By: Ron Woodrum One of my favorite hymns is the hymn-“JESUS SAVES”. I’m sure you recall the lyrics. We have heard the joyful sound Jesus Saves! Jesus Saves! Spread the tidings all around Jesus Saves! Jesus Saves! Bear the news to every land, Climb the steeps and cross the waves; Onward tis our Lord’s…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “We have not seen the last of the best!” Revivals have been a big part of my life for over six decades. I was saved in September of 1968. My parents were saved the next fall, November 1969, during a revival with Gerald Thompson as the Evangelist at the Salem Baptist Church of…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “A Brand Plucked From the Fire-with the World His Gospel Parish”. One of the most interesting and impacting Christian influences of the 18th Century was John Wesley. Historians feel that he, and possibly George Whitefield, are the reason that England escaped the Revolutionary tragedy and turmoil that plagued France during this same…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: “Be Pedestaled in Triumph”-Robert Browning. Paschal, in his masterpiece Penses, tried to explain why the world in his day, like ours, seems lost in their insatiable pursuit of pleasure at any cost. He said, “What else does this craving, and this helplessness proclaim but that there was once in man true happiness,…