May 24, 2021 | Sunday Evening
When the Lord saved me, more than 50 years ago, I joined a church which taught that the scriptures we just read should be understood simply and directly. I was told that all scripture should be interpreted literally, unless some passage was obviously meant to be...
May 23, 2021 | Sunday Morning
We have had so many topical messages lately that I decided to return to an expository lesson today. The Lord blessed in my study yesterday, so I am quite certain it is the Lord’s will for us. I’d like to slowly journey through these thirteen verses and offer one...
May 20, 2021 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Comer was born in 1704; the place was Boston. His parents were Presbyterians, but an uncle on his mother’s side was a Baptist pastor. When Comer was a student at Yale, he fled Connecticut to escape yet another smallpox epidemic. The nearness of death was used by...
May 16, 2021 | Sunday Evening
This afternoon, let’s think about the word “above” as we find it in verse 1. There are several Greek words translated “above.” “Huper” (hoop-ER) for example is found 11 times in the Bible – it is an adverb or a...
May 16, 2021 | Sunday Morning
Through the years, our church has had members who did not quite see eye-to-eye with their pastor. Usually that has not been a major problem. Probably only my wife agrees with me – 90% of the time. I don’t force everyone to believe exactly the way that I do...
May 15, 2021 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: On Resurrection Sunday the Lord sent us seventeen people to hear His Word. That number includes four visitors, two first time and two repeating visitors. One of those new visitors came the following Sunday and seemed happy to attend, but has...
May 13, 2021 | This Sunday in Baptist History
George Williams in his religious history of the Netherlands wrote, “Persecution of the Anabaptists in the southern Netherlands (Belgium) had been especially severe from the outset. In the period of our narrative the number of Belgium martyrs was about three thousand,...
