Archives for August 2008

Click here to listen to a message preached at Victory Baptist Church where Tim Fellure is pastor. I want you to come and I want you to be blessed on Wednesday through Friday night at 7:15. The Vision Team will be singing some great songs. Then we will have a very special preacher. Don’t miss […]

My son in law, David Young, just sent me a new breed of cow. He knew that I would like them so I offer to you the World Evangelism Cow!

Pastor Fellure will be with us Wednesday through Friday evening at 7:15 pm. I hope that all of you that attend Vision Baptist Church will make a real effort to be with us every night. If you are a pastor, missionary, member of another church, friend or someone we want to meet I hope you […]

Thomas Watson We glorify God in a high degree when we suffer for God, and seal the gospel with our blood. ‘When thou shalt be old, another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not: this spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God’ (John 21:18). God’s glory shines in the […]

Though we do not support them simply because of a lack of funds, I love the Maggard family! They are great examples of God consumed men and women. They just celebrated 32 years of marriage. I wanted you to see what Ron wrote about his wife and their ministry. Oh, for God to give us […]

Thomas Watson We glorify God by labouring to draw others to God; by seeking to convert others, and so make them instruments of glorifying God. We should be both diamonds and loadstones; diamonds for the lustre of grace, and loadstones for attractive virtue in drawing others to Christ. ‘My little children, of whom I travail, […]

After my class today I was just thinking of how blessed that I am as the pastor of Vision Baptist Church. I think of all that God has done in our church. I think of the staff both volunteer and paid that we have as a church. Very few churches have ever had so many, […]

Thomas Watson We glorify God, when we have an eye to God in our natural and in our civil actions. In our natural actions; in eating and drinking. ‘Whether therefore ye eat or drink, do all to the glory of God’ (1 Cor. 10:31). A gracious person holds the golden bridle of temperance; he takes […]

by Rev Jacob D. Eppinga I am dying. Of cancer. This past Christmas was my last. Spring always has been my favorite season. At this writing, I hope to see the spring of 2008. Since childhood, I have loved baseball. Today my marvelous palliative-care physician told me there is a chance that I will watch […]

Thomas Watson We glorify God, by being zealous for his name. ‘Phinehas hath turned my wrath away, while he was zealous for my sake’ (Nu. 25:11). Zeal is a mixed affection, a compound of love and anger; it carries forth our love to God, and our anger against sin in an intense degree. Zeal is […]

Thomas Watson We glorify God, by praising him. Doxology, or praise, is a God exalting work. ‘Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me’ (Ps. 50:23). The Hebrew word Bara, to create, and Barak, to praise, are little different, because the end of creation is to praise God. David was called the sweet singer of Israel, and his […]

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Thomas Watson We glorify God, by standing up for his truths. Much of God’s glory lies in his truth. God has intrusted us with his truth, as a master intrusts his servant with his purse to keep. We have not a richer jewel to trust God with than our souls, nor has God a richer […]

God has been so good to us. I thank Him for how He has been working in our services. I just wanted to stop for a minute and say a big thank you. He has blessed us with visitors on a regular basis. Our attendance has been growing steadily. We have had wonderful music in […]

Thomas Watson We glorify God by walking cheerfully. It brings glory to God, when the world sees a Christian has that within him that can make him cheerful in the worst times; that can enable him, with the nightingale, to sing with a thorn at his breast. The people of God have ground for cheerfulness. […]

Kenneth Ralph sent me the following poem and I thought you might enjoy it! By Ken Blue The congregation was seated; everyone was in his place And just before the sermon, I saw a message on each face Here sits a woman with cancer; her apprehension is known to none Perhaps I can ease her […]

Thomas Watson We glorify God by living to God. ‘That they which live should not live to themselves, but unto him who died for them’ (2 Cor. 5:15). ‘Whether we live, we live unto the Lord’ (Rom. 14:8). The Mammonist lives to his money, the Epicure lives to his belly; the design of a sinner’s […]

Thomas Watson We glorify God by working out our own salvation. God has twisted together his glory and our good. We glorify him by promoting our own salvation. It is a glory to God to have multitudes of converts; now, his design of free grace takes, and God has the glory of his mercy; so […]

There are many of us from Vision Baptist Church in Charleston, SC at the Victory Baptist Church. We are here to participate in the wedding of David Velke and Stephanie Craven. They are a super fine young couple that feel that God wants them to go to the mission field! They are members of your […]

I am sure that you know this and already have it on your calendar but I wanted to remind you. We will be having our World Vision Celebration (annual mission’s conference) September 18-21. It is going to be a very exciting time. We will have special missionaries here with us! Each of you will have […]

This is from his blog. I just want you all to know and to be praying. Had another surgery today in Cincinnati U. Hospital. This time they found that my bronchial tube was partially collapsed and the scar tissue had grown back but not as much as before. So they cut it out, again, and […]

Thomas Watson We glorify God, by being contented in that state in which Providence has placed us. We give God the glory of his wisdom, when we rest satisfied with what he carves out to us. Thus Paul glorified God. The Lord cast him into as great variety of conditions as any man, ‘in prisons […]

I must thank all of you that wrote emails, cards, blog posts, phone calls, skype, hugs, handshakes, greetings and nextel! I had a wonderful day and was greatly blessed and encouraged by all of you. I have no way to thank all of you like I would really like to. As I turned 54 today […]

