Apr 4, 2024 | Wednesday
In a moment I will have you turn to Luke 1 and 2 and also to Matthew 1. When you see what we are studying this evening, you may think that I have lost my mind, or perhaps I have begun using the Greek Orthodox calender. Here we are in April, and I am taking you to some...
Apr 1, 2024 | Sunday Evening
A couple weeks ago I brought a message entitled: “Ours is not a Reformed Baptist Church.” It generated quite a bit of interest beyond the walls of our own building. I don’t know how many have watched it on FaceBook, but nearly a hundred people have listened to it on...
Mar 31, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Our text reminds us that it was Paul’s custom when he came to a community to go into the Jewish synagogue. When given the opportunity, he would open up the Old Testament to specific scriptures and read. Then he would prove through prophesy that the Jewish Messiah –...
Mar 28, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I have shared this story before, but I like it, even though it may leave some of you ladies shaking your heads. Abraham Marshall, son of Daniel Marshall, had been pastoring the Baptist church at Kiokee Georgia for eight years, when he decided that it was God’s will to...
Mar 28, 2024 | Wednesday
Years ago, we had a member who, earlier in his life, had been a Baptist pastor. Knowing the pressures and problems of the ministry, he went out of his way to be a blessing to Judy and me. He and his wife were generous, taking us out for meals, and often inviting us to...
Mar 25, 2024 | Sunday Evening
It is said by some that you and I are living in a “post-modern,” “post-CHRISTIAN” society. Notice that I said “post-CHRISTIAN” society and not “post-CHRISTIAN” era – or period of time. These two phrases, especially the second one, are based on some presumptions. One...
Mar 24, 2024 | Sunday Morning
This begins a special week across most of Christendom. But it might be debated whether it should be. This is the season when many professing Christians spend time thinking about the crucifixion of Christ. But I try my best to make you think about the cross...
Mar 21, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The length of a person’s life is not as important as what he or she does with that life. Grover Comstock, the son of a Baptist pastor, was born on this day in 1809. He was not born again until 1831 when the Lord blessed the city of Rochester, New York, with a powerful...
Mar 21, 2024 | Wednesday
What would you say is greatest blessing that we have as Christians? Is it the forgiveness of all our sins – past, present and future? Is it the ability to live above our temptations with assurance of victory through Christ and the Spirit? Is it eternal life and our...
Mar 19, 2024 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Bible Studies Month As I am in the work of finishing the preaching on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit and preaching precisely on, “The Holy Spirit’s Divine Work in the Preservation of the Holy Scriptures,” I find people who...
Mar 17, 2024 | Sunday Evening
A couple weeks ago, the church received the following poorly worded electronic correspondence: “Greetings, You are receiving this email because your email address is listed as a Church Email Address for a church listed on ReformedBaptistChurches.com and we are looking...
Mar 14, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Elisha Andrews was born in Connecticut, on September 29, 1768. After his family moved to Vermont, he ended up in New York, where the Lord saved him. He was baptized by Elder Joseph Cornell, after which he united with the Baptist church in Galway. Then soon after that,...
Mar 14, 2024 | Wednesday
Before we return to Ephesians 2, I would like to take you back to John 13. You don’t need to turn there; I will just try to stir your imaginations. John doesn’t follow the same outline as the Synoptic Gospel, but it is all there. Christ and His disciples were alone in...
Mar 10, 2024 | Sunday Morning
A few days ago, along with two of our church members, I spent a wonderful week in rural southeastern Oklahoma at a Bible conference. In going back and forth to the meetings, and taking a short drive through the rolling hills one afternoon, I was soaking up the...
Mar 7, 2024 | Wednesday
Judy and I read from a couple sources during our devotions together. The other day, I was reading Spurgeon’s “Morning and Evening,” when I came across these words: “Think how much grace one saint requires… So much that nothing but THE Infinite could supply his...
Mar 7, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The best known, early American Baptist historian is Isaac Backus. In the early 19th century he wrote “Church History of New England from 1620-1804” and some other notable books. Prior to Backus, another man, planned to become a Baptist historian, but, while gathering...
Mar 4, 2024 | Sunday Evening
This evening I’d like to share some of my perspective on the meeting at Indian Mission Baptist Church. In doing so I’d like to point to something which many Christians might think strange, but which happens fairly frequently in Holy Spirit controlled meetings. When...
Mar 3, 2024 | Sunday Morning
When we first meet Ezekiel, he is beside the river Chebar in Babylon/Chaldea. Ezekiel had been born in Judah, but when King Jehoiachin was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, he was among the people who were carried away. When his ministry began, there were still a few...
Mar 2, 2024 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Beginning a New Year! As I was reviewing all that has happened over the last year, the blessings we have received would have been impossible without the intervention of the Lord in our affairs. We have a new member in the mission...
Mar 2, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
When Elisha Abbott, returned to this country from his ministry among the Karen tribe in Burma, his wife had just died and he was in very poor health. He knew that if he was going to be able to continue his mission work, he would need someone to help him, so he visited...
Feb 22, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1775, Thomas Scrivner was born. When in Madison County, Kentucky, the Lord redeemed him, he followed the Lord in baptism and joined the Tates Creek Baptist Church. He and his family moved around somewhat after that, before settling near Glasgow,...
Feb 22, 2024 | Wednesday
Let’s assume we are here in the house of God this evening because we are all children of God. We have all been saved by grace, and our hearts yearn for fellowship with our Saviour and other believers. If that is true, then verse 4 doesn’t really apply to us except...
Feb 18, 2024 | Sunday Morning
In my office there are four beautiful book shelves that Bro. Kjeldgaard made for me more than thirty years ago. Not counting their decorative tops, they give me about 100 feet of shelf space, and they are overflowing. Filling those shelves are between 2,500 and 3,000...
Feb 16, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Jeremiah Bell Jeter died on this day in 1880. During his life he was a Baptist pastor, a Baptist leader, the editor of a Christian magazine and the author of several books. My source stated that J. B. Jeter was not an outstanding pulpit orator, but his ministry was...
Feb 15, 2024 | Wednesday
This scripture falls apart into two sections, and they create a simple outline for this lesson. The disciples went out fishing one night, but they caught nothing. Then as the sun came up, Christ blessed their efforts, and 153 large fish were led of the Lord into their...
Feb 11, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Our scripture is a part of Peter’s defense after healing the blind man at the Beautiful gate of the Temple. When he spoke of “the stone which was set at nought,” but which became the head of the corner… When Peter spoke of the stone that was rejected by the...
Feb 8, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
My library includes the seventeen volume set of Alexander McLaren’s “Expositions of Holy Scriptures.” That set contains messages from Genesis to Revelation. Many of them have been a great blessing to me. Most of Brother McLaren’s ministry was spent at the Union...
Feb 8, 2024 | Wednesday
Yesterday, I spent an hour or so looking at the timeline of the life of Paul the Apostle. I was trying to put into my mind the relationship between Paul’s years of free and open ministry to the amount of time he spent in jail. About a dozen times, in his epistles,...
Feb 5, 2024 | Sunday Evening
I am giving this message the title: “Coals of Fire.” You might think this theme comes from a relatively familiar phrase which I didn’t read from Proverbs. Romans 12:20 exhorts the Christian saying, “If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in...
Feb 4, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Pray for me, and pray for yourselves, that we might grasp some of the profound lessons contained in our text. “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” I was thinking about this verse Wednesday, when I said the Lord hadn’t given me a subject for...
