Biblical Allegories – Matthew 13:10-17

Jan 2, 2015 | Lessons on Bible Trivia

Synonyms for “allegory” might include (figure; metaphor; story with a moral lesson; picture). All of these Synonyms for “parable” might include (a couple of male cattle; a story with a special lesson; an illustration; a byword). The last three...

Abominations to God – Proverbs 28:9

Jan 1, 2015 | Lessons on Bible Trivia

The only place where we can definitively learn about God is in (nature; the Bible; Biblical theology; Calvary Baptist Church). The Bible The Bible is crystal clear on every subject it addresses (true; false). False When the Bible clearly states something, we are to...

December 28

Dec 31, 2014 | This Sunday in Baptist History

The work of foreign missions must be the most difficult of all Christian ministries. Probably no American Christian can fully understand the work and responsibility which falls on that servant of God laboring in a strange culture and strange field. On December 26,...

Paul’s New Year – Acts 28:11-15

Dec 31, 2014 | Wednesday

Every new year is like a new chapter in a book. It is still the same book, with the same characters and a continuation of the same plot. But that new chapter usually means some new event or events which will help to develop the story-line. You may expect that 2015...

Letter from the Bert Craft Family

Dec 31, 2014 | Missions

Dear Brethren, I am sorry for my lack of correspondence in the last few months.   The Lord allowed me this year to be in the United States at which time I graduated from high school. Since I have been back home in Xulha, Quintana Roo, I have given myself with renewed...

Reprehensible Representatives – Matthew 23:1-12

Dec 29, 2014 | Matthew, Sunday Morning

Let’s say that you were raised by non-religious parents in a thoroughly secular home. You have been taught the principles of evolution; you believe that life began with a big bang or something. Saturated with a non-Christian world-view, you have grown up anticipating...

Whose Son is This? – Matthew 22:41-46

Dec 28, 2014 | Matthew, Sunday Evening

A group of Sadducees had come to Christ Jesus with a question about life beyond physical death. That is both interesting and confusing, because the Sadducees didn’t believe in life after death. As Acts 23:8tells us, “the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection,...

December 21

Dec 25, 2014 | This Sunday in Baptist History

The First Baptist Church in Boston was born in the midst of persecution. Its first pastor, Thomas Goold was in and out of prison for more than ten years. He was robbed of his home, property and health. He may not have been beheaded or burned at the stake, but he died...

November 2014 Report

Nov 30, 2014 | Missions, Timothy Parrow

Dear Pastor and Brethren: A New Visitor! The phone calls and emails we received in October finally resulted in the visit of Mrs. Mona Raines to our services. She is the widow of the former pastor of another Baptist church here in Stillwater and had stopped going to...