March 6

Hezekiah Johnson was born in Maryland on this day in 1799. His Father was a Baptist preacher and the family moved to Ohio in 1816 to serve the Lord. Hezekiah professed faith in Christ when he was 26 and two years later he was ordained, moving to Iowa to plant a...

The Inheritors – First Peter 1:3-5

Tonight I was going to go to Peter’s next major thought – “To an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled, and fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.” But I’m going to postpone that, because in order to fully understand it, we need to take a step back. Before...

January 2022

Dear Pastor and Brethren January has proven to be a difficult month due to sickness and bad weather here in Oklahoma. I was sick with a bad head cold and missed one Sunday and then the weather with snow caused us to cancel yet another Sunday service. Then our...

Hope and the Resurrection – I Peter 1:3-5

If you were asked to rank the importance of salvation in your life, what rank would you give it? If you understand the depths of your sinfulness, and if you understand the heights of God’s righteousness, then you’d need to give salvation a rank of 10 out of 10. And if...

Great Expectations – First Peter 1:3-5

Jalen was born into an athletic family. His mother played soccer in high school, and his father was a college basketball player. When Jalen was just a youngster he began playing ball with his friends on the street in front of his house. By the time he was in high...

February 27

Samuel Stillman was born on this day in 1737. The first eleven years of his life were spent in Philadelphia, after which he resided in Charleston, South Carolina. There he came under the gospel preaching of Oliver Hart. Still in his youth he saw himself as a sinner...

February 20

Andrew Gifford was born into a home where his father and his father before him were both Baptist pastors; and both suffered for their faith, being persecuted and imprisoned. At an early age the testimony of his parents bore fruit, and Andrew trusted Christ as his...

The Other Begotten – First Peter 1:3

In the course of His conversation with Nicodemus in John 3, the Lord Jesus used a relatively rare word. Even more rare than the Greek word itself is the way it is translated in that passage. “For God so loved the world that he gave his ONLY BEGOTTEN Son, that...

February 13

Benjamin Miller was born in 1715. As a child he and his family attended the Presbyterian church pastored by Gilbert Tennent. Under the peaching of the Protestants, Benjamin was born again. When Tennent encouraged young Miller to study for the ministry under the...