July 20

Jul 17, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Samuel Pearce was born on this day in 1766.  As a young man he happened to be in a house where a man lay dying.  The man in despair cried out, “I am damned forever.”  The words filled young Samuel with terror.  For more than a year, the death of that man and the...

God Knows, God Can and God Does – II Peter 2:9

Jul 17, 2025 | Wednesday

A little boy grew up wanting to play professional baseball. As a child he lived baseball; he dreamed baseball, he watched baseball; he studied baseball. He played catch with his dad and his uncle. He played five hundred with the neighboring kids. He played baseball at...

Those Whom God Spared – II Peter 2:4-10

Jul 13, 2025 | Sunday Evening

Our Bible’s translators show us that verse 4 into verse 10 is one sentence – one primary lesson. But, as we have already seen, there is a wealth of information here. There are three illustrations each split into two sections – one positive and one negative. This...

Those Whom God Spared Not  –  II Peter 2:4-6, 11

Jul 13, 2025 | Sunday Morning

Isaac Newton was an early English scientist, and probably a “genius” before the word had been defined.  He was raised in the Anglican denomination, but he held to some unorthodox views about Christ.  Because of those views, I can’t say that he was a Christian in the...

July 13

Jul 10, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History

William Powell (not the actor of by-gone days, but William Rufus Powell), was born into a godly home in 1808, but he was not born again until many years later. At an early time in his life, his mother died, and other family tragedies sent him swinging back and forth...

Pseudo-Prophets – II Peter 2:1-3

Jul 10, 2025 | Wednesday

When this epistle was first read, Peter’s friends they didn’t hear: “Now, let’s move to chapter two.” They simply heard – “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:...

First Knowledge  –  II Peter 1:19-21

Jul 6, 2025 | Sunday Evening

One of distinctives of a New Testament Baptist church is that its message and authority come from the scriptures.  We have no loyalty to Rome, or Philadelphia, or wherever Southern Baptist Convention is headquartered.  True Baptist churches believe what they believe...

Into the Valley of Death  – Matthew 16:21

Jul 6, 2025 | Sunday Morning

In the 1850’s England was at odds with Russia in what was called the “Crimean War.”  At the “Battle of Balaclava” (1854), a British cavalry unit, the Light Brigade, charged into a valley surrounded by Russian artillery.  The charge was the result of a...

July 6

Jul 3, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Barnas Sears was one of the great educators of this country, but that may not be his most important role in Baptist history.  In 1825, he graduated with the highest honors from Brown University, after which he studied at Newton Theological Institution (both respected...

The Eternal Word’s Temporary Nature – II Peter 1:19

Jul 3, 2025 | Wednesday

Peter was one of the most God-blessed of all the children of Adam. No, he wasn’t wealthy, but money is not necessarily a blessing from the Lord. And he wasn’t a powerful political figure. He didn’t become famous in secular history. He didn’t die peacefully in the arms...