed to train theologians – or even thinkers. Its purpose was to generate little...
Nov 17, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
1527 was a glorious year for the Anabaptists in Europe. On February 8, George Wagner was executed by fire in Munich for saying that baptism did not save souls. The same was true of Melchoir Vet. In May a former Catholic priest, named Michael Sattler had his tongue...
Nov 17, 2016 | Wednesday
This Psalm divides roughly into two pieces. The first half is an hymn and is directed towards the Lord. The second half is more like a sermon and is directed towards people like us. You’ll notice that the title tells us that it came out of David’s deliverance from the...
Nov 14, 2016 | Sunday Evening
Idaho is in the midst of its hunting season – something in which I participated back in my Alberta days. I bought the rifle and the orange vest, along with a knife and other equipment. I subscribed to the magazines, and for a few years I literally dreamed the dream of...
Nov 13, 2016 | Sunday Morning
I admit that I may not understand the mind of a horse. I don’t know the thinking of the race horse when he’s brought into the starting gate. But from little I have seen, it appears that the thoroughbred race horse runs because he loves to run. There may be some...
Nov 11, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Edward Mote was born in London during the year 1797. His parents ran a public house, and true to their character, Edward had no religious education whatsoever. “So ignorant was I that I did not know there was a God.” After he became apprenticed to a...
Nov 10, 2016 | Wednesday
When Moses came down from the top of Sinai carrying the law, his face glowed with the radiance of God. It was as if his skin was made of coated glass and there burning phosphorus was just underneath. He had to put a veil over his face before the people of Israel would...
Nov 7, 2016 | Sunday Evening
Sometimes understanding the background of a Biblical book is important to understanding its message. For example, remembering what was happening to the readers of the Book of Hebrews helps us to understand some of the more difficult things Paul was saying. Those good...
Nov 6, 2016 | Sunday Morning
As much as I tried, I couldn’t get this Psalm out of my mind. While looking at it from one angle Wednesday, I mentioned it could be preached as a gospel message. I don’t believe that was David’s intent when he put these words to music and taught them to Israel. But...
Nov 3, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Elijah Baker was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia in 1742. He was converted to Christ under the ministry of Jeremiah Walker and was baptized by Samuel Harriss in 1769. Soon after that, Brother Baker became an itinerant evangelist with God greatly blessing his...
Nov 3, 2016 | Wednesday
If you came to me after the service, telling me that you had a desperate need for $100.00, there is a very good chance that I would give it to you. In the bank at this moment, I have an extra $100.00, and I could give it to you tomorrow. But then let’s say that next...
Oct 31, 2016 | Sunday Evening
I mentioned on Wednesday that there is a different culture in Kentucky than there is here. I said that the people in the church we visited eat differently than we do. They still use knives an forks, but some of their food is not generally found around here. Judy came...
Oct 30, 2016 | Sunday Morning
I have never claimed to have a very good memory – in fact I admit to having just the opposite. When I need to know something about the history of our church I ask one of you. But I do remember some of the details of the first sermon that I preached nearly 50 years...
Oct 27, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1753, David Barrow was born. The place was Brunswick County, Virginia. He was saved by the grace of God in his seventeenth year, and when he was eighteen, he began preaching Christ. He was ordained in 1774 and soon became the pastor of three churches in...
Oct 27, 2016 | Wednesday
In the Olympics there are some contests which look a bit awkward or strange. For example, there is the hammer toss, but the thing thrown doesn’t look anything like my hammers. It is not a claw hammer, or a sledge hammer. Someone might want to throw a ball-peen...
Oct 16, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In a letter to a friend, written on this day (October 23) in, 1801, a man named M’Gready described the revival which had gripped the Baptist churches in Logan County, Kentucky. When Pastor Lemuel Burkitt, of North Carolina heard of the pouring out of God’s...
Oct 16, 2016 | Sunday Evening
This is not the first time, but it is not something I do very often. I am giving you another man’s sermon this afternoon. You could say that we have a guest speaker. I was given an article a few weeks ago – one with which I fully agreed, and which I thought would be a...
Oct 16, 2016 | Sunday Morning
I’d like you to put your thinking caps on this morning. I have a gospel message for you, but it is not a “simple” gospel message. I need all of you to engage your ears and hearts, turning up your hearing aids if necessary. When Mary gave birth, more than...
Oct 13, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day William Ward was commissioned to become the Lord’s printer in India, primarily helping William Carey. But this little vignette is not about William Ward. It is about a Baptist missionary on the Island of Java. I have read that there are more professing...
Oct 13, 2016 | Wednesday
The Lord miraculously appeared to Solomon on two occasions; the second time when he had completed the temple. In I Kings 9 the Lord said, Solomon “if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according...
Oct 10, 2016 | Sunday Evening
One of the many lessons, which are suggested in these 5 verses, is the independence of God’s churches. This letter was sent “unto the churches of Galatia.” There is no hint of the oft-suggested “Universal Church.” Paul did not send this letter...
Oct 9, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Elizabeth Barrett’s parents disapproved of her marriage to Robert Browning so strongly they disowned her. Almost every week Elizabeth wrote letters to her mother and father pleading for some sort of reconciliation. Those letters were sent for years, but her...
