Oct 24, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Vavsor Powell was born into one of the leading families in North Wales. He was given an excellent education, graduating from Jesus College, Oxford. As an unsaved man he was ordained an Anglican minister. Then one day a Puritan found him breaking the Sabbath by...
Oct 20, 2019 | Sunday Evening
This afternoon I’d like to take a favorite children’s story and try to look at it from an adult’s perspective. Most kids raised in Sunday School know the story of Gideon. They know that he was a timid man, living in trying times, risking his life just to keep his...
Oct 20, 2019 | Sunday Morning
We haven’t done this before, but I’d like you to go back to the scripture we read earlier in our service. It’s not that I’ve slipped a mental cog, or I have had a problem with the earlier reading. It’s that I’d like you to realize there is more than one way to read...
Oct 19, 2019 | Timothy Parrow
Dear Pastor and Brethren: Six New Visitors! The Cody and Jeanette Sworb family with baby and her daughter, Erica, visited with us one Sunday, and two OSU students, Ashton Mainord and Kaleb Vance visited with us on another Sunday. We have not had very many OSU...
Oct 17, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Adam Burwell Brown was born on this day (October 20) in 1821. He was raised in Virginia and first educated by the Episcopalians. It was expected that he would become a priest of that denomination, but upon studying the Word of God, he became a Baptist. He attended...
Oct 13, 2019 | Sunday Morning
There is an infamous cult of quasi-Christians living in the hills of West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Every once in a while they pull out their stash of rattlesnakes and play with them in their church services. They carry them; they stroke them; they even hold...
Oct 10, 2019 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Julius Kobner was the son of a Danish Jewish Rabbi. Following his training as an engraver he traveled from place to place plying his trade. While visiting in Hamburg, Germany he met the Baptist Johann Oncken when he came under conviction and was converted to Jesus...
