Oct 5, 2025 | Sunday Morning
The Mather family exerted a great deal of influence on what was to become the United States of America. Not only did they love unusual “Christian names,” they were somewhat unusual Christians. Increase Mather was the father of the family, born in Dorchester,...
Sep 28, 2025 | Sunday Morning
The title to this message is “The Pentagram of Salvation.” That sounds a bit ominous, doesn’t it? It sounds almost Satanic, but I assure you, that’s not the way I intend to use it. But before I get that, I’d like to begin with an obviously fictitious story about a...
Sep 21, 2025 | Sunday Morning
I mentioned on Wednesday that several of us heard the Ten Commandments put into song last week. I have several Protestant hymn books and not one of them has a song containing the Ten Commandments. What we heard didn’t rhyme very well and the cadence wasn’t...
Sep 7, 2025 | Sunday Morning
II Peter 3:9 is probably the stickiest verse in this entire epistle. It is the most abused verse in II Peter. Some of you may be thinking that I should probably save it for some service other than a Sunday morning. But it deals with the subject of salvation, and so it...
Aug 31, 2025 | Sunday Morning
We have been experiencing God’s blessings over the last month. Among other things, soul’s have been saved, Christians’ hearts have been stirred, and visitors have permeated our services. The catalyst to these blessings hasn’t been anyone’s preaching, or changes in our...
Aug 10, 2025 | Sunday Morning
Unlike you, I am not a particularly good speller. It is probably due to laziness, but even as a child I remember my mother and I working on my spelling without a great deal of success. And so I thank the Lord for the “spell checker” and “auto-correct” programs...
Aug 4, 2025 | Sunday Morning
I am aware that my love of vocabulary is not shared by everyone. I like to use old words, big words, words that are interesting to me – even words I make up. But… I know that not everyone has the same delight. Yet, I’m going to continue my use and practices,...
Jul 27, 2025 | Sunday Morning
Last week we considered Mary’s anointing of Jesus’ feet. You might have pictured her washing the Lord’s feet before she anointed them with her spikenard. But that washing took place on an earlier occasion (Luke 7). An infamously sinful woman “stood at his feet behind...
Jul 13, 2025 | Sunday Morning
Isaac Newton was an early English scientist, and probably a “genius” before the word had been defined. He was raised in the Anglican denomination, but he held to some unorthodox views about Christ. Because of those views, I can’t say that he was a Christian in the...
Jul 6, 2025 | Sunday Morning
In the 1850’s England was at odds with Russia in what was called the “Crimean War.” At the “Battle of Balaclava” (1854), a British cavalry unit, the Light Brigade, charged into a valley surrounded by Russian artillery. The charge was the result of a...
Jun 29, 2025 | Sunday Morning
This was such an important miracle that all four gospel evangelists record it. And even though each of them add different points, they all agree on the major points. This is the feeding of the 5,000 and not of the 4,000 which came later. That multitude came together...
Jun 15, 2025 | Sunday Morning
Picture with me a little Jewish boy, named Caleb, growing up in ancient Israel, but without a father, grandfather or any uncles. Every male influence in his life has died in war. Caleb has been crushed by his loss, and he is angry with God. The boy’s mother does the...
Jun 9, 2025 | Sunday Morning
For some of you, at some point this morning, I am going to offend you. Believe it or not – that is a part of my commission. I have been tasked to remind you that you are not good enough for God. YOU are not good enough for heaven. You are a sinner in desperate need of...
Jun 1, 2025 | Sunday Morning
Last week we looked at an extreme, but typical, example of the DEPRAVITY of man. I tried to use Judas Iscariot to show the depths and length to which sin has corrupted the children of Adam. That man, who facilitated the crucifixion of Christ, was a...
May 25, 2025 | Sunday Morning
Judas Iscariot is, without a doubt, one of the most hated men in the Bible. After all, he was one of humanity’s most blessed men – he was one of Christ Jesus’ closest disciples. The first time Judas’ name is mentioned, it is in the list of disciples found in Matthew...
