The Dimensions of God’s Love – Ephesians 3:14-19

Oct 20, 2024 | Sunday Evening

I am looking at this theme today because in the love of God we have one of the Lord’s superlatives. There is no more powerful love than God’s love. Nearly all love originates in God’s love. And those for whom the Lord has a special love, He cannot fail to bless for...

Chickens, Children and Citizens – Matthew 23:37

Oct 20, 2024 | Sunday Morning

Let’s begin by calling Him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus – the baby born in Bethlehem Judah; the child raised in Nazareth Galilee – was the most divisive person in Israel in His day. He was completely polarizing. Very few people in the days of Herod and Pilate had no...

October 20

Oct 18, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History

William Ward was born on this day in 1769.  In the spring of 1793, his cart got in front of his horse, so to speak.  Ward, who was living in Derby at that time, had become a printer.  One day William Carey providentially happened to come up beside the young man...

Prayer: Let’s Keep it Biblical – Matthew 6:9-15

Oct 17, 2024 | Wednesday

Several years ago, in my reading, I heard an author utter three words on prayer without making any explanation or development. They struck me, so I jotted them down in my sermonic notebook, where they have been sitting ever since. Looking through that notebook on...

Faith and Force – I Samuel 17:45

Oct 13, 2024 | Sunday Evening

Rarely, but once in a while, I preach from an outline which is not original to me. I purposed years ago, to be honest with you and to tell you when I feel led of the Lord to share another man’s message or outline. This is one of those occasions. I was blessed earlier...

Profound and Problematic – Psalm 9:1-10

Oct 13, 2024 | Sunday Morning

I have no idea how many people in Central Florida are repeating the words of this Psalm today. David said, “I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy marvellous works.” The CHRISTIANS who have suffered through Hurricanes Helene and...

October 13

Oct 10, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History

James Garnett was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, in 1792, but when he was a child the family moved to Kentucky. It was there he was born again, during his nineteenth year, and there he was baptized. When the Bullettsburg Baptist Church recognized God’s spiritual...

Influence, Testimony and Power – Job 38:25-32

Oct 10, 2024 | Wednesday

Job had been struck down with disaster after disaster. He lost his wealth and his health; his children were killed and his wife, in her pain, had turned against him. He has been used by psychologists to illustrate the various stages of grief. At first he was...

Is Anything too Hard for the Lord? – I Samuel 2:1-10

Oct 6, 2024 | Sunday Morning

Like you, I have seen images and heard about what Hurricane Helene has done up and down the East Coast.  But I admit that my heart is still filled with the images and experiences I had in Canada two weeks ago.  Not only have we heard about destruction and devastation,...

October 6

Oct 4, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History

This is a somewhat backhanded piece of Baptist history, as you will see. Eugenio Kincaid was born into a Presbyterian home in Wetherfield, Connecticut, but in his youth the family moved to Pennsylvania. There, under the preaching of a Baptist evangelist, the young man...