Jan 10, 2016 | Sunday Morning
The last Sunday my grand-daughter was here, she came up to me after the service with a serious question. Apparently not very impressed with either my eloquence or my theology, she asked: “Grandad do you ever tell Bible stories?” I assumed that she was...
Jan 9, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1886 an Anglican Bishop in Burma requested permission to reprint Adoniram Judson’s translation of the Bible. But he wanted to make one change. On this day in 1887 the Baptists who then owned Judson’s copy-right replied – “We understand that you ask our...
Jan 7, 2016 | God's People Are ..., Lessons on Bible Trivia
Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet,” centers on two young people – one each from feuding families. At one point Juliet muses that Romeo’s last name doesn’t make him any less a wonderful person. She says, “A rose by any other name would smell as...
Jan 4, 2016 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: A Difficult Month November has been a difficult month for me because of cataract eye surgery. My doctor said that my complications made me one person in one hundred patients with whom he has had to deal. I had asked other friends who had...
Jan 4, 2016 | God's People Are ..., Sunday Evening
Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet,” centers on two young people – one each from feuding families. At one point Juliet muses that Romeo’s last name doesn’t make him any less a wonderful person. She says, “A rose by any other name would smell as...
Jan 3, 2016 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
When we read the words “cry” and “crying” in the Bible the meaning is (weeping; lamenting; shouting; vociferation)? Any of these – vociferation = shouting Who is the first Biblical character to be described as weeping (Adam; Noah; Abraham;...
Jan 3, 2016 | Sunday Morning
There are in this scripture, and throughout the Word of God, various kinds of paradoxes. “Paradox” comes from Greek and means “contrary to expectation, belief, or perceived opinion.” As the word melded into English and evolved, it came to refer...
Jan 1, 2016 | This Sunday in Baptist History
“Historians” – I wish that there was a better name or classification for these people, because many of them are more like editors of history, re-writers and redactors of history, than they are recorders of historical facts. It doesn’t matter what country,...
