Saying “Amen” to Praise – II Peter 3:18

Oct 9, 2025 | Wednesday

A few months ago, I finished this about the Baptist pastor Abraham Booth, who died about 220 years ago. By the grace of God, rising from poverty and ignorance, he taught himself to read, eventually becoming one of the preeminent pastors and preachers in England. In...

Have You Fallen Recently? – II Peter 3:17-18

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,...

Remedy for Riot – Acts 19:35-41

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,...

October 5

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...

Peter, Paul and You – II Peter 3:14-18

Oct 2, 2025 | Wednesday

When some of you talk about your misspent youth, once in a while your old, ungodly music is mentioned. Even though I am not much older than some of you, I often have no idea who you are talking about. I don’t know the lyrics you are mentioning. I can’t picture the...

August, 2025

Sep 29, 2025 | Timothy Parrow

Dear Pastor and Brethren: Health Recovery Activities The Lord enabled me to return to the pulpit on August 10 to continue preaching a series of messages on Hamartiology, the doctrine of sin. I am now preaching on, “Erroneous Views of Sin,” including...

The Pentagram of Salvation – Acts 4:5-14

Sep 28, 2025 | Sunday Morning

The title to this message is “The Pentagram of Salvation.” That sounds a bit ominous, doesn’t it? It sounds almost Satanic, but I assure you, that’s not the way I intend to use it. But before I get that, I’d like to begin with an obviously fictitious story about a...

September 28

Sep 25, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History

On this day in 1930 Charles Evans Hughes joined one of the Baptist churches in Washington, D.C., but sadly I’m not sure which.  Much earlier, Charles had graduated from Brown University, the Baptist’s first school of higher learning in this country.  He went on to...

Universal Destruction: Us or Him? – II Peter 3:11-14

Sep 25, 2025 | Wednesday

If I was a United States Senator in charge of the right committee and with a huge budget, I’d authorize a study of society’s deliberate USE of FEAR to direct and manage the people of this country. There have been hundreds, if not thousands, of expensive studies to...

Now and Then  –  Matthew 5:21-26

Sep 21, 2025 | Sunday Morning

I mentioned on Wednesday that several of us heard the Ten Commandments put into song last week.  I have several Protestant hymn books and not one of them has a song containing the Ten Commandments.  What we heard didn’t rhyme very well and the cadence wasn’t...