During Mark Odom Hatfield’s last term in the United States Senate, a revolution took place in the field of biomedical research. For example, in 1990, the Human Genome Project set out to identify the body’s 20,000-25,000 genes and sequence the three billion chemical base pairs that comprise human DNA. In 2003 it succeeded. However, it was the successful cloning of a human embryo, through a process known as twinning,1 in 1993 that caused Hatfield to put pen to paper. Much has happened since then, but Hatfield’s two pronged message rings true today: First, just because science can do it, […]

  The First Baptist Church of Perryville will have their church picnic on Saturday, August 6 at McCoy’s Farm Pavilion at noon. Hot dogs, hamburgers, drinks, condiments, and paper products will be provided by the fellowship team.  Please bring a covered dish or dessert (already sliced) to share.  A sign-up sheet is on the bulletin across from the church office. 

  Do people work that they might play or play that they might work? Do they toil to accumulate the wherewithal for vacation, or do they vacation to recharge their batteries for the work set before them? Which is the priority? A cursory look at the Fourth Commandment suggests that work is central; one labors for six days and rests on the seventh. This is not a grim description of the human condition but a biblical norm, an ideal if you will.

Our Tez team will give their report on Sunday, July 24 at 6:30 PM.  Come hear how God has answered your prayers.

Pastor John Scripture Reference: Hebrews 10:19-27

 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments 5 and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ . . . 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (ESV)

  On November 20, 1920, the nascent Soviet government released what it termed a simple “public health announcement.” The statement, a missive intended as law, proclaimed a new, fully-funded program for women: legalized abortions, available free of charge at state-run hospitals. By keeping abortions high and the birth rate low, Soviet leaders and their sycophants hoped to keep more women in the labor force, economically viable and controlled by the state.1

In 1988, a group of homosexual activists convened a “war conference” for the cause of “gay rights.” At the conclusion of their meeting, they asked Harvard-trained psychologist Marshall Kirk to write a plan of action, subsequently published as After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear of Gays in the ‘90s.1 Co-authored by advertising executive, Hunter Madsen, the book sketched a masterful public relations campaign. Though their cause and guile were contemptible, their sense of what it took was uncanny. Here is a chilling look into the homosexual playbook, a publication without a corresponding counter-plan in the Christian community.

Pastor John Scripture Reference:Numbers 20:2-21

  Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 (ESV)