Vision Baptist Church

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.—Milton Friedman

LETTER TO MY BANK Dear Sirs, One of my checks was returned marked “insufficient funds”. In view of current developments in the banking industry, does that refer to me or to you? I came back later to note that this is a joke that came in an email because I know that Trent will think [...]

Micah Rastelli just sent this out: Robert Murray M’Cheyne “If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we are. I cannot doubt that boldness is offered me to enter into the holiest of all; I cannot doubt my right [...]

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. – G. K. Chesterton

The following came in from a missionary friend in Morocco! It is exciting to see what God is doing! Be praying that great things will happen! I just received that email from Suffian at 12:30. He left this morning at 4 am on a two day trip to follow up on people who have requested [...]

There is a great deal of confused thinking these days with regard to various aspects of Christian missions. Church members continue to support missions, mostly with their money, sometimes with their prayers; but they seldom read literature dealing with missionary strategy and policy. Most of them know little or nothing about the progress of the [...]

Gentle reader, here let me inquire as to your salvation. Are you saved by what you have done? Is your religion the product of your own natural strength? Do you feel equal to all that salvation may require? Do you conclude yourself to be in a safe and happy condition because of your natural excellence [...]

Tithing is a middle class way of robbing God. The aim is not tithing, but radical, risk-taking love for the advance of the kingdom. John Piper

The bishops of God’s church, the professed leaders of the Lord’s hosts, the pretended followers of the Redeemer, have done more damage to the church than all the church’s enemies. If the church were not a divine thing, protected by God, she must have ceased to exist, merely through the failure and iniquity of her [...]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the Strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is Marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who [...]