IF A BAPTIST, WHY? Part II This is a continued subject from last week, I continue the subject with a question. Where do our protestant paedobaptist friends miss it? I think they miss it in their erroneous and confused misunderstanding of the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
IF A BAPTIST, WHY? Today there is very little conviction among modern Baptist as to why they are Baptist. Most are so by name only, and from family tradition, and classify themselves ‘Protestants’. The historical Baptists prior to the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THE LOVE OF GOD “Smile, God loves you”! Is it Biblical to only tell men ‘God loves them’? Is it right for them to think that God ‘loves’ them since the Bible says that God is ‘angry’ with many? Is it honest to tell men that God ‘loves’ them...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
WORSHIP “Oh come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker. For He is our God; And we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand” (Psalm 95:6-7). Worship, by far, is the most important of all...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
GRACE “By grace are you saved”: Ephesians 2:8 In all fourteen epistles attributed to the Apostle Paul (I include Hebrews), either in the salutation or conclusion, he invokes the grace of God upon the Church. He does so without any explanation...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
CONVERSION Conversion: the turning around of a sinful, rebellious soul certainly does not lie in the will of unregenerate men. If your soul is ever turned to God and His Christ it will be accomplished by Omnipotence. Joseph Alleine in his...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
TEACH US TO PRAY “And it came to pass, that, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, one of His disciples said unto Him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.” (Luke 11:1) As we enter a New Year I, as this...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
HAPPINESS Happiness, what a fulfilling and filledfull grace to start the New Year, what a glorifying grace to the witness of our Father. Happy is the man in Psalm 1: the blessed or happy man negatively lives in a world such as ours and with a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
PAUL’S JOY IN CHRIST Though we, as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, are to despise hypocrisy, there is a genuine gladness and gaiety in the Christian spirit that ought to be manifested. I delight in Christ, in what I have in Christ and what...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
PROFITING FROM THE SCRIPTURES “All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable …” II Timothy 3:16 When you are reading or listening to the Word of God taught or preached what is your objective? Many have varying reasons and for...[ abbreviated | read entire ]