When Isaiah Met Jehovah – Isaiah 6:1-8

Apr 2, 2017 | Sunday Morning

If the Make-a-Wish Foundation announced they would arrange for you to spend lunch with anyone on earth, who would you choose? For millions of people, it would be some sports figure, pop singer, TV or movie star. For a few others it might be a politician, a writer, a...

April 2

Mar 30, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History

The Metropolitan Tabernacle, usually called Spurgeon’s Tabernacle, was opened on March 18, 1861. Two weeks later, on this day, there was a Baptist fellowship meeting in the new building. In his greeting to the brethren, Spurgeon said, “We believe that the...

Sources of Joy – Galatians 5:22-23

Mar 30, 2017 | Wednesday

In my reading Monday, the Lord placed before me an article about joy. My first reaction was to put it down, because of some of the author’s initial statements. He said, and I quote, “God don’t make nobody for misery. If we are miserable, it is because we have...

The Ark and Formal Religion – II Samuel 6:12-23

Mar 27, 2017 | Sunday Evening

Can we say that David is a good picture of the child of God? Was he one of the Lord’s men? Assuming that to be true, we still find a man whose life fell short of God’s standards at times. David committed some terrible sins even as one of the Lord’s servants. Besides...

Buying the Truth – Proverbs 23:23

Mar 26, 2017 | Sunday Morning

During my year at university, one of my required courses was basic economics. It was a subject about which I had no interest whatsoever, and not applying myself, I didn’t learn much. According to Proverbs 23:23, my attitude was probably sinful, because even though I...

March 26

Mar 23, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Not long ago I talked about a man who led one congregation for more than four decades. Today I mention another – Joshua Hutson pastored the Pine Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia for more than 45 years. Joshua was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia to...

Responsibility and Faithfulness – Matthew 25:14-30

Mar 23, 2017 | Wednesday

On August 24 in the year 79, the volcano Vesuvius erupted and entombed the city of Pompeii, Italy. The destruction began and ended in just few minutes, killing multitudes of people. The ash and gases of that volcano caught the residents city like a camera catches...

The Ark in the House of Obededom – I Chronicles 13:1-14

Mar 19, 2017 | Sunday Evening

Let’s begin with a review. David had just become king of the United Tribes of Israel. For just over three years he had been king of Judah only, but now the rest of the nation had come to recognize the plan of God and had submitted to the Lord – and to David. The new...

Believing the Unbelievable – II Timothy 4:1-4

Mar 19, 2017 | Sunday Morning

While driving through West Texas, a New Yorker tourist stopped for gasoline at a run-down old station. From a corner of the building there hung a rope, with a sign above it, reading: “Weather rope.” The visitor asked the proprietor how a rope could help...

March 19

Mar 16, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Benjamin Watkins was born into a Virginia Episcopalian home in 1755. That was the year that Shubal Stearns and Daniel Marshall began preaching Baptist doctrine in Virginia and the Carolinas. Benjamin’s mother was left a widow when he was small, but despite family...