Scott Brown

Scott Brown Scott Brown is the President of Church and Family Life and Pastor at Hope Baptist Church. Scott T.

Brown is the president of Church and Family Life and pastor at Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Scott graduated from California State University in Fullerton with a degree in History and received a Master of Divinity degree from Talbot School of Theology. He gives most of his time to local pastoral ministry, expository preaching, and conferences on church and family reformation.

Scott helps people think through the two greatest institutions God has provided—the church and the family.

Despite our best efforts to determine whether a person is in the faith, an unbeliever is sometimes baptized. In Acts, Si...
07/02/2024

Despite our best efforts to determine whether a person is in the faith, an unbeliever is sometimes baptized. In Acts, Simon Magnus (who made a false profession of faith) is baptized. But that did not stop Philip from baptizing the Ethiopian eu**ch. On this passage, Matthew Henry comments:

"Though Philip had very lately been deceived in Simon Magus, and had admitted him to baptism, though he afterwards appeared to be no true convert, yet he did not therefore scruple to baptize the eu**ch upon his profession of faith immediately, without putting him upon a longer trial than usual. If some hypocrites crowd into the church, who afterwards prove a grief and scandal to us, yet we must not therefore make the door of admission any straiter than Christ has made it; they shall answer for their apostasy, and not we.”

The Ethiopian eu**ch read Isaiah while in his chariot, and provides us with an example of what it means to "redeem the t...
07/02/2024

The Ethiopian eu**ch read Isaiah while in his chariot, and provides us with an example of what it means to "redeem the time." On this passage, Matthew Henry comments:

"It is the duty of every one of us to converse much with the Holy Scriptures. Persons of quality should abound more than others in the exercises of piety, because their example will influence many, and they have their time more at command. It is wisdom for men of business to redeem time for holy duties; time is precious, and it is the best husbandry in the world to gather up the fragments of time, that none be lost, to fill up every minute with something that will turn to a good account."

Get Voddie Baucham’s new book, “It’s Not Like Being Black.” In this book, you will find a historical, legal, and biblica...
07/02/2024

Get Voddie Baucham’s new book, “It’s Not Like Being Black.” In this book, you will find a historical, legal, and biblical apologetic against the LGBTQ movement.

You want to get a front row seat on the historical and legal onramp to the current state of the LGBTQ movement. This book provides the analysis. Not only will you see the dark underbelly of the strategic plan that got legislators and the general public to equate s*x and civil rights -- you will also see how ridiculous it is to equate the two.

Available from Voddie Baucham Ministries.

Several weeks after conservatives threatened to boycott Tractor Supply because of their DEI hiring initiatives and LGBTQ...
07/02/2024

Several weeks after conservatives threatened to boycott Tractor Supply because of their DEI hiring initiatives and LGBTQ stance, the company issued this statement on June 27th:

"Going forward, we will ensure our activities and giving tie directly to our business. For instance, this means we will... stop sponsoring nonbusiness activities like pride festivals and voting campaigns... Eliminate DEI roles and retire our current DEI goals while still ensuring a respectful environment, [and] withdraw ... carbon emission goals and focus on our land and water conservation efforts."

This is a major win for conservatives.

Where are you going, Great-Heart?With your eager face and your fiery grace? Where are you going, Great-Heart? "To ...
06/19/2024

Where are you going, Great-Heart?
With your eager face and your fiery grace?
Where are you going, Great-Heart?

"To fight a fight with all my might,
For Truth and Justice, God and Right,
To grace all Life with His fair Light."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!

Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To beard the Devil in his den;
To smite him with the strength of ten;
To set at large the souls of men."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!

Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To end the rule of knavery;
To break the yoke of slavery;
To give the world delivery."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!

Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To hurl high-stationed evil down;
To set the Cross above the crown;
To spread abroad my King's renown."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!

Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To cleanse the earth of noisome things;
To draw from life its poison-stings;
To give free play to Freedom's wings."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!

Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To lift To-day above the Past;
To make To-morrow sure and fast;
To nail God's colors to the mast."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!

Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To break down old dividing-lines;
To carry out my Lord's designs;
To build again His broken shrines."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!

Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To set all burdened peoples free
To win for all God's liberty;
To 'stablish His sweet sovereignty."
God goeth with you, Great-Heart!

-John Oxenham

It was the will of God that His people be oppressed in a foreign land. In Acts 7:6-7, we read: "But God spoke in this wa...
06/18/2024

It was the will of God that His people be oppressed in a foreign land. In Acts 7:6-7, we read:

"But God spoke in this way: that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bo***ge and oppress them four hundred years. 'And the nation to whom they will be in bo***ge I will judge,' said God, 'and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.'"

In Job 7:1-7, we find Job in the dust of sorrows:"Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? Are not his days...
06/18/2024

In Job 7:1-7, we find Job in the dust of sorrows:

"Is there not a time of hard service for man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired man? Like a servant who earnestly desires the shade, and like a hired man who eagerly looks for his wages, so I have been allotted months of futility, and wearisome nights have been appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, And the night be ended?' For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn. My flesh is caked with worms and dust. My skin is cracked and breaks out afresh. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. Oh, remember that my life is a breath! My eye will never again see good."

On this passage, Matthew Henry comments:

"These wearisome nights were appointed to him. God, who determines the times before appointed, had allotted him such nights as these. Whatever is at any time grievous to us, it is good to see it appointed for us, that we may acquiesce in the event, not only as unavoidable because appointed, but as therefore designed for some holy end. When we have comfortable nights we must see them also appointed to us and be thankful for them; many better than we have wearisome nights."

06/18/2024

In Acts 4:24 and 32, we read that when the early church prayed, they prayed "to God with one accord." When they gathered, they were "of one heart and one soul." Matthew Henry comments:

"Though there were many, very many, of different ages, tempers, and conditions, in the world, who perhaps, before they believed, were perfect strangers to one another, yet, when they met in Christ, they were as intimately acquainted as if they had known one another many years."

06/18/2024

In Acts 4:23-31, the Apostles are let out of prison. They return to their local church to pray together with one accord. Notably, the Apostles did not pray for peace or victory. Rather, they prayed for boldness. Matthew Henry comments on this passage:

"[They pray] that God, by his grace, would keep up their spirits, and animate them to go on cheerfully with their work: 'Grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word,' though the priests and rulers have enjoined them silence.

"Note: In threatening times, our care should not be so much that troubles may be prevented as that we may be enabled to go on with cheerfulness and resolution in our work and duty, whatever troubles we may meet with. Their prayer is not, 'Lord, behold their threatenings, and frighten them, and stop their mouths, and fill their faces with shame;' but, 'Behold their threatenings, and animate us, open our mouths and fill our hearts with courage.' They do not pray, 'Lord, give us a fair opportunity to retire from our work, now that it is become dangerous;' but, 'Lord, give us grace to go on in our work and not to be afraid of the face of man.'"

We can learn a few lessons here, Matthew Henry observes:

"One, those that are sent on God's errands ought to deliver their message with boldness, with all boldness, with all liberty of speech, not shunning to declare the whole counsel of God, whoever is offended; not doubting of what they say, nor of being borne out in saying it.

"Two, God is to be sought unto for an ability to speak his word with boldness, and those that desire divine aids and encouragements may depend upon them, and ought to go forth and go on in the strength of the Lord God.

"Three, the threatenings of our enemies, that are designed to weaken our hands and drive us off from our work, should rather stir us up to so much the more courage and resolution in our work. Are they daring that fight against Christ? For shame, let not us be sneaking that are for him.”

06/17/2024

In Nehemiah 9:16-17, we learn about the importance of law-keeping:

"But they and our fathers acted proudly, hardened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments. They refused to obey, and they were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks." In verse 26, we read that they "cast [God's] law behind their backs."

