The Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 14:15

Sep 20, 2018 | Wednesday

  One of the problems with the proverbs in this book is the obvious simplicity of so many of them. You’d think that would not be a problem, but it is. Because, when we think we know a subject thoroughly, we don’t take the time to refresh ourselves in it. We have...

It was Just a Small Dinner Party – Matthew 26:26-29

Sep 16, 2018 | Sunday Morning

  Why are there so many denominations trying to squeeze under the umbrella called “Christianity”? The short answer is that they all believe different things while still claiming to follow Christ Jesus. Lutherans believe different doctrines from the Mormons...

September 19

Sep 13, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were among the first to explore the place we know as Idaho. From September 13 to 20, 1805 the group were basically lost, looking for the headwaters of the Missouri River. On this date their journal reveals that their hunting had...

The Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 14:14

Sep 13, 2018 | Wednesday

  As a young Christian, I heard the word “backslider” so often, I assumed it was found in every book of the Bible. It is not. The word “backslider” is found in this one verse only. I will admit however that the related word...

Incentive to Service – Ecclesiastes 11:1-6

Sep 10, 2018 | Sunday Evening

  We’ve been looking at this book for several months now. I hope we’ve not been into it for so long you’ve forgotten how gloomy Solomon was at the beginning. At first everything he touched seemed to crumble to dust. “Laughter is vanity, work is vanity, rest is...

The Word and His Way – John 1:1-14

Sep 9, 2018 | Sunday Morning

  It might be fun during some evening of casual fellowship to play a little game which we might call “First Lines.” Mankind has been writing books for thousands of years now, and many of them have begun with interesting or powerful opening sentences. I...

September 9

Sep 6, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History

A great many Baptists foolishly praise early Protestant leaders. They either consider themselves to be Protestants (and indeed many of them are), or they have never learned, or else they have forgotten, what those Protestants have done in an attempt to rid the world...

The Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 14:13

Sep 6, 2018 | Wednesday

  For the last month there has been quite a bit of hubbub along Spokane’s Monroe Street bridge. It seems that particular the bridge is one of the favorite suicide sites in the city. But a woman, after hearing about a similar situation in England, began posting notes...

The Words of the Fool – Ecclesiastes 10:10-20

Sep 3, 2018 | Sunday Evening

  The last half of this chapter isn’t organized and put into a nice clean outline; there isn’t a plan or objective. Here, the penman of the Proverbs gives to us a few more examples of his divinely-given wisdom. And in this case several times in these verses he speaks...

The Wearing of the Blood – Matthew 27:3-8, 15-26

Sep 2, 2018 | Sunday Morning

  There are many people who are offended by any reference to “blood” in modern day religion. To them “religion” is a spiritualized moral philosophy of positive thoughts and actions. As far as I am concerned…..let those people be offended...