Nov 17, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In Barnstaple, England, there lived a nineteen-year-old man named Charles Veysey. Through reading the New Testament he came under deep conviction for his sins, and trusting the Lord Jesus alone, he was given the peace of salvation from sin. Seeing from the Bible that...
Nov 13, 2023 | Sunday Evening
If you don’t know already, pastors are human – afflicted with some of the same maladies as you. We not only get colds, in-grown toe nails, and fatigue, but we have some of our own peculiar problems. But three pastoral pestilences, which can infect any of us, include...
Nov 12, 2023 | Sunday Morning
The Jews, both ancient and modern, have had a problem in saying or writing “Jehovah” – the name of God. Some called it “the ineffable Name” – the unutterable, inexpressible and unspeakable name of God. Instead of writing it out, they often abbreviate it into four...
Nov 9, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Bunyan had been married for several years, and that dear lady gave him four children, including one blind little girl. Three years after his wife’s death, he married Elizabeth. She willingly took on the responsibility of loving and caring for the Bunyan children,...
Nov 6, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Let’s say that you and your neighbor are chatting one day. He knows that you are a Christian. You have shared your testimony with him on several occasions and invited him to church. But, as he has said that “he is satisfied with his religion.” You know that he was...
Nov 5, 2023 | Sunday Morning
I plan to use both messages today to consider the subject of “the law.” My subject is not the United States Constitution or the 200,000 pages of the Code of Federal regulations. There is a message in those two documents, but as I say, that is not my theme. I will...
Nov 3, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1855 William Bagby was born. He was born again under the ministry of the pioneer Texas Baptist, Rufus Burleson, and he was educated under the ministry of B.H. Carroll. In January 1881, Brother Bagby and his wife sailed from Baltimore toward the Bay of...
Oct 30, 2023 | Sunday Evening
John 17 is one of the Bible’s holiest chapters. It rivals or surpasses any of the Psalms. That is because we get to overhear a conversation within the Godhead – the Son speaking to the Father. This is not the prayer of a godly saved person, like David, speaking with...
