Nov 24, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On September 6, 1732, John Newton was born – (not that John Newton, but this one). The place was Kent County, Pennsylvania. Like the other John Newton, this Newton was raised in the Church of England. But when he was about twenty-years-of-age, he was born again,...
Nov 19, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that most people want what Jeremiah was talking about here. At least the part about “the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.” If nothing more, no one is looking for, searching for, or hoping for – unhappiness and sorrow. I don’t know...
Nov 19, 2023 | Sunday Morning
I don’t know if they do it any more, but it used to be in rich, respectable Southern Society, when a young lady reached a certain age, her family held a “Coming out Party” in her honor. There would usually be a large gathering of social equals, celebrating with music,...
Nov 17, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In Barnstaple, England, there lived a nineteen-year-old man named Charles Veysey. Through reading the New Testament he came under deep conviction for his sins, and trusting the Lord Jesus alone, he was given the peace of salvation from sin. Seeing from the Bible that...
Nov 13, 2023 | Sunday Evening
If you don’t know already, pastors are human – afflicted with some of the same maladies as you. We not only get colds, in-grown toe nails, and fatigue, but we have some of our own peculiar problems. But three pastoral pestilences, which can infect any of us, include...
Nov 12, 2023 | Sunday Morning
The Jews, both ancient and modern, have had a problem in saying or writing “Jehovah” – the name of God. Some called it “the ineffable Name” – the unutterable, inexpressible and unspeakable name of God. Instead of writing it out, they often abbreviate it into four...
Nov 9, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Bunyan had been married for several years, and that dear lady gave him four children, including one blind little girl. Three years after his wife’s death, he married Elizabeth. She willingly took on the responsibility of loving and caring for the Bunyan children,...
