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We plan to have the "From the Pastor" part of our bulletin posted here each week so stay tuned.

New Directory

We are in the process of making a new church directory. The pictures will be made on Tuesday March 31st. Be sure to sign up to have your pictrue made. We want as complete a directory as we can get.

News From Walnut Street

We will be having a fellowship lunch after our Sunday morning service October 26th. It is the sixth anniversary of Bro. Paul's first sermon at Walnut Street. On Monday, October 27th, Bro. Paul and Sis. Janie will be leaving for Paris, France. They will be spending a week with our missionary, Jason Clark, and his family. Bro. Clark plans to give a full report of their trip upon their return.

The picture is of Bro. Paul preaching on a Sunday Night at Walnut Street Missionary Baptist Church.

From the Pastor

The picture is of our pastor standing next to figures of Abraham Lincoln and his wife and son. Our pastor is distantly kin to Mary Todd Lincoln. This picture was taken while he attended the Amercian Baptist Association a few years ago.

“A Ladies Meeting” (Acts 16:13) And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted [thither].
In this text Luke tells of an occasion when he and the Apostle Paul were in the city of Philippi and went out to the river side where they met a congregation of women. These women had met together each Sabbath day not to gossip but to pray and worship God together. Paul sat down and spoke with these women. One of them was a woman named Lydia. She heard Paul speak and accepted Jesus Christ as her savior. She was baptized along with her whole household. The saving of this family began with a lost woman attending a Ladies meeting. She had been worshiping the true God with the other ladies at this regular meeting but she did not know about Jesus Christ. Men are suppose to be the spiritual leaders of their household. The Philippian jailor of this same city would come to know Jesus as his savior and would lead his household to the Lord. But here Lydia takes the lead and her household was saved. When a group of people meet for such a Godly purpose, as was the case with this ladies meeting, then good things happen which bring lost souls to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

From the Pastor for September 28, 2008

The picture is of our pastor teaching the Adult class at our Mid-Week Bible School.

From the Pastor:
Psalm 112:7 “He shall not be afraid of evil tidings.”
Child of God, you ought not to dread the arrival of “evil tidings” because if you are distressed by them, then you are no better off than those who do not know the LORD of hosts. Others do not know the God of your hope. They have never proved His faithfulness as you have done, and it is no wonder if they tremble with fear but you profess to be of a better spirit. You have been begotten again unto a lively hope, and your heart lives in heaven and not on earthly things. If you are seen to be fearful and worried as other men, what is the value of that grace which you profess to have received?
If you should be filled with worry and fear, as others are, you would be led into the same sins so common to unbelievers when they are under trying circumstances. The ungodly, when they are overtaken by evil tidings, rebel against God; they murmur, and think that God deals hardly with them. Will you fall into that same sin? Will you provoke the Lord as they do?
Unsaved people put their trust in the wrong things when evil tidings come their way. They trust in self rather than in God. Evil tidings will come our way and how we react to them shows our faith. Trust in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. The plan of action is to do like Moses at the Red Sea, “Stand still and see the salvation of God.” For if you give way to fear when you hear of evil tidings, you will be unable to meet the trouble with that calm composure needed in times of adversity. How can you glorify God if you are overcome with fear? Take courage, and relying in sure confidence upon the faithfulness of your covenant with God, “let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

From the Pastor for September 21, 2008

The picture is of our pastor preaching on a Sunday night at Walnut Street.

From the Pastor:
(1 Kings 1:5) Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king...
Self exaltation is strongly condemned in God's Holy Word. It never comes out for good. Adonijah showed little interest in his father's failing health. King David was on his death bed while his son Adonijah was making plans to take over the kingdom. Adonijah made alliances with highly influential men of David's kingdom and spent his time positioning himself to be King. There is no record of his visiting or sitting with his father who was very near death. It were as if he cared not for his father but would be overjoyed to see him die so that he could have the kingdom. There is no love in the heart of one who is this self-centered and selfish. Not only would he not be king by exalting himself he would be dead because of his attempt to exalt himself.
Reader, be advised, and learn from the failure of this son of Haggith. If you seek to exalt yourself you will be brought low. The Lord said to take the lowest seat at a feast and not the highest. The key to greatness and exaltation is humility and service. The Lord loves the heart of a servant. By serving our Lord, humbly and lowly we will one day hear Him say “Well done, thou good and faithful servant” and we will receive from Him a crown of righteousness which fadeth not away.

From the Pastor for September 14, 2008

The picture is of our pastor and his parents a few years ago at one of our fellowships at Walnut Street.
From the Pastor:
Leviticus 19:36 “Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have.”
Balances are commanded to be just, Weights and measures are also commanded to be kept just or accurate and fair. Surely no Christian needs to be reminded of this in his business, for if righteousness is not found anywhere else on the earth it can always be found in the hearts of the children of God. There are other balances besides those used for commerce. These weigh and measure moral and spiritual things, and these often need to be examined.
The balances in which we weigh our own and other men’s characters, are they accurate? Do we turn our own ounces of goodness into pounds on one hand, and then on the other turn other's bushels of kindnesses into pecks? Make sure you use the same measurement for yourself as you do others. The scales in which we measure our trials and troubles, are they according to standard set by the Apostle Paul? He had more to suffer than we have, and called his afflictions light, and yet we often consider ours to be heavy. Surely something must be unjust with our weights. Let us rather measure our suffering and that of others by the One who suffered for the sins of us all, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. When a rich man gives no more to the cause of God than the poor is that a just ephah and a just hin? When the poor are despised, while ungodly rich men are held in admiration, is that a just balance? Find out and destroy all unrighteous balances, all unjust weights and measures. Weigh works in the light of truth found in God's Holy Word.