top of page

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.
Search
Biblical View of Aesthetics
A biblical view of aesthetics starts with the premise that God is the source of all beauty, as seen in creation (Gen 1:31, Ps 19:1)....

Kent Brandenburg
4 days ago1 min read
Â
Â
Â
Impossibility in Evangelism
Very often the salvation of someone’s soul looks like an impossibility. You probably know this, but just to write it, every salvation is...

Kent Brandenburg
Jul 52 min read
Â
Â
Â
Did Religion Become Obsolete?
Sociologist, Christian Smith, just wrote a book, Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America , where he argues...

Kent Brandenburg
Jun 281 min read
Â
Â
Â
Does God Show Himself?
Someone might think and could then ask the question, and both occur, just the thinking sometimes and then sometimes the asking of the...

Kent Brandenburg
Jun 212 min read
Â
Â
Â
Fathers as Leaders
Most people find it tough being a leader. I’ve watched this and I understand it personally, the battle as a leader to do the right...

Kent Brandenburg
Jun 142 min read
Â
Â
Â
Demas Hath Forsaken Us
The Apostle Paul talks amazingly about one particular person in 2 Timothy 4:10 and says, “For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this...

Kent Brandenburg
Jun 72 min read
Â
Â
Â
God's Flowchart
I ask you to imagine what people call a flowchart. Very often the chart has boxes, one at the top and others below, which, as they...

Kent Brandenburg
May 302 min read
Â
Â
Â
Pentecost Sunday
In the Old Testament, the Feast of Pentecost, also known as Shavuot or Feast of Weeks, was a harvest festival and a celebration of the...

Kent Brandenburg
May 172 min read
Â
Â
Â
Eve: Mother of All Living
If you want to think about the entire breadth of thinking on motherhood, you start with the beginning, understanding Eve as the first...

Kent Brandenburg
May 102 min read
Â
Â
Â
True Doctrine of Jesus
The Bible provides sufficient knowledge for everything that a human being needs to know. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 say that scripture is...

Kent Brandenburg
May 22 min read
Â
Â
Â
Positive Poll on Bible Reading and What It Means
An organization I don’t endorse, but one that does result in some good is the American Bible Society, and it did a study to find out...

Kent Brandenburg
Apr 262 min read
Â
Â
Â
Resurrection Isn't a Lie
The idea of resurrection is great. You live a very short life interspersed with suffering and pain and finally death. Since it’s so...

Kent Brandenburg
Apr 192 min read
Â
Â
Â
Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday remembers the marvelous event of Jesus entering the city of Jerusalem. It was a Sunday and something great really happened,...

Kent Brandenburg
Apr 122 min read
Â
Â
Â
Someone Was Here
If you went into a room and looked around, you could tell whether someone had been in it or not. You would notice a book sitting here, a...

Kent Brandenburg
Apr 52 min read
Â
Â
Â
The Suffering of God
Nothing about God contradicts anything else about Him. Who He is harmonizes with everything else about Him. We know anything about Him...

Kent Brandenburg
Mar 282 min read
Â
Â
Â
What Is Truth?
Pilate—the man who handed Jesus over for crucifixion—turned to Jesus in His final hour, and, albeit a rhetorical one, posed one of the...

Kent Brandenburg
Mar 282 min read
Â
Â
Â
It Matters How You Get Your Information
Neil Postman, a professor at New York University in the field of education, in 1985 wrote the now classic book, Amusing Ourselves To...

Kent Brandenburg
Mar 221 min read
Â
Â
Â
March, Seasons, as a Microcosm for Life
The weather changing like it does in March reminds us of where we live, somewhere everyone experiences the four seasons: Winter, Spring,...

Kent Brandenburg
Mar 82 min read
Â
Â
Â
A Typical Skeptic of Truth
Someone told me yesterday that no one knows he is going to heaven. No one. He said this with complete certainty and conviction. He...

Kent Brandenburg
Mar 12 min read
Â
Â
Â
Baptist Churches That Are Baptist Churches
Our church is a Baptist church. Is Baptist just a name? Can a church have the name Baptist and not be Baptist? South Decatur Church...

Kent Brandenburg
Feb 211 min read
Â
Â
Â
bottom of page