Feb 7, 2021 | Sunday Morning
If you’ve never heard the ancient Indian story about the blind men and the elephant, I will correct your lack of education right now. A group of blind men were told that a strange animal, called an “elephant,” had been brought to their town. Not only had they never...
Feb 4, 2021 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Jonathan Goble is not a well-known name, but it should be. Goble and his wife were the first Baptist missionaries in Japan. Jonathan was born in 1827. He rejected his religious upbringing and ended up in prison for two years for threatening the life of another man....
Feb 1, 2021 | Sunday Evening
I have been in God’s service and ministry for over 50 years. I say that without the least bit of pride, because I know that I am here only by God’s grace. And I am constantly discovering my ministerial failures. I could give you a litany of those failures, but even in...
Jan 31, 2021 | Sunday Morning
As you might surmise, I am still building on a message which started two weeks ago. When Joseph and Mary brought the infant Jesus into the temple to give Him to Jehovah, Simeon was there to greet them. He had been looking for the “consolation of Israel” – the comfort...
Jan 28, 2021 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Isaac Dermout was not born a Baptist, and he never became a Baptist. He was a Protestant, born on this day in 1777, and eventually becoming chaplain to the King of the Netherlands. He and Dr. Anne Ypeij, professor of Theology in Gronigen, were commissioned by the king...
Jan 24, 2021 | Sunday Morning
Sister Brenda Roberts and I were joking back and forth on Thursday about the need to learn new things. She is apparently right-handed, and it was her right shoulder which had surgery on Monday. So she is having to learn to do simple, every-day things differently –...
Jan 23, 2021 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Interesting Development: Years ago, at the beginning of our ministry here, Roxanne and I witnessed unto a young umnarried Mexican couple and helped Jose find employment and them a place to live. They had been living in their car for lack of...
Jan 21, 2021 | This Sunday in Baptist History
American Baptists were introduced to their missionary responsibilities in West Africa through the thousands of slaves who had been kidnaped and brought to this country from that region. Many of the people carried here brought with them the pagan witchcraft of their...
