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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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More Than Common Sense
In his January 20, 2025 inaugural address, the 45th and 47th president of the United States said the following sentence: “With these...

Kent Brandenburg
Feb 82 min read
The Moral Nature of God
Almighty God created man as recorded in the first and second chapters of Genesis. In Genesis 1 God created man in His image. Our...

Kent Brandenburg
Feb 12 min read
The Quality of Simplicity
The United States this week began the experience of a new president with a radically new philosophy of leadership. Some call it “common...

Kent Brandenburg
Jan 252 min read
What God Wants from a President
Tomorrow we see the inauguration of a new leader for our nation, the United States of America. As we think about this occurrence, one...

Kent Brandenburg
Jan 202 min read
The Lord Knows the Way through the Wilderness
During a pause from activity in recent days, I thought of a chorus I last heard and sang as a child. I’m not endorsing choruses as a...

Kent Brandenburg
Jan 112 min read
Practice That Proceeds from Doctrine: Redeem the Time
Very often the Apostle Paul writes in what some call, “bullet points.” They are instructions either in the imperative, commands, or the...

Kent Brandenburg
Jan 42 min read
For the New Year: The Goal of the Image of Christ
Understandably, the most popular time in the year to set goals is the very end of the year or the very beginning. The beginning of the...

Kent Brandenburg
Dec 28, 20242 min read
Empty Pews and Closing Doors
ABC News’ Steve Osunsami reports on how churches faced with empty pews are fighting to keep their doors open, while former houses of...

Kent Brandenburg
Dec 21, 20242 min read
Christmas: Biggest Blessing and Greatest Threat
We come to Christmas time again as we do every December. It’s colder. Some snow falls. Certain festive events occur. Decorations go up. ...

Kent Brandenburg
Dec 14, 20242 min read
Joseph's Willingness to "Put Away" Mary
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. ...

Kent Brandenburg
Dec 6, 20241 min read
Internal Evidence for the Truth of the Bible
Several pieces of internal evidence show the truth of the Bible. One is its coherence across different books and authors. The Bible...

Kent Brandenburg
Nov 30, 20241 min read
Eucharisto, Give Thanks
Forms of the Greek word eucharisto from which the English word eucharist comes occur thirty-nine times in the New Testament. The word...

Kent Brandenburg
Nov 22, 20242 min read
Worthiness of God and Worship
Society and pop Christianity corrupts and perverts or twists the idea or concept of worship. Now people get certain pictures of it that...

Kent Brandenburg
Nov 16, 20241 min read
Exception or Rule?
In Luke 14:5, Jesus asked this question to people who challenged Him regarding Judaism’s practice of the Sabbath: “Which of you shall...

Kent Brandenburg
Nov 9, 20242 min read
Keeping Sheep as a Pastor or Shepherd
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...

Kent Brandenburg
Nov 2, 20242 min read
Faith is Volitional: It Involves the Will
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...

Kent Brandenburg
Oct 26, 20242 min read
Compromise: Good and then Bad
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...

Kent Brandenburg
Oct 19, 20241 min read
The Curse of Procrastination
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...

Kent Brandenburg
Oct 5, 20242 min read
Faith Is A Gift
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. ...

Kent Brandenburg
Sep 28, 20242 min read
Pleasant to the Eyes
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...

Kent Brandenburg
Sep 21, 20242 min read
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