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Have You, Like John Bunyan, Heard God's Call to Ministry? Or Even, Have You Heard the Call to Salvation in Christ? Please Ponder These Dear Reader!
Historical image of the RCA Victor dog hearing its master's voice over the phonograph. A Devotional for January 31, 2025 The Author’s...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 315 min read
Where Will You Be? Where Will You Be Sent, When Jesus Christ Says at the Last? "It Is Done"! Please Ponder This!
Icon of the Last Judgment, Christ separates the Righteous from the Damned. A Devotional Reading For The Thirtieth Day of January 2025...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 302 min read
One Forerunner of Baptist Doctrine; "Zwingli Submitted Sixty-Seven Articles to the Reformation Debate"
A portrait of Ulrich Zwingli, one Reformer who influenced Baptist doctrine down to the present day. This Day in Christian History For...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 292 min read
Do You, Like the Syrophoenician Woman, Pray with Importunity? Or Do You Pray At All? Please Contemplate That!
The Syrophoenician woman begs (Jesus) for her daughter. A Devotional for The Twenty Eighty Day of the January 2025 Which is a Sermon...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 283 min read
Have You, Like Blind Bartimaeus of Old Cried Out for Mercy to Jesus Christ of Nazareth?! Think about that would you please?
A Devotional Thought for January 27, 2025 From the Pen of John Bunyan This devotional is taken from Daily Readings (of) John Bunyan....
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 272 min read
Like the Old Testament Passover in Egypt, Has the Blood of Christ Been Applied to the Lintel and Doorpost of Your Heart?
The Death Angle from God "Passing Over" where the Blood was not found on the lintel and door post. All who were inside were safe! A...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 253 min read
![Dr. John A. Broadus Asks an Apologetic Question: “Is Knowledge of the Original [Biblical] Languages Indispensable for Expository Preaching?” Check it out . . .](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81b3bb_105752a50c884e98856ddedaf5af4899~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_1116,h_838,fp_0.50_0.50,q_35,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/81b3bb_105752a50c884e98856ddedaf5af4899~mv2.png)
![Dr. John A. Broadus Asks an Apologetic Question: “Is Knowledge of the Original [Biblical] Languages Indispensable for Expository Preaching?” Check it out . . .](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81b3bb_105752a50c884e98856ddedaf5af4899~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_1116,h_838,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_avif,quality_auto/81b3bb_105752a50c884e98856ddedaf5af4899~mv2.png)
Dr. John A. Broadus Asks an Apologetic Question: “Is Knowledge of the Original [Biblical] Languages Indispensable for Expository Preaching?” Check it out . . .
A leaf from the Hebrew Bible. A Devotional for The Twenty Third Day of the January 2025 From the Pen of Dr. John A. Broadus Scripture &...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 234 min read
![Can That "Old Devil" Preach the Neglected Gospel? Check It Out! John Berridge, "the Old Devil," Preached the Neglected Gospel in England[!]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81b3bb_c8ec2c14598d41a08fc02fc899c58af2~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_500,h_376,fp_0.50_0.50,q_35,blur_30,enc_avif,quality_auto/81b3bb_c8ec2c14598d41a08fc02fc899c58af2~mv2.png)
![Can That "Old Devil" Preach the Neglected Gospel? Check It Out! John Berridge, "the Old Devil," Preached the Neglected Gospel in England[!]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/81b3bb_c8ec2c14598d41a08fc02fc899c58af2~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_500,h_376,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_avif,quality_auto/81b3bb_c8ec2c14598d41a08fc02fc899c58af2~mv2.png)
Can That "Old Devil" Preach the Neglected Gospel? Check It Out! John Berridge, "the Old Devil," Preached the Neglected Gospel in England[!]
John Berridge preached the "ye must be born again" to all after his own conversion. FOR TWENTY YEARS, John Berridge was known as “the old...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 222 min read
Is Your Life "Sustained by Prayer"? And Is God's Grace Sufficient for You? Please Give These Ideas Some Prayerful Thought?!
From the "Living Pen" of a dead Puritan and Independent-John Bunyan! "Sustained by Prayer" A Devotional Thought for January 21, 2025 From...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 212 min read
Do You Have Heart Trouble Physically? Or More Profoundly, Do You Have a "Troubled Heart" Spiritually? Consider That?
Heart Trouble? or a Troubled Heart? A Devotional Thought from The Rev. Dr. John Gill For the Twentieth Day of January 2025 Taken from the...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 203 min read
"Am I a Rebel?" Are You Running From God? Remember! Repent! Return to Him!
"Easy Rider"-The Classic Rebels A Devotional Thought for January 17, 2025 From the Pen of John Bunyan Author of Pilgrim's Progress "Am I...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 172 min read
This Day in Christian History: See Why One Founder of Rhode Island College (Brown University) was Jailed! Check it out!
Isaac Backus, early Baptist and a founder of Rhode Island College ISAAC BACKUS grew up in New England during the Great Awakening—a...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 162 min read
Are You in the Season of Sowing? Or Are You in the Season of Reaping? The Bible Says, "Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out"! Consider This!
Vincent van Gogh and The Sower From the Pen of Dr. John Albert Broadus A Devotional for the Sixteenth Day of the January 2025 “There are...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 163 min read
We, Like Israel of Old, are Commanded to Hear God's Word! The Question is: Have You and I Listened to His Voice with an Intent "To Obey"? Consider That!
An ear listening for the "Voice of the Lord"! " Hear, O Israel" [1] Deuteronomy 6:4 These are the words of Moses, stirring...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 142 min read
A Devotional Thought: “Reasons Why Baptists Ought to Teach Their Distinctive Views” Check it out!
Southern Baptist Convention Logo A Devotional Thought for the Thirteenth Day of the January, 2025 “Reasons Why Baptists Ought to Teach...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 132 min read
"Tempted and Tried." Would John Bunyan Have Sung This As His Testimony: I Do Assert He Would Have.
Christ tempted in the wilderness by Satan A Devotional Reading for January 10, 2025 From the Pen of John Bunyan--The Tinker An Early...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 102 min read
The Election of God is NOT like the Election of Politics! There is "The Scriptural Conundrum of Election"! Having You Ever Considered, Am I Elect?
A Devotional From the Pen of Dr. John Albert Broadus For The Ninth Day of the Month of January, 2025 "The Scriptural Conundrum of...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 92 min read
Have You, Should You Cry Out for Mercy? Why Would You Not Cry Aloud for Mercy to a Forgiving God? Meditate on That!
A person cries out for mercy to an all merciful God! A Devotional for The Eighth Day of January 8, 2025 From the Pen of Rev. Dr. John...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 82 min read
Bob Seger Witnesses to a Futile Life: Running "Against the Wind"! "Deadlines and Commitments? What to Leave Out, What to Leave In?" Come to Christ and Escape those Empty Storms of Life!
An old hippy 'running against the wind!" "Against the Wind" Written By Bob Seger It seems like yesterday But it was long ago Janey was...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 72 min read
In This New Year of 2025, Jesus Is Looking for You! Is Jesus Knocking at Your (Heart's) Door? Please Ponder This Very Great and Eternal Question?!
Jesus knocks on your heart's door. Will you invite Him to come in? Is Jesus Knocking at Your Door? The Bible says in Revelation 3:20 "...
Dr. Roger D Duke
Jan 62 min read
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