Jul 9, 2023 | Sunday Morning
I preached from this scripture twenty years ago, but my theme was entirely different at the time. That message was on Philip’s evangelism of his friend Nathaniel. This morning, I would like to only glance at those two men as we look into the face of our Lord Jesus. I...
Jul 6, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Joseph Binney was born again at the age of twenty. He joined a Congregational church in Boston, and began to prepare himself to take the gospel to the heathen in the Orient. In one of his courses at Yale College he was to debate another student on the subject of...
Jul 2, 2023 | Sunday Morning
There is no way of knowing the exact number, but it is estimated that half a million illegal immigrants successfully come into the United States every year. In addition to these, there are thousands of others who enter legally on visitor, student or work visas, but...
Jul 1, 2023 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Church This month the sister of Bro. Jose Bautista came on a tourist visa from old Mexico to visit her brother. Elena came for an entire month, and as Jose had promised to bring her to the services, she came three out of four Sundays! We were delighted...
Jun 30, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The work of planting Baptist churches in America’s Midwest was difficult. That was due in part to the cosmopolitan makeup of the settlers and the nature of the terrain along the lakes. Michigan, for example, was described by America’s surveyor-general as low and...
Jun 25, 2023 | Sunday Morning
After the Lord put this scripture on my heart, I became concerned that you might have heard a lesson on this Syrophoenician woman recently. I knew that Brother Fulton referred to her as part of a recent message dealing with the “Son of David.” But I was fearful that...
Jun 23, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Most people have heard about the infamous, 1692, witchcraft trials of Salem Massachusetts. Two, often highly respected names, Increase Mather and his son Cotton, were at the epicenter of that horrible travesty. “If a woman was seen to gather herbs to boil, she was...
Jun 16, 2023 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I am told that the Severns Valley was blessed to have the first Baptist Church in what was to become Kentucky. It was established on this day (June 18) in 1781 between today’s Louisville and Elizabethtown. Eighteen rough frontiersmen and women constituted the original...
