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. Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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, Read more […]

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 Read more […]

                          We would like to thank all of you, our church family, who have been praying for me (Micah) while I’ve been Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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, Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]

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 Read more […]