Nov 28, 2022 | Sunday Evening
In Acts 7 Stephen was being called to defend his faith in Christ as he stood before Israel’s high council. Someone had said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.” His blasphemy was in declaring that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of...
Nov 27, 2022 | Sunday Morning
“The more things change, the more things stay the same.” It is fun to research the history and origins of common phrases like this. That research can be done today on the computer. But years before the internet, I used a book called: “Morris’ Dictionary of...
Nov 24, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Lee Compere and his wife were British missionaries in Jamaica before the climate drove them out and up to Charleston, S.C., where they met Richard Furman. After some time in the Carolinas they moved to Alabama to work among the Creek Indians. It was there that their...
Nov 20, 2022 | Sunday Evening
Luke 24 describes Jesus’ first visit with His church after the resurrection. He had already revealed Himself to Mary at the tomb, and He had met the 2 disciples on the Emmaus Road. But this was His first appearance before the assembled church. The members were...
Nov 19, 2022 | Scott Silvers
Greetings in Jesus’ Name, Fall has finally arrived for us here in Smithville, Oklahoma. It was an extremely hot, dry summer but the winds have changed and as I write this letter it is much cooler and the Lord has sent us some much needed rain. Our God displays...
Nov 19, 2022 | Frank Tottingham
Dear Pastor and Church The Lord gives the increase! In August I received the following text from a Pastor in the Philippines. “Hello, Pastor Tottingham! This Bro. Javier of Bible Way Baptist Church, Cubao, Metro Manila, Philippines. I send this message just to...
Nov 19, 2022 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren Autumn Analysis We are in the autumn of our year; many of us are in the autumn of our lives, and many are yet unconverted or the Lord would return. We look and labor for our Lord’s return. Despite all the theories about the timing of our...
Nov 17, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
1527 was, in many ways, not a good year for the Anabaptists of Europe. George Wagner, of Emmerich, Germany, was charged with the crime that he did not believe that water baptism possessed any saving power. He was bound and thrown into a bonfire on February 8. Melchior...
