Jan 15, 2018 | Sunday Evening
Are there any people living between the 49th parallel and the Rio Grande River, who suggest that Donald Trump is not the legal President of the United States? I can imagine that there are people, who for various reasons, make that kind of statement. But the fact...
Jan 15, 2018 | Sunday Morning
After a couple of months of complicated theological messages, let’s go simple this morning. My outline may be hundreds of years old and preached by thousands of gospel evangelists. But the flesh on those old bones are mine as you will probably see in a few minutes....
Jan 11, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
At the close of the War Between the States, southern civilians fled before the advancing Union armies, leaving some communities with nothing but chaos and confusion. During the war there had been scores of Baptist church buildings which had been stripped of their...
Jan 8, 2018 | Sunday Evening
In 1 Corinthians 15:45 Jesus is called “the last Adam. ” The word “last” is the Greek word from which we derive “eschatology” or the doctrine of last things. You could say that Christ is the “eschatological Adam.” The...
Jan 7, 2018 | Sunday Morning
I have been spending quite a bit of time this week working on Sunday School lessons. Lessons which I might not get to teach for three months. Then again, if the Lord comes soon, I may not get to teach it at all. Whatever the case, the subject of this scripture has...
Jan 4, 2018 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Ezekiel Skinner was the only child of Ezekiel and Mary Skinner, born in Connecticut in 1777. When both his parents died, his uncle apprenticed him to a blacksmith, but Ezekiel’s sharp mind made him disinterested in the work. Through diligence he was able to redeem...
Jan 1, 2018 | Sunday Evening
Three weeks ago, I brought to your attention, something special about the Lordship of Christ. It was that His Lordship was enhanced and changed when He completed the work of redemption. After Christ’s exaltation, the Father made Him Lord in ways He was not Lord...
Dec 31, 2017 | Sunday Morning
The scripture which we just read is a part of a great history lesson which Moses was sharing with Israel. Many of the older generation had already passed on, and a second generation of Egyptian escapees was growing up and assuming important positions within the...