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I started this topic mostly to ask @Jerry if the floods in BC are affecting him or his church at all. Figured it could work for any other disaster/weather-ish things people want to share.
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When needed, I have no problem contending for the faith, debating doctrines and understanding of Scripture passages, but sometimes I just want to discuss something Biblical, but not controversial - to see where others stand or perhaps see if I can learn more about something through them and their understanding of the Bible. I read recently in a commentary that there were seven famines in the Bible. It stuck with me because of the number - God's number of perfection, completion. So I wondered if that statement measured up but I didn't have the time to check it out then. Thought I would put it out there. This is based on my faulty memory and just what comes to mind as …
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This past year Vivian and I have had two family members and four friends take their own lives. With the Coronavirus, the lockdowns, many churches not having "in person" services, and being away from their jobs and friends, people often forget that they are worth something in the eyes of God. Most will probably say "Send them to a church," or "have a pastor call on them," which is definitely great advice, but many times there isn't enough time and the need is immediate. With all of this said, I want to post this number. I've had several friends whose lives have been saved because it was given to them or was posted in a prominent place. YOU ARE NOT ALONE! …
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This is an interesting article about how Creation Science Ministries fall short of teaching and preaching the whole counsel of God's Word, how they are typically ecumenical, don't separate from error and false teachers. I thought it was worth passing on. Elsewhere on these boards, it was pointed out that ICR, though it uses the KJV in some articles (such as Days of Praise), they are often guilty of questioning and correcting it - something to be aware of. Creation Science Ministries: Why the New Evangelical Principle is Dangerous (wayoflife.org)
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Is anyone familiar with this author's theology? He has written various books on Israel and the endtimes and has appeared on various shows through the years. His first Christian fiction series has five books: The Last Jihad, The Last Days, The Ezekiel Option, plus two more. It basically deals with a Washington wheeler and dealer who is a close friend with the US President. The first book starts off with an assassination attempt on the president, then the main character gets caught up in events trying to broker peace with middle eastern countries and Israel. I remember him not being saved at the beginning and eventually coming to the Lord during these events. The third book…
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Considering I Tim 2:12 and I Cor 14:35; Should a woman teach a women SS Class? I Tim 2:12..."But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor usurp authority over the man, but to be silence." I Cor 14:35..."And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home; for it is a shame for women to speak in the church."
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Answer: According to custom and tradition, white signifies purity and innocence; red, hardiness and valor; and blue signifies vigilance, perseverance, and justice. White-Christ is purity, Red- He shed his blood for us, and Blue- He is the Just One.
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2 Kings 13:14-19 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows. And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king's hands. And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in …
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Should our military take action now, do what ever it takes to get the 17 Christians out.
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I remember there was a church and protestants that started a laughing church service. The preacher start laughing and everybody start laughing are they still around. Maybe they ran out of jokes.
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It must be very hard for a preacher after many years training members how to seek and serve God to see these members just walk out, from the church membership, for no good reason. Humans are always looking for the perfect church. Even if they know they’ll never find one because the church is full of repentant sinners, and the perfect church will be when Christ come back. But this still keeps happening everywhere. I don’t know what’s wrong with our pastor he seems not to be the same anymore. Just saying, Can you please tell me when you find the perfect church thanks.
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As many churches are changing today so are the pulpit they preach on. The old classic wood pulp has always look much better than the new clear see through plastic pulpits. Which one do you prefer?
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All that fake sugar is not good for you. Repent…?
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My wife got gas on Friday night @ $2.96 a gallon. She said that gas this morning was $3.19 a gallon at the Pilot station, and $3.22 at the Thorntons! Kroger Fuel had it at $3.18...Our gas expense every week has gone from $70 to over $125...Thank you, Mr. Biden! That's just for the one vehicle. My pickup truck takes 5 gallon more than our Explorer...We could easily spend over $150 a week on gas. How much is gas where you are???
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I love the Autumn. Though it is the worst season for my Meniere's disease, I love the changing of the leaves here in the mountains of Tennessee. My wife and I used to drive down 41A every year from Murfreesboro to Chattanooga and take pictures of the vibrant colors. It was so beautiful. We haven't done it for several years now because my wife usually only has Sunday off, and we are in church that day. We also have several other things we have to do, ie, going to the dump, post office and grocery store. Then there is laundry to do, dinner to make and dishes to wash, dry and put away. What is YOUR favorite time of year? Why?
