Weekly Devotional by Al Baker
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 28, July 2, 2020 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day." -John 6:44 Without question the Great Awakening in Colonial America, between 1735 and 1770, was Calvinistic to the core. That... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 27, June 25, 2020 "And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness." -Acts 4:31 The Presbyterian denomination in Colonial America was established with... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 26, June 18, 2020 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you." -Matthew 28:19,20 Last week I wrote that I have left the... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 25, June 11, 2020 "Depart, depart, go out from there, touch nothing unclean; go out of the midst of her, purify yourselves. . ." -Isaiah 52:11 My wife and I became members of the Presbyterian Church in America in 1976 when we had the privilege of working on... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 24, June 4, 2020 "We have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly, and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances." -Daniel 9:5 No doubt all of you reading this were appalled at the treatment of George Floyd who died last week under the knee of the Minneapolis... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 23, May 28, 2020 "Vindicate the weak and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and destitute."-Psalm 82:3 Consider these facts:—compared with white women, black women are 25% less likely ever to have been married and about half as likely to be currently married.—in 1998 about 29% of African... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 22, May 21, 2020 ". . . so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places."-Ephesians 3:10 Arthur George (A.G.) Gaston (1892-1996) was born into poverty in Demopolis, Alabama. His father was... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 21, May 14, 2020 ". . . so that we do not drift away from it. . . how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?" Hebrews 2:1,3 Early in the morning of June 16, 1966 two black men entered the Lafayette Grill in Patterson, New... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 20, May 7, 2020 "... a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all and in all." -Colossians 3:11 I grew up in Birmingham but was living in Chicago, Illinois in 1963 when... Continue Reading →
