There will be a Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at 7 PM, December 24 at the First Baptist Church of Perryville. Specially selected music will blend with a message from God’s Word, the Bible, to prepare us for celebrating the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth as a baby.

    Our Christmas program, “Remembrance”, will be presented 6:30 PM, Sunday, December 21 at the First Baptist Church of Perryville.  The program was written by Linda Gauger.  It will be directed by Linda Gauger and Nancy Mason. 

   by R. Albert Mohler Jr.    LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)–Newsweek magazine, one of the most influential news magazines in America, has decided to come out for “same-sex marriage” in a big way, and to do so by means of a biblical and theological argument. In its latest cover story, “The Religious Case for Gay Marriage,” Newsweek religion editor Lisa Miller offers a revisionist argument for the acceptance of “same-sex marriage.” It is fair to say that Newsweek has gone for broke on this question.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–A government official in Saudi Arabia cut out his daughter’s tongue and burned her to death after learning she had become a follower of Jesus Christ. The man, who was not named in the news report, works for the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a government agency that enforces religious purity.

Pastor John Scripture Reference: Nehemiah 1:1-11

-David Jeremiah EL CAJON, Calif. (BP)–As Christians, we’ve been given a genuine deed to heaven — the promise of eternal life, an inheritance and a mansion that can never be foreclosed on. Our ownership in Christ is documented in the Word of God, and our names are registered in the Lamb’s Book of Life. But many Christians fear that a thief — the devil — is going to rob them of their title deed. They have little assurance of ownership.

Don’t Mess with the Moral Order: China’s Unwanted Men In late June an angry crowd, estimated at 10,000 people, set fire to a government building and police cars in southwestern China. More than 150 people were injured, and it took 1,500 paramilitary and riot police to restore a semblance of order.

Not far from a huge statue of Buddha, Adoniram Judson led a local man named Maung Nau down into a Rangoon pond until they were waist deep. “A wondering crowd of gaily clad Burmans watched from the hill above.”1 On the basis of Maung Nau’s written testimony that he was “taking refuge in the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ,”2 Judson baptized this poor, 35-year-old timber worker. And this was no ordinary baptism; after severn years of service in South Asia, Nau was the missionary’s very first convert to Christ. The date was June 27, 1819.

  by Steve Gallagher     There was a time when my sole purpose in life was to have everything I wanted: TV, movies, sports, sexual experiences, whatever. I was deceived into believing that happiness was just beyond the next purchase or the next experience. I kept grasping for more and more.

The next Bible study methods class for men will be 7 AM, Saturday, December 13, 2008 at the First Baptist Church of Perryville, MD. Even if you do not come to the study, you can learn and practice this method to grow and stay fresh in your study. Men can come without doing the assignment and still learn. But you will learn more if you take the time to study and practice this method.