Archives for April 2007

As you all know tomorrow our pastor will be in the Philippines teaching and preaching. I am very excited about this opportunity for our church to be involved in the furtherance of the Kingdom in the Philippines. Our pastor has looked forward to this trip since many of the people in our church family are […]

II. My Position in Christ Jesus! a. Justified i. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: Romans 5:1 ii. The word justified or justification is a forensic term, opposed to condemnation. As regards its nature, it is the judicial act of God, by which he pardons all […]

By Lori Lynne Vance In the spring of 1997, I was watching the House Sub-committee hearings on the issue of Partial Birth Abortion. The usual suspects had gathered for the occasion, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and the like. I listened with indignation as those abortion advocates seated at the table listed the reasons for this procedure […]

I thought you might enjoy seeing this article that was in our county paper today. Two truths are shown here. One that we should do all that we can to respect the law of our country, Romans 13:1-8, even though the laws do seem a little out of place or sometimes heavy handed. Second, that […]

                          We would like to thank all of you, our church family, who have been praying for me (Micah) while I’ve been away. Kati and I were married Friday, April 13, 2007 at 6pm. We had a really lovely wedding. My parents were able to come down and participate in the wedding. My […]

Well yesterday I preached on the “Mark of the Beast” and today Dan sent me the following article. This article is very similar to what I just preached. Thanks, Dan! Read this and let me know what you think! TOMMY THOMPSON: THE “CHIPPER” PRESIDENT? Election Bid Raises Specter of RFID Implant Threat Former U.S. Secretary […]

Guess our national leaders didn’t expect this, hmm? On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful. They were […]

The following comes from an article by John MacArthur in the Pulpit Magazine. It is a great article that I think applies very definitely to our church, Vision Baptist Church! The bold print is mine to emphasize points that I really want you to take to heart for our church! Christianity is not a spectator […]

The following is what I am sharing today as we talk about the vision for our church. To be the church that we should be we must be a training church! I hope you enjoy this and if you have any questions feel free to get in touch with me! We envision a training church. […]

After all these years serving the Lord Jesus Christ I often struggle with this following lesson. I will only give you the first part this time and will follow up in a day or two with another part. I hope that you will read it and realize just who you are in Christ Jesus. So […]

Don’t miss the men’s meeting this Saturday at 7 am. We will have a breakfast of Chicken Biscuits at 7 with some great fellowship until 7:30 when we discuss the book we are reading, Man in the Mirror, chapter 4! God has great plans for each man in our church. Tomorrow we look at the […]

We look forward to a great day this Sunday. Outside of the fact that we have some phenomenal Bible fellowships that take place at 9:30, we will be able to worship through our Christ exalting music, and will hear a powerful, relevant sermon from the Word of God delivered by our Pastor we are going […]

I have listened and hurt just like you have now for hours and days of the horrible things that took place at Virginia Tech! So many dead, killed in a senseless outrage. The thoughts that come to my mind are not to place blame or make political hay but to consider what we could have […]

ONE LIFE INVESTED FOR JESUS AS A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER BEARS ABUNDANT FRUIT Mr. Kimball, a shoe clerk and Sunday School teacher in Chicago, loved boys and sought to reach them for Jesus. Through him a boy named D. L. Moody came to Jesus in 1858. D. L. Moody, while preaching in England in 1879, […]

Well we are going to be having a Friend Day at the Park this coming Sunday so I want to ask you to start making plans. Invite your friends and family to come and go with us! We will have our normal Sunday School classes at 9:30 and then preaching at 10:30. From there we […]

Well today was an unusual day in Alpharetta, weather wise. The high was the early morning temperature and the wind made the 40 degree weather seem much colder than it was. I was concerned for the Sunday School attendance but God blessed with 96 in attendance and 103 for the Worship Service. God was truly […]

This is vision month and we are sharing each week the goals that we have for the church for this year and until the year 2020. Here are the things that I plan to share today: We envision a spiritually mature church! * BE – private * DO – personal * SERVE – public * […]

I just saw the new blog that Philip Bassham has put together for the Single’s Ministry here at Vision and wanted to invite each of you to go and take a look. The ministry is called Single Focus and the blog is located at http://visionsingles.blogspot.com/ You can get an rss feed of the blog for […]

I was reading the Chattanooga Times Free Press and found this interesting article! For the first time in memory according to the article the number of land lines in the US dropped and a corresponding number of cell phones increased. According to the article in this first decade of the 21st century virtually every American […]

We are just about to finish up our first ever couples retreat and we have been blessed and challenged. I thank God for Tony Howeth and how God used him to touch my life and to cause me to make some decisions to strengthen my marriage. I thank God for the testimonies some that are […]

Well we are here in Chattanooga, Tennessee with our first ever couple’s retreat and it is already going great and is a wonderful time together. There were 9 or 10 couples last night and we should have a couple more today. Not too bad for our first ever. You need to go ahead and make […]

On Saturday night the flamingos migrated north here to Alpharetta. They were headed to the house of John Pearson, C.F.O. of Vision Baptist Church. However, since he had purchased “flamingo insurance” they birds decided, with the request of the Pearson family, to land in Mark Coffey’s, our administrative pastors, yard. We greatly appreciate the flamingos […]

Well mark your calendar for May 5th at 4:30 in the afternoon. We are planning a special church wide activity for that day and hour. We will have a film called Time Changer that I can promise you that you will enjoy. We will have popcorn, cokes, snacks and a good time together. The year […]

The following is from a sermon entitled the Blood by Charles Spurgeon. I love the reference to the missionary Adoniram Judson. I love thinking that we need not amuse people we must tell them the truth: This thought struck me when I was preparing for preaching, that I should have to tell you an old […]

Easter is a wonderful time to make a decision to allow Christ to lead in your life. I hope you will watch this video clip and decide to quit turning him off. We would love to have you come and visit with us at Vision Baptist Church as soon as possible! clipped from visionbaptist.com 

This Thursday night through Saturday noon several couples from our church will travel to Chattanooga, Tennessee to spend some time deepening our marriage relationships, intimacy with the Lord, and friendships with others from our church. I want to ask you to pray for us and warn you that if you do not go with us […]

God truly blessed us greatly today. We had 91 in Sunday School, 118 in the morning service and then 90 for the evening service. The message was the Future of the Believer continued from the morning to the evening service. I think that God truly blessed and worked in hearts. Also this is Vision month […]

Well I just got back from my first hockey game and I can say that it was wild. There were 11 of the men of the church there in an outing that Ryan planned. It was a lot of fun and the really nice thing was that Atlanta won the game. Gentlemen, I enjoyed the […]

I am so excited about our service tomorrow. I have been in the Word of God all day again. I have loved it. We will be in the same message both morning and evening. The title of the message is The Future of the Believer. We will consider the resurrection of Jesus Christ as the […]

God has tremendously blessed us with a wonderful children’s ministry and I thank God for that. On Sunday mornings during the adult worship service and on Thursday nights our children meet with David and Anne Lundy who are doing a wonderful job. We also have wonderful Sunday School classes for all of our children and […]

I just spoke with Rich on the phone. He is obviously a great man of God. I was shocked at how quickly his obviously love for the Lord Jesus Christ shone through. Read this wonderful article taken from his web page at http://www.christianmovies.com/store/articles.php?id=17 You will be hearing more about this very soon! In the 1800’s, […]