Archive › August, 2006

Changing our name!

World Vision Baptist Church is changing names.  Our new name will simply be Vision Baptist Church.  This is due to a conflict with the name of the relief agency which was never our intention.  We are still World Vision Baptist Church.  We still have the same goals and heart beat and tho our name will [...]

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YOU KNOW IT'S TIME TO DIET WHEN:

This came out in an email and I thought you might enjoy it.  No hints intended. You dance and it makes the band skip. You are diagnosed with the flesh-eating virus, and the doctor gives you 22 more years to live. You put mayonnaise on aspirin. You go to the zoo and the elephants throw [...]

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Jesus is coming soon!

I just got an email with the following link in it.  It is a 60 second video that you would enjoy seeing.  The Bible teaches that Jesus is coming soon.  Watch the video and experience just a few seconds of just that.  Click on the following link and just play the video: Watch the video [...]

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God meant it for good!

Jacob Taube has written a very good article that I want to invite you to read.  Here is a small excerpt: So here we find an extraordinary incongruity: a humiliation in the heart of vindication. A triumph that was the opposite of everything he himself could have envisioned. Joseph wanted to go home, but a [...]

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Remembering the murdered five!

On January 8, 1956 Jim Elliot, Roger Youderian, Pete Fleming, Ed McCully, and Nate Saint were killed by the Auca Indians.  We will remember their lives and contributions to the cause of Christ tomorrow.  It has now been over 5o years since they gave their lives but God has accomplished untold and uncounted good from their [...]

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Learn to keep a journal from Jim Elliot

The following are quotes from the journals of Jim Elliot.  I would like to challenge each of you to take the time each day to write down your thoughts from your Bible reading and study.  Just a short brief note of how God is working in your life is a great tool to make you [...]

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Jim Elliot

  This Sunday we will celebrate or remember the 50 year anniversary of the death of 5 young men who loved God with all their hearts and were used to literally change the history of world evangelism.  As I prepare for my message and also as I study these men I have found some very [...]

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Tyler Master's Ordination

Last night, August 24, 2006, Tony Howeth and I had the privilege of participating in Tyler Master’s ordination service.  The Masters are members of the Grace Baptist Church in Middletown, Ohio.  Pastor Roger Green did a tremendous job in the ordination council and service.  I have never seen a greater expression of love and honor [...]

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Thank you very much!

Just a quick note to thank each of you for your super kindness to me on my birthday.  I have loved aquariums for many years and thank you for giving such a generous gift to help me purchase one.  Thank you for the cards, the emails, the cake, and all the kind words.  I love [...]

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Mark Tolson joins!

Mark Tolson, World Vision Baptist Church’s newest member!   Mark and the Asian Bible Fellowship!           Yesterday was another wonderful day at World Vision Baptist Church.  Mark Tolson who is a student at the Our Generation Training Center joined the church.  Mark is an extremely fine young man that is being [...]

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