Apr 6, 2025 | Sunday Morning
When was the last time you did something with absolutely no purpose for doing it? For example, when was the last time you got in your car, or mounted your bike, with no specific destination in mind? You might say, “There was a day back in the Fall, when I had nothing...
Apr 3, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Ansley was born on this day in 1769. He was sprinkled and raised in the Church of England. Following the Revolutionary War, his family moved from New York to New Brunswick, where he continued in his Protestant church, but with a growing spiritual...
Mar 30, 2025 | Sunday Morning
This first chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Christians in Colosse is huge. It is at the deep end of the pool. Preachers from 300 years ago might have said that it is one of the most “pregnant” chapters in God’s Word. It is full of important doctrine and...
Mar 27, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Absolom Backus Earle was born in 1812 in Charlton, New York. He was converted to Christ at the age of sixteen and two years later he began preaching the gospel before being ordained at the age of twenty-one. For the next five years he labored as a church planter in...
Mar 24, 2025 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren, Spanish Outreach Although we have lost the Jose Bautista family, we continue to reach some of the Latino community with our personal contact and gospel tracts. The following names are those persons with whom we have had contact during the...
Mar 23, 2025 | Sunday Evening
Let’s put this Psalm into the context of one of the modern lawyer/crime stories. It might have been written by David Baldacci or perhaps more likely – John Grisham. The hero is a lawyer, and, believe it or not, he is a good man, who has spent his career fighting crime...
Mar 23, 2025 | Sunday Morning
We need to go back from time to time, to the place where Jesus gave His life to purchase our souls. Paul said to the Christians in Corinth, “Ye are BOUGHT with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” The price for the...
Mar 20, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1660 the “Vestry Law” was adopted in the Colony of Virginia. It, in effect, described how vestries were to be organized throughout the region for the primary purpose of collecting taxes for the support of the officially recognized religion. Members of...
