The Victory of Victories – I Corinthians 15:55-57

Apr 20, 2025 | Sunday Evening

The little six-year-old crept out of his family’s rental cabin and ran down to the dock at the edge of the lake. Pretending to be a pirate in the early morning sun, he was flashing his wooden sword, forcing his enemy walk the plank. All of a sudden, it was he who fell...

April 20

Apr 17, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History

William Keen was born on this day in 1820 in Washington County, Tennessee.  At the age of twenty-one, after a period of severe conviction for sin, he was born again.  During special meetings at the Fall Branch Baptist Church he, along with seventy-five others, were...

Seeing Through the Impossible  – Hebrews 11:24-27

Apr 17, 2025 | Wednesday

It probably began earlier, but when Moses reached his fortieth birthday, his heart drove him out of Egypt.  He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh and identified with his mother’s people, Israel.  In a sense the persecution of them fell on him, but he was able to...

So Walk Ye in Him – Colossians 2:6

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...

April 13

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...

The Offering up of Ishmael – Romans 12:1

Apr 10, 2025 | Wednesday

Let’s start with a show of hands. How many of you know the story about Abraham’s offering of his son, Isaac? That sacrifice on the top of Mount Moriah is one of the great mountain peaks of the Bible. It strums so many strings and plays such wonderful music. There are...

April 6

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...