Oct 19, 2025 | Sunday Evening
In Acts 16 we see Paul and his little band of missionaries sailing northeast from Troas to Neapolis. As I said the other day, Neapolis was the port city of Philippi, but there were about nine miles between them. Today that might seem like nothing, but it was something...
Oct 16, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Last week, I mentioned the 1803 Louisiana Purchase which greatly expanded the territory of the United States. The purchase was almost a gift from Napoleon who was afraid it was going to fall into the hands of the English. Iowa was a part of that purchase. In 1834...
Oct 12, 2025 | Sunday Morning
If the Lord Jesus was here, walking around the earth, what would He think about the average Christian church? According to Yelp, one of popular survey and reviewing websites, here are the top five churches in Post Falls: Real Life Ministries, Fellowship Bible Church,...
Oct 9, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
There are “foreign mission fields,” even on the North American Continent. Baptist churches, their preachers and missionaries are “foreign” to the Roman Catholics of Quebec even today, and this is somewhat true in Louisiana as well. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803...
Oct 6, 2025 | Sunday Evening
One of the perks of being my age – if there is a perk – is Medicare’s Annual “Wellness Checkup.” Free of charge, every year, we get to see our general practitioner for a review of our general health. During the hour-long visit. The usual vitals are checked – heart,...
Oct 5, 2025 | Sunday Morning
The Mather family exerted a great deal of influence on what was to become the United States of America. Not only did they love unusual “Christian names,” they were somewhat unusual Christians. Increase Mather was the father of the family, born in Dorchester,...
Oct 2, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1772, Stephen Smith Nelson was born in Middleboro, Massachusetts. At the age of fourteen he was converted to Christ – after which he became a member of the Baptist church in that city. At the time, the Middleboro Baptist Church was pastored by Isaac...
