South Decatur
Baptist Church

In the Christmas story, Mary is pregnant with Jesus on a trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem to pay some taxes there in that ancestral town. ...

Several pieces of internal evidence show the truth of the Bible. One is its coherence across different books and authors. The Bible...

Forms of the Greek word eucharisto from which the English word eucharist comes occur thirty-nine times in the New Testament. The word...

Society and pop Christianity corrupts and perverts or twists the idea or concept of worship. Now people get certain pictures of it that...

In Luke 14:5, Jesus asked this question to people who challenged Him regarding Judaism’s practice of the Sabbath: “Which of you shall...

Over the years of pastoring a church, one thought I had, that many pastors do also have, is in essence this: “How do I keep people from...

In Hebrews 11:6, the author of the Book of Hebrews says that without faith it is impossible to please God. We know that pleasing God is...

Almost anyone reading here knows the word “compromise.” It’s not a word in the Bible, but it is a word very often used in theological or...

God has His plan. He is sovereign and He has the power and wisdom to accomplish what He wants. At the same time and within the...

Salvation comes by grace alone through faith alone and not by works. Because salvation by faith is not a work, then faith is a gift. ...

Our study in Genesis on Sunday night has us in chapter two, and we looked at verse nine: “And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow...

Scripture teaches salvation by grace alone through faith alone. Through His death, burial, and resurrection, Jesus did everything...

Scripture contains dreams. You reading, I imagine, had and have them yourselves. In the Bible, sometimes those dreams really are...

The book of Proverbs centers on a particular theme, which Solomon characterizes as a foundational reality every person at the very start,...

Not at all wishing to be offensive, I believe that our area, this general region, is dispirited or depressed. I make this assessment...

Scripture and philosophy portray two different, opposing and contradicting, explanations for the origin and sustaining of all things: (1)...

Today a word we are hearing very often, one that I never heard as I grew up, is “gaslighting.” People use the term all the time and in a...

Maybe you’ve noticed in the news, one side of the political spectrum, media and politicians, say their opposition is “weird.” It started...

The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics parodied the Leonardo DaVinci painting, The Last Supper, using drag queens to represent Jesus...

As much as anything, Satan attacks scripture. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Rom 10:17), and without faith it is impossible to...