Aug 2, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
George Webb Slaughter deserves a full-length biography. His life was filled with excitement and Christian service. I am not sure when he became a child of God, but it appears to have been early in his life. Having moved from Louisiana to Texas, he became one of Sam...
Jul 26, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Perhaps this is a day which should go down in infamy. History records that at least twice, some of our Baptist forefathers were arrested on this day prior to being punished for their faith. In 1768 four gospel preachers were arranged in Orange County, Virginia for...
Jul 18, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Now here is some history you did not hear while in school. Peter Foulger, at the age of eighteen crossed the Atlantic, settling in Massachusetts, where he became a teacher and land surveyor. The Lord eventually led the young man to Newport, Rhode Island, where he...
Jul 18, 2024 | Wednesday
Probably all of us have heard messages from these words of the Lord Jesus – perhaps more than one. Why should we have another look? Well, I believe that it is the Lord will for us tonight. Monday, as Judy and I were having our devotions, these words came up, and the...
Jul 14, 2024 | Sunday Evening
Let’s say that as I am getting into bed tonight, the Lord sends me a message. “To whom it may concern. This coming Friday night, I am going to blow out the flame and remove the candle stick of Post Falls’ Calvary Independent Baptist Church.” Being convinced this...
Jul 14, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Banff National Park, up there in the province of Alberta, is one of my favorite places. In driving from Post Falls, to Calgary, the southern route through the Crowsnest Pass, is a little shorter, but I prefer the road that passes north through Banff. Not only are the...
Jul 11, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Taylor Jones provided a great service to the people of Siam (today’s Thailand), when he translated the New Testament into their language. But it may have been the sacrifice that his wife made which was the initial catalyst toward the salvation of many of the...
Jul 11, 2024 | Wednesday
Let’s think for a few minutes about “meditation.” We could have a lesson about meditating on the subject of “thinking.” Or we could meditate about “meditation.” But rather than these, tonight I will only share a few thoughts on the subject of meditation. And perhaps...
Jul 7, 2024 | Sunday Morning
I have preached from this bit of Biblical history several times – but not recently. And I believe a visiting speaker, a year or two ago, also spoke from one of the accounts of this young man. Our subject is often called “the rich young ruler,” but in none of the...
Jul 4, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The first Baptist church in Groton, Connecticut has a long and storied history, revolving, for more than a century, around the name “Wightman.” Edward Wightman was burned at the stake in Litchfield, England, in 1612, for no other reason than that he was a Baptist...
Jul 4, 2024 | Wednesday
For the sake of a short lesson, I’d like to use Israel while in the wilderness as an allegory of the Christian life. Now – when you picture that forty-year national meandering, do you picture that “wilderness” as a “desert?” If you do, you need to understand that is...
Jul 1, 2024 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren, Articles of Faith. I have returned to preaching messages on our Articles of Faith which I had been using for Wednesday evening services when the pandemic shut us down. Those articles are a blessing to us because of their clarity and...
Jun 30, 2024 | Sunday Evening
A few weeks ago, we had a message on the Mediatorship of the Saviour. I took as a primary illustration the historically based movie, “Bridge of Spies.” Something I didn’t share with you that day was a line which came up three or four times during the story. Tom Hanks’...
Jun 30, 2024 | Sunday Morning
I read a statement the other day which appears to me to be a relatively good description of today’s world. “We are living in a time when sensitivities are at the surface, often vented with cutting words. Philosophically, you can believe anything, so long as you do not...
Jun 27, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1775, Caleb Evans, the president of the Bristol Baptist College sat down at his desk and wrote a letter to a young graduate of the college named John Sutcliff. Sutcliff had been a good student, and Evans felt that he would be a blessing to many...
Jun 27, 2024 | Wednesday
It makes perfect sense if we think about it in one way, and then it is ridiculous if looked at differently. I’m talking about the fact that several sections of the inspired Word of God were written to individuals. It is easy to understand why the Holy Spirit spoke to...
Jun 24, 2024 | Sunday Evening
I don’t know if it is bad or good, but most of us don’t think much about our posture – especially our posture as it relates to others or to God. When I was a kid, a part of our Episcopal worship was using the kneeling cushions when we went to prayer. But then and here...
Jun 20, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in1738 Samuel Medley was born. When the war began between England and France, Samuel joined the British navy. During the Battle of Cape Lagos, he had a large portion of one leg blown away. Soon gangrene began to set in, and the ship’s surgeon told him...
Jun 20, 2024 | Wednesday
A few minutes ago we sang Ruth Caye Jones’ hymn, “In Times like These.” In times like these you need a Saviour, and in times like these you need the Bible. In times like these you need an anchor which can grip the solid rock, the Lord Jesus Christ. Ruth Jones, born in...
Jun 17, 2024 | Sunday Evening
In a book called “Mountains in the Mist,” Frank Boreham made some interesting comments on this Psalm. He reminded his readers that this is one of the so-called “Penitential Psalms” – songs written by sinners with broken hearts over their transgressions and the shame...
Jun 17, 2024 | Sunday Morning
I read a statement the other day which struck me – and stuck with me. The context was the death and burial of the Lord Jesus, when He died for our salvation. After quoting John 19:41, which says, “Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the...
Jun 13, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1816 Mary Carey (no relation to Harry Caray) wrote to her brother, missionary William Carey in India. The primary subject of the letter was to inform him of the death of their father. But I have more interest in Mary than in that letter or her father....
Jun 13, 2024 | Wednesday
I am not a artist; I can’t draw accurately, and can’t paint. I even have a hard time painting the walls in my house. I have a hard time keeping my crayons between the lines. But I am surrounded by artists, and our house is filled with their original work – from...
Jun 10, 2024 | Sunday Evening
Do you have a standard salutation you share with people just before you depart to go your separate ways? What do you say before you click “End call” on your phone or when you’ve finished preparing your email? If you are like me, you may have a regular form of...
Jun 9, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Probably, neither the Apostle John, nor John the Baptist, ever considered themselves to be theologians. Technically, a “theologian” is someone who academically studies the nature of God and religion. John the Apostle, the penman of this gospel, and John the Baptist,...
Jun 7, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Morgan Edwards was born in Wales in 1722 and was educated in England at Bristol College. Upon the recommendation of John Gill, the Baptist Church in Philadelphia invited Edwards to become their pastor. He and his wife emigrated to this country, where the Lord greatly...
Jun 6, 2024 | Wednesday
Judy and I are “old school” when it comes to many areas of our finances. Some people might simplify that and just say that we are “old.” Whatever – each week I personally take the check our treasurer gives me and I deposit it. I don’t take a picture of it and email it...
Jun 3, 2024 | Sunday Evening
I have read, over and over again, the words of famous people extolling the Bible and its influence on our world. Those quotes have come from American presidents, scientists, scholars in literature, historians, anthropologists and many others. They say such things as,...
Jun 2, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Nine years ago, Tom Hanks starred in a movie called “Bridge of Spies.” I don’t usually do this, but I’m going use that movie and the true story behind, it to introduce a wonderful Bible doctrine – Jesus Christ is God’s Mediator between Himself and us. In 1960 an...
May 30, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Last week, our subject was Joseph Craig. Joseph was the brother of Lewis and Elijah Craig, Baptist preachers of Virginia and Kentucky. This week our subject is Elijah. Elijah Craig was brought to Christ in 1764 through the ministry of David Thomas, a Regular Baptist...