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Not me,lights out. Be Safe
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How the Liberals and the LGBTQ movement can change a Country. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/24/revolt-against-liberalism-eastern-europe-poland-hungary-nativist-politics
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Remembered the tv program highway to heaven, I wonder if any lost soul came to Christ watching it. They spoke of love, angels, and God. Not normal for a tv program today.
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I know this is a big problem in society today that people after having surgery are getting addicted to Opioids. This can happen to anyone even preachers. So be safe out there and seek help if this applies to you, you are not alone.
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Our church is currently working through Psalm 119 as our Bible study on Wednesday evenings. Psalm 119:44 So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. It pays to look up every word! I work my way through each word in the verse, checking the Hebrew words to see what they mean. In English we use the phrase "forever and ever" to just mean ongoing, to just emphasize that we mean "always." So, I went to look up the first "ever" and assumed they would both be the same Hebrew word. They weren't. ever = H5769 "olam" properly, concealed; that is, the vanishing point ever = H5703 "ad" (as in ad infinitum) properly a (peremptory) terminus; that is (by im…
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Bloodletting - by a physician or by leeches, common medical practice performed by surgeons from antiquity until the late 19th century, a span of over 2,000 years.
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I was working on my Bible study lesson, and saw a lot in it today. I first go through the passage, this week it is Psalm 119:105-112 with the heading NUN, and define words, then I read the corresponding chapter from Spurgeon's The Golden Alphabet. After that I work through the workbook lesson. All three usually bring things to mind that I can interconnect. In relation to verse 105, which states, "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." Spurgeon explains, "Having no fixed lamps in eastern towns, in old time each passenger carried a lantern with him, that he might not fall into the open sewer, or stumble over the heaps of ordure which defiled…
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Good thing always come to a End. Yes Sir.
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Is the conservative movement vanish. Liberalism is taking over our Country and have entered into our churches.
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My birth father lives just outside of Corydon, Indiana. This story occured in his area. It was first sent to me by one of my nieces in Corydon the day this incident happened. Many had been praying for this young man's return. It's sad how it turned out. My wife and I were just in the Corydon, Indiana area to see my birth father on July 17th of this year. It's such a small town, and the people are friendly...sort of a "Mayberry" from the Andy Griffith Show of old. Please, keep this young man's father in prayer, and pray that this story will also bring to the forefront of my nieces and nephews minds, as well as my birth fathers, that death could happen any time. It's import…
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In 1 Corinthians 12:13.. it is most commonly seen as salvation. That 'the body' here is all redeemed. The thing though.. that i have seen very few get.. is that the body in question in this passage is the church AT Corinth. The body here is a congregation. It's not all redeemed. So here is where we get baptism for membership to a congregation. A common objection I see to this is people then think I'm saying the church of Corinth is the ONLY body..seeing they think of 'there is one body..' In Ephesians What this isn't taking into account is the English grammar of referring to numerous things as one entity. 'The horse'... is that one universal horse? 'The bar' is that one universal public bar'? 'The horse is a magnificent animal' .. is the way 'the body' is used in scripture. So... there is one body at Ephesus..one at Corinth...one at Phillipi etc 'The body' as the institution of God's congregations/assemblies. Singular standing for plural. Standard English grammar. If you are going to make 1 co 12:13 about the Spirit giving salvation.. then you have the church at Corinth being what that salvation enters into. The church at Corinth is the body in 1 co 12. With application to other church bodies plural. -
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Uncle Warren was Randy's mom's brother. They had some brothers (one of whom is still with us) and one sister, Gloria. Well, this morning we woke to a text from Randy's brother, Larry (who was the one who witnessed to him). We don't have any details as to when, but Aunt Gloria was privileged to lead her brother to the Lord. We now know Uncle Warren is in Glory! Randy said that made his day! We are praising the Lord. He was the last of my mother-in-law's siblings to accept Christ. Now we pray for Uncle Bill (Randy's paternal aunt was married to him...she is in Glory as well). I do appreciate your prayer! -
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We got the sad news tonight that one of my hubs' remaining uncles passed away. He's been sick for a while and was put on hospice this week. Please pray for the Miller and DePriest family. My hubs, too, because his family is all in OH, and there's no way he can go back there right now. We've been working on planning a trip back there and he had hoped that Uncle Warren would still be there when we visited. He has witnessed to Unc Warren many times and no interest. One of his brothers has also witnessed to Unc Warren and was shut down. However, Randy has been praying specifically that God would send someone Unc would listen to and get saved. We do not know if that happened. -
