Growing in the Word

Morning service from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, OK from March 11th, 2012.  Guest speaker Stan Norman brings a message from Psalm 73.  ”Is it Worth it to Follow God?”

Morning service from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, OK from March 4th, 2012.  ”Membership Matters.”  Hebrews 10: 23-25.

Morning service from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, OK from February 26th, 2012.  ”Cross Training in Stewardship,”  I Timothy 6:6-10.

The famous missionary to China, Hudson Taylor, once recounted a heartbreaking story that happened to him while travelling by boat from one Chinese city to another.  Hudson tells the story in his own words: “In the same boat was a Chinaman as passenger, who had been in England; and who, when there, went by the [...]

Morning service from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, OK from February 19th, 2012.  ”Cross Training in Sharing and Defending the Faith.”  II Tim 4: 1-5.

I have been excited to see so many people from our church begin running and training for a race.  Myself and others have recently run a marathon and it seems like the running “fever” is catching.  So, I thought in this blog post I would talk about how to get started running and why run [...]

Morning service from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, OK from February 12th, 2012.  Cross Training in Worship.  I Timothy 1:15-17.

I am reading Kevin Belmonte’s biography on William Wilberforce, a Member of Parliament who almost single handedly with tireless courage brought an end to slavery in the British Empire in the 19th century.  Upon Wilberforce’s death in 1833, the Officers of the Convention for the Improvement of the Free People of Color in the United [...]

The debate about our origins has taken a new twist.  A growing number of Christians, many of them considered conservative and evangelical, have yielded to the pressure of “the fact” of evolution and have attempted to meld the tenets of evolution with those of Christianity.  This view is commonly called “theistic evolution” and poses a [...]

Morning service from Immanuel Baptist Church in Shawnee, OK from February 5th, 2012.  Dr. Todd introduces the discipline of service to the Cross Training series.  I Timothy 4:12-16.