Jul 3, 2017 | Sunday Evening
It is believed by many experts that I Thessalonians is the first of Paul’s many epistles (letters). Some say that it was written less than twenty years after the crucifixion – and before the Gospels. I don’t know if these are true, but assuming they are, it opens up...
Jul 2, 2017 | Sunday Morning
I make no apologies for being a creature of habit – and a preacher of repetition. There are things which I do just about every day – for example I almost always eat the same breakfast. And I repeat myself in the course of my sermons, saying the same thing again and...
Jun 29, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Orison Allan and his wife were the first known Baptists in the territory of Michigan, settling in the wilderness where Pontiac is now located. Nine years later, on this day (July 2) in 1827, Henry Davis, a young graduate of Hamilton Theological Institute, arrived to...
Jun 26, 2017 | Sunday Evening
A couple of weeks ago, my wife was looking for something which had somehow gotten itself lost. She looked all over the house and then went out to the car. Our car gets cleaned and vacuumed from time to time, but sometimes more thoroughly than at other times. On this...
Jun 25, 2017 | Sunday Morning
The famous Dr. Footinmouth climbs the platform on the last day of the annual church revival. He adjusts the microphone, tells a funny story and then begins to quote the King James Bible. He declares with a practiced tear in his voice – Jesus said, “Come unto me...
Jun 24, 2017 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Special Meeting Preached! In April, Bro. Lindy Davis, pastor of Portland Baptist Church in Plumerville, Ar., called me and asked if I would be available to preach a series of five messages to Portland Baptist Churchy for their revival time....
Jun 23, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I don’t usually use 20th century material in these historical notes, but I’m going to make an exception today. On this day in 1928, Nikita Isaevitch Voronin made the following public statement: “During the sixty years of its existence in Russia our brotherhood...
Jun 18, 2017 | Sunday Evening
Every once in a while Judy will say to me on a Sunday afternoon that she had a difficult time teaching her class that morning. She will tell me that one or two of the kids think they know all about the subject for that day. Sometimes they think that they know more...
