by Airport Baptist Church | Jan 16, 2023 | Thoughts from the Pastor
The more I look at the western world today, the more I think about the words Jesus shared with His disciples the night before He was crucified, telling them, “These things I have spoken to you, that ye should not be offended (made to stumble). They...
by Airport Baptist Church | Jan 10, 2023 | Thoughts from the Pastor
The grace of God and the power of God are often employed together in Scripture. We see it with the children of Israel who were constantly grumbling to God, who instead of giving them what they deserved for being a stiff-necked people, constantly provided (i.e.;...
by Airport Baptist Church | Jan 4, 2023 | Thoughts from the Pastor
Theology in a Christian context is, according to Millard Erickson, a discipline of study that seeks to understand the God revealed in the Bible and to provide a Christian understanding of reality. Alongside the New Testament writers there have been many...
by Airport Baptist Church | Dec 28, 2022 | Thoughts from the Pastor
Have you ever wondered how Moses was able to write the first 11 chapters of the Bible and have a high degree of confidence that what he wrote was accurate. How would he have known about Adam and Eve and their sons? How could he have known the...
by Airport Baptist Church | Dec 20, 2022 | Thoughts from the Pastor
Galatians 4:4-5 says, “But when the fulness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” This tells us that God had...
by Airport Baptist Church | Dec 13, 2022 | Thoughts from the Pastor
Most Christian’s believe that, according to Scripture, Christ was born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem of Judea and from that this was a fulfillment of Isaiah 7:14. Fewer people are aware that this was not the first prophecy in Scripture that pointed to the...
by Airport Baptist Church | Dec 6, 2022 | Thoughts from the Pastor
Charles Dickens’ novella, “A Christmas Carol,” was first published in 1843 in London. It is a fictional story about the earthly redemption of a man named Ebenezer Scrooge. Ebenezer hated everything associated with Christmas because it took time...
by Airport Baptist Church | Nov 28, 2022 | Thoughts from the Pastor
Of all the things I enjoy and look forward to most during the Christmas season is watching “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” It first aired on December 9, 1965 as an animated TV special and has been shown on network television, unless I’m mistaken, every...
by Airport Baptist Church | Nov 16, 2022 | Thoughts from the Pastor
There are times in life when we, as God’s children, try to follow God’s will and things happen that we do not understand, but later come to realize that God’s guiding hand was involved. A good example of this is found in Acts 16:6-7 on Paul’s...
by Airport Baptist Church | Nov 12, 2022 | Church News
Carrie Frances Roberts Lynch known to us as Frances, 86, of West Columbia passed away on Saturday, November 5, 2022. Born in Richland County on March 8, 1936, she was the first of six daughters to the late Elmer Rivers Roberts and Magdalene Sightler Roberts of West...