First Baptist Church of Perryville Archives: January 2011
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30 January 2011
The Master Plan of Evangelism
Pastor John
Scripture References: Matthew 3:28; 17:14-20; 28:16-20; John 14:21; Acts 1:8
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27 January 2011
Current Issues in Old Testament Scholarship: The Media Ignores Archeological Discoveries that Support the Biblical Text
by Dr. Eugene Merrill
In almost inverse proportion to their coverage in the popular media are the number and significance of archaeological finds in the last thirty years that have enormous bearing on both the understanding of the Old Testament and its shoring up as a reliable historical account. The following list is illustrative of a much larger corpus. (more…)
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25 January 2011
JESUS CHRIST: Lunatic, demon, fool, or Lord?
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg – or else he would be the Devil of Hell. (more…)
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23 January 2011
The Way Jesus Shared
Pastor John
Scripture Reference: Luke 6:17-49 and others
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23 January 2011
Final Instructions
Pastor Chris
Scripture Reference: James 5:7-20
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23 January 2011
Spreading the Word
Pastor John
Scripture Reference: I Thessalonians 2:1-12
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23 January 2011
Persecution in Iraq: Intolerable Silence
by Chuck Colson
On Monday the New York Times ran a lead paragraph to a story that’s as chilling as any I’ve read in recent memory. Here it is:
“A new wave of Iraqi Christians has fled to northern Iraq and abroad amid a campaign of violence against them and growing fear that the country’s security forces are unable or, more ominously, unwilling to protect them.” (more…)
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21 January 2011
The Rightness of Restraint
10 “When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. 11 And if it responds to you peaceably and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. 12 But if it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13 And when the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword, 14 but the women and the little ones, the livestock, and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you. 15 Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here. 16 But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes . . .”
Deuteronomy 20:10-16 (ESV) (more…)
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19 January 2011
Prejudice: The Legacy of a Corrupt Conscience
1 My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don’t show favoritism. 2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in. 3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit at the floor by my feet,” 4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
James 2:1-4 (NIV) (more…)
