Marc Drake, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Sun Lakes Sometime ago as I was walking up to the entrance of a hospital to make a visit, I watched a guy sailing by on a skateboard holding a drink of some kind in one hand and looking at his cell phone in the other hand.…
Dr. Marc Drake, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Sun Lakes On Christmas Day 1939, King George VI of England gave a brief radio address to the nation. England was already at war with Germany and soon all of Europe would be plunged into the horror of global warfare. As the storm clouds gathered, the…
On Sunday, December 14 at its 10:00 a.m. morning service, the First Baptist Church of Sun Lakes’ choir will present The First Noel, an exciting Christmas musical by Joe E. Parks. This musical was inspired by a message delivered by Parks’ pastor, Dr Wayne Barber, who was speaking from the scripture passage found in 1…
Dr. Marc Drake, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church Years ago, Ann Landers, the syndicated advice columnist, was at one time receiving 10,000 letters a month from people with many different kinds of problems. She was asked if there was one common denominator among all those who wrote to her. She replied that the great overriding…
Dr. Marc Drake, Sr. Pastor, First Baptist Church of Sun Lakes The Bible tells us: The very hairs of your head are all numbered (Matthew 10:30). Did you know that according to experts, there are an estimated 100,000 hair follicles on the average scalp and about 30,000 in a man’s beard? Furthermore, most of us…
Dr. Marc Drake, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Sun Lakes Throughout my ministry, I have presided over a large number of funerals and memorial services. Many of these individuals had lived a full and meaningful life and went to meet their Maker with great joy and thanksgiving. But others died while leaving behind many…
Dr. Marc Drake, Sr. Pastor, First Baptist Church of Sun Lakes Before the old Soviet Union collapsed, Galina Vilchinskaya was a 23-year-old Sunday school teacher who spent five years in a Soviet prison for sharing God’s Word with others. However, imprisonment, hunger and beatings could not silence her witness. In fact, she led many in…
Dr. Marc Drake, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Sun Lakes Psalm 33:12 declares, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.” The primary thought of the biblical writer was, no doubt, in reference to Israel. Yet, the promise is broad enough to apply…