09.01.10
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Here are some kind notes we’ve received from the Radio ministry lately. These came from the Baker station, WTJT 90.1.
From a Bible school student:
“Dear preacher, I just heard your radio broadcast for the first time today and it was extremely refreshing! Usually I find Christian radio and it’s anemic programs sadly entertaining and rarely edifying, so when I heard your preaching and truthful comments regarding the false prophets of our day (Olsteen, Warren, ect..) I couldn’t help but shout amen with your congregation that I could hear in the background! I am a Bible school student right now in Pensacola, Florida and am always happy to discover the whereabouts of the “remnant” of real King James Bible believers in these last days. Thank you and keep up the good work!”
From an inmate:
“Lee, Just a short not to say that, blessing and peace be upon you and the congregation at Ridge Road. Enclosing a $10.00 tithe offering toward the radio ministry or jail ministry whichever way the Lord directs you to use it. Enjoyed the radio messages concerning the personification of sin. (Learned a lot – good teaching.) Love you all, keep me in your prayers and don’t forget that you are on my visitation list.”
From a church mission director:
“I’m trying to find the message that I listened to on WTJT this past Tuesday. It was concerning the scriptures used to lead others to faith in our Lord Christ Jesus. I was very impressed with this message and would like the scriptures that you were encouraging the people to mark for their use in “soul winning”. I know the Roman Road but would like the other scriptures. Thanks for the message.”
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We have had an exceptionally pleasant reception on the street as of late. The last Friday of August we had a total of 20 participants in our regularly scheduled Public Ministry. Nearly half of these participating were under the age of eighteen. We had four men preaching the gospel, signs everywhere you looked, and in an hours time we managed to distribute somewhere around 150 gospel booklets.
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We have needed to go door-to-door in our community for a long time and at last we got the effort underway in the month of August. Without any intentional coordination, in one weekend, we had one team begin on one end of Ridge Road working back toward the church and another team at the opposite end of Ridge Road working back to the church. We haven’t had any professions of faith thus far, but we’ve managed to make some good contacts, invite folks to church, and get a good witness in with some lost people.
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07.29.10
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We’ve spent this week in Somerset, Kentucky attending Saline Baptist Church’s annual camp meeting at Camp Canaan. This is my first camp meeting, as such, and it has been an outstanding week. Since Monday night when we began attending the meetings at the tabernacle we’ve spent about 17 hours in church services and heard eighteen sermons from seventeen different preachers, not to mention some of the best singing and testifying on this side of heaven. They’ve fed us well for breakfast and lunch each day, but fed us even better from the word of God over and over again. It’s been one of the best meetings I’ve been in and I’ve gotten some much needed spiritual rest and edification. We’ve enjoyed some wonderful fellowship with Christians from all over the country, and have savored the time we’ve shared with some of our church family, Bro. Freddie and Ms. Darlene (who invited us and made it possible to come) and Bro. Kyle and Ms. Kim. I’m a bit sorry to see it wind up, but I’m grateful to have received help from the Lord to take back to the work in Brewton.
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07.27.10
Posted in Church, Uncategorized at 1:27 pm by Administrator
“The Baptists are the only body of Christians that has not symbolized with the Church of Rome”
- Isaac Newton
“The institution of Anabaptism is no novelty, but for 1300 years has caused great disturbances in the church, and has acquired such a strength that the attempt in this age to contend with it appeared futile for a time”
- Zwingle (1530)
“If the truths of religion were to be judged of by the readiness and cheerfulness which a man of any sect shows in suffering, then the opinion and persuasion of no sect can be truer and surer than that of Anabaptists, since there have been done for the past 1200 years that have been more generally punished, or that have more cruel sorts of punishment, than these people.”
- Cardinal Hosius (President of Council of Trent 1650)
“…the Baptists may be considered as the only Christian community which has stood since the apostles, and as a Christian society has preserved pure the doctrine of the gospel through all ages”
- Dr. Ypeij and Rev. Dermont (Dutch Reformed 1823)
“I should not readily admit that there was a Baptist church as far back as 100 A.D., although without doubt there were Baptist churches then, as all Christians were then Baptists.”
- John Clark Ridpath (Methodist historian)
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We’ve taken a bit of a “vacation” this week and we got it kicked off by spending the weekend with Pastor Travis Alltop and his family and church. I first met Bro. Alltop back in December at Cornerstone Baptist Church’s Missions Conference. He pastors the Bluegrass Pike Baptist Church in Danville, Kentucky. We greatly enjoyed the fellowship with the folks at Bluegrass Pike. Bro. Alltop is a good preacher and a lot of his sermons can be downloaded online at www.sermonaudio.com/travis1611.
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07.22.10
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My children have the rare privilege of having two sets of great-grandparents whom they have gotten to know very well (not to mention a great-great-grandfather that they all three will remember). I also have the unique privilege of having a legacy of faith that has been passed down for generations from both of these representative families. The Lord put it on my heart some time back to bring my two grandfathers, my father, and my two oldest sons (6 and 9 at the time) to the same table for what I termed a Patriarch Meeting. I wanted to instill in my sons minds the memory of their grandfathers and expose them to the cultural and technological changes that these men have seen come to pass in their lifetimes and the spiritual histories of their families. A few weeks before our meeting I sent each grandfather a list of twelve questions that I would like them to speak to in the presence of Taylor and Noah. I thought the experience was glorious as we sat for three hours and these precious patriarchs spoke of life in a by-gone era and the spiritual heritage that has helped to make us what we are as a family. I think that this meeting made an impression on my young sons, but I doubt they saw the value of this opportunity the way that I did. Thankfully, I got the whole thing digitally recorded to share with them in years to come. Below are the questions that I submitted to my father and grandfathers for our first ever Patriarch Meeting.
