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 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 →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 18, April 23, 2020 "Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these stars, the One who leads forth their host by number. He calls them all by name; because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, not one of... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 17, April 16, 2020 "Prophesy over these bones." -Ezekiel 37:4 In my devotional from April 9, I addressed the issue of preaching that is worthy of COVID-19. What kind of preaching is necessary to revive the church and to convert the lost at such a momentous time in our... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 16, April 9, 2020 "Prophesy over these bones." -Ezekiel 37:4 Not since World War II has the entire world been so adversely and strikingly affected as we now are with COVID-19. We are told that this week we will likely reach the peak of deaths in the United... Continue Reading →
FORGET NONE OF HIS BENEFITSvolume 19, number 15, April 2, 2020 "They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord." -Ezekiel 7:19 The prophet Ezekiel, preaching around 630... Continue Reading →
