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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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True Christianity and Culture
In Genesis 4, God records for us the history He wants us to know and understand about the culture before the Great Flood that killed...

Kent Brandenburg
Aug 16, 20252 min read
The Instrumentation of Speech
Speech is the means by which God chose to save others, the spoken Word even more than the written, which is why in Romans 10:14 says,...

Kent Brandenburg
Aug 9, 20252 min read
The Bible and Cultural Issues
The Bible is God’s guidebook for everything in life in every domain, which includes personal, family, church, work, and government –...

Kent Brandenburg
Aug 2, 20252 min read
Resistance Isn't Futile
Perhaps you’ve heard the statement, “Resistance is futile.” According to scripture, it isn’t true. People resist successfully very...

Kent Brandenburg
Jul 26, 20252 min read
The Zeal of Jesus
At the beginning of His public ministry, as recorded in John 2:13-22, the Lord Jesus Christ cleansed the temple. This language, the...

Kent Brandenburg
Jul 19, 20252 min read
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
Jul 12, 20251 min read
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 5, 20252 min read
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 28, 20251 min read
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 21, 20252 min read
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 14, 20252 min read
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 7, 20252 min read
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 30, 20252 min read
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 17, 20252 min read
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 10, 20252 min read
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 2, 20252 min read
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 26, 20252 min read
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 19, 20252 min read
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 12, 20252 min read
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 5, 20252 min read
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 28, 20252 min read
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