- Who was the first person to tell you about Jesus Christ?
- When did you receive Jesus Christ personally?
- Who led you to Christ or who was most influential in your conversion?
- Who, to your knowledge, was the first born again Christian in your family line?
- What were the cultural and technological conditions under which you were raised?
- What do you believe is the most dramatic change in technology and culture that you’ve seen in your lifetime?
- What, if anything, do you fear will be lost by your children, grand-children, etc. when you’re gone?
- What are the most important subjects that you’ve studied and books that you’ve read?
- How long were you in the military, what places were you stationed, and what wars did you fight in?
- What kind of jobs have you held, businesses have you started, etc.?
- What, if anything, would you change about your education, training, or military service?
- Do you recall, or have you attempted to live by, any special sayings or maxims that your father or other ancestors passed along to you?
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07.19.10
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In a message entitled “As Jesus Passed By,” Bob Jones Sr. gave the following illustration:
A story is told of a traveler in a far-away country who had spent most of his time. He was getting ready to leave, but he decided to climb a certain mountain. He secured a guide and they started off together. The man stopped for a moment in the valley and watched a little stream playing over some pebbles. The grass was green. The scene was beautiful. The guide climbed up the mountain side and told the man to follow him. He did as he was bidden and stopped where the guide was standing. He said, ‘I wish I had come on here at first. I thought the valley was beautiful, but this is the grandest spot I ever saw.’ The guide kept climbing and said, ‘Follow me now.’ When he had gone to the point where the guide was then standing he said, ‘I wish I had not stopped down yonder. This scene is more beautiful than that.’ Thus they climbed on and on, and at every step the sight-seer was overwhelmed. They reached the top of the mountain; they stood on a projecting rock; they watched the mountain peaks, the landscapes beyond them, and the mountain which stood behind them; and the man said to the guide, ‘I wish I had come here at first, for there is no spot on earth so beautiful as this. My time is out and I will have to go. I would like to spend hours on this peak.’
Bob Jones went on to say, “When I was eleven years old Christ came in to the valley; He touched me and said, ‘Follow me.’ I said, ‘Not now. Let me play in the little stream of pleasure; this is good enough for me.’ But He said, ‘I will show you scenes grander than any you have ever beheld.’ I said, ‘Sometime I will go.’ He said, ‘Come now.’ I hesitated for a moment, then started with Him. The first step was made, and oh, what a joy filled my heart! That was a dream, a vision of heaven. Since then I have gone higher, I feel sure, and every step has brought grander sights to my vision and sublimer joys to my heart. Let us walk to the sun-lit summit to be fanned by zephyrs from the wings of angels, and from the mountain top we will read ‘our titles clear to mansions in the sky.’”
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06.15.10
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In the midst of an address about Pharaoh’s compromises, C.H. Mackintosh, the 19th century Irish Bible-teacher gave an enlightening discourse on the subject of “narrow-mindedness”. Reproduced from the work entitled The Mackintosh Treasury, his thoughts are reproduced below:
“And here let us just offer a word, in passing, as to the subject of “narrowness,” about which we hear so much now-a-days. The real question is, “Who is to fix the boundaries of the Christian’s faith? Is it man or God — human opinion or divine revelation?” When this question is answered, the whole matter is easily settled. There are some minds terribly scared by the bugbear of “narrow-mindedness.” But then we have to inquire what is narrowness, and what breadth of mind? Now, what we understand by a narrow mind is simply a mind which refuses to take in and be governed by the whole truth of God. A mind governed by human opinions, human reasonings, worldly maxims, Selfish interests, Self will. This we unhesitatingly pronounce to be a narrow mind.
“On the other hand, a mind beautifully subject to the authority of Christ — a mind that bows with reverent submission to the voice of Holy Scripture — a mind that sternly refuses to go beyond the written Word — that absolutely rejects what is not based upon “Thus saith the Lord” — this is what we call a broad, elevated mind.
“Reader, is it not — must it not be so? Is not God’s Word — His mind, infinitely more comprehensive, wide, and full than the mind and ways of man? Is there not infinitely greater breadth in the Holy Scriptures than in all the human writings under the sun? Does it not argue more largeness of heart, and devotion of soul to be governed by the thoughts of God than by our own thoughts or the thoughts of our fellows? It seems to us there can be but one reply to these questions; and hence the entire subject of narrowness resolves itself into this simple but very telling motto, “We must be as narrow as Christ, and as broad as Christ.”
“We must view everything from this blessed standpoint, and then our entire range of vision will be correct, and our conclusions thoroughly sound. But if Christ be not our standpoint, but self, or man, or the world, then our entire range of vision is false, and our conclusions thoroughly unsound.”
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06.03.10
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Music School
June 7-11 at 7 PM Nightly
With Bro. David Armistead
Bro. David is a full-time “music missionary” out of Cornerstone Baptist Church that travels the country teaching local churches the fundamentals of music and singing. Bro. David spent a number of years as band and choral director in the public schools of Galatin, Tennessee before surrendering to full-time ministry. Bro. David has an excellent spirit and a genuine gift at teaching music. You’ll get a blessing from participating, but more than that you will be a blessing to the Lord and to His church as you learn to better use your voice to His glory.
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