Preaching in the Wilderness

10/11/2026

Hampton Missionary Baptist Church is an independent (Missionary) Baptist church in Hampton, Arkansas. The church is currently seeking a pastor.

10/04/2026

Please pray for a church in Massachusetts that is appealing a local decision affecting the renovation of its sanctuary. Church property and building matters can involve complicated questions involving local regulations and hinder a ministry's ability to use its property to carry out its mission.

Ask the Lord to give this church wisdom and favor as it works through the appeal process. Please pray also for clear guidance and a resolution that will allow the congregation to continue faithfully serving its community.

“Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.” Proverbs 16:3

09/26/2026

You understand Dad a whole lot better once you’re the one getting up and going to work.

09/22/2026

Psalms chapter 86 context: https://kjbo.org/Psalms-Chapter-86/

09/22/2026

"One day you will bury your father, and only then realize you lost the one man who genuinely wanted you to outgrow him."
Most relationships in life carry a quiet, unspoken current of competition, comparison, or self-interest, even among people who claim to love us. A father's love, when it's real, is one of the few forms of care built entirely backward from that instinct. He spends years pushing you toward strength, independence, and capability that will eventually make you no longer need him, and he does it anyway, fully aware of what he's building toward. The son kneeling at the empty chair isn't just mourning a person. He's finally understanding a kind of love that never once asked to be needed, only to be surpassed. That's a rare, almost invisible generosity while it's happening, because it doesn't look like affection in the moment, it looks like discipline, distance, high expectations, hard lessons delivered without softness. Only later, once the room is quiet and the chair is empty, does the shape of that love become clear: someone who spent his whole life quietly working to make himself unnecessary to you.
The greatest fathers spend a lifetime working toward the day you no longer need them.

09/22/2026