War and Weapons (#66) – Psalm 46:9

Dec 28, 2015 | Lessons on Bible Trivia

Biblical Wars and Battles: The first war, of which we read in the Bible, was at (Eden; Babel; the Jordan Valley; Armageddon)? Gen.14 Who was the protagonist in this war (Adam; Noah; Abraham; Lot)? Abraham The aggressors included (Amraphel; Arioch; Chedorlaomer;...

The Security of God’s Love – Romans 5:1-11

Dec 28, 2015 | Sunday Morning

The Matterhorn was one the last mountains in the Alps to be climbed. It is like an arrowhead coming up out of the ground and piercing the sky. It may not be in the Rockies, or the Himalayas, but it is still a huge mountain at about 14,700 feet high. The article that I...

December 27

Dec 25, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History

B.H. Carroll was born on this day (December 27) in 1843. The place was Carroll county Mississippi, and there must be a special correlation between those names. His father was a Baptist pastor and his mother was a devoted Christian. As a young teenager, B.H. knew the...

THE FACE OF CHRIST – REVELATION 22:1-5

Dec 24, 2015 | Wednesday

On Argonne Street, north of Broadway, close to Starbucks, there is a huge bilboard sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. I have only glanced at it in passing, so some of my details might be slightly off. It is illustrated by one of those Renaissance paintings of the...

The Hope of the Saint – Romans 5:1-5

Dec 20, 2015 | Sunday Morning

From the beginning of this book Paul has been writing about the subject of saving grace. In chapters 2 and 3 he explains the need, and then in chapter 4 he begins to address the solution. The in this morning’s scripture he takes the subject to a new level. It’s a...

December 20

Dec 18, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History

This a rather incidental note in Baptist history, but it is a part of a much more significant and, sadly, forgotten piece of American history. John William Jones was born in Virginia on September 25, 1836. He was born again as a teenager. In 1855 he entered the...

Adorning the Doctrine – Titus 2:1-10

Dec 17, 2015 | Wednesday

I remember as a child visiting a place where it appeared that everything was wacky and lopsided. It was in the Black Hills of western North Dakota – the first mountains we came to going west from Omaha. People walked as though they had weights on one side of their...

The Bride of Christ – Revelation 21:9-12

Dec 14, 2015 | Sunday Evening

Over the last couple of weeks the subject of “the bride of Christ” has come up in conversation. Now that we have finished our four-year study of Matthew, we don’t have a predetermined course to follow, so we can address some of the subjects which haven’t...