July 21

Jul 18, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History

According to all that I have read, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), the famous patriot, scientist, printer and Post Master General, was a moral bankrupt for most of his life. Like many intellectuals in this day, at least as a young man, he may have professed to be a...

Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 23:17-35

Jul 18, 2019 | Wednesday

  Most of this chapter of proverbs is self-explanatory – to people who are relatively mature – particularly for Christians – people’s whose eyes have been opened by the grace of God. Most mature Christians have no problem understanding what the Holy Spirit is saying....

Lame Man Leaping – Acts 3:1-10

Jul 15, 2019 | Sunday Evening

  Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could go to our medical professional, and he could deliver us from the penalty of our sins the way he might set a broken leg? If we could take a newly developed pill which could cure us of the effects of the curse of sin, we might be...

And They Mocked Him – Mark 15:22-38

Jul 14, 2019 | Sunday Morning

  A few years ago, in Manila, Philippines, a devout Roman Catholic named “Mendosa” was “crucified.” He had been fasting and praying for more than a week, constantly encouraged by his priest. On what is commonly called “Good Friday,”...

July 14

Jul 11, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History

In the case of John Taylor, missionary to Siam (Thailand), one of the key events to his “success” was the death of his wife. Taylor was raised a Congregationalist, becoming a Baptist while studying for the ministry. In 1828 he was baptized and joined the...

Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 23:17-18

Jul 11, 2019 | Wednesday

  I need to do more research on this, but hasn’t the expression of envy changed over the last hundred years? Just think about it – 150 years ago advertising, as we know it, didn’t exist, making envy a bit different. A shop keeper might put up a sign in his window...

Apostolic Evangelism – Acts 3:1-16

Jul 8, 2019 | Sunday Evening

  We can’t be sure where exactly the healing of this lame man took place. Jerusalem, yes; the temple, yes. But I have seen dozens of depictions of the temple in Jerusalem, and they are all a little different. Nowhere else in the Bible are we told about the...

The God of Wrath and Glory – Psalm 145:1

Jul 7, 2019 | Sunday Morning

  This message was ignited by an article in the “Institution of Creation Research” magazine “Acts and Facts.” It was written by Brian Thomas, who has a PhD in paleobiochemistry from the University of Liverpool. That article was entitled...

July 7

Jul 4, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History

There are no less than seven men with the last name of Wightman listed in Cathcart’s Encyclopedia. As I made a quick survey, I wasn’t surprised to see that they were all related – sons, grandsons, great-grandsons. When a family is so closely linked together in the...

Proverbs of Solomon – Proverbs 23:10-11

Jul 4, 2019 | Wednesday

  For the two summers before and after my final year of high school, I worked for a uranium company. It was my job of lay out mining claims in central Wyoming so that drillers could come in and pull out core samples to see what was under the surface of the ground. For...