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...
Apr 7, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Last Wednesday our lesson was entitled: “How God Became Man.” I tried to explain the incarnation of God’s Son as the child of Mary, the woman betrothed to Joseph. With more than a dozen scriptures I endeavored to show that “the LORD” became a man. Mary, then...
Apr 7, 2024 | Sunday Evening
I have a yellowing copy of a 1979 newspaper with a picture of my father receiving a certificate of recognition. The article talks about the fact that Antony Oldfield had been donating whole blood for more than 40 years. During that time, he had given more than 20...
Apr 4, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Metropolitan Tabernacle in London was the place of C.H. Spurgeon’s great ministry. But long before that, Benjamin Keach was their pastor, ordained to that work in 1668. After his passing, John Gill led the congregation for fifty-one years. On this day in 1773,...
Apr 1, 2024 | Sunday Evening
A couple weeks ago I brought a message entitled: “Ours is not a Reformed Baptist Church.” It generated quite a bit of interest beyond the walls of our own building. I don’t know how many have watched it on FaceBook, but nearly a hundred people have listened to it on...
Mar 31, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Our text reminds us that it was Paul’s custom when he came to a community to go into the Jewish synagogue. When given the opportunity, he would open up the Old Testament to specific scriptures and read. Then he would prove through prophesy that the Jewish Messiah –...
