Category Archives: April 2026

It was my privilege to preach this past Sunday (4/26/26) in our home church, Thompson Road Baptist Church in Indianapolis, as we celebrated the church’s 68th anniversary. My text was I Cor. 15:58. The outline was very simple: 1) A Reminder; 2) A Resolve; 3) A Rule; 4) A Reward. First, a reminder: Paul urges theContinue reading “Don’t Look Back!”

A missionary couple supported by our church, Dave and Marcia Darlin (Hong Kong), wrote the following in an email dated November 2004: “Last year one of our members, a medical doctor, took a series of exams that would allow her a higher level of medical practice. She failed them. Instead of cutting back on herContinue reading “Only A Boy”

The best day of my life (aside from the day I was born again and had my name written down in the Lamb’s Book of Life!) was when a beautiful 20-year-old pastor’s daughter, Ellen Martisha Beshears, walked down the carpeted center aisle on a warm mid-August evening in 1965 and exchanged sacred wedding vows withContinue reading “My Journey (part 3)”

Ancient philosophers argued that all men seek knowledge. They cited as an example the use of our senses: sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch—the use of which we ever employ in learning.  While it may be true that all men seek knowledge, it is equally true—and this the philosophers failed to understand—that knowledge in andContinue reading “The Cry of Wisdom (Proverbs 1:20-33)”

From time to time I share some good counsel that preachers of yesteryear have left for the generations to come. I hope these words of advice will bless and help preachers of this 21st century. Charles G. Finney, 19th-century evangelist, wrote an article with the title “How to Preach So As to Convert Nobody.” HereContinue reading “Some Good Advice, Preachers”

As we have noted, there is more than one command in the New Testament that believers should be hospitable. In fact, even as one reads the Old Testament Torah, God gave the Israelites several injunctions concerning their treatment of “strangers,” always reminding them that they were once strangers for 400 years in Egypt. So, how’sContinue reading “Hospitality (pt. 2)”

That command occurs in I Peter 4:9, given at a time when the church, still in its infancy, was aware that there were many believers, persecuted severely, who had lost everything they had. They would fit the description of the apostle John, who wrote: “Beloved thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren andContinue reading “Use Hospitality”

Pilate tried again to persuade the crowd that he should release to them Jesus, but again they cried for His blood. Finally, at about 6 a.m. he delivered Jesus over to the mob and they took Him and led Him away to be crucified. Immediately, upon His release from Pilate, soldiers seized our Savior, strippedContinue reading “His Last 24 Hours”