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A Bible-Believing and Practicing Church
210 West Small Street
Westport, Indiana 47283

South Decatur Baptist Church desires conforming according to the Word of God into the image of Jesus Christ with a view of His future kingdom and all for the glory of God.
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Kent Brandenburg
Sep 28, 20242 min read
Faith Is A Gift
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. ...
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Kent Brandenburg
Sep 21, 20242 min read
Pleasant to the Eyes
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...
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Kent Brandenburg
Sep 14, 20241 min read
Does Salvation Cost Anything?
Scripture teaches salvation by grace alone through faith alone. Through His death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus did everything...
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Kent Brandenburg
Sep 7, 20242 min read
A Dream
Scripture contains dreams. You reading, I imagine, had and have them yourselves. In the Bible, sometimes those dreams really are...
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Kent Brandenburg
Aug 31, 20242 min read
The Fear of the LORD
The book of Proverbs centers on a particular theme, which Solomon characterizes as a foundational reality every person at the very start,...
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Kent Brandenburg
Aug 24, 20242 min read
A Dispirited Region
Not at all wishing to be offensive, I believe that our area, this general region, is dispirited or depressed. I make this assessment...
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Kent Brandenburg
Aug 17, 20241 min read
The Two Major Contradictory Explanations for Everything
Scripture and philosophy portray two different, opposing and contradicting, explanations for the origin and sustaining of all things: (1)...
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Kent Brandenburg
Aug 10, 20241 min read
Gaslighting
Today a word we are hearing very often, one that I never heard as I grew up, is “gaslighting.” People use the term all the time and in a...
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Kent Brandenburg
Aug 3, 20241 min read
Weird
Maybe you’ve noticed in the news, one side of the political spectrum, media and politicians, say their opposition is “weird.” It started...
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Kent Brandenburg
Jul 27, 20241 min read
Paris Olympics' Wicked Parody of Da Vinci's Last Supper
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics parodied the Leonardo DaVinci painting, The Last Supper, using drag queens to represent Jesus...
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Kent Brandenburg
Jul 20, 20242 min read
How and Why Satan Attacks Scripture
As much as anything, Satan attacks scripture. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Rom 10:17), and without faith it is impossible to...
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Kent Brandenburg
Jul 13, 20242 min read
A Church Business Meeting
The Bible doesn’t command a church business meeting, but principles there do provide the basis. The Apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians...
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Kent Brandenburg
Jul 6, 20241 min read
Boundaries or Borders
Paul said in Acts 17:26: "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined...
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Kent Brandenburg
Jun 29, 20242 min read
Lying, Liars, and an Objective Standard for Truth
I watched the first (and maybe only) Presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump. For one of the candidates,...
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Kent Brandenburg
Jun 22, 20241 min read
Child Evangelism
Scripture teaches evangelism of children. When I write “evangelism,” some people may have heard the word, but don’t really know what it...
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Kent Brandenburg
Jun 15, 20241 min read
Demise of the Patriarchy
Maybe you’ve noticed, maybe you haven’t, but it’s true either way, the culture of the United States now denigrates, attacks, and...
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Kent Brandenburg
Jun 8, 20241 min read
Right to Bear Arms
The second amendment of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution says man has the right to bear arms. One should assume that...
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Kent Brandenburg
May 31, 20242 min read
The Scriptural Future Event: The Rapture
Scripture teaches the “rapture” of the saints, even though the word itself isn’t in the Bible. It comes from a Latin word that would...
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Kent Brandenburg
May 25, 20241 min read
The Ordinance of the Lord's Table
Jesus instituted two ordinances for the church: baptism and the Lord’s Table. The latter the New Testament (NT) calls “communion” (1 Cor...
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Kent Brandenburg
May 18, 20242 min read
Pentecost Sunday
The word "Pentecost" is actually a Greek word, which means the fiftieth part of something. In the Old Testament it was called the Feast...
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