Oct 15, 2018 | Sunday Evening
This is the penultimate message in our study of Ecclesiastes; we have but one more. We are told, “of making many books there is no end,” and that is equally true of the making of sermons. But with “much study is a weariness of the flesh.”...
Oct 11, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1774, while the First Continental Congress was meeting in Philadelphia, James Manning and Isaac Backus were granted permission to speak to the delegates from Massachusetts. Manning read an article entitled “An Appeal to the Public for Religious...
Oct 8, 2018 | Sunday Evening
Just about a year ago I preached from the first half of chapter 12. The title of the message was “Our Long Home” – referring to the grave – death. And then this morning I referred to this scripture again. So avoid too much reiteration, I’m going to...
Oct 7, 2018 | Sunday Morning
In our current doctrinal statement – under the title “The Lord’s Return” – there is this statement: “We believe that Christ Jesus is coming back to earth again; that His return shall be personal, audible, visible, and bodily; that it shall mark the...
Oct 4, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
What is the likelihood that our service for Christ in this place might become a blessing to someone on the other side of the globe? And if it was, how would you feel, if no one even knew your name in regard to that service? There was a young Irishman, whose name...
Oct 1, 2018 | Sunday Evening
On one of the family vacations to the Black Hills when I was 8 years old, we paid our money to join a group of tourists entering a deep-shaft gold mine. We used flashlights to look at gold-laden ore, examining star-like twinkles in the hard rock walls. At some point...
Sep 30, 2018 | Sunday Morning
Some of you have already seen the cartoon in today’s bulletin. For those who haven’t, there is a line of silly-looking people awaiting the signature of yet another Christian author. In the foreground are another two, one of which says, “I just can’t understand...
