South Decatur
Baptist Church

During a pause from activity in recent days, I thought of a chorus I last heard and sang as a child. I’m not endorsing choruses as a...

Very often the Apostle Paul writes in what some call, “bullet points.” They are instructions either in the imperative, commands, or the...

Understandably, the most popular time in the year to set goals is the very end of the year or the very beginning. The beginning of the...

ABC News’ Steve Osunsami reports on how churches faced with empty pews are fighting to keep their doors open, while former houses of...

We come to Christmas time again as we do every December. It’s colder. Some snow falls. Certain festive events occur. Decorations go up. ...

In the Christmas story, Mary is pregnant with Jesus on a trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem to pay some taxes there in that ancestral town. ...

Several pieces of internal evidence show the truth of the Bible. One is its coherence across different books and authors. The Bible...

Forms of the Greek word eucharisto from which the English word eucharist comes occur thirty-nine times in the New Testament. The word...

Society and pop Christianity corrupts and perverts or twists the idea or concept of worship. Now people get certain pictures of it that...

In Luke 14:5, Jesus asked this question to people who challenged Him regarding Judaism’s practice of the Sabbath: “Which of you shall...

Over the years of pastoring a church, one thought I had, that many pastors do also have, is in essence this: “How do I keep people from...

In Hebrews 11:6, the author of the Book of Hebrews says that without faith it is impossible to please God. We know that pleasing God is...

Almost anyone reading here knows the word “compromise.” It’s not a word in the Bible, but it is a word very often used in theological or...

God has His plan. He is sovereign and He has the power and wisdom to accomplish what He wants. At the same time and within the...

Salvation comes by grace alone through faith alone and not by works. Because salvation by faith is not a work, then faith is a gift. ...

Our study in Genesis on Sunday night has us in chapter two, and we looked at verse nine: “And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow...

Scripture teaches salvation by grace alone through faith alone. Through His death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus did everything...

Scripture contains dreams. You reading, I imagine, had and have them yourselves. In the Bible, sometimes those dreams really are...

The book of Proverbs centers on a particular theme, which Solomon characterizes as a foundational reality every person at the very start,...

Not at all wishing to be offensive, I believe that our area, this general region, is dispirited or depressed. I make this assessment...