What happens to our motives when serving God becomes costly? In 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8, Paul describes a ministry that survived suffering, opposition, temptation, and the pressure of people. He did not use deceit, uncleanness, guile, flattering words, covetousness, or the glory of men. His reason was plain: God had put him in trust with the gospel, and God tried his heart. Then Paul shows the other side of right motives. He was gentle. He cared for people. He was willing not only to give them the gospel of God, but to pour his own soul into them. Stress reveals what praise and easy days can hide. Are we serving to please men or God? Are we protecting our image, or are we caring for souls? Join Pastor Ed Decker at Arnold Baptist Tabernacle as he preaches from 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 and asks a searching question: How much stress can your motives take? KEY VERSE - 1 THESSALONIANS 2:4 KJB "But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts." What happens to your motives when pressure rises? Paul was opposed, mistreated, and tested. But he did not turn to deceit, flattery, covetousness, or the praise of men. He kept the gospel entrusted to him. He stayed gentle. He cared for souls. He was willing to give more than a message. He was willing to give himself. Join Pastor Ed Decker in 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 for a question every Christian servant needs to face: #PastorEdDecker #ArnoldBaptistTabernacle #1Thessalonians #KJB #BiblePreaching #ChristianMotives #GospelMinistry Pressure does not just test what you do

Midweek Service – September 9, 2026 – Pastor Roberts Preaching Offertory: "Trusting Jesus" Lyrics by Edgar Stites. Music by Ira Sankey; Arranged by Gina Sprunger; Copyright 2003 by SoundForth Hymns used from the following: Great Hymns of the Faith Brentwood Benson Publishing - CCLI License for live streaming Soul Stirring Songs and Hymns - Sword of the Lord Publishers - permission granted by publisher From the Media Ministry of Mukwonago Baptist Church 1610 Honeywell Road Mukwonago, WI 53149 www.mukwonagobaptist.org 262-363-4197

Join us for Wednesday Night of our Revival Services at Esta Memorial Baptist Church as Pastor Gene Rowell of Gantt Street Baptist Church, Cayce, SC preaches on the "Encouragement of Onesiphorus"!

An explanation of how the canon of scripture developed

Thank you for joining us here at Calvary Bible Baptist Church in Greig, NY. We preach the Bible and sing the old songs around here. You will surely love our people and feel right at home at our family first church. Come visit in person! www.CalvaryBibleBaptist.com

Preaching: Alex Sutherland "Blessing Through Suffering" Exodus 1:8-14

Preached in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, England, UK

In the literary landscape of seventeenth-century England, few trial scenes resonate with as much raw satire and visceral injustice as the Trial at Vanity Fair in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. Before the merciless magistrate Lord Hate-good and a jury composed of men like Mr. Malice and Mr. Cruelty, the pilgrim Faithful is condemned not for a genuine crime, but for daring to challenge the corrupt, self-serving norms of a culture obsessed with worldly indulgence. This courtroom farce was no mere construct of allegory or creative imagination; it was a thinly veiled, cathartic processing of Bunyan's own lived trauma. In November 1660, following the Restoration of King Charles II and the aggressive crackdown on religious dissent, Bunyan was arrested for preaching at an unlicensed gathering in Bedfordshire. Refusing to compromise his conscience or promise silence in exchange for leniency, the humble tinker turned preacher was sentenced to a brutal, twelve-year imprisonment in the squalid, overcrowded confines of the Bedford County Gaol. It was precisely within those damp, disease-ridden walls—isolated from his family and facing an indefinite loss of liberty—that Bunyan transmuted his personal legal struggles into eternal art, forging a narrative where the terrifying corruptions of earthly justice serve only to illuminate the ultimate triumph of the steadfast soul.