Oct 16, 2016 | Sunday Evening
This is not the first time, but it is not something I do very often. I am giving you another man’s sermon this afternoon. You could say that we have a guest speaker. I was given an article a few weeks ago – one with which I fully agreed, and which I thought would be a...
Oct 16, 2016 | Sunday Morning
I’d like you to put your thinking caps on this morning. I have a gospel message for you, but it is not a “simple” gospel message. I need all of you to engage your ears and hearts, turning up your hearing aids if necessary. When Mary gave birth, more than...
Oct 13, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day William Ward was commissioned to become the Lord’s printer in India, primarily helping William Carey. But this little vignette is not about William Ward. It is about a Baptist missionary on the Island of Java. I have read that there are more professing...
Oct 10, 2016 | Sunday Evening
One of the many lessons, which are suggested in these 5 verses, is the independence of God’s churches. This letter was sent “unto the churches of Galatia.” There is no hint of the oft-suggested “Universal Church.” Paul did not send this letter...
Oct 9, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Elizabeth Barrett’s parents disapproved of her marriage to Robert Browning so strongly they disowned her. Almost every week Elizabeth wrote letters to her mother and father pleading for some sort of reconciliation. Those letters were sent for years, but her...
Oct 6, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1825, the area which became known as Chicago, heard its first sermon in the English language. It was delivered by a man whose ministry was spent primarily among non-English-speaking people. Despite criticisms of some of his social policies, Isaac McCoy...
Oct 3, 2016 | Sunday Evening
This Psalm was written by one of the children of Israel who were taken captive to Babylon. It is an historical and Biblical fact that the majority of Israel had became idolaters and rebels against God. So the Lord permitted the mighty Babylonian Empire to stretch to...
Oct 2, 2016 | Sunday Morning
The Lord Jesus once gathered His disciples around Him and gave them some instructions about their ministry. He said, “What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. And fear not them which...