Sep 22, 2024 | Sunday Morning
It has been several years now, so my memory of the details may not be spot on. But as I remember it, one day the church phone rang, and I heard a woman’s voice. She mentioned her name and that she was then at the mini storage place at the corner of 12th and Highway...
Sep 19, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Fredrick Rymker was born in Stige, Denmark, on this day in 1819. He learned the trade of shoemaking, but at the age of twenty he went to sea. When an accident struck him down, he was fitted with a wooden leg, and from then on looked like the proverbial peg-leg...
Sep 15, 2024 | Sunday Evening
Acts 9 is the chapter which describes the salvation of Saul of Tarsus, before he became the Apostle Paul. As a former champion of the Jews and a leader in the persecution of God’s saints, his conversion to Christ radically changed the religious landscape in Israel. ...
Sep 15, 2024 | Sunday Morning
I would like to begin with a quote from the well-known preacher, A.W. Tozer. Tozer was a Christian Missionary Alliance pastor. This comment was made most likely about 75 years ago. He wrote – “Something has happened to the doctrine of justification by faith…...
Sep 12, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Samuel Slater immigrated to this country from England, bringing with him his work in two different fields of interest. From memory he reproduced the cotton machinery he used back home, and in so doing becoming the founder of the American cotton industry. In 1793 he...
Sep 9, 2024 | Sunday Morning
Some of the silliest commercials on television are a series promoting a brand of men’s hygiene products. One of the earliest in this long series was particularly funny. The first ran for a few weeks, and it was apparently so popular that they came up with a sequel,...
Sep 8, 2024 | Sunday Evening
Before considering our Lord’s words here in John 14, please turn to what He said Matthew 7. We are turning from the “Upper Room Discourse” to the “Sermon on Mount.” Look at verse 24 – “Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a...
Sep 5, 2024 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In the struggle for religious liberty in this country the following letter was submitted to the General Assembly of Connecticut: “To the Honourable Genl Assembly of ye Colony of Connecticut, to be convened at New Haven on ye second Thursday of October next. The humble...
