Dec 19, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On the fifty-first birthday of Adoniram Judson, another eventual missionary was born in Carleton County, Ontario. In his fifteenth year John McLaurin was saved by God’s grace, and at the age of twenty-two he was called into the ministry, entering Woodstock Institute...
Dec 15, 2024 | Sunday Evening
We have recently been reintroduced to Satan and to the part he played in the fall of man. That is extremely important theology, because it tells us how you and I became sinners. We are not sinners because we sin. We inherited sin from our first parents. I know that it...
Dec 12, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Leonard Verduin is the author of “The Reformers and their Step Children.” It is a book to which I have referred many times over the years. Verduin was not a Baptist but a part of the Christian Reformed Denomination, and yet his honest histories strengthen the...
Dec 8, 2024 | Sunday Evening
This message doesn’t directly apply to some of you. In fact, I am preaching to myself as much as anyone else this afternoon. And this points out the fact that there has never been, and never will be, a perfect church on earth. Certainly, if the pastor of one of the...
Dec 8, 2024 | Sunday Morning
There is an acronym which has been flying around more frequently than I remember in the past. It was created sometime in the 90’s, so it has been with us for about thirty years. I am referring to “GOAT” which has come to represent the “Greatest of All Time.” A...
Dec 5, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Morgan John Rhees was born on this day in 1760 in Glamorganshire, Wales. The Lord became his Saviour when he was quite young, and when the Lord called him into His ministry, he made preparations by attending the Bristol Baptist College. After his graduation, he became...
Dec 1, 2024 | Sunday Evening
In the light of our reexamination of God’s creation in Genesis, I thought this Psalm would an appropriate codicil. Perhaps there isn’t a distinct division, but generally speaking, in the first half of this Psalm we have a statement of David’s theology, and in the...
