Aug 1, 2021 | Sunday Morning
This message may sound very morbid, but it doesn’t have to end that way. I am taking my title from Jonah’s words to God – “It is better for me to die than to live.” We shall see similar sentiments from Paul, Job, Moses, and others, and there was Elijah’s death-wish at...
Jul 31, 2021 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: One Visitor in June In June, we had one visitor, Mark, who came on a Sunday and then on a Wednesday evening. On Wednesday evening he came in and sat through about half of the song service and suddenly got up and left without saying a word. He...
Jul 30, 2021 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Comer was born on this day (August 1) in 1704. He grew up hearing the religious instruction of the famous Increase Mather, father of Cotton Mather. But that preaching didn’t produce any eternal effect. And then Comer became deathly ill. Through that disease, he...
Jul 22, 2021 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Mason Peck was born in 1789 in Litchfield, Connecticut, where he was raised as a Congregationalist. Twenty years later he married Sally Pane. Despite the lack of Biblical preaching in their church, the Lord saved the souls of both John and Sally. Then when God...
Jul 18, 2021 | Sunday Morning
I believe, and have often said, that the foundational attribute of Jehovah is His holiness. Holiness underlies all the other attributes of God; they are all built on that foundation. And that is why we must “kick off our shoes” when we come into His presence. We must...
Jul 15, 2021 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Some of you are going to shake your heads at this story, but it is reportedly true. The Gum Spring Baptist Church of North Carolina was constituted on this day in 1829 after Elders Hezekiah Harmon, Isaac Kerby, and another man named Hicks, had ministered in the area...
Jul 11, 2021 | Sunday Morning
I trust that you are familiar with the sacrifice Abraham made of his son Isaac – in Genesis 22. God chose to test the faith and devotion of the that man, by asking him to make him a special burnt offering. And I hope you realize that event so many hundreds of years...
Jul 8, 2021 | This Sunday in Baptist History
The Baptists in England had been slandered and persecuted for some time when the churches of London decided to defend their doctrines by publishing an outline of what they believed. In a note to “the judicious and impartial reader,” the 1689 Confession of Faith reads,...
