Citizens of Heaven – Philippians 1:27-28

May 19, 2016 | Wednesday

After the arrival of the Europeans, the first form of government in North America was colonial. There were the thirteen English colonies as well as French and Spanish colonies. Many of the people living under those colonial regimes didn’t like the treatment they were...

April 2016

May 18, 2016 | Timothy Parrow

Dear Pastor and Brethren: Two New Books My sponsoring church’s pastor, Bro. K. David Oldfield, has written two new books entitled, Jesus Wept, A Biblical Study of Pain, and The Lord’s Prayer of John 17. Presently I am reading, Jesus Wept, to help me deal with the...

The Life Worth Living – John 10:1-10

May 15, 2016 | Sunday Morning

R.M. Williams was born in 1951 – so that would make him two years younger than I am – if he were still living. His great-great-grandfather was governor and senator from the State of Mississippi. His father was a senior executive of Ford Motor Company, so he grew up...

May 15

May 14, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History

On Easter, April 3rd 1594, seven Dutch Anabaptists, praying and studying God’s Word at Aldgate, in London were arrested for their worship. It was said that they were “licentious and fanatical sectaries, whose excesses afforded a plausible pretext for...

Evidential Christianity – I Thessalonians 1:4-7

May 12, 2016 | Wednesday

Spurgeon told the story that he was once taking a long hike in the Swiss Alps. There were two men in front of him, walking very slowly, looking at the ground on either side of the path. As the preacher caught up to them, he heard them reciting an endless stream of...

Some of God’s People were known as Donatists – Revelation 2:8-11

May 9, 2016 | God's People Are ..., Sunday Evening

I know that it has been several weeks, but I’d like to take you back to our first lessons in this series. I pointed out that God originally created an homogenous society – where every aspect of life was firmly knitted with every other aspect of life. And of course at...

The Unparalleled Importance of the Lord Jesus – John 14:1-11

May 9, 2016 | Sunday Morning

This scripture is one of the mountain peaks of the word of God. It doesn’t tell us how to make a lot of money, or how to win friends and influence people. It doesn’t remove the average problems of the average marriage. It doesn’t directly please the flesh. Its...

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May 6, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History

John Bates was born in Bugbrook, Northamption, England in 1805. When he was twenty-two and living in London he was converted to Christ. On December 25, 1829 he was baptized in the Eagle Street Chapel by the pastor and Baptist historian Joseph Ivimey. After serving as...

Jacob and the Hard Places – Genesis 28:10-15

May 5, 2016 | Wednesday

Have you ever wondered how Jacob could sleep with a rock for a pillow? The first twenty, or so, times that I read this scripture, that is exactly what I thought. Personally I like a hard mattress and a firm pillow. If we can remember, whenever Judy and I have to spend...

Some of God’s People were known as Novatians – I John 2:18-23

May 2, 2016 | God's People Are ..., Sunday Evening

It might be said that last week’s subject – the churches of the Montanists – were a REACTION to the growing false doctrines and unbiblical practices in some areas of Christendom. While that is not altogether untrue, it must be emphasized that the Montanists considered...