I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish a very special person a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! This person has been a wonderful leader, example and friend for many years. We went to college together and it was there that I first saw his enthusiasm and love for the Lord. Because of him, I saw a […]

I have taken the liberty to hijack the church blog for this special announcement. Today is our Pastors birthday! I have watched this morning as emails from all over the world come in telling Bro. Austin how much they appreciate him. As I read the emails that come in this morning I am amazed by […]

I want to ask you to remember the special love offering we are taking for Ed Dunlop. If you will click here you can read about his wife and her condition. I tried to call him yesterday but didn’t get him. I am sure that they are dealing with too many issues and he was […]

Thomas Watson We glorify God by fruitfulness. ‘Hereby is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit’ (John 15:8). As it is dishonouring God to be barren, so fruitfulness honours him. ‘Filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are to the praise of his glory’ (Phil. 1:11). We must not be like the fig tree […]

Pastor Kenneth Cofer, Trinity Hills Baptist Church, Norcross, will be preaching this Thursday Evening. He is Sandy Pearson’s dad and has been preaching many years. He will be blessing! Pastor Cofer will be sharing many blessings of how God has answered prayer and used him in the ministry!

Thomas Watson We glorify God, by being tender of his glory. God’s glory is dear to him as the apple of his eye. An ingenuous child weeps to see a disgrace done to his father. ‘The reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me’ (Ps. 69:9). When we hear God reproached, it is […]

Thomas Watson We glorify God by believing. ‘Abraham was strong in faith, giving glory to God’ (Rom. 4:20). Unbelief affronts God, it gives him the lie; ‘he that believeth not, maketh God a liar’ (1 John 5:10). But faith brings glory to God; it sets to its seal that God is true (John 3:33). He […]

The following is a compilation of the news from the comment section on the earlier post about the home going of Tyler Wilkerson. I know that many of you might not be that adept at using the blog and the comments so I decided to put it out here where you could all see it. […]

A gospel which is after men will be welcomed by men; but the true gospel of the grace of God needs a divine operation upon the heart and mind to make a man willing to receive into his utmost soul such a distasteful truth. My dear Brethren, do not try to make it tasteful to […]

I just have to show you how skinny I was and how cool we were! This was the new sport’s coat and tie that a man in our first church had just given me! Here are the original six in a group in Peru Another anniversary in another country where roses are much cheaper than […]

35 years ago today God blessed me with my greatest earthly blessing. I was married to Lelia Elizabeth (Betty) Ferguson. I had no idea what a wonderful blessing I was getting. I loved her with all of my heart but I was just a boy and she was just a girl. Over the last 35 […]

I wanted to thank the church for their very great kindness to Betty and me yesterday. Thank you for the kind words you spoke at the park. Thank you for the very generous love offering. Thank you every Happy Anniversary and Happy Birthday that we heard yesterday. You are a wonderful group of people. I […]

Thomas Watson We glorify God by an ingenuous confession of sin. The thief on the cross had dishonoured God in his life, but at his death he brought glory to God by confession of sin. ‘We indeed suffer justly’ (Luke 23:41). He acknowledged he deserved not only crucifixion, but damnation. ‘My son, give, I pray […]

Thomas Watson’s lesson We aim at God’s glory when we are content to be outshined by others in gifts and esteem, so that His glory may be increased. A man that has God in his heart, and God’s glory in his eye, desires that God should be exalted; and if this be effected, let who […]

The following came in an email from Pastor Wayne Cofield. Brother Dunlop called me and asked me if we would be willing to take an offering for him. I want you to read this letter and then over the next couple of Sundays I would like to take an offering to help the Dunlops. There […]

Tyler Wilkerson, son of Pastor John Wilkerson, went to Heaven last night. He was only 17 years old. He had just finished serving as a counselor at a Christian camp. He was a very fine young man. The following is from the email that I received telling me of the accident before I called Pastor […]

I want to glorify God with my life. I want Him to be pleased with me! Over the next few days I want to share with you some ways that we can glorify God with our lives and then you can think of more. These were written by Thomas Watson but I will be adding […]

“He that deserves nothing should be content with anything” –Charles H. Spurgeon

World Evangelism Committee from Mark Coffey on Vimeo. Mark Coffey put this video together for us to give to each of our World Evangelism Committee meetings. If you are not involved in one of the committee meetings I want to invite you to get involved. I know that God is going to work a miracle […]

Missionary Chris Gardner will be preaching tomorrow night! He is your missionary and so I hope you plan to be here and hear him! Andria will sing for us also. Delmas Knight will be with us tomorrow evening and take a few minutes to present the ministry of BEAMs ministry. We support this ministry and […]

Be sure and check out the R U Growing blog. Scot Newton is doing a good job and I particularly enjoyed this post on Back to your Roots.

Mark Coffey sent me the following A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door. SON: ‘Daddy, may I ask you a question?’ DAD: ‘Yeah sure, what it is?’ replied the man. SON: ‘Daddy, how much do you make an hour?’ DAD: […]

Do you get the World Evangelism Quote of the Day? It comes out once a day from Monday to Friday. It contains a quote to help keep you focused on the glory of God through obedience to His Great Commission plus a missionary to pray for, a country, and usually a resource that you might […]

Sandy Pearson’s brother Tommy Cofer died on Friday afternoon. He is the son of Pastor Kenneth Cofer of Trinity Hills Baptist Church! I wanted to inform you of the plans so that you can express your love to Sandy, all the Pearson family and also the Cofer family. Everything will take place at the Bill […]