Oct 31, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Richard Miller did nothing to become famous among God’s servants on this earth. But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been rewarded in Glory for his sacrifice and service to the Lord. Richard M. Miller was born in Seveir County, Tennessee on this day in 1815. While a...
Oct 28, 2019 | Sunday Evening
This morning we looked at the somewhat unusual idea of the faithfulness of God. It is unusual only in that we have almost always skipped over those Biblical statements which declare it. It is strange to our ears, only because it is so much a part of the nature of...
Oct 27, 2019 | Sunday Morning
Have you ever felt betrayed? Perhaps you shared an intimate secret with someone you trusted, but that person then shared it with others, causing you personal shame or harm. Or perhaps you asked someone to help you in an important matter, and they promised to do so,...
Oct 24, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Vavsor Powell was born into one of the leading families in North Wales. He was given an excellent education, graduating from Jesus College, Oxford. As an unsaved man he was ordained an Anglican minister. Then one day a Puritan found him breaking the Sabbath by...
Oct 20, 2019 | Sunday Evening
This afternoon I’d like to take a favorite children’s story and try to look at it from an adult’s perspective. Most kids raised in Sunday School know the story of Gideon. They know that he was a timid man, living in trying times, risking his life just to keep his...
Oct 20, 2019 | Sunday Morning
We haven’t done this before, but I’d like you to go back to the scripture we read earlier in our service. It’s not that I’ve slipped a mental cog, or I have had a problem with the earlier reading. It’s that I’d like you to realize there is more than one way to read...
Oct 19, 2019 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Six New Visitors! The Cody and Jeanette Sworb family with baby and her daughter, Erica, visited with us one Sunday, and two OSU students, Ashton Mainord and Kaleb Vance visited with us on another Sunday. We have not had very many OSU...
Oct 17, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Adam Burwell Brown was born on this day (October 20) in 1821. He was raised in Virginia and first educated by the Episcopalians. It was expected that he would become a priest of that denomination, but upon studying the Word of God, he became a Baptist. He attended...
