Online Baptist

Tonight we start our bible institute. We use the curruculum from Oak Harbor washington written by Robert Sargent and the late Gary Prisk. I graduated from this institute in 2001 and am now teaching part of it. I would have never guessed the Lord would use me in such a way. One thing I have learned over my 14 1/2 years as a Christian. Never say never. The Lord will use you in the most exciting ways if you will only let him. I learned not just to listen to God but to Hear him. We can listen...

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Well here we are again. The beginning of another day. God is really good, isn't he. I have discovered that my biggest blessing thus far from joining OB (besides corresponding with new Bro's and Sis's in Christ), is it has caused me to dig a little deeper in the well. I am searching the scriptures more than I have over recent weeks to ensure that I am biblically sound when I post my . If nothing...

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Well its Sunday morning and I am excited about church. We had an ice storm yesterday and then a little snow on top of that last night so we will have a smaller crowd than we normally have. I also got a call from one of my deacons who (has 7 kids) is in Texas for CHRISTmas and he said he would not be back until Monday. Then another deacon's son called and said his mom, (piano player) and dad were both sick. So if I count the two families in there 80's that won't be there either and Mrs. Candy...

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Its been one month since I did one of the hardest things ive done I think ever done. On November 8th I performed my first funeral. The funeral of a 19 year old boy who took his own life. This boy was like one of my own kids, infact was good friends with my kids. I believe he is saved and that eased the pain a lot. I also had to do my first wedding service 3 hours after the funeral. It was a full day. The Lord was soo good that day. He gave the strength needed, dried the tears when the gospel...

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There is a young man 10 or 11 years old in our junior church class. My heart aches for him. He was born into a Christian family, but for whatever reason, he has enough anger and bitterness in his heart to satisfy the needs of an 80 year old unsaved man. He is rapidly heading toward a collision course with either violence or drugs/alcohol.

His mom has some pretty serious health issues, but the anger pre-dates that by about 4 years. Yes, he has always been angry and rebellious. I remember him...

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