Goldston Baptist Church, Goldston NC

06/14/2026

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06/07/2026

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06/04/2026

Ya gotta have heart

“Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.” Galatians 6:9

I have been in ministry for many, many years. I have several advantages over those who are young in the ministry, and one is the ability to look back and see the fruit of those many years. I would be less than truthful if I didn’t say that there were times when I wondered how much I had accomplished in advancing the kingdom of Christ, yet after staying focused on the preaching and teaching of the Word and the day in day out labor of intercessory prayer, I have had the opportunity to make a sizeable difference for the kingdom of Christ. The key was not losing heart and finding my strength in Christ and His promises.
We live in an instant gratification society. When I was growing up, if you ordered something by mail you waited weeks before it arrived at your door. Today you can get it the same day. Kitchen meals are advertised as ready in minutes and fast-food restaurants abound. If a coach doesn’t produce wins in one or two seasons, he is looking for a job. We wait for nothing in our instant everything life. I remember when you had to turn on the television several minutes before a show came on and you had to put the tea kettle on a good while before the water boiled and the steam whistle sounded. Now TV’s take a few seconds to bring the picture, and microwaves take a minute or two to heat up the cold coffee. Hungry? Don’t wait, call ahead and pick up your order without the line. How impatient we have become.
God, however, doesn’t work on the timetable of our instant generation. It takes time to change a life and mold it into a Godfearing man or woman. Good things take time to grow and mature and so does the work of God’s servants. The farmer cultivates the soil, plants the seed and waits months for the crop to come in. The Word of God is sown in hearts, but it takes time before it gets root and begins to bring about godly changes in the one in whom it was planted. The Sower sows his seed in faith that God will bring it to full bloom. He does not see anything happening below the surface, but things are happening and he must wait in faith. In due time the crop will be mature and ready to reap. So it is with the work of God done by His faithful servants. They sow the good things of His word and through prayer and in time if they don’t quit or give up, the fruit of their ministry will be known.
The Bible speaks of doing good in faith that God will bring about His purposes in it. Don’t lose heart, keep serving the Lord and in time you will see a great harvest.

Bruce MacInnes is the pastor of Goldston Baptist Church

05/31/2026

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05/29/2026

Brethren and friends

“As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the majestic ones in whom is all my delight.” Psalm 16:3
“Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are outstanding among the apostles” Romans 16:7

My very best friends have all been brothers and sisters in Christ and I am fortunate to have a lot of them. When I was a new Christian and not knowing enough to seek fellowship, fellowship sought me. On duty one night a fellow Coast Guardsman stopped by to chat. I didn’t know him, but he was friendly and he asked if I was a Christian. I told him I was and he then invited me to the men’s Bible study that met on Monday nights. I said I might come but privately thought I probably wouldn’t. The next day I was looking for a place to sit with my tray in the chow hall, and my new acquaintance hailed me to come over and sit with him and his Bible study friends. I did and spent the next 3 ½ years with them. They became close friends and they were all my brothers in our common faith in Christ.
David, in our text for today, opined that he counted his fellow believers as the men in whom his soul delighted. Paul wrote of a host of men and women whom he had come to know and counted as friends (25 are named in this likely short list in Romans). One of the blessings of being in a church family and being involved in the life of the church is that your fellow believers become dear friends. They come to your aid when you need them and delight your heart and soul as you get to know them better. Blood family is not always as supportive and delightful as your spiritual family, and it is only your spiritual family that will be in heaven with you throughout eternity. If you are anything like me, you have thanked the Lord many a time for your brothers and sisters in Christ. They are the “majestic ones in whom is all my delight.”
Some of you who are reading this column attend a good church, but you don’t have many in that church that you would consider to be your dear friends. I don’t know you, but I can almost be sure that you are not very involved in that church. You attend the worship service but not much else. You might have a short conversation with someone after the service but nothing more. I would say to you that you are missing out on one of God’s great gifts to you… Christian brethren and good friends. Get involved in a smaller group of people in your church. A bible study or a small group either in Sunday School or home meetings. Participate in church activities where you can have meaningful conversations with others.
The Bible speaks of brethren who can become dear friends. Make some! It will delight your soul.

