Jan 4, 2015 | Apologetics
Why is this scripture one of the most important in all the Word of God? Because this gives us one of the key pieces to the jig saw puzzle of prophetic chronology, and because it opens up some of the secrets of other passages. First let’s reset the ground rules...
Jan 4, 2015 | Apologetics
One of the things which sets Bible Christianity apart from all other religions is our doctrine of the incarnation. What is the dictionary meaning of “incarnate”? (Having a bodily form.) What is the Biblical definition of “incarnation”? (That...
Jan 4, 2015 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
The English word “angel” has been transliterated from which language (Latin; Swahili; Anglo-Saxon; Greek)? Defined literally, “aggelos” refers to (angles; angels, messengers, servants) Messengers Because “angel” is not a Hebrew...
Jan 3, 2015 | Apologetics
Does God exist? How do you know that God exists? (Intuitively, design, revelation, miracles, universal belief, etc.)Assuming that God exists should we be surprised at the existence of miracles? One of the reasons that we know that there is a God is through the reality...
Jan 3, 2015 | Apologetics
What are some of the arguments that we hear when we are presenting the gospel to the lost? One of the major arguments proposed against the truth is that the Bible is untrustworthy, it has contradictions. How serious is this argument and misconception? Why? We have...
Jan 3, 2015 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
The words “altar” and “altars” are found between (101 & 200; 201 & 300; 301 & 400; 401 & 500) times in the Bible. 360 People should not confuse the word “altar” with the word (adder; apter; later; alter). Any of...
Jan 2, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
William Staughton was born on this day in 1770 in Coventry, England. He had a brilliant mind and became a published author of poetry when he was but twelve-years old. He was born again early in his life and graduated from Bristol Baptist College in 1792. He knew...
Jan 2, 2015 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
Synonyms for “allegory” might include (figure; metaphor; story with a moral lesson; picture). All of these Synonyms for “parable” might include (a couple of male cattle; a story with a special lesson; an illustration; a byword). The last three...
Jan 1, 2015 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
The only place where we can definitively learn about God is in (nature; the Bible; Biblical theology; Calvary Baptist Church). The Bible The Bible is crystal clear on every subject it addresses (true; false). False When the Bible clearly states something, we are to...
Dec 31, 2014 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The work of foreign missions must be the most difficult of all Christian ministries. Probably no American Christian can fully understand the work and responsibility which falls on that servant of God laboring in a strange culture and strange field. On December 26,...
Dec 29, 2014 | Matthew, Sunday Morning
Let’s say that you were raised by non-religious parents in a thoroughly secular home. You have been taught the principles of evolution; you believe that life began with a big bang or something. Saturated with a non-Christian world-view, you have grown up anticipating...
Dec 28, 2014 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
A group of Sadducees had come to Christ Jesus with a question about life beyond physical death. That is both interesting and confusing, because the Sadducees didn’t believe in life after death. As Acts 23:8tells us, “the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection,...
Dec 25, 2014 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The First Baptist Church in Boston was born in the midst of persecution. Its first pastor, Thomas Goold was in and out of prison for more than ten years. He was robbed of his home, property and health. He may not have been beheaded or burned at the stake, but he died...
Nov 30, 2014 | Missions, Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: A New Visitor! The phone calls and emails we received in October finally resulted in the visit of Mrs. Mona Raines to our services. She is the widow of the former pastor of another Baptist church here in Stillwater and had stopped going to...
Oct 30, 2014 | Missions, Timothy Parrow
October 2014 Report Dear Pastor and Brethren: Return Trip On our return trip to Stillwater from Pennsylvania, we stopped on Sunday morning to attend services at Landmark Baptist Church, Bro. Darren Myers, Pastor, in Rolla, Mo. We had notified him ahead of time that...
