May 21, 2023 | Sunday Evening
A couple months ago, I was re-reading Alfred Edersheim’s classic study of Christ – “Jesus the Messiah.” In the course of discussing Mark 4, and the other gospels about this event, he made a passing comment. For some reason or other it caught my eye, so I put the...
May 21, 2023 | Sunday Morning
When Paul was making what he thought was his final trip past the Roman province of Asia, he stopped in Miletus, and from there he invited the elders of the church in Ephesus to meet with him. In the few hours they had together, they talked about of some of the...
May 18, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1882, while razing an old adobe church building in Santa Fe, New Mexico – a building which had been used by the Presbyterians for years – the demolition team found the original cornerstone. On it, along with other information, was the date May 21, 1853. It proved...
May 15, 2023 | Sunday Evening
It must be remembered that this Sermon on the Mount was delivered by Christ to His disciples. This was a sermon to Christians – believers – those already redeemed. It was not shared as a gospel message with instructions for the salvation of the wicked. This isn’t a...
May 14, 2023 | Sunday Morning
If you have a computer, and if you use email, then from time to time you get spam advertisements. I got one of those, trying to entice me to buy someone’s specialty mats to put at our front door. Their gimmick was in the interesting logo’s printed on them. The...
May 12, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Evan Jones was born on this day in 1789. We don’t have any information on when he was born again. In 1821, after he moved from England to this country, he and his wife began a ministry as missionaries to the Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. For ten years prior to...
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...
