Oct 13, 2022 | Wednesday
Where would you prefer to live: on the planet Mercury or on whatever Pluto is being called today? Astronomers tell us that the surface temperature of Mercury is 354 degrees Fahrenheit. I don’t know if that is on our side of Mercury or on the Sun’s side, but it doesn’t...
Oct 6, 2022 | Wednesday
Do you have a sister, who used to be very close to you, but who now refuses to let you see her children, because you became a Christian, and she became a Mormon? Or did you loose your job when you told your employer that you had been saved? Have you ever been teased...
Sep 22, 2022 | Wednesday
Have you ever noticed that every once in a while I can make some really profound statement? I have to think really hard to come up with these to make sure they are accurate as well as erudite. For example we begin with one tonight: “Life is always changing.” Have you...
Sep 8, 2022 | Wednesday
Abraham Marshall was the second pastor of the first Baptist church in Georgia. The Kiokee church, was started by his father, Daniel, near Augusta, across the Savanna River from South Carolina. In 1786, Abraham, rode his horse from Georgia to Connecticut. He had two...
Sep 1, 2022 | Wednesday
One of the things which made the timing of Christ’s incarnation so exciting was the way in which God providentially brought many factors together. Only “when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son…” Things like the Greek language and the unity...
Aug 25, 2022 | Wednesday
Let’s put you into what I hope is a familiar picture. You are an 8-year-old boy, living with your parents and two sisters. Your father works 14 hours a day as slave labor, laying brick, and you started several months ago making those bricks, baking them under the hot...
Aug 18, 2022 | Wednesday
Let’s say that you are walking down a busy downtown street, and you find yourself among three strangers. No one seems to know anyone else, and there isn’t any talking between you. After a minute or two, you hear the siren of a rapidly approaching police car – two...
Aug 11, 2022 | Wednesday
Having just read this scripture, you may be thinking that this will be some sort of “filler message.” The preacher needs to look at these words only because they are in the context. You may think, this scripture doesn’t apply to 21st century Americans, because none of...
Jul 21, 2022 | Wednesday
Are you familiar with the Rorschach Inkblot Test? Back in the 1920s Hermann Rorschach came up with the idea that someone could reveal their soul by describing the image created with ink dropped onto a piece of paper which was then folded and reopened. What does this...
Jul 14, 2022 | Wednesday
Peter reminds us that it is the will of God we submit ourselves to the ordinances of men. And as we have seen in earlier lessons, the purpose of this submission is for the glory of the Lord and the evangelism of the lost. He also adds a couple of qualifications and...
Jul 7, 2022 | Wednesday
Good sermons begin with a text of scripture and as the Lord directs, other scriptures, explanations, illustrations and applications are used to bring that scripture home to the heart. We have an example of this here in this passage. The scripture text is made up of...
Jun 30, 2022 | Wednesday
I was driving one of our members back from a medical appointment at the VA hospital one afternoon. While on Francis Street I glanced over and saw a small office with a sign above the door reading: “Abstemious Outpatient Clinic.” I was confronted with a new word:...
Jun 23, 2022 | Wednesday
Not very long ago, I preached a series of messages from verses 9 and 10. At least it doesn’t seem very long ago to me, because they were such a blessing to my heart. I have no idea whether or not you remember them. I hope you do, but forty months can seem like a...
Jun 16, 2022 | Wednesday
You have just spent half hour at the grocery store, looking for the supplies you need for a camping trip. You have been planning this little get-away for a month, and in your pocket is the cash you’ve been laying aside to pay for it. As you go through the store, you...
Jun 9, 2022 | Wednesday
One of the ways in which God keeps the Bible relevant throughout the ages is by using timeless illustrations. And for our instruction, the Holy Spirit has given us one of those illustrative metaphors right here. “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word,...
