glrayIt will be hot outside today. Be careful. I am sipping my second cup of wake up juice and praying and pondering the day. Funeral at 11 at church. Prayers for family and our servants. I will seek to comfort, share the gospel and point to heaven. The big summit in Alaska with Trump and … Read more
I had two funerals last week and one this week. The devil pursued me as I prepared for the vision for Blackburn Chapel Baptist Church and immersed in prayer and Bible study. Sunday was four baptisms and several more to ready for next Sunday. Always an exciting time for the church. A mini Pentecost! Last … Read more
Baptism does not secure our salvation but reveals it has taken place, by picturing Jesus DEATH, BURIAL and RESURRECTION in water. It also shows our old person dead to sin and buried from that old way of life but raised to walk in the new life in Christ. Only baptism by full immersion in water … Read more
No matter my years, I continue to trust in the Lord. Though 77 I am but a child in God. My years are limited but God is eternal. I trust His promises! Every life span is different, each person unique, every life seems brief and we contemplate our fragility. Our years sometimes are marked with … Read more
The volume of sickness and death can be overwhelming but I am in my private place of prayer. The back porch, under the pergola and in the presence of the Father. My wife has made this clean, inviting and a Vickie coif decor. There is a light breeze, partly cloudy canopy and a thousand insects … Read more
We are quickly leaving the era of loyalty, patriotism, faithfulness and virtue. People are intellectually smart but morally foolish. People readily make a vow of marriage or an oath of commitment to an employer, but then in a brief period of time, dissolution happens. Our young people are confused about their gender and question all … Read more
Dr. C. S. Lovett wrote a book by that title many years ago, it has somehow disappeared from my library. The essence of God is love, not a quality or characteristic but His whole being. Thus He gives love naturally and purely of Himself. His creation of man was to breathe Himself into this creature … Read more
In as late as 1899, only five churches had Sunday Schools in the Friendship Baptist Association. Later it would become Pott.-Lincoln Baptist Association, and it was during that decade that Valley Grove Baptist Church was organized. Two of the leaders were Christopher and Nancy Jane Blackburn who donated the land and cemetery. In 1905 the … Read more
Roundhouse was the brand he wore, The little white tag proudly shown; Every pocket held a treasured need, Pencil, billfold, pocket knife and comb. Faded from dozens of hard washings, Sort of like his calloused old hands; But Grandpa was comfortable inside, This was the suit of true working man. A straw hat cocked back … Read more
“This world is not my home, I’m just a passing through, my treasures are laid up, somewhere beyond the blue; the angels beckon me from Heaven’s open door and I can’t feel at home in this world any more!” I remember Dad and Mom singing that old song and wondering about the mystery of another … Read more