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The Weekly Discourse | Have you ever wondered what kind of preaching could have regularly drawn crowds of people at 7am in the morning?  In this week’s discourse we hear from Dr. Chris Holmes on the preaching of Benjamin Keach. Keach was the first of a string of powerful preachers to fill the pulpit of his church – John Gill and Charles Spurgeon would follow Keach as Pastor of the church...

“He described his prison cell as ‘a hole in the earth’ and compared it to slaughterhouses of men. He wrote to friends that it was a “living tomb, a sink of filth, profaneness and profligacy.’ His circumstances were hard…and yet, God drew near with grace. In another letter he describes the ‘overruling grace which makes his cell a prison chamber of the great King.’ He believed he was incarcerated by...

Do you have true joy? Not happiness based on your circumstances, but true and enduring joy in the Lord Jesus Christ? Tom Hicks, Pastor of First Baptist Church of Clinton, LA talks about this in his exposition of John 17:13 in the following sermon, titled, Do You Have Joy in the Lord? Tom Hicks is Pastor of First Baptist Church of Clinton, LA. https://fbcclintonla.com/ This Sermon Select has been p...

The Weekly Discourse | The Poetry and Allegory of Benjamin Keach In this talk, Pastor John Miller considers the poetry of Benjamin Keach as a unique feature of the portion of his life in which he endured severe persecution. I hope you are as blessed as we have been by this discourse. John Miller is Pastor of Grace Baptist Church of Carlisle, PA. To find out more about the ministry of GBC Carl...

Confessing the Faith | "The whole counsel of God concerning all things necessary for His own glory, man's salvation, faith and life, is either expressly set down or necessarily contained in the Holy Scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelation of the Spirit, or traditions of men." Confessing the Faith is a theological and devotional walk through the 1689 Bapt...

The Credobaptist position is not rooted in an overly simplistic biblicism. It is rooted in a right view of the sanctity of God’s worship, the nature of the New Testament Church (as consisting of saints), and a proper understanding of the Biblical Covenants. This is not a dispensational or anabaptistic set of arguments, but is thoroughly Protestant and Reformed in nature. If you were born to genuin...

What is the place of the Church in God’s eschatological plan? There are many differing opinions out there. Most of us were taught that the Church was just a parenthesis in God’s plan to fulfill prophesy. Yet, if we are following the interpretation of the Apostles, we come to a very different conclusion. In fact,  the church is the fulfillment of end times prophesy.  Sam Waldron, Pastor o...

The Weekly Discourse | "So many teach expository preaching and preach expositorily, and yet little of Christ was in the message...when you do that, I believe that you are hiding Christ from the people." In the coming weeks we will be kicking off a live class in Clinton, LA taught by Dr. Fred Malone on the subject of Preaching Christ from all of Scripture. This is a critical subject which has...

Confessing the Faith | To believe Scripture originally and to profit from Scripture continually, it is necessary to have the special help of the Spirit.  Let us never to forget the pray for the help of the Holy Spirit to profit as we study the Scriptures. "yet notwithstanding, our full persuasion and assurance of the infallible truth, and divine authority thereof, is from the inward work of t...

Particular Pilgrims | In the 17th century, women made up the largest demographic in Particular Baptist churches. How did they participate in worship and in the public meetings of the church? Introducing Particular Pilgrims: Stories from Reformed Baptist History told by Ron Miller, Pastor of Covenant Baptist Church of Clarksville, TN and a longtime student and collector of Particular Baptist Histor...

How do you order your prayers? How much thought do you give to what you pray for and how you organize your petitions? Should we pray whatever we feel, or what comes into our mind in a random, unorganized fashion? Or should we rather take time and give thought to who we are addressing, what we are asking for, and then ordering our petitions in a way which reflects the prayers of Scripture? You migh...

The Weekly Discourse | It could be that one of the last things you have given thought to with the distractions of the past 6 months is the subject of evangelism and open-air preaching. To many of us, it seems to be getting more and more difficult with the added complications of social distancing and what seems to be a significant increase of open hostility from our culture. Today I talk with Pasto...