06/14/2024

At the cross, Jesus was stripped, suffering shame. He suffered the shame that we deserve. Because of our sins, we deserve to be stripped and shamed. In his commentary on John 19:23-24, Matthew Henry explains:

"The shame they put upon our Lord Jesus, in stripping him of his garments before they crucified him. The shame of nakedness came in with sin. He therefore who was made sin for us bore that shame, to roll away our reproach. He was stripped, that we might be clothed with white raiment (Rev. 3:18), and that when we are unclothed we may not be found naked."

06/14/2024

In Nehemiah, we get insights on the corporate worship of God in the Old Testament. There was lots of singing, and children worshipped alongside their parents.

In Nehemiah 12:42-43, we read: "The singers sang loudly with Jezrahiah the director. Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and the children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar off."

And in Nehemiah 11:20-23, we read: "Also the overseer of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha, of the sons of Asaph, the singers in charge of the service of the house of God. For it was the king's command concerning them that a certain portion should be for the singers, a quota day by day."

06/14/2024

Jesus protects women, including his mother. At the cross, Jesus entrusts her care to the Apostle John. On John 19:25-27, Matthew Henry comments:

"[Jesus] tenderly provides for his mother at his death. It is probable that Joseph, her husband, was long since dead, and that her son Jesus had supported her, and her relation to him had been her maintenance; and now that he was dying what would become of her? He saw her standing by, and knew her cares and griefs; and he saw John standing not far off, and so he settled a new relation between his beloved mother and his beloved disciple; for he said to her, 'Woman, behold thy son, for whom henceforward thou must have a motherly affection;' and to him, 'Behold thy mother, to whom thou must pay a filial duty.' And so from that hour, that hour never to be forgotten, that disciple took her to his own home."

06/14/2024

Ezra, an expert in the law of God, tore his clothes when he saw the people of God intermarrying with pagans. In Ezra 9:10-12, we read:

"And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, 'The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness. Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.'"

The people had violated a law of God. In Deuteronomy 7:2-3, the law reads: "Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods, and the LORD’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy you.”

You can find similar commands in Genesis 13:15-16 and 17:4-17.

On this passage, Matthew Henry writes that, "they profaned the crown of their peculiarity." He goes on to say:

"They distrusted the power of God to protect and advance them, and were led by carnal policy, hoping to strengthen themselves and make an interest among their neighbours by these alliances. A practical disbelief of God's all-sufficiency is at the bottom of all the sorry shifts we make to help ourselves. They exposed themselves, and much more their children, to the peril of idolatry, the very sin, and introduced by this very way, that had once been the ruin of their church and nation."

The mother of Augustine prayed for her son for many years. In his Confessions, Augustine writes:"But you sent down your ...
06/03/2024

The mother of Augustine prayed for her son for many years. In his Confessions, Augustine writes:

"But you sent down your help from above and rescued my soul from the depths of this darkness because my mother, your faithful servant, wept to you for me, shedding more tears for my spiritual death than other mothers shed for the bodily death of a son. For in her faith and in the spirit which she had from you she looked on me as dead. You heard her and did not despise the tears which streamed down and watered the earth in every place where she bowed her head in prayer."

Christ was arrested, mocked, slapped, denied, slandered, falsely accused, lied about, stripped, spat upon, and speared. ...
06/03/2024

Christ was arrested, mocked, slapped, denied, slandered, falsely accused, lied about, stripped, spat upon, and speared. On Calvary, Jesus took the punishment that we deserved. You can read the full account in John 18-19.

06/03/2024

In Ezra 6:14, we learn that the people of God prosper through good preaching. The text reads: "So the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the command of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia."

06/03/2024

In Ezra 6:21-22, we read: "Then the children of Israel who had returned from the captivity ate together with all who had separated themselves from the filth of the nations of the land in order to seek the LORD God of Israel. And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy; for the LORD made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel."

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