Aug 19, 2024 | Sunday Evening
I have no authority to say so, but I think that if we could have asked Paul, “How is your life going?” He would have said, “I have the best, most joyous, most purposeful life I could every have imagined.” Like all of us – like Daniel – like David – Paul’s life had its...
Aug 19, 2024 | Sunday Morning
What is the best test for the value of something? It is not necessarily the number of servings per pound. I might go into a grocery store and see a piece of meat which I think is a good price. But you might realize that there is too much fat or an inedible bone, and...
Aug 15, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1846 the United States, under General Stephen Kearny, took possession of New Mexico. Almost immediately, H.W. Read and Samuel Gorman, Baptist missionaries, arrived in Santa Fe. Read had the joy of leading twenty-one-year old Blas Chavez to Christ, and...
Aug 12, 2024 | Sunday Evening
As I said last Sunday, nearly every important doctrine can be studied beginning with the Book of Genesis. It might be argued that there are exceptions. Which of these doctrines MIGHT not be found in Genesis? (Angelology, Theology, Hamartiology, Soteriology,...
Aug 8, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
he formal ministry of William Evander Penn didn’t begin until he was nearly fifty, but he had already been a dedicated servant of Christ for decades. William Penn, the Baptist not the Quaker, was born on this day in 1832 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. At the age...
Aug 5, 2024 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Church On the thirtieth of June we had a first-time visitor by the name of Noah. He is a junior at OSU studying for an agricultural/business degree. He said that his father is a preacher in a small church down in southeastern Ok, and that he was going...
Aug 4, 2024 | Sunday Evening
I would like to begin a short study of the Biblical subject of “Faithfulness.” I know this isn’t as exciting as the Millennium or how the upcoming election or War in Gaza relate to the Tribulation. I know that a study of “faithfulness” isn’t like studying evangelism...
Aug 2, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
George Webb Slaughter deserves a full-length biography. His life was filled with excitement and Christian service. I am not sure when he became a child of God, but it appears to have been early in his life. Having moved from Louisiana to Texas, he became one of Sam...
