Apr 25, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
T.T. Martin was born on this day in 1862 in Mississippi, where his father was a preacher and college professor. Although he wanted to become a lawyer, the Lord saved his soul and called him to preach the gospel. After attending seminary in Louisville, he began his...
Apr 22, 2024 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: A Busy Month with Visitors! We have had several visitors this month. Sis. Kim Williams talked to a young man at the Aldi store inviting him to our services, and he came. He brought a Bible with him and later brought his eight-year-old son and...
Apr 21, 2024 | Sunday Evening
We will not always have a message about the Lord’s Supper before we observe the Lord’s Supper. Sometimes it will be a sermon about something entirely different. And then once in a while we may not have a message all – we’ll just say a few words and begin. But this...
Apr 21, 2024 | Sunday Morning
I read a story the other day which I assume to be true. An evangelist was in a London park, openly preaching the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was a busy day, with lots of people walking by, some were playing, and many were talking. But the preacher had been...
Apr 18, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I will add to the note we had last week about the history of black people in early Baptist churches. On this day in 1867, in its official records, we read: “The Baptist Church of Christ at Kiokee met and proceeded to the ordination of Brother Billy Harriss, colored,...
Apr 15, 2024 | Sunday Evening
Brother Fulton referred to this sort of thing this morning in his lesson. The woman whose son was killed in a car wreck caused by a drunk driver, may ask the question: “If there is a God in heaven, why didn’t He keep my son from that deadly accident? Where is the...
Apr 14, 2024 | Sunday Morning
The events of this chapter occurred in Jerusalem about three months before our Lord’s crucifixion. And verse 22 tells us this was at the time of the feast of Dedication – winter. This particular feast is not to be found in the Old Testament. It was instituted by Judas...
Apr 11, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Paul was a “free black man” from New Hampshire. He was born in 1773 and born again sixteen years later. At the age of eighteen he was ordained to the gospel ministry. In those days there were very few black churches, and those were primarily in the south. But...
