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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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Further on Charlie Kirk
I’m going back to the Charlie Kirk murder again in this week’s essay. His memorial service is today. Many different messages dovetail...

Kent Brandenburg
Sep 20, 20252 min read
More on Charlie Kirk
The biggest news of this week in the United States, if not the world, was the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point...

Kent Brandenburg
Sep 13, 20252 min read
Taking the Gospel Seriously
If you are reading this sentence, just to check this out, go ahead and keep reading. For some of you, do something you don’t ordinarily...

Kent Brandenburg
Sep 6, 20252 min read
The Murder of Children in Minneapolis
This week a former want-to-be transgender, who committed to attempting to change sex from male to female and then later regretted it,...

Kent Brandenburg
Aug 30, 20252 min read
Pastoral Love
The Apostle Paul used warm, familial language in his writing to his churches. He called them his brothers and sisters. In Philippians...

Kent Brandenburg
Aug 22, 20252 min read
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
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