Psalms 116:1-9 KJV I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.  Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. […]

Brother James Gordon Bose went to be with the Lord Sunday June 5, 2011.  He was born Sunday April 27, 1924 in Smith County Tennessee, one of nine siblings born to the late Mamie Dillehay and Clarence Fisher Boze. He grew up on a farm and was carried to Cornwell’s Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. During a […]

I am a member of Fairview Missionary Baptist Church at Woodburn, KY, but as a child, I always attended Mt. Zion Church.  I can’t remember not being in church on Sunday, as Daddy and Mama always took us to Sunday school and Church.  Thank God for that, and I am thankful to my parents for […]

I was saved as a young child, but after years my life seemed to get hard, and it made my heart hard.  It was like the good Lord had to break me so he could mold me into something He could use. I had to learn all over how to completely “Trust in the Lord”, […]

John Waller was born December, 23rd, 1741, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia.  He started to college, but family finances ended the pursuit.  He turned to every species of wickedness and profanity, he quickly acquired for himself the infamous appellation of Swearing Jack Waller, by which he was distinguished from others of the same name. So far […]

About the first thing I remember, at church, was the song “I’ll Fly Away” being sung.  I sat between my mother and my great aunt, Edna Downing, on the front seat of the awomen side at Maple Grove at Fountain Run.  I could just picture my mother flying and leaving me there by myself.  It […]

The last meeting with her grandmother weighed deeply on her mind. Fanny had not experienced the distinct emotional “conversion experience” so important to her ancestor. She began to doubt her faith. She doubted her life was totally consecrated to the service of God, as she felt it should be. Fanny had a close friend named […]

While in Lowe’s, the preacher heard a man, Big Mike, talking to everyone he met. The preacher said, “you sure are happy”, and Big Mike said “I am a christian”. The preacher said “when did you first become a christian?” Big Mike said “I am an alcoholic”, and he told about when he first became […]

And yet it was sudden; so sudden that Newton could tell the exact date and name the exact place! It took place on the tenth of March, 1748, on board a ship that was threatening to founder in the grip of a storm. ‘That tenth of March, says Newton, ‘is a day much to be […]

The little boy missed his daddy. He asked his mother where he was. She said “he is out at the barn praying”. The little boy, being curious, went outside and listened. He could hear his daddy praying in the barn. A few years later, the boy was at his grandparent’s farm when he realized that […]

Portions of a letter from Noah Webster to Thomas Dawes, December 20, 1808: This candid avowal of your own opinions demands from me, a faithful and explicit exposition of my own, and the reasons on which they are founded. Being educated in a religious family, under pious parents, I had, in early life some religious […]

I was saved on Monday night, July 3, 1961, at Mt. Tabor Missionary Baptist Church near Pleasant Shade, TN. For a year I had sought the Lord at the altar on numerous occasions, sometimes in earnest but, often, out of other’s expectations. Facing the pulpit, I was sitting at the end of the fourth bench […]