Apr 13, 2025 | Sunday Evening
The Epistle to the Colossians was written by Paul when he was under arrest in Rome. Most likely, some of you have “spent time” thinking about the clause “under arrest,” but most have not. What is it to “arrest” something? It is to stop, hinder, or to check the forward...
Apr 13, 2025 | Sunday Morning
I have been preaching and teaching God’s Word since 1970. That is more than fifty years. And, as I was taught in Bible school, I have tried to keep track of all the messages I have preached. Reviewing those notes the other day, I came away greatly surprised. The...
Apr 10, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The first translation of the complete Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew into German was not made by the Protestant Martin Luther, but by the Anabaptists Ludwig Hetzer and Hans Denck. Historian Ludwig Keller, wrote in 1914, “The fact is by no means yet...
Apr 6, 2025 | Sunday Morning
When was the last time you did something with absolutely no purpose for doing it? For example, when was the last time you got in your car, or mounted your bike, with no specific destination in mind? You might say, “There was a day back in the Fall, when I had nothing...
Apr 3, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Ansley was born on this day in 1769. He was sprinkled and raised in the Church of England. Following the Revolutionary War, his family moved from New York to New Brunswick, where he continued in his Protestant church, but with a growing spiritual...
Mar 30, 2025 | Sunday Morning
This first chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Christians in Colosse is huge. It is at the deep end of the pool. Preachers from 300 years ago might have said that it is one of the most “pregnant” chapters in God’s Word. It is full of important doctrine and...
Mar 27, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Absolom Backus Earle was born in 1812 in Charlton, New York. He was converted to Christ at the age of sixteen and two years later he began preaching the gospel before being ordained at the age of twenty-one. For the next five years he labored as a church planter in...
Mar 24, 2025 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren, Spanish Outreach Although we have lost the Jose Bautista family, we continue to reach some of the Latino community with our personal contact and gospel tracts. The following names are those persons with whom we have had contact during the...
