April 12 at 6:30 AM – Sunrise Service at Perryville Park (Directions: Take the road beside the Perryville Volunteer Fire House on Rt. 7 back through the woods.  Allow for extra minutes to reach the normal spot close to the point.)

  by Chuck Colson  Bruce Hardy probably doesn’t have long to live. But he could live longer, if it weren’t for the attitude and policies of the British government.

Pastor Chris Scripture Reference: 1 Peter 3:13-22

   by David E. Prince LEXINGTON, Ky. (BP)–The Prince family rang in the second day of the New Year with a lunch of Vienna sausages, sliced cheese and chips. While certainly not the most upscale lunch cuisine, it was quite functional for a quick lunch amid a day of household labor.

   Jacob and Sonia Barosin walked the streets of Lunel, France, in despair. Jacob had been ordered by Vichy authorities—the “free” government set up by the Nazis in the south after the fall of France—to report within two days to an internment camp to be “deported” to Poland. Suddenly the Barosins came upon Mrs. Délie Toureille and informed her of their desperate plight. Later that afternoon, the Barosins met with her husband Pierre-Charles Toureille, pastor of the town’s French Reformed Church. Offering his aid, Toureille wrote a letter and told Jacob to give it to a certain official at the […]

Pastor Chris Scripture Reference: 1 Peter 3:8-12

   13 And this second thing you do. You cover the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. 14 But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. 15 Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in […]

   On October 15, 1999, Stephen Czerkas, director of a dinosaur museum in Utah, and the National Geographic Society (NGS) announced that they had discovered Archaeoraptor liaoningensis (“ancient bird of prey from Liaoning”).1 They presented the fossil, acquired for $80,000 at an Arizona mineral show, as “a true missing link . . . [capturing] the paleontological ‘moment’ when dinosaurs were becoming birds.”2 Although National Geographic’s subsequent article “Feathers for T. Rex?”3 made grand claims, they soon discovered that the emperor had no clothes or, rather, that the T. Rex had no feathers!

Pastor Chris Scripture Reference: 1 Peter 3:1-7

   John Murray, a native Scotsman, was the first professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary (U.S.A.) and a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He was a scholarly exegete and profound theologian whose teaching and publications strengthened evangelicals in the battle with modernism during the twentieth century. In this extract, from a document entitled “The Relation of Church and State,” Murray provides ministers with helpful instruction on how to avoid being party political, whilst at the same time preaching directly on political issues. Murray begins by outlining the primary focus of the Church’s involvement in the political arena—the […]