Lord, Dissolve My Frozen Heart

I’m often asked what’s the big deal with hymns, especially the older ones from hundreds of years ago. There’s not always a good answer ready on my the tip of my tongue, but this one really helps explain it. Good hymns help us know, understand God. A good hymn takes a scriptural concept and puts … Read more

I love corporate worship!

How do you look at corporate worship with your fellow church members? Optional? Consider this: How often has even the presence of our fellow Christians impressed us with a sense of God’s greatness and condescension and of our own unworthiness in his sight? When we have recollected that our adorations were in company with those … Read more

Crises in Life

Going back to 1980, Pastor Sugden’s message to the South Baptist Church in Lansing Michigan on “Crises in Life” taken from the book of Ruth. Listen today, because God’s word is just as relevant today as it was then!

The Lord Will Provide

John Newton wrote these words, and Matthew Smith recorded the song on his album “All I Owe.” I’m not sure of the basis for Newton’s text, but it certainly has held true to form. What a great song of assurance in troubled time!

News From God

Here’s the second of nine messages from the book of Ruth. Pastor Howard Sugden, former pastor at South Baptist Church, Lansing, MI preached this sermon, probably in 1980. If you’re interested in the book Pastor mentions, click here to see it on amazon.