July 2024

Dear Pastor and Brethren: Many Visitors Sis. Kim asked her friend Stephanie to bring her to the service one Sunday morning and Stephanie did so and came with her. We had seven in the service that morning. Next, Bro. Jose’s sister Elena came to visit him from...

The Application of Faithfulness – I Timothy 1:12-17

I have no authority to say so, but I think that if we could have asked Paul, “How is your life going?” He would have said, “I have the best, most joyous, most purposeful life I could every have imagined.” Like all of us – like Daniel – like David – Paul’s life had its...

Ineffective Religion – Matthew 7:21-23

What is the best test for the value of something? It is not necessarily the number of servings per pound. I might go into a grocery store and see a piece of meat which I think is a good price. But you might realize that there is too much fat or an inedible bone, and...

August 18

On this day in 1846 the United States, under General Stephen Kearny, took possession of New Mexico.  Almost immediately, H.W. Read and Samuel Gorman, Baptist missionaries, arrived in Santa Fe.  Read had the joy of leading twenty-one-year old Blas Chavez to Christ, and...

The Expectation of Faithfulness – I Corinthians 4:1-2

This is our third lesson in a brief study of faithfulness. In our last message we considered the faithfulness of the Lord. Over and over again we are told such things as: “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”...

A Gap in Some People’s Theology – Genesis 1:1-2

As I said last Sunday, nearly every important doctrine can be studied beginning with the Book of Genesis. It might be argued that there are exceptions. Which of these doctrines MIGHT not be found in Genesis? (Angelology, Theology, Hamartiology, Soteriology,...

August 11

he formal ministry of William Evander Penn didn’t begin until he was nearly fifty, but he had already been a dedicated servant of Christ for decades.  William Penn, the Baptist not the Quaker, was born on this day in 1832 in Rutherford County, Tennessee.  At the age...

A Seldom Discussed Divine Attribute – Genesis 8:20-22

I have seen more than 27,000 days during my short lifetime. Every one of them followed a period of darkness which I have called “night.” The succession of night and day, night and day, has been throughly consistent throughout my life. In fact, that succession has been...

June 2024

Dear Pastor and Church On the thirtieth of June we had a first-time visitor by the name of Noah. He is a junior at OSU studying for an agricultural/business degree. He said that his father is a preacher in a small church down in southeastern Ok, and that he was going...

Faithfulness – I Corinthians 4:1-4

I would like to begin a short study of the Biblical subject of “Faithfulness.” I know this isn’t as exciting as the Millennium or how the upcoming election or War in Gaza relate to the Tribulation. I know that a study of “faithfulness” isn’t like studying evangelism...