Bruce MacInnes is the pastor of Goldston Baptist Church

05/24/2026

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Chapters00:00 Intro00:20 Call to Worship03:43 Welcome05:06 GBC Choir 09:16 Hymn11:30 Prayer19:38 Worship song23:08 Sermon

05/22/2026

You can see and hear God

“The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands…And their utterances to the end of the world.” Psalm 19:1,4

I was attempting to share the gospel with a student at my university when he interrupted me saying, “you expect me to believe in a God I cannot see, nor hear, nor touch and in which half the world doesn’t believe and the other half fights over? I won’t believe in God unless I can see Him and hear His voice.” I didn’t then know how to answer him. He seemed to have a point in explaining his unwillingness to believe in someone he could not see and hear. It was many years later before I realized that you can see God and can hear His voice. Not in the conventional ways to which the college skeptic was wanting but in the only way an immense, invisible and holy could be seen and heard through what He has made and what He has said that is recorded in writing.
Our text for today tells us that creation declares His glory and power and vast intelligence. Dismiss the ranting atheist and the “know it all” evolutionist and leave someone to their own observations and they will inevitably conclude that someone of greater mind and strength made all that we can see in this universe. If you have ever been out camping under the stars you can sense that God must have made it for there is no other plausible explanation for such wonder. Romans 1:20 says, “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made…” Along with the fact that He has placed “eternity in our hearts” (Eccl. 3:11), the visible universe is enough to cause a soul to sense that God exists. It is not enough, however, to bring that soul to a personal, saving relationship with Him. For this to occur more specific revelation is needed, and it has been provided through the Bible, the word of God.
The Bible speaks to every generation by giving to us the very word of God. Psalm 19 verses 7-11 tell us that His word is perfect, sure, right, pure, clean and true. His word warns the reader of what God wants them to know, avoid and do, and it rewards the one who keeps His word with blessings and a deepening relationship with the Lord who made him. Verse 7 says His word “makes wise the simple.” God can be known through His word even by the simplest mind. Stephen Hawking was considered the smartest man in the world. He said his life’s pursuit was to discover how the universe came into being, a question he never answered. However, a kindergartner could answer that question. God made it. Look up and see it. Open up the Scriptures and read it. God can be seen and heard.

Bruce MacInnes is the pastor of Goldston Baptist Church

05/18/2026

May 17th Outside Service "The World and the Word"

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05/17/2026

Following the crowd?

“You shall not do what is done in the land of Egypt where you lived, nor are you to do what is done in the land of Canaan where I am bringing you; you shall not walk in their statutes.” Leviticus 18:3

I was watching television the other day when an advertisement from the satellite company said that I could click on a site that would tell me what everyone else in the country was watching at that moment. My wife turned to me and said, “why would we want to know that?” I agreed. We didn’t want to know BUT obviously there were many that did. A great many people like to follow the crowd and do what everyone else is doing yet God’s people are expressly warned NOT to do this.
The children of Israel had been slaves in Egypt for four hundred years. They would naturally have observed the false worship of the Egyptians and come to know their idols by name. They could have assimilated into the culture and religion of Egypt, but God had called them to be a “holy nation” separated unto Him. They were delivered from Egypt and sent to Canaan where they were to divide the land and live under the government of God’s holy law. Israel was duly warned not to adopt the practices and beliefs of their new neighbors, yet they continuously disobeyed God; falling prey to their neighbors’ sins of idolatry and polytheism. God had specifically warned them to follow His law and obey His ways, but the people bowed to peer pressure and adopted the gods of the surrounding cultures.
The Lord knew how difficult it could be for His people to stay separated and holy, so He gave them His law to follow. Many of the laws God gave them seem to be peculiar; laws about diet, cleanliness, ceremonies, etc., yet their purpose was to set them apart from all other people. Their customs, laws and diet were to prevent them from mingling with the nations around them that could introduce them to false gods and sinful habits. Socializing is always difficult when you have little in common. The Hebrews, if they kept God’s laws, would find themselves so different from the Canaanites that they would have no desire to mix with them, thereby removing the temptation at its source.
Christians today are facing the same dilemma as their Jewish forerunners. The Judeo-Christian ethic is all but lost and believers are faced with a culture that is increasingly opposed to biblical beliefs and practices once common and accepted. Will we hold onto Scriptural truths and follow our unpopular beliefs or will we cave to the pressure around us to conform to the practices of our times and neighbors. I hope the former; I fear the latter. The Bible speaks and tells us to live differently from the world. Are you doing what is done in Egypt and Canaan or living by the statues of the Word of God?

Bruce MacInnes is the pastor of Goldston Baptist Church

05/12/2026