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(Originally published on Feb. 1, 2026)                Last week after I returned from traveling in Canada, I gave you an introduction to Mark 13 which centered on the importance of studying eschatology. I may have surprised some by saying that eschatology is not my favorite Bible topic while at the same time saying we need…

Continue Reading Serious About the Series

               Just before leaving on a brief vacation last week, I finished reading Isaiah, my favorite Old Testament book. I read the entire Bible systematically each year in addition to my other readings for sermons, and of course, the Sunday scriptures read with the congregation. Perhaps you have noticed I often choose passages from Isaiah…

Continue Reading Traveling With Isaiah

               Today as I sat at my desk, the task before me was all too familiar. A few years ago, a group of church members commissioned the printing of a volume containing approximately seven hundred bulletin articles written over a period of ten years. Kyle Wells was the editor who occasionally asked questions but successfully…

Continue Reading Enduring the Tasks

               Most of you are familiar with surfing the internet and following random links not knowing the place where you will stop and finally say, “It is enough.” The links I follow almost always touch theology and are too irresistible to ignore. Occasionally, I discover a golden nugget that plants an idea in my head,…

Continue Reading God’s Mirror

(This article was written for Thanksgiving 2025)                Today we arrive for our services with the smells of tasty food wafting in the air around us. The tables are prepared for another Thanksgiving service and meal which is usually one of our favorite times of the year. This year, I am conflicted with the holidays.…

Continue Reading The Glory of God Yesterday, Today, and Forever

            Our new afternoon class discussion of the 1689 London Confession of Faith is now blossoming into a soul thrilling examination of the wonderful, miraculous doctrines of God’s word. Most of you were taught that salvation and Christianity are uncomplicated and simple enough for small children to understand. The Confession confirms this in only one…

Continue Reading Securing Our Faith

               Over the past 23 years, I have used bulletin articles to give you small snippets of my testimony. I would not call my experience moving if you are looking for unusual triumphs in the face of adversity. It is difficult to accumulate a sickening yet exciting list of atrocious acts while living with godly…

Continue Reading Salacious Secret Sins

               I am happy to return to the Berean pulpit this morning to continue our mixed study of the Church of Jesus Christ. I call it mixed because I have separated out only a few areas of the many we discussed in past sermon series. Our topic today is Church Purity which I hope provokes…

Continue Reading Holy or Hypocrite?

               This week I am away from the pulpit visiting family in Kentucky. If all went well today, I should be in Bardstown, KY at the Parkway Baptist Church with attendance last week at the Andover Baptist Church in Linthicum Heights, Maryland. In the past, I have drafted articles referencing these churches while I visit…

Continue Reading Are You Afraid of the Leak In the Ceiling?

               As I am writing the bulletin article for this week, I am four weeks ahead of the time you are reading. This is necessary, as you see I am not attending the service today because of my trip to Kentucky. This week I should be in a brief loop to Washington D.C. and then…

Continue Reading Warriors For True Social Justice

               In last week’s bulletin article, I announced a new Sunday afternoon class in which we will discuss the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith. I also made a plea for attendance because it is important for our people to expand their understanding of the reasons we are members of a Baptist church and…

Continue Reading Curiosities of the Confession

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. (Deuteronomy 32:4)                Each day around 5:00 p.m., I sit in my family room and read the Bible. The hub of each day’s activities is church work whether administrative…

Continue Reading Relaxed and Ready

               This week I have been thinking about the number of sermons I have preached from the Berean pulpit. A conservative figure lands around six hundred considering the smaller numbers preached through the COVID years and the times of illness and mourning. While a number of sermons have similar themes, I am happy to say…

Continue Reading “It is better to trust in the Lord than put confidence in man.”

               Yesterday, I started my Saturday morning finishing details on the Sunday sermon and making sure the scripture readings for each part of the service were in order. I checked my weekly list to be sure I marked off all items and since I put in extra time earlier in the week, I finished ahead…

Continue Reading Scattered Saturday Thoughts

               Today I am closing in on the last sermon dealing with Scribal Scammers. As we have noted, I expanded the teachings of Mark 12:38-40 to give us an overview of one of Satan’s most dastardly tricks. He perverts the scriptures and dresses them in Christian clothing to fool the unsuspecting with lies that condemn…

Continue Reading Blood Sport

Only a few short years ago, we were in the throes of the COVID panic with an empty church and the pastor standing in the pulpit delivering Sunday morning sermons to a room inhabited by ghosts. This was no doubt the unhappiest time of my preaching career with all the emotion sucked out of the…

Continue Reading God or You?

               I state the obvious when I say most, if not all of us, remember the campaign for the presidential election in 2024. As usual, the rhetoric that permeated every speech, every pundit’s comments, and the newscasters’ predictions was how this election stood far beyond any election in the past as to its impact on…

Continue Reading A Few Thoughts About Our Fight

               Today’s topic is vital and one that concerns us all. This is no doubt the principal issue of religion which makes it detrimental to the wellbeing and destiny of every soul. The question is authority—who has authority to order and govern us? There are many sublevels to this question but always there will be…

Continue Reading The Branches of Authority

               In these past few weeks, our study in the Gospel of Mark has brought us to the last week of Jesus’ life. As mentioned in the sermons, the four gospel accounts have more to say about this eight-day period than any other time during His ministry. There is so much to learn from it…

Continue Reading The Final Week

[1] But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. [2] And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth…

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