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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sep 19, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
As far as we know, the first Baptist church in Sweden was formed in Landa Parish, Halland, on this day in 1848. In the evening of that day four men and one woman were baptized in the waters of Vallervik Bay, and in a nearby farm house, the small church was organized....