Confessing the Faith | The Scripture does not mean what Rome says it means. The Scripture means what it says it means. "The infallible rule of interpretation of Scripture is the Scripture itself; and therefore when there is a question about the true and full sense of any Scripture (which is not manifold, but one), it must be searched by other places that speak more clearly." Confessing the Faith i...

Particular Pilgrims | In the 17th century, who made up the largest demographic in Particular Baptist churches? Women typically made up a majority of the membership of Particular Baptist Churches. Why was that? What was church life like for them? How did they participate in worship and in the public meetings of the church?  Introducing Particular Pilgrims: Stories from Reformed Baptist History...

Sermon Select | You are listening to Sermon Select on the Man of God Network, brought to you by Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. Our Good Shepherd has blessed his church with faithful under-shepherds, and for this we ought to be exceedingly grateful. But Paul warned the church in Ephesus to be on guard against false shepherds, or savage wolves. Many Christians have been ravaged by false shep...

The Weekly Discourse | How can we navigate honoring the 9th commandment in the digital age? How would one go about convincing their local church that the 4th commandment is still applicable today? How can pastors rest on the Lord’s Day? How can we uphold the 5th commandment in a time when our magistrates contradict each other? In the midst of our modular course on the Decalogue and Sabbath in...

Confessing the Faith | The Scripture is Self-Authenticating. That is to say, it does not have authority because of (as the Confession says) “the testimony of even man or church.” We do not believe the Bible because of the testimony of an infallible church or an expert historian, but on the basis of altogether higher authority. We believe it and follow it because it is the Word of God. Confessing t...

Particular Pilgrims | Does every story of a Particular Pilgrim end happily? We might wish so, but of course, we know better. As in every branch of Christ's church, some professing pilgrims prove disloyal. They can ruin themselves temporarily and sometimes eternally. What can we learn from the life and miserable death of the apostate Particular Baptist John Child? Introducing the newest show on the...

Sermon Select | One thing that we can be sure of in this life is that we will be faced with the temptation to compromise our faith and practice. The world, the flesh and the devil apply constant pressure to the church of God, at times threatening death or damages upon those who don’t get on the “right side of history”. These compromises usually seem relatively harmless, hidden or inconsequential,...

The Weekly Discourse | What role does my continued obedience to the Law, or covenant faithfulness, play in my salvation? Are civil magistrates responsible to uphold the civil code in the Law of God? Is Theonomy consistent with the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith? In the midst of our modular course on the Decalogue and Sabbath in Redemptive history this past May, CBTS hosted a helpful convers...

Confessing the Faith | If God's word says it, that settles it. "The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man or church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the Author thereof; therefore it is to be received because it is the Word of God." Confessing the Faith is a theological and devotional walk through the 1689 Baptist...

Particular Pilgrims | Does every story of a Particular Pilgrim end happily? We might wish so, but of course, we know better.  As in every branch of Christ's church, some professing pilgrims prove disloyal. They can ruin themselves temporarily and sometimes eternally. What can we learn from the life and miserable death of the apostate Particular Baptist John Child?  Introducing the newest show on t...

Sermon Select | In these days many are giving more consideration to the reality of death. In this week’s sermon we hear from 17th century Pastor Benjamin Keach, who Pastored the Particular Baptist church in Horsely-down, Southwark. This sermon, entitled, A Summons to the Grave , was preached on March 28th, 1676 at the funeral of a godly Pastor named John Norcott. I hope that you are blessed by thi...

The Weekly Discourse | This week’s discourse is a continuation of Dr. Michael Haykin course on Biblical Spirituality in the Christian Church. Last week Dr. Haykin talked about spirituality among the Particular Baptists and traced the movement from its rich beginnings through a period of spiritual decline and through a period of revival expressing itself in missionary zeal. He talked about the...

Confessing the Faith | For what reason did God give and preserve the Scriptures? "Therefore it pleased the Lord at sundry times and in diversified manners to reveal Himself, and declare that His will unto His church; and afterward for the better preserving and propagating of the truth, and for the more sure establishment and comfort of the church against the corruption of the flesh, and the malice...