From Pastor Tedd Your word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against You. – Psalm 119:11 We cannot treasure Scripture if we don’t know it. That is why I am challenging each of us to memorize Scripture in 2022. Below are 12 passages of the Bible for each of us to work on this year. If you…

By Chip Thornton William Tyndale was taken to a high platform in public view. Bishops flanked him, robed in their priestly vestments. Anointing oil, symbolically, was scraped from his hands. The Lord’s Supper was placed before him and then quickly removed, tauntingly. Tyndale was wearing priestly vestments. They were stripped away from his body. Finally, he was handed over to the hangman.…

In our Summer in the Psalms sermon series, we have found some helps. Authors of our day have taken the words of the psalms and put them in poetic form we can sing to familiar hymn tunes. Below are the lyrics to Psalm 2 and Psalm 3. I’d encourage you to keep them by your Bible and sing them on occasion.   –…

When should a child take part in the Lord’s Supper? by Pastor Tedd Dear dads and moms, grandpas and grammas, uncles, and aunts: How I thank the Lord you are bringing your children to church and desiring them to live in faith and obedience to Christ. May your tribe increase! It is highly likely you are going to be asked by the…

By Pastor Sean Cole “…we are justified by his grace as a gift, through he redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith…” – Romans 3:24–25 What does it mean that God put forward Jesus as a propitiation by His blood? Propitiation is the Biblical term for Jesus exhausting…

By Jim Elliff How do we explain the sudden reversals of life found in the New Testament? As Jesus spoke, or Paul or Philip or any of the other presenters in the early days of Christianity, scores of people believed. It’s the suddenness of belief that shocks you. In a moment, before a day was over, or before a few days had…

Why we should not tell sinners God loves them unconditionally By Pastor Tedd Mathis Why This Came Up Recently, I preached a sermon about the teaching of Balaam and the Nicolaitans that Christ confronts in the church at Pergamum (Rev. 2:12-17). This teaching that led professing Christians to eat meat offered to idols and to commit acts of immorality was not a…

Dear church family: Here are five reasons why we have no need to participate in Lent. I’ve published this before several times, but was recently reminded by another Baptist pastor when Lent starts assuming me and our church should be participating in order to  “remember the Lord Jesus Christ and His walk to the cross and His walk out of the tomb!! The Lord gave me a thought to help me understand Lent better,…

By Virgil L. Walker My first football season was in 8th grade at Skelly Middle School. I wasn’t very good. I was smaller than most of the players, but if we were winning in the fourth quarter, the coach would say, “Walker, you’re up!” and put me in the game for the final three plays. I played safety primarily, because it didn’t…

By Pastor Tedd Mathis Why I am addressing this The mark of the beast should not bring anxiety to the Christian. I am told there is at least one video circulating on social media making a connection between the impending COVID vaccine and the mark of the beast referred to in Revelation. I have yet to see the video so do not…