Dec 18, 2016 | Sunday Evening
Our Lord’s conversation in this text involves the subject of tradition. And this conversation is appropriate for our consideration, because if there is any season of the year more filled with tradition than the one in which we find ourselves, I’m not aware of it....
Dec 18, 2016 | Sunday Morning
My recreational reading lately has included material on the history of Baptists in Kentucky. Included in these books have been dozens of short biographies of the earliest missionaries to the area. Despite the fact that God used them for His glory, many were as...
Dec 16, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Courtney was born in 1744. His family was Virginian and Episcopalian, but through a Separate Baptist preacher the Lord saved him, and in time called him into the ministry, after which he became the first pastor of the Rehoboth Baptist Church in King William...
Dec 12, 2016 | Sunday Evening
Among other things, John 4 is one of the great missionary texts in the Bible. You could say that Judea and Galilee had already received the gospel. They had missionaries and visiting preachers – they had been evangelized. They had a traveling church and even had the...
Dec 11, 2016 | Sunday Morning
It is downtown Manhattan – the streets of New York City, or perhaps San Francisco, or Los Angeles. Here comes a man with an unkempt beard, long scraggly hair, army surplus boots & old ragged clothes. But there is a fire in his eyes which could be from passion – or...
Dec 8, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Jeffersonton Baptist Church began its life on this day in 1773. It is the second oldest Baptist church in Culpepper County, Virginia. The first members were members of the Carter’s Run Baptist Church, but they lived too far from the meeting house and...
Dec 5, 2016 | Sunday Evening
I don’t know how closely you listen to current religious thought, but there has been an interesting theme echoing around Christendom. It began before the elections last month, but it has picked up steam since then. There are preachers comparing our President-elect...
