Dec 26, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Philip Bliss should be a familiar name to Christians today, because our hymnals are filled with his songs. He was raised in a farm home where the Word of God was respected and music filled the evenings. In his twelve year, he was converted and joined the Baptist...
Dec 22, 2024 | Sunday Evening
I am going to piggyback these few thoughts onto last Wednesday’s lesson. The title of our last message was: “New Testament Teaching the Old Testament Way.” I tried to apply some of the Hebrew words which speak about teaching Bible truths. This afternoon, let’s think...
Dec 19, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On the fifty-first birthday of Adoniram Judson, another eventual missionary was born in Carleton County, Ontario. In his fifteenth year John McLaurin was saved by God’s grace, and at the age of twenty-two he was called into the ministry, entering Woodstock Institute...
Dec 15, 2024 | Sunday Evening
We have recently been reintroduced to Satan and to the part he played in the fall of man. That is extremely important theology, because it tells us how you and I became sinners. We are not sinners because we sin. We inherited sin from our first parents. I know that it...
Dec 12, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Leonard Verduin is the author of “The Reformers and their Step Children.” It is a book to which I have referred many times over the years. Verduin was not a Baptist but a part of the Christian Reformed Denomination, and yet his honest histories strengthen the...
Dec 8, 2024 | Sunday Evening
This message doesn’t directly apply to some of you. In fact, I am preaching to myself as much as anyone else this afternoon. And this points out the fact that there has never been, and never will be, a perfect church on earth. Certainly, if the pastor of one of the...
Dec 8, 2024 | Sunday Morning
There is an acronym which has been flying around more frequently than I remember in the past. It was created sometime in the 90’s, so it has been with us for about thirty years. I am referring to “GOAT” which has come to represent the “Greatest of All Time.” A...
