by PastorTravisDSmith | Nov 22, 2020 | Church, Church planting, Devotional, Doctrine, Faith, Hillsdale Baptist Church, Ministry, Salvation, Theology, Trust
Scripture reading – Galatians 1-3 Our chronological reading of the Scriptures brings us to Paul’s epistle to believers living in Galatia (modern Turkey). Galatia, lying due north of the isle of Cyprus, was a Roman province in the 1st century. The Greeks referred...
by PastorTravisDSmith | Oct 23, 2020 | Church, Church planting, Doctrine, Faith, Hillsdale Baptist Church, Ministry, missions, Prayer, Salvation, Sin, The Gospels, Theology, Trust
Scripture reading – Luke 10 The Gospel of Luke, chapter 10, is one of the most instructive and moving of the twenty-four chapters we find in Luke’s gospel. We find a model for the Great Commission (Luke 10:1-20), and an answer to life’s most important question: “What...
by PastorTravisDSmith | Apr 24, 2018 | Church planting, Hillsdale Baptist Church, Ministry, missions, Prayer
Dear Heart of a Shepherd Reader, Greetings from Hillsdale Baptist Church! I have enjoyed a reprieve from the pressure of writing daily devotional posts in recent months. During this season of rest, I am enjoying an in-depth study of the Gospel of John as I prepare...
by PastorTravisDSmith | Oct 31, 2016 | Church, Church planting, Devotional, Faith, Fundamentalism, Hillsdale Baptist Church, missions
Hillsdale Baptist Church just finished her 54th annual missions conference. From her inception, The Great Commission has been a central passion of this church and her second pastor, Robert Smith, was a missionary church-planting pastor (no relation to this pastor)....
by PastorTravisDSmith | Apr 16, 2016 | Church, Church planting, Devotional, Faith, Hillsdale Baptist Church, missions
I believe it was Samuel Clemens, the great American novelist who went by the pen name Mark Twain, who commented regarding rumors of his death, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Having been absent from the “blogosphere” for nearly three weeks, I know...
by PastorTravisDSmith | Jul 10, 2015 | Church, Church planting, Faith, Fundamentalism, Hillsdale Baptist Church, Theology
* The following blog is this pastor’s brief analysis of a trend I have observed in conservative, Bible preaching churches in the last 15 years. It is my plan to address the subject in future postings. “He stole our church out from under us!” is a statement I hear too...
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