Walmart Garden Variety
Oct 4th, 2009
If you’ve never heard Dr. Argile Smith preach, you’ve really missed a treat. He has a preaching style that is unique among ministers … he is a story teller. Brother Argile jokingly declares that his voice is the “Walmart garden variety,” because he is more soft spoken than most, but when he begins to weave a story, the congregation becomes hushed. I love listening to the way this man delivers the gospel. Brother Argile currently serves as senior pastor of First Baptist Biloxi, where he also teaches ministry courses on Thursday evenings as an extension of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Benjy warming up with the choir before Sunday evening worship.
Bro. Argile and Benjy were invited by Pastor Philip Caples to lead the congregation of New Palestine Baptist Church in revival last week. What a great revival team they were! It was a great week of singing and preaching and worshipping, and a few souls were added to the Kingdom in the process.
New Palestine is located in Picayune, MS, and is one of the oldest churches in the area. The sign out front indicates that the church was established in 1898. I love the ‘feel’ of this old church, with moss covered oak trees in the parking lot. I try to get a good pic every time we visit, but I just can’t capture the feel of it with my camera.
One of the many benefits of visiting the number of churches we do, is that we get to see so many creative ways of ‘doing’ ministry. This is one of my favorites … a very creative way to report the progress of the Margret Lackey State Missions offering. Looks like they are well on their way to reaching their goal!
On His Exciting Journey,
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I recently heard a discussion on Moody Radio about Jonathon Edwards where they once again talked about how soft spoken he actually was. When we think of “Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God”, we don’t think of SOFT.
The speaker was saying what I had heard before, that it was actually the words of the sermon and not any shouting that brought people to their knees.