March 17

Mar 14, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Elisha Andrews was born in Connecticut, on September 29, 1768. After his family moved to Vermont, he ended up in New York, where the Lord saved him. He was baptized by Elder Joseph Cornell, after which he united with the Baptist church in Galway. Then soon after that,...

Sitting Close to Jesus – Ephesians 2:1-7

Mar 14, 2024 | Wednesday

Before we return to Ephesians 2, I would like to take you back to John 13. You don’t need to turn there; I will just try to stir your imaginations. John doesn’t follow the same outline as the Synoptic Gospel, but it is all there. Christ and His disciples were alone in...

On the Fifth Day God Created Vultures – Matthew 24:28

Mar 10, 2024 | Sunday Morning

A few days ago, along with two of our church members, I spent a wonderful week in rural southeastern Oklahoma at a Bible conference. In going back and forth to the meetings, and taking a short drive through the rolling hills one afternoon, I was soaking up the...

How Much Grace is Too Much? – Acts 4:32-35

Mar 7, 2024 | Wednesday

Judy and I read from a couple sources during our devotions together. The other day, I was reading Spurgeon’s “Morning and Evening,” when I came across these words: “Think how much grace one saint requires… So much that nothing but THE Infinite could supply his...

Mar 7, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History

The best known, early American Baptist historian is Isaac Backus.  In the early 19th century he wrote “Church History of New England from 1620-1804” and some other notable books. Prior to Backus, another man, planned to become a Baptist historian, but, while gathering...

The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth – John 3:1-16

Mar 4, 2024 | Sunday Evening

This evening I’d like to share some of my perspective on the meeting at Indian Mission Baptist Church. In doing so I’d like to point to something which many Christians might think strange, but which happens fairly frequently in Holy Spirit controlled meetings. When...

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy – Ezekiel 36:16-28

Mar 3, 2024 | Sunday Morning

When we first meet Ezekiel, he is beside the river Chebar in Babylon/Chaldea. Ezekiel had been born in Judah, but when King Jehoiachin was taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, he was among the people who were carried away. When his ministry began, there were still a few...

January 2024

Mar 2, 2024 | Timothy Parrow

Dear Pastor and Brethren: Beginning a New Year!              As I was reviewing all that has happened over the last year, the blessings we have received would have been impossible without the intervention of the Lord in our affairs. We have a new member in the mission...

March 3

Mar 2, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History

When Elisha Abbott, returned to this country from his ministry among the Karen tribe in Burma, his wife had just died and he was in very poor health. He knew that if he was going to be able to continue his mission work, he would need someone to help him, so he visited...