The history of warfare is, in large measure, the history of new technologies. The machine gun trumps cavalry, the tank trumps the machine gun, and so on. A similar arms race occurs in the rhetoric of the abortion wars. Foes of fetal life once triumphed with the fiction that the contents of the womb were mere tissue. Some compared the developing child to a tadpole, others to an appendix. By their account, abortion was as morally acceptable as an appendectomy.

Pastor Chris Scripture Reference: I Peter 4:12-19

  The next Bible study methods class for men will be 7 AM, Saturday, May 30, 2009 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.

   In 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Kidnapped, a tale of adventure set in the Scottish Highlands. He dedicated the novel to his good friend, Charles Baxter, and confidently asserted it was a book to be savored: “This is no furniture for the scholar’s library, but a book for the winter evening schoolroom when the tasks are over and the hour for bed draws near. . .”1 Well over a century later, the prospect of a young man or woman choosing to spend an evening in the pages of a well-worn epic is more remote. So says a National Endowment […]

  One day in 1664 a small band of Baptists—ten men and two women—gathered for worship in Aylesbury, England. Because the state considered the meeting a seditious act, they seized the twelve members and sentenced them to death. It’s easy to take the freedom to worship for granted today but three hundred and fifty years ago to reject the established church was tantamount to rejecting the king—treason! Thankfully, a prominent Baptist pastor, William Kiffin (1616–1701), interceded. He spoke to Lord Chancellor Hyde who promptly took their case before King Charles II. The king accepted Kiffin’s plea and ordered the Baptists […]

   20 Some of them [scattered by the persecution] . . . men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks, also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus. 21 The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord . . . 29 The disciples, each according to his ability, decided to provide help for the brothers living in Judea . . . 1 In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had […]

Pastor Chris Scripture Reference: 1 Peter 4:1-11

 4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, 5 to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. 6 For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice, and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense, 8 passing along the street near [the adulteress’] corner . . . And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth. 25 Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; […]

   The First Baptist Church commits to cleaning the sides of a road that we have adopted in Perryville. Youth and adults meet at the Carters’ at 9 AM, Saturday, April 25.

   In the spring of 1676, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek looked down at his dinner and began to wonder why those little flecks of black pepper caused a stinging sensation on the tongue. Pondering the question, Leeuwenhoek offered a hypothesis—the pepper must be covered with thousands of tiny, unobservable spikes. To test his theory, he soaked some pepper in water for a few weeks. Then, using a set of lenses he had designed, he magnified the pepper more than 200 times. While Leeuwenhoek did not see any spikes, what he saw was even more astonishing. The drop of water was filled […]