Sorry for the long while since the last update, but I've been just a little bit busy - i.e. baby born, baby feeding, diaper duty, etc.  But, the website is back up and running! 

Tonight, we are beginning a new sermon series, so I hope you join us.  It is called Christianese 101.  In it, we will be defining some words that are used in Scripture that you may or may think that you understand.  All this month we will be looking at these different terms and how they more fully illustrate Jesus' work on the cross and salvation!  Hope to see you tonight!!! 

Yours and His, 

Keith

Hey guys and gals:

Just wanted to let y'all know that tonight is the last Wednesday in the Galatians series!  See you there!

Hey Guys and Gals:

Just  wanted to share with y'all a bold statement from a deacon in 1884:

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by Col. James R. Binford

At the Duck Hill Baptist Sunday School

October 18, 1884

            This is a subject of such vital importance, I would that it had been assigned to one more competent than myself to discuss.  I feel that comparatively few parents have given the importance of Sunday School attendance the serious and prayerful consideration it deserves.

            In reality what is a Sunday School, that parents should be so seriously and prayerfully consider their relations to it?  In brief, I might reply that the Sunday School is the greatest auxiliary of the church which might be called, as it were, a recruiting camp for the 'army of the Lord'.  It may be compared to a camp of instruction to the armies of Nations, where men uneducated and unprepared for the active duties of a soldier are drilled , taught and instructed in the duties appertaining to the life of a soldier.  So pupils in a Sunday school are instructed in the Scripture and taught the law of God and what constitutes Christianity and of the great blessings which flow eternally from spiritual regeneration.

            A large majority of parents are deeply interested in the education of their children in text books and are careful to see that they attend school every day and furthermore that they be there promptly when school opens; and at night these parents not only see that their children study and prepare their lessons for the following day but aid them in every way possible.  But apparently very few parents feel that interest in their children attending Sunday School for one hour each week, they seem anxious to educate the heads of their children but grossly neglect the education of their hearts.

            So it distressingly appears that the average parent cares very little or nothing for the morals, the eternal well-fare of their children, but to suggest this to them would incur their indignation and probably their enmity.  Parents should be interested in Sunday School work from an educational standpoint for no boy or girl's education can be complete without a knowledge of the Bible, and this will not be denied by any scholar.

            Real parents acknowledge children as a gift from God and they should treasure that gift most highly and should strive to train them that they will honor their parents with their lives, for that reason parents should sincerely and earnestly strive to rear their children so that when they grow into young womanhood and manhood they will be a credit to their parents and bring forth fruits to the honor and glory of the 'Giver of Good Gifts,' to such parents, if you are here today, let me speak a word; do you ever seriously consider what a Sunday School really is and your duties to the Sunday School?  If not let us reason together a while and see if you have measured up to the full responsibility placed upon you as parents and if you fully realize that responsibility God has placed upon you in being parents, for we are commanded to train up our children in the nurture and admiration of the Lord?  Are you doing it now?  Do you recall that Solomon said 'Train up a child in the way that he should be and when he is old he will not depart from it'?  Are you obeying God's command and Solomon's admonition?  Do you attend Sunday School with your child that he may receive the nurture and admiration?  Are you training your child up in the way it should be?  Do you stay away from Sunday School and let someone else do the training on the street or probably in questionable or disreputable resorts?

            Would that I had the elegance and power to cause every parent in our land to realize the importance of training their children in the way they should be and explain the great blessings from Sunday School work.  I am confident I can safely say that a majority of parents do not realize their responsibility to their children and relation to the Church and Sunday School, for if they did we certainly would find more of them in our Sunday Schools and fewer parents who seem to thing if they send their children, or even advise them to attend Sunday School that they have done their duties.  Frequently mistaken souls serve too late and later realize their fatal mistake."