The Trials of Life – Judges 6:7-14

Sep 24, 2015 | Wednesday

I am told that as a general rule each storey of a building is roughly 10 feet in height. Of course the first floor is often higher than 10 feet, but the rest of the building is usually pretty consistent. So a 20 storey building is about 200 feet off the level of the...

Incredible Intercession – Luke 23:32-34a

Sep 20, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening

This afternoon I would like us to step back a few minutes during the events of the crucifixion. And let’s leave Matthew in the process. There is an invaluable lesson in these few words. Not only do we learn a little more about the Lord Jesus, but we have an example...

What Held Jesus to the Cross? – Matthew 27:33-50

Sep 20, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Morning

Several years ago, I shared this illustration, but it is so appropriate to this message, I’ve decided to use it again. For some time, a man named Juanito Piring, imagined himself in the spot light, with 20,000 eyes watching him. Eventually all the details were worked...

September 20

Sep 18, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History

No two – or no three – servants of God are exactly the same in temperament and talents. Generally speaking, they have different gifts sovereignly dispensed by the grace of the Lord. For this reason some are considered by men as more “successful” than...

A Breach Upon Uzza – I Chronicles 13

Sep 17, 2015 | Wednesday

Generally speaking, Arthur W. Pink is a useful guide into the study and application of the Scriptures. Here is one of his quotable statements – “The god of this 20th Century no more resembles the supreme sovereign of Holy writ than does the dim flickering of a...

Taunts and Testimonies – Matthew 27:41-43

Sep 14, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening

Computers are marvelous instruments. I bought my first computer while visiting here on a visit from Calgary in 1987, and I haven’t looked back. I’m not sure anymore that I could prepare four messages a week, if it was not for my computer. And I know that I couldn’t...

The Three Crosses – Matthew 27:33-38

Sep 13, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Morning

Have you ever wondered why there were 3 crosses on Golgatha that Spring morning so many years ago? We are aware that the Jewish priests hated and feared Christ Jesus, demanding His crucifixion. But do we hear them demanding that Jesus die that very day? Not that I...

September 13

Sep 11, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History

John Taylor Jones was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire in 1802, and at the age of 15 he joined the Congregational church. After graduating from Amherst in 1825 he began to train for the ministry at Andover Seminary, but then he was confronted with the mode and...

Helpful Hanna – I Samuel 1

Sep 10, 2015 | Wednesday

One of the problems that pastors have lays in the very nature of their office. Since I left my secular job, I don’t have as much causal contact with the world any more. Sure I have my weekly routine, but generally speaking it involves the same people all the time....