March 12

Mar 10, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Samuel Stillman was born in Philadelphia in 1737. At the age of eleven his family moved to South Carolina. There under the preaching of Oliver Hart, Samuel was converted to Christ. He became a student under Hart, and at the age of twenty-one, he began preaching the...

Paul’s Greatest Prayer? – Ephesians 3:13-21

Mar 9, 2017 | Wednesday

Let’s play a little game: I will give you a name and you picture that person’s greatest prayer. Solomon – What was it? His request for wisdom, or his prayer at the dedication of the temple? Samson – strength to glorify God and to bring down Dagon’s temple?...

A Priori – Revelation 1:12-20

Mar 5, 2017 | Sunday Morning

Almost everyone who picks up the Bible to read, does so with an “a priori.” “A priori” is a Latin term that comes up from time to time in debates, university lecture halls and other places where someone is trying to impress other people with...

March 5

Mar 3, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History

J. M. Pendleton was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia in 1811. He was named in honor of the then current President of the United States, James Madison. When J.M. was a baby his family moved to Kentucky. It was there that the Lord saved him and where he was...

An Experiment in Riotous Mirth – Ecclesiastes 2:1-2, 10-11

Mar 2, 2017 | Wednesday

I grew up in the riotous 60’s. Those were the days of Viet Nam, Race Riots, LSD, Hippies and a great deal of turmoil. More than one of my high school class-mates became drop outs. Not only did they drop out of school but some of them dropped out society. Some...

The Ark Among the Unbelievers – I Samuel 5 and 6

Feb 27, 2017 | Sunday Evening

Just as baptism is a picture, symbol or type of a believer’s union with the death, burial and resurrections of Christ, the Ark of the Covenant was a picture, symbol or type of Israel’s union with Jehovah through Christ. It is called “the Ark of the...

Harvest Heaps in the Day of Grief – Isaiah 17:10-11

Feb 26, 2017 | Sunday Morning

This message came out of notes which I took listening to my pastor thirty-five or forty years ago. The title to Brother Johnson’s message was : “Harvest Heaps in the Day of Grief.” To understand this passage, it is important to know a bit about the history...

February 26

Feb 23, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History

It was on this day in 1770 that John Picket began his three month incarceration in the Fauquier County, Virginia, jail. Because only the Church of England was lawfully permitted in Virginia, Brother Picket did most of his preaching in the open air. On one occasion...

Hope – I John 3:1-3

Feb 23, 2017 | Wednesday

Americans seem to love bumper stickers. My car doesn’t have one, but I do like to read them – I am a closet bumper-sticker reader. Have you ever pulled up at a red light, and the car in front of us had a tiny bumper sticker. Slowly you inch a bit closer and...