October 2022

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...

November 20

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...

The Great Pastoral Duty – I Peter 5:1-4

Nov 17, 2022 | Wednesday

Here we are in the auditorium of the Calvary Baptist Church. Why are you here? Is it to see your Christian friends? Do you come to sing the songs of Zion? Is it out of habit? Why are you here? Is it to worship the Lord? Is it to testify of your faith to the community?...

Pastors, Elders and Bishops – I Peter 5:1-4

Nov 14, 2022 | Sunday Evening

  Back in chapter 1, Peter introduced himself to his readers using the word “apostle.” He was an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ; one of those to whom Christ gave that special title in Luke 6. “And it came to pass in those days that (Jesus) went out into a...

Scarcely Saved – I Peter 4:17-18

Nov 13, 2022 | Sunday Morning

You and your friend have just entered the newest Italian restaurant in town. It looks like you have just stepped back into 19th century Italy. The menus are well-designed with fancy lettering and a few illustrations, but no pictures of the food. You are not an expert...

The Fellowship of Fiery Trials – I Peter 4:12-19

Nov 10, 2022 | Wednesday

  It appears to me that Peter was concerned about the saints in Asia Minor – Galatia, Pontus and Cappadocia. Perhaps he had heard that they were suffering under severe persecution. Perhaps he was afraid they would stumble and turn from Christ, even renouncing...

November 6

Nov 3, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Elijah Baker was born and raised, and born again, in Lunenburg County, Virginia. After his salvation, he fearlessly began preaching Christ where the government and state-sanctioned church forbade him. While many of his Christian friends were moving into Kentucky, the...

Serviceable Stewards – I Peter 4:9-10

Nov 3, 2022 | Wednesday

Last week we looked at the Lord Jesus’ “Parable of the Talents” applying it to the work of evangelism. Matthew 25 tell us that this was given just two or three days before Jesus’ crucifixion. In Luke 19 we read a similar, but different illustration, called the...

September 2022

Oct 31, 2022 | Timothy Parrow

Pastor and Brethren: We have had a month of increased activity at the courthouse of Payne County, Ok., translating from English into Spanish and Spanish into English. Because of the changes in legal procedure, I do not always get an opportunity to present the clients...