Dec 13, 2015 | Sunday Morning
The building of the Golden Gate Bridge over the entrance into San Francisco Bay was not going very well. Workers had fallen from the scaffolding to their deaths, and construction had fallen badly behind schedule. Engineers and administrators could not find a solution...
Dec 11, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I don’t usually include “recent” Baptist history in these little vignettes, but today I’ll make an exception. On this day in 1870 Edward Pierce was born into a godly home in Gates County, North Carolina. At the age of sixteen, after the Lord saved him,...
Dec 7, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
Calvary Baptist is adamant in its understanding that Jesus Christ created the universe and everything in it. We do not accept the theories of atheistic evolution which are is commonly taught today. So while admitting that there are hundreds of breeds of dogs and new...
Dec 7, 2015 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
When the pastor refers to something in the Bible as a “type,” he is (speaking Biblically; pontificating theologically; talking Greek; wasting my time). The word “type” is most often used in a theological sense The word is taken from (the...
Dec 6, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Morning
My message for this morning would probably not be well-received by my teachers in Bible school. Most of them believed the things which their teachers had taught them – without much examination. And to be frank, that is what we, as students were expected to do, if we...
Dec 4, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Fletcher was born in Middlesex, Massachusetts in 1747. He was born again twenty years later, and in 1777, he began to preach the gospel of Christ whenever and wherever there was a need. He was ordained to the ministry on this day in 1781, and became the pastor...
Nov 30, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
I gave thought to adding a point to my message this morning, but decided to save it for tonight. There are reasons to worship Christ contained within this so-called “Great Commission.” For example, Christ says, “All power is given unto me in heaven...
Nov 29, 2015 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
God’s saints are never depicted as trees (I didn’t know that; sure there are; what did you say?). Balaam spoke of Israel as (cedar; crab apple; lign aloes; oak) trees? Num. 24: 6 – cedar & aloes When God speaks of the “blessed man” as “like a...
