I am grateful to the Lord for the nearly 21 years that He has allowed Teri and I to serve here at Summerville Baptist Church. I am thankful for the years we have been distributing food boxes to help families during this holiday season. This year the Lord enabled God’s people here to give away…
No matter how bad life gets on earth for any child of God, and we all know it can get really bad, yet still we have much to give thanks to God for in our lives. As we look at the world around us and ignore the mess sin and sinful people have made of…
If you were here in either of our Wednesday services, you would have heard Missionary John Pinnix of Remote Alaskan Mission use this quote in his sermons. This quote is one he heard from a long-time preacher friend and mentor. Jesus said in John 14:15, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” We also see…
I am not sure about you, but for me I have experienced the reality of this truth in many different ways in my lifetime. Rocking in a rocking chair creates a lot of action; however, you do not make any progress if you are trying to get from point A to point B, unless the…
I am thankful to the Lord and to His people and for the blessings of the Lord on His churches. I am thankful for how the Lord has blessed His people and how they are giving to the Lord’s work through His churches. I am thankful for more and more of God’s people getting back…
Romans 1:16-17 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live…
In Matthew 13:3 Jesus declared, in a parable, His will for every one of His followers when He said, “Behold, a sower went forth to sow;” and no one should have any confusion about what we are to be doing while we are here on earth. We must always remember that we are to be sowers of…
Our greatest purpose as humans is to please our Creator. This is the primary difference between the Biblical Worldview of life and the universe and every other conceivable worldview people profess belief in today. Humanism says personal awareness and pleasure is the chief end of man, but the Biblical Christian knows that the chief end…
This was Jesus’ final commission to His followers before He left them to return to Heaven where He left in order to come to earth in human form. He left Heaven to come to earth on a mission to be the redeemer of mankind who were lost in sin. He completed His mission and established…
Each of us who make up Summerville Baptist Church today have been given the gift of membership in this entrustment of the Lord’s Church here at Summerville. It is a legacy that has been passed down to us from the sixty-five-year history since this church was established. Others have gone before us as members in…