Sep 30, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1919, just before a large convention of Baptists was to take place, the Canadian Baptist, that country’s largest Baptist journal, published an article entitled: “The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture.” The worthy title belied its true purpose: to...
Sep 22, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The name, Luther Rice, should be held in high esteem among missionary-minded Baptists. Appropriately, engraved over his burial place are the words, “Perhaps no American has done more for the great missionary enterprise.” Sadly that name has been...
Sep 18, 2022 | Sunday Evening
When the church in Jerusalem was needing help for their widows and orphans, the congregation set forth seven men to serve as servants – “deacons.” There was the famous Philip, and the not so famous Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas. In Acts 6 these men...
Sep 18, 2022 | Sunday Morning
I would like to look at Moses in much the same way as I did Daniel last week. We can find the ancestors of New Testament soul-winners in the first half of our Bibles. As I said last week, they are not precise duplicates or images of today’s evangelists, but they do...
Sep 15, 2022 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Alexander Campbell is most infamously known for teaching that baptism is a condition of salvation. This ultimately helped to found the Disciples of Christ denomination and indirectly others as well. But baptismal regeneration was not his only attack upon the truth. He...
Sep 12, 2022 | Sunday Evening
How many times have you been sitting in a reception area, waiting for someone to call your name? How many times in the last month have you been in a doctor’s waiting room? The last time I was in such a place, my wife and I had been there for more than hour before a...
Sep 11, 2022 | Sunday Morning
I would like to take this opportunity to add another lesson to our current Sunday School theme. Last week I introduced the idea that we can learn about New Testament soul-winning by examining some of our evangelical ancestors from the Old Testament. So we considered...
Sep 8, 2022 | Lessons on Bible Trivia
In July, 1750, Samuel Cartledge was born into the family of a Quaker/Anglican family. As a young man he became a constable for Richmond County, Georgia. In that capacity, one day he was sent out to arrest Daniel Marshall, because that man had been preaching Christ...
