What Was the Final Authority in the OT?
Historical Baptists have held to distinguishing marks of faith and practice, including that the Bible is the final authority for faith...
Nurture Your Mothering
Motherhood contains a treasure trove of gems that build and beautify the lives of those nurtured. Mothers have a God-given role. To...
Growing Our Children in Favor with Man
The final way in which Luke 2:52 says that Jesus, in His humanity, increased was in favor with man. People can be pleased. Our children...
Growing Our Children in Favor with God
The Bible teaches that Son of God shared eternal glory and fellowship with His Father. But when He came to the earth as a child, the Lord...
Growing Our Children in Stature
During His life on Earth, Jesus set aside the full exercise of His divine attributes to live in the frailty of humanity. As such, He...
Growing Our Children in Wisdom
Jesus grew as a child in wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and man. Since God made parents the caretakers of their children, parents...
Wisdom, Stature, Favor with God and Man
The Lord Jesus Christ is our example in every area of life, including how He grew as a child. As man, He set aside the full exercise of...
'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus
The song “’Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus” was born out of great heartache and adversity. Its author, Louisa M.R. Stead, was born in...
An Honor to Preach
It is a high honor to preach God’s Word. Preachers proclaim truth. They announce “Thus saith the Lord!” They don’t mute the message, they...
Bible, Not Society
As Christians, we live in this world, but not of this world. Jesus asked the Father to keep believers (and specifically, His church) from...
Do You Really Want to Follow?
Often people will state that they want to follow Christ, and that can be encouraging. But the test comes when they are challenged about...
Be Not Weary in Well Doing
The Christian life can be described as a life of obedience. Paul calls it “being filled with the fruits of righteousness” (Philip. 1:11)....
If Your Opportunity Is Brief
John 3:36 says, “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath...
Happy End Year!
“Five, four, three, two, one…Happy New Year!” In the United States, the most famous countdown on New Year’s Eve is in New York City’s...
God's Great, Eternal Gift
“…but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” The Apostle Paul spoke these words in Romans 6:23. God is a giving...
How to Worship Christ on Christmas
What characterized the night that Christ was born? Worship. For instance, the angels descended from heaven, praising and glorifying God...
Hark, the Herald Angels Sing
Luke 2:14 records the glorious message the angel chorus proclaimed to the shepherds in announcing the birth of Christ: “Glory to God in...
Singing from Psalters in the Colonies
Churches have long-since sung from psalters. To the point, the Geneva Bible (1560) contained the metrical psalms bound with the Bible...
What God's Word Can Do
God’s Word is powerful, so much so that man cannot stop it. People can resist it and pervert it, but they cannot stop its powerful...
Give and Receive Help
Life has its ups and downs. We try to weather the storms, but sometimes the storm gets the better of us. As strong as we think we are...