May 1, 2016 | Sunday Morning
John’s gospel has a different nature to it than the other three gospels. It looks at the Lord Jesus from a somewhat different perspective. John shows to us Jesus – the eternal Son of God – in both His earthly and heavenly glory. I wouldn’t say that the others...
Apr 30, 2016 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Rejoicing in the Resurrection! On Resurrection Sunday morning, I preached on the subject “Consider Hirn!” from Hb.12:3 in conjunction with Jn.8:45-50. Most Easter season messages deal mainly with the suffering of the Lord on the...
Apr 29, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
With only a few exceptions, Baptists were the only religious “denomination” or people who were firmly interested in – and dying for – independence from England. It was their hope that independence would also mean freedom to worship according to the...
Apr 25, 2016 | God's People Are ..., Sunday Evening
Can we agree that at the time of the close of the Book of Acts, all the so-called “Christian churches” were true churches of the Lord? Can we agree that the only religious “ecclesia” using the name of “Christ” were assemblies of...
Apr 24, 2016 | Sunday Morning
This scripture describes the first sin committed by any member of the human race. And for that reason, it is valuable for teaching purposes. Without anything as a precedent, Eve sinned against her beneficent Creator. IF the consuming fire of sin came about in an...
Apr 22, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Life often has its shipwrecks, but just because we loose one ship, it doesn’t mean that we won’t reach port. Thomas Spurgeon, son of Charles, pastored in Australia for a few years and told this story. James Voller and his family set sail from England, called to become...
Apr 17, 2016 | God's People Are ..., Sunday Evening
This is the third, and probably the last part of the transition in this series of messages. Our theme has been and will continue to be the names and titles which have been applied to God’s people. Up until two weeks ago, we were looking at a dozen or so which come to...
Apr 17, 2016 | Sunday Morning
How many times in the past 24 hours have you used the pronoun “my”? I am thinking of the pronoun – not the oath “my” or the exclamation “my.” “My, aren’t those politicians behaving badly?” That kind of language is a form...