Peter, Paul and You – II Peter 3:14-18

When some of you talk about your misspent youth, once in a while your old, ungodly music is mentioned. Even though I am not much older than some of you, I often have no idea who you are talking about. I don’t know the lyrics you are mentioning. I can’t picture the...

August, 2025

Dear Pastor and Brethren: Health Recovery Activities The Lord enabled me to return to the pulpit on August 10 to continue preaching a series of messages on Hamartiology, the doctrine of sin. I am now preaching on, “Erroneous Views of Sin,” including...

The Pentagram of Salvation – Acts 4:5-14

The title to this message is “The Pentagram of Salvation.” That sounds a bit ominous, doesn’t it? It sounds almost Satanic, but I assure you, that’s not the way I intend to use it. But before I get that, I’d like to begin with an obviously fictitious story about a...

September 28

On this day in 1930 Charles Evans Hughes joined one of the Baptist churches in Washington, D.C., but sadly I’m not sure which.  Much earlier, Charles had graduated from Brown University, the Baptist’s first school of higher learning in this country.  He went on to...

Universal Destruction: Us or Him? – II Peter 3:11-14

If I was a United States Senator in charge of the right committee and with a huge budget, I’d authorize a study of society’s deliberate USE of FEAR to direct and manage the people of this country. There have been hundreds, if not thousands, of expensive studies to...

Now and Then  –  Matthew 5:21-26

I mentioned on Wednesday that several of us heard the Ten Commandments put into song last week.  I have several Protestant hymn books and not one of them has a song containing the Ten Commandments.  What we heard didn’t rhyme very well and the cadence wasn’t...

September 21

As far as we know, the first Baptist church in Sweden was formed in Landa Parish, Halland, on this day in 1848.  In the evening of that day four men and one woman were baptized in the waters of Vallervik Bay, and in a nearby farm house, the small church was organized....

A Companion of Them that Fear the Lord – Psalm 119:57-64

Before I get into a report of our visit with the Landmark Missionary B.C., let’s have a short Bible exposition. Verse 57 – “Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.” In Psalm 16:5 David said, “The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance...

September 14

Robert Daniel was born in Virginia just prior to the Revolutionary War.  Twenty-five years later the country was shaken once again with the reverberations of the “Great Awakening.”  In 1802 Robert Daniel was born a second time through the ministry of the Separate...

The Clock is Ticking – II Peter 3:10-12

I remember when I was quite young, visiting my grandmother, who was living with her brother, Uncle Creighton. They lived in a beautiful old house in the Kitsilano district of Vancouver, BC, not far from the beach. I would imagine that today that house would be worth...