Sep 4, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Before a person can learn to swim he must be able to put is face in water and permit his ears to get wet. Before a person can be an adult, he must first grow from a baby into a child and then into maturity. And before a person can be a Christian he must first be a...
Sep 4, 2016 | Timothy Parrow
Latino Ministry As you all know, before I had my heart attack I went to the Payne County Jail every Sunday afternoon to preach to the Latino men incarcerated there. A few months ago I received a phone call from a Mexican man, father of one of the young men who had...
Sep 1, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Jeremiah Dale was born in 1787 in Danvers, Massachusetts. At the age of 18 he was converted to Christ. He immediately began to think about the ministry, but his lack of education prompted him to remain in the wheel-wright trade, intent on being the best Christian and...
Aug 29, 2016 | Sunday Evening
The grace of God is like a big Boeing 777 flying to your home from some exotic location. First, it brings to us our most precious loved one – Jesus, the Son of God. And down in the cargo hold there is a box of treasures with two names on it – Christ’s and yours. There...
Aug 28, 2016 | Sunday Morning
Of the most important differences between Bible Christianity and all other religions, including the “Christian” cults, is that the true child of God possess a very special hope. Christians have something for which to live enabling us to live through...
Aug 26, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Anderson Moffett was born on this day in 1773, in Fauquier County, Virginia (pronouced “FAW-ker” or “FAW-key-er”) Anderson was converted to Christ at the age of 17 under the ministry of David Thomas who was ministering through a church in the...
Aug 22, 2016 | Sunday Evening
As you can see in the title of this Psalm, this was one of the Jew’s “Songs of Degrees.” In Jesus’ day and earlier, as the Jews would go from Galilee and elsewhere to Judea for their religious feasts, they would be in fellowship with one another. But then...
Aug 22, 2016 | Sunday Morning
The Apostle Paul had been directed by God to the city of Philippi to give those people the gospel of Christ. Like so many other cities, the Devil believed Philippi belonged to him, so he did what he could to try to disrupt the work of the missionaries. An unfortunate...