Oct 16, 2022 | Sunday Morning
You fishermen know that the best way to catch fish is to use some sort of bait or other enticement. The enemies of Truth – those who are trying to catch souls – usually use a little bit of bait as well. And like the lure which resembles a fish or some other food,...
Oct 13, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Gottlob Bruckner was born outside of Berlin, Germany in 1783. When he was twenty years old he moved to the big city to find work, and there he met a preacher whose sermons brought him to the cross for salvation. Becoming a new creature in Christ, Gottlob desired to...
Oct 10, 2022 | Sunday Evening
Elizabeth Barrett’s parents disapproved so strongly of her marriage to Robert Browning that they disowned her. Almost every week for years Elizabeth wrote letters to her parents begging for reconciliation. Not once did they ever reply. Then after 10 years of...
Oct 9, 2022 | Sunday Morning
As we read this letter from Peter, remember that each word is colored by things which he had experienced. Ie. there were negative things, like his denial of Christ, when the Lord was being questioned and tortured. And then there were his foolish suggestion to build...
Oct 6, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
This little vignette is not about Christiania Polk, but I mention this extraordinary woman because she married Isaac McCoy, who was perhaps America’s the most important missionary to this country’s Indians. That Christiania was an important part of McCoy’s ministry is...
Oct 5, 2022 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Latino Outreach This month several things have happened which we would like you all to know. We went to court with eight Latinos to help them with their language difficulties and to hope for a chance to be a witness to them. Some of them will...
Sep 30, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1919, just before a large convention of Baptists was to take place, the Canadian Baptist, that country’s largest Baptist journal, published an article entitled: “The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture.” The worthy title belied its true purpose: to...
Sep 22, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The name, Luther Rice, should be held in high esteem among missionary-minded Baptists. Appropriately, engraved over his burial place are the words, “Perhaps no American has done more for the great missionary enterprise.” Sadly that name has been...
