The Four Days and the Ten Days of the Passover – Exodus 12:1-7

Jan 13, 2019 | Sunday Morning

  Out of all the Old Testament Hebrew festivals, sacrifices and rites, Christians are usually more familiar with the Passover than any other. In I Corinthians 5:7 Paul declared to a congregation made up mostly of Gentiles– non-Jews – “Christ OUR passover is...

January 13

Jan 10, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History

J.N. Hall was ordained to the gospel ministry on this day in 1872. Hall had a keen mind and eloquent manner of speech, enabling him to be greatly used of the Lord. While editing different Baptist journals throughout his life, he preached an average of a sermon a day....

Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 18:19

Jan 10, 2019 | Wednesday

  Jacob and Esau were about as closely related as physical brothers could ever be. They were the twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah. We can probably assume that, for the most part, their first few years were nearly identical. They played together, learned together and...

The Four Days of Lazarus – John 11

Jan 6, 2019 | Sunday Morning

  This is one of the great, great events in the lives of those who surrounded the Lord Jesus. I have preached from this chapter three times, as far as I know. One message was entitled “The Gospel according to Lazarus,” and was exactly that – a gospel...

January 6

Jan 3, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Mihaly (Michael) Kornya was born in 1844 in a Hungarian community whose name I cannot pronounce. He was granted a limited education because he was the son of a farmer. Eventually he became a share-copper and at the age of 22 married an 18 year old girl named Maria....

Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 18:14

Jan 3, 2019 | Wednesday

  Some people think that the Christian ministry is limited to a select few – like pastors and missionaries. But in truth the Lord dispenses His gifts and responsibilities in packages of fives, tens and even singles to all His children. And the King of kings expects us...

The Forty Years of Moses – Acts 7:17-36

Dec 31, 2018 | Sunday Evening

  According to some people’s numerology the Biblical number 40 refers to testing, trial or probation. 40 comes up 146 times in the Bible, and many of those references do point to testings and trials. For example, the twelve spies reconnoitered Canaan for forty days,...

The Seven Days of Joshua and Jericho – Joshua 6:1-16; 20-21

Dec 30, 2018 | Sunday Morning

  At times around here we share some friendly ribbing about “Biblical numerology.” There are some who put special spiritual significance on the numbers we find in the Bible, and there are others who don’t. Those who do sometimes say that 6 is the number of...

December 30

Dec 27, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Zacharius Morrell is our subject for today. J.M Carroll declared that to Morrell “is due as much, or more, than to any other man, the right beginning and right foundations of organized Baptist work in Texas.” Zacharius Morrell was born in South Carolina in...

The Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 18:11-12

Dec 27, 2018 | Wednesday

  Why isn’t the world flocking to the Lord for salvation? Of course there is man’s native depravity and the hatred of the Lord which automatically comes from that. But these two things are expressed in a variety of ways often in an effort to deny the reality. We hear,...