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...
Aug 25, 2024 | Sunday Evening
On a scale of one to ten, how generally faithful are you? Be honest with yourself. Do you think your answer matches the Lord’s judgment of you? How faithful are you to your family – to your spouse and children – to your parents? Are you respectful? Obedient?...
Aug 22, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
From 1813 to 1815, Vermont was unique among American states, because both its governor and lieutenant governor were diligent and doctrinal Baptists. Aaron Leland was born in Massachusetts in 1761. The Lord saved his soul, and he became a member of the Baptist church...
Aug 22, 2024 | Wednesday
Before coming back to this opening scripture, let’s begin with a word or two about cousins. It has been said that we can choose our friends, but we can’t choose our relatives. Perhaps you were born into a family with a couple siblings and another brother or two...
Aug 19, 2024 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Many Visitors Sis. Kim asked her friend Stephanie to bring her to the service one Sunday morning and Stephanie did so and came with her. We had seven in the service that morning. Next, Bro. Jose’s sister Elena came to visit him from...
Aug 19, 2024 | Sunday Evening
I have no authority to say so, but I think that if we could have asked Paul, “How is your life going?” He would have said, “I have the best, most joyous, most purposeful life I could every have imagined.” Like all of us – like Daniel – like David – Paul’s life had its...
Aug 19, 2024 | Sunday Morning
What is the best test for the value of something? It is not necessarily the number of servings per pound. I might go into a grocery store and see a piece of meat which I think is a good price. But you might realize that there is too much fat or an inedible bone, and...
Aug 15, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1846 the United States, under General Stephen Kearny, took possession of New Mexico. Almost immediately, H.W. Read and Samuel Gorman, Baptist missionaries, arrived in Santa Fe. Read had the joy of leading twenty-one-year old Blas Chavez to Christ, and...
Aug 15, 2024 | Wednesday
This is our third lesson in a brief study of faithfulness. In our last message we considered the faithfulness of the Lord. Over and over again we are told such things as: “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”...
Aug 12, 2024 | Sunday Evening
As I said last Sunday, nearly every important doctrine can be studied beginning with the Book of Genesis. It might be argued that there are exceptions. Which of these doctrines MIGHT not be found in Genesis? (Angelology, Theology, Hamartiology, Soteriology,...
Aug 8, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
he formal ministry of William Evander Penn didn’t begin until he was nearly fifty, but he had already been a dedicated servant of Christ for decades. William Penn, the Baptist not the Quaker, was born on this day in 1832 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. At the age...
Aug 8, 2024 | Wednesday
I have seen more than 27,000 days during my short lifetime. Every one of them followed a period of darkness which I have called “night.” The succession of night and day, night and day, has been throughly consistent throughout my life. In fact, that succession has been...
Aug 5, 2024 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Church On the thirtieth of June we had a first-time visitor by the name of Noah. He is a junior at OSU studying for an agricultural/business degree. He said that his father is a preacher in a small church down in southeastern Ok, and that he was going...
Aug 4, 2024 | Sunday Evening
I would like to begin a short study of the Biblical subject of “Faithfulness.” I know this isn’t as exciting as the Millennium or how the upcoming election or War in Gaza relate to the Tribulation. I know that a study of “faithfulness” isn’t like studying evangelism...
