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...
Sep 8, 2015 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Preaching! The Lord has enabled me to return to the pulpit to preach once again! I have preached three Sundays this month with visitors coming each time. The first Sunday I preached, my physical animation was a bit slow so that it took me a...
Sep 7, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
Our message tonight is theological. Let’s go through the back door to consider the omnipotence, omniscience and sovereignty of God. Of course by “omnipotence” I refer to the fact that the power of God knows no limitations whatsoever. As Jesus reminded the...
Sep 4, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Absalom Waller was the nephew of John Waller, known as “Swearing Jack Waller,” due to the pattern of his old life. Nephew Absalom, the eldest of six children, was raised under the preaching of the gospel, and when he was fourteen, was saved by the grace of...
Aug 31, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Evening
Twenty years ago – in 1995 – I preached a two part message entitled, “If I was the Devil.” I didn’t pull them up to check, but if I remember those sermons, I suggested things that I would do if I was in charge of a God-hating world. And it just so happens...
Aug 30, 2015 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
Paradoxes: A “paradox” is (medical consulting team; an unanswerable conundrum; a resident of Paradise; a statement or proposition that, despite apparently sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically...
Aug 30, 2015 | Matthew, Sunday Morning
Not only do I feel inadequate for our subject this morning, I know full-well that I am. I am a child of God because of the grace of God and what took place in the verses we have just read. But there are mysteries here which I doubt that I will ever fully comprehend....
Aug 28, 2015 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1866 a memorial service was held for Pastor Hezekiah Johnson, who passed away two days earlier. Hezekiah was born into the home of a Baptist pastor in Maryland in 1799, and as a young man he came to understand his salvation in Christ. His family moved...
