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...
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...
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...
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...
