Dec 9, 2018 | Sunday Morning
For several months now, I have been pasting a daily devotional onto the church Facebook page. I have no idea if anyone reads it, but as it is a part of my morning routine and I am blessed in reading it and forwarding it. My source right now is Spurgeon’s little...
Dec 6, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
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,...
Dec 2, 2018 | Sunday Morning
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...
Nov 29, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
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...
Nov 26, 2018 | Sunday Evening
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...
Nov 25, 2018 | Sunday Morning
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...
Nov 24, 2018 | Timothy Parrow
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...
Nov 22, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
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...