May 8, 2023 | Sunday Evening
History has recorded a letter which the Athenian philosopher Aristides wrote to the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Hadrian died in 138 AD, so this letter was written around the beginning of the second century. Aristides, describing the Christians he had observed, wrote:...
May 4, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Elias Morris was born into a family of slaves on this day in 1855. At the close of the Civil War, his parents moved from Georgia to Tennessee and then on to Alabama. There Elias learned the shoemaking trade, and his natural organizational skills resulted in turning...
May 1, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren, We are very happy to announce that Sis. Kim Williams joined Victory Baptist Mission on the 5th of March, Sunday morning! She comes by letter from a church in Virginia of like precious faith called Maranatha Baptist Church whose pastor is Bro....
May 1, 2023 | Sunday Evening
How important is faith to the work of the ministry? To put that question another way: what relationship does faith have to what we are doing tonight? Here we are taking another look into the Word of God. That is always a good and profitable thing. We are here with a...
Apr 30, 2023 | Sunday Morning
As we wind down our series of messages on practical faith, it might have occurred to you that perhaps the most practical and the most important aspect of the subject is our salvation from sin. Certainly nothing is more practical than life and death. Nothing is more...
Apr 27, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Early in its history Connecticut was known as a place of severe persecution against anyone who was not a part of their official Congregational denomination. As a result, the first known Baptist baptism took place in 1767, when Abigail Dorchester testified of her faith...
Apr 24, 2023 | Sunday Evening
The editor of my Bible has as a title for Hebrews 11. He calls it “The Roll Call of the Heroes of the Faith.” There are a great many eminent servants of God found here. They were not just saints; they were above average saints. And yet it wasn’t because they were...
Apr 20, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1528, a report was presented to Emperor Charles V by the Council of the Archbishop of Cologne about the growing number of Anabaptists. The document stated that the Anabaptists call themselves “true Christians,” that they practice baptism by immersion, and they hold...
