This issue of the Baptist Times initiates a step I’ve wanted to take for quite some time. In the past, we’ve published issues that dealt with particular themes, but this year we’re taking that to another level. I’ve long had a desire to create coordinated substantive content about various subjects that are, or should be,…
A moving sidewalk revealed two classes of people recently and confirmed something I’ve been promoting in a current preaching series on discernment. You know what a moving sidewalk is, right? It’s an escalator without the up and down. I stepped onto one a few weeks ago and noticed the same sign that most all of…
I know some of you likely will refuse to read more than this opening paragraph. That is understandable because my premise is shocking, but you might just be one of those who needs most to read a little further. Here it is: It is possible for environments that involve the most preaching to actually have…
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. (Prov. 27:1) I started out on my typical morning run of three miles at Boomer Lake in Stillwater, Oklahoma. It was about 5:45 a.m. and temperature in the 20s. The early chest pains in the first mile were easily…
Article written by Pastor Dan Preston of Bethany Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas. A memorial that I visited in the Philippines occupies 152 acres on a prominent plateau and is visible at a distance from the east, south and west. It contains the graves of 17,201 soldiers, most of whom lost their lives in New…