It was 1792, and world evangelism was barely on the radar of Baptist churches in England. But it was heavy on the heart of a thirty-one-year-old bivocational pastor in Northamptonshire. His name was William Carey, and he was passionate about the Great Commission. Carey’s appeal to other pastors to form a missionary agency had been met with apathy or pushback. But Carey couldn’t be silent. So he researched the needs of Christless people and studied the call to missions in the New Testament. And he wrote a booklet titled An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens. The booklet was divided into five sections covering the history of missionary work, the needs of the world, theological arguments, practical objections to missions, and specific actions Christians could take. The Enquiry was revolutionary. But within its pages Cary included two questions that still deserve an answer: “Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than we are now doing?” “Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than we are now doing?”—William Carey Share on X Carey’s main argument was that the Great Commission was not just a command to the apostles, but a mandate from Christ for all Christians. This booklet stirred the hearts of Baptists around England, leading to the formation of the Baptist Missionary Society later that year. Ultimately, this society supported Carey as its first missionary, sending him to India where he would spend the rest of his life preaching the gospel and translating the Bible. As great as Carey’s work was, the task remains unfinished. We still have the Great Commission from Christ to go into all the world and preach the gospel. And we still must do it. Today, we must do more than we are now doing. The needs of lost souls around the world are too great for us to remain complacent. So, what can we do? 1. We Must Go The Great Commission begins with an important word: Go. Missions is not merely an invitation; it is a command for every believer. As we can only be in once place at a time, however, every Christian cannot take the gospel to every part of the world. We must each share the gospel where God calls us. God does call some to bring the gospel to foreign lands. We see this in Acts 13 as God called Paul and Barnabas to serve as missionaries. Statistics reveal a sobering reality: the average age of Baptist missionaries continues to rise, and the need for new laborers in mission fields around the world grows. How did William Carey sense God’s call to missions? Ultimately, it was the work of the Holy Spirit through the pages of Scripture. But initially, it was as he studied geography. He made a world map out of leather and hung it by his work bench as he prayed for people around the world who had never heard the gospel. Later he said, “To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.” “To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.”—William Carey Share on X This coming week, Lancaster Baptist Church will host our annual World Impact Conference. One of the things I pray will take place during this conference is the Lord stirring the hearts of teens and young adults to the great needs of our world for missions. I pray that God uses the missionary testimonies and the preaching of His Word this coming week to even call some to go as missionaries. We simply must go to where people need the Lord. 2. We Must Send Even as God called those first missionaries in Acts 13, the local church at Antioch sent them. We can imagine that this sending included both prayer and financial support to enable Paul and Barnabas’ journeys. As William Carey volunteered to go to India as the first modern missionary of the English Baptist churches, he told his friend Pastor Andrew Fuller, “I will go down into the pit, if you will hold the ropes.” Indeed, to “hold the ropes” is a commitment to both pray for and financially support missionaries. I thank the Lord for the many missionaries God has called from our own church family and for whom we get to be the sending church. And I thank the Lord for how Lancaster Baptist Church generously and sacrificially gives to support these and other missionaries who are bringing the gospel around the world. Over the past several years, the Lord has enabled our church family to give over $1 million dollars annually to missions. As we conduct World Impact Conference this week, we encourage each member of our church to prayerfully commit to consistent giving to support missionaries. 3. We Must Expect God to Bless Our Faith It’s easy to look at the great need for missions—over eight billion people, many of whom have never even heard the gospel—and feel defeated. What difference does one more missionary, one more missions giving commitment, make toward meeting such a great need? The answer is that we give and go in obedient faith. We obey the Great Commission because we trust God will bless our faith. Hebrews 11:6 tells us, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” Perhaps the most famous quote of William Carey is “Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.” “Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.”—William Carey Share on X Throughout history, God has honored the faith of those who have dared to attempt great things for Him. Who can tell how God will bless our involvement in worldwide missions? When William Carey, an unknown, bivocational pastor from England, arrived in India, there was no fanfare and no immediate results. In fact, it would be seven years before Carey saw his first convert trust Christ. But forty-one years later, when Carey died in Serampore, India, he left behind twenty-six churches, Bible translations in forty Indian languages, schools, and a college for training more pastors. He had stepped out and persevered in faith, and God blessed. We can trust that as we go, give, and trust God, He will bless our faith as well. World Impact Conference at Lancaster Baptist Church will be held November 3–5. We invite friends around the world to join us via live stream at LBClive.tv. A complete schedule for the conference is available at lancasterbaptist.org/world-impact-conference. View the full article
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