December 9

Noah Alden was a great-grandson of John Alden, one of the men who signed the Mayflower Compact. Noah was born into a Congregational home on May 30, 1725. While many of his peers trusted in their infant “baptism” for favor with God, at the age of sixteen,...

The Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 17:22

  Our bodies and lives are so complex that it takes a great many things to keep us alive. For example, if we don’t get enough oxygen to the cells which make up our bodies, we will get sick and die. So this means we have to have air to breathe, and lungs to collect and...

The God of Jeshurun – Deuteronomy 33:26-29

  These words are among the last ever spoken by Moses under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Not only as a man of God, but also as a seasoned veteran of life, he has something to say. Moses has lived nearly twice as long as the average man. He has experienced the...

December 2

Billington Sanders was born on this day in 1789. By the age of 9 he had lost both his parents, but he was then raised in another godly home in Appling Georgia, where he attended the Kiokee Baptist Church. After the Lord saved him, he was baptized by Abraham Marshall...

The Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 17:17 (Friends)

  We have been looking at Solomon’s Proverbs long enough now to run into the repetition of various themes. It’s not so much that verses are repeated, but some of the ideas are. And in some of these cases, to look at a second or third verse much like the first would...

Wherefore We Labour – II Corinthians 5:9-16

  When Missionary Johnson was here a couple weeks ago, he spoke about his intended work in Thailand before preaching during the morning service. Years ago, I was in his shoes, preaching in different churches every Sunday, and often driving between cities the rest of...

Four Contrasts – Romans 5:12-19

  It was 45 years ago that Judy and I were sitting in the living room of Missionary Ken Johnson for first time. We had been in Lethbridge, Alberta, for the better part of a year, while he and his family were in living in South Calgary about a hundred miles to the...

October 2018

Dear Pastor and Brethren: Return Visitors This Month! Mrs. Lashonda Dale and her boys, Dona’te and Deonta continue to come to our services as well as Brayden and Gaven Torres and Jacob Mason. We have lost Billie Barzee and Earl Oswalt, and so we now have eight...

November 25

In 1583 a book of hymns was published in Germany. Among them were several which had been written by Leonhart Schiemer. Schiemer spent six years of his life as a Fransciscan friar. When, by the grace of God, he came to see the false religion in which he was raised, he...