Feb 27, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Elijah is a truly interesting Old Testament character, with many practical lessons to teach us. He was useful to the Lord for many years, including his mentoring of Elisha. Then while preaching to the king of Israel, he was also commissioned to anoint a future king of...
Feb 26, 2023 | Sunday Morning
The title of this message is: “Addicted, but not Ashamed.” The word “addicted” is found once in our King James Bibles in I Corinthians 16:15. Speaking of a particular church family, Paul says, “ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and...
Feb 23, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Picket was a Baptist preacher who ministered in Virginia just prior to the Revolutionary War. There were times when he would invite neighbors to meet him in a grove of trees or in an open field, and he would preach the gospel to them. On those occasions if the...
Feb 19, 2023 | Sunday Evening
Esther, also known as Hadassah, the cousin of a Jew named Mordecai, became the wife of the Persian king, Ahasuerus. She was providentially (even miraculously) placed in that position by God in order to save Israel from genocide. Haman, an anti-semite, was able to...
Feb 19, 2023 | Sunday Morning
What would you think if I walked up to you and said, “I’m mad?” Would you automatically think that I was angry, or would you picture something else? Would your opinion change if I said, “I am really, really mad?” Would you ask yourself: “Oh, no, what have I done?”...
Feb 16, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1874, Victoria, British Columbia, had a population of about four thousand people, but it had no Baptist church. In December of that year, about a decade before there was a rail link between eastern Canada and the Pacific, Alexander Clyde and his family emigrated...
Feb 13, 2023 | Sunday Evening
The Bible which I use and study is a King James Version with notes edited by Frank Charles Thompson. It is called a “Thompson Chain Reference Bible.” I have used it for nearly fifty years. It isn’t perfect, so I also employ other tools, but I like it and don’t see...
Feb 12, 2023 | Sunday Morning
I would like to highlight the word “vindication” today. The title of this message is “Vindication of the Gospel.” Let’s pretend that in the course of this message, I tell you that I am the reincarnation of the prophet Elisha. I am the Elisha of the Old Testament...
