I need a constant reminder of God’s grace and joy.  This world is hard.  Life is hard.  We often find ourselves disheartened with burdens and bad news.  Nothing has helped me overcome the constant worries and anxieties more than prayer.We are called to a life of praying without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:15).  Every moment of every day can be seized for a conversation with God.  These moments are ...  Read More

1 Timothy 4:7-8Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness; for bodily discipline is only of little profit, but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come....  Read More

Exodus 8-10Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. 2 If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on your whole country. The Nile will teem with frogs. They will come up into your palace and your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and on your people, and into you...  Read More

John 8:1-11But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.  Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; and He sat down and began to teach them.  The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court, they said to Him, Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act.  Now in the Law Mos...  Read More

I have enjoyed a little parental satisfaction as my daughter has grown up and left our home.  Parents have a few years to teach and guide their children.  Your kids are a captive audience during these years.  As adults your words become suggestions and not law.There is a temptation to view God’s Bible in the same manner.  Our society is based on moral decisions.  The real test for each person is o...  Read More

1 Timothy 4:11-16Prescribe and teach these things.  Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.  Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching.  Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was bestowed on you through prophetic utterance with th...  Read More

This week HBC will going to Romar Baptist Church Retreat Center for time of worship and renewal.  Our leaders will be sharing spiritual disciplines of Bible Study, Prayer, Service and Worship to guide the group to experience God's joyous presence.Pray for our students!  Give intercessory prayers for all those who will be attending.Our theme is from 1 Timothy 4:7-8….discipline yourself for the purp...  Read More

Matthew 13:44-46The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking fine pearls, and upon finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it....  Read More

In 2 Kings 20:1-6 we learn that Israelite King Hezekiah became mortally sick and asked God to grant him more time to live. God granted him fifteen more years.  In those years Hezekiah fathered a child named Manasseh.  Be careful what you pray for.  Manasseh is known as the most wicked king in the Old Testament (21:11).  He worshiped many pagan gods, practiced witchcraft, and even sacrificed his ow...  Read More

“Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).We live in a world where chaos abounds and we want to feel secure when things are uncertain all around us .With the knowledge of this blessed truth we can be calm in times of trouble. We understand and have experienced a lot of storms in our area the last couple of years.  It seems like almost every few weeks a tornado comes near our area and causes...  Read More

I have forgot so much!  I was engrossed in agriculture for the first half of my adult life..  I studied plants and insects.  I knew scientific names of most of the trees and shrubs that were native to West Tennessee.  I also new the best ways to grow those plants and how to protect them from pathogens and predators.That part of my life stopped around 15 years ago.  I don’t think about those facts ...  Read More

1 Thessalonians 4:9-12Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; for indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more, and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, jus...  Read More