The Certain Man who could have been Any man – Luke 10:25-37

Apr 13, 2025 | Sunday Morning

I have been preaching and teaching God’s Word since 1970.  That is more than fifty years.  And, as I was taught in Bible school, I have tried to keep track of all the messages I have preached.  Reviewing those notes the other day, I came away greatly surprised.  The...

April 13

Apr 10, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History

The first translation of the complete Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew into German was not made by the Protestant Martin Luther, but by the Anabaptists Ludwig Hetzer and Hans Denck. Historian Ludwig Keller, wrote in 1914, “The fact is by no means yet...

The Offering up of Ishmael – Romans 12:1

Apr 10, 2025 | Wednesday

Let’s start with a show of hands. How many of you know the story about Abraham’s offering of his son, Isaac? That sacrifice on the top of Mount Moriah is one of the great mountain peaks of the Bible. It strums so many strings and plays such wonderful music. There are...

Jesus Didn’t Come to Make You Comfortable – Matthew 10:34

Apr 6, 2025 | Sunday Morning

When was the last time you did something with absolutely no purpose for doing it? For example, when was the last time you got in your car, or mounted your bike, with no specific destination in mind? You might say, “There was a day back in the Fall, when I had nothing...

April 6

Apr 3, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Thomas Ansley was born on this day in 1769.  He was sprinkled and raised in the Church of England.  Following the Revolutionary War, his family moved from New York to New Brunswick, where he continued in his Protestant church, but with a growing spiritual...

Don’t let your Faith get Stuck in the Future – John 11:25-27

Apr 3, 2025 | Wednesday

To the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, despite being the infinite God, He never coerced people into doing His will or into believing what He told them. He simply laid out the facts, or people’s responsibilities, and left them to make the right decision. How very...

A Comparison of Cataclysmic Concepts  –  Colossians 1:12-14, 19-23

Mar 30, 2025 | Sunday Morning

This first chapter of Paul’s epistle to the Christians in Colosse is huge.   It is at the deep end of the pool.  Preachers from 300 years ago might have said that it is one of the most “pregnant” chapters in God’s Word.  It is full of important doctrine and...

March 30

Mar 27, 2025 | This Sunday in Baptist History

Absolom Backus Earle was born in 1812 in Charlton, New York.  He was converted to Christ at the age of sixteen and two years later he began preaching the gospel before being ordained at the age of twenty-one.  For the next five years he labored as a church planter in...

February 2025

Mar 24, 2025 | Timothy Parrow

Dear Pastor and Brethren, Spanish Outreach Although we have lost the Jose Bautista family, we continue to reach some of the Latino community with our personal contact and gospel tracts. The following names are those persons with whom we have had contact during the...

David Before the Bar – Psalm 4:1-8

Mar 23, 2025 | Sunday Evening

Let’s put this Psalm into the context of one of the modern lawyer/crime stories. It might have been written by David Baldacci or perhaps more likely – John Grisham. The hero is a lawyer, and, believe it or not, he is a good man, who has spent his career fighting crime...