The Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 17:5

  Why does one person have good health at age 70 while another dies of cancer at 35? Why does one family bask in the warmth of wealth while another struggles to pay their meager bills? Why is one aspiring young basketball player 5’4″ while a genius-level,...

Mission’s Four Principles – Acts 13:1-5; 14:23-28

  Our church has supported the work of missions from its inception. Even when we had very little money, we helped to keep a few missionaries on their respective fields. For decades now, we have taken a tenth of our general offerings and put that money into missions....

What is it to be a Christian? – Matthew 4:18-22

  What does it mean to be a “Christian?” There are dozens of different answers, and sad to say, few of them are correct. Why do I even have to say that attending a Christian church doesn’t make a person a “Christian”? I have to say it is...

November 18

William Cathcart was born on this day in 1826. Despite his parents’ Scottish ancestry, his birth place was in Ireland. He was raised in Presbyterianism. He was converted to Christ at an early age, and at nineteen, when he was convinced of believer’s baptism, he was...

The Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 17:4

  You probably remember the ancient puzzle: “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” When I was a kid, and still entrenched in Darwinism, I mulled that over and over. “Let’s see, did the fish evolve into a bird or did that fish lay a hen’s...

November 11

On this day (November 11) in 1790, Thomas Baldwin was installed as the pastor of the Second Baptist Church in Boston. Thomas was raised in Canaan, N.H. by his mother and step-father. He was given a good education which he hoped to use in the legal profession. He...

The Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 17:3

  How much or how often do you think about Heaven? Young people rarely do, because they have so much earthly life before them – but they should. Older people – those saints who are nearing the end of their earthly lives, may consider it more often. But we should all...

September 2018

Dear Pastor and Brethren: New First-Time Visitors This Month! The Lord has sent us five first-time visitors this month. Thurman and his wife, Needra, visited with us the third Sunday of the month as well as LaShonda and her teenage boys Dante and Deonta. LaShonda and...