Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – II Peter 2:9-16

Jul 24, 2025 | Wednesday

Robert Louis Stevenson, author of “Treasure Island” and “Kidnapped” was a conflicted professing Christian. He was raised by a staunch Presbyterian father, but his nanny was much more evangelical. Stevenson, as a child heard the gospel. During university Stevenson...

The Christ of the Anointing – Mark 14:3-9

Jul 20, 2025 | Lessons on Bible Trivia

The Lord Jesus said something in regard to His anointing which is often overlooked. At least I have overlooked it until recently. Most preachers consider this passage and its cousins in Matthew 26 and John 12 merely in the light of worship. Mary loved the Lord Jesus...

July 20

Jul 17, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Samuel Pearce was born on this day in 1766.  As a young man he happened to be in a house where a man lay dying.  The man in despair cried out, “I am damned forever.”  The words filled young Samuel with terror.  For more than a year, the death of that man and the...

God Knows, God Can and God Does – II Peter 2:9

Jul 17, 2025 | Wednesday

A little boy grew up wanting to play professional baseball. As a child he lived baseball; he dreamed baseball, he watched baseball; he studied baseball. He played catch with his dad and his uncle. He played five hundred with the neighboring kids. He played baseball at...

Those Whom God Spared – II Peter 2:4-10

Jul 13, 2025 | Sunday Evening

Our Bible’s translators show us that verse 4 into verse 10 is one sentence – one primary lesson. But, as we have already seen, there is a wealth of information here. There are three illustrations each split into two sections – one positive and one negative. This...

Those Whom God Spared Not  –  II Peter 2:4-6, 11

Jul 13, 2025 | Sunday Morning

Isaac Newton was an early English scientist, and probably a “genius” before the word had been defined.  He was raised in the Anglican denomination, but he held to some unorthodox views about Christ.  Because of those views, I can’t say that he was a Christian in the...

July 13

Jul 10, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History

William Powell (not the actor of by-gone days, but William Rufus Powell), was born into a godly home in 1808, but he was not born again until many years later. At an early time in his life, his mother died, and other family tragedies sent him swinging back and forth...

Pseudo-Prophets – II Peter 2:1-3

Jul 10, 2025 | Wednesday

When this epistle was first read, Peter’s friends they didn’t hear: “Now, let’s move to chapter two.” They simply heard – “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:...

First Knowledge  –  II Peter 1:19-21

Jul 6, 2025 | Sunday Evening

One of distinctives of a New Testament Baptist church is that its message and authority come from the scriptures.  We have no loyalty to Rome, or Philadelphia, or wherever Southern Baptist Convention is headquartered.  True Baptist churches believe what they believe...

Into the Valley of Death  – Matthew 16:21

Jul 6, 2025 | Sunday Morning

In the 1850’s England was at odds with Russia in what was called the “Crimean War.”  At the “Battle of Balaclava” (1854), a British cavalry unit, the Light Brigade, charged into a valley surrounded by Russian artillery.  The charge was the result of a...