First Baptist Church of Perryville Archives: July 2011
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31 July 2011
Beware of Counterfeit Christianity
Pastor Chris
Scripture Reference: Matthew 6:1-18
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30 July 2011
Gambling is covetousness distilled to its very essence
I know people—and in all likelihood you do, too—who claim that they gamble only for entertainment or recreation; not out of greed or covetousness. (more…)
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28 July 2011
The 10 percent gay myth
by Kelly Boggs 
ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)–”For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic,” President John F. Kennedy told the 1962 graduating class of Yale University. (more…)
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25 July 2011
Gandhi Needed a Savior Too
It is amazing how many celebrities wreck themselves trying to ride a motorcycle. The long list includes Bob Dylan, Ben Roethlisberger, Gary Busey, Liam Neeson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, T.E. Lawrence, Keanu Reeves, Duane Allman, and French actor Gerard Depardieu, who has been in over a dozen crashes, one of them breaking a leg in five places. But he keeps riding, saying he will never be able to give up the “feeling of freedom.”1 (more…)
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24 July 2011
Don’t Be A Balaam
Pastor John
Scripture Reference: Numbers 22 - 25
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23 July 2011
What’s in a Name?
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
Genesis 2:19-20 (NIV) (more…)
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21 July 2011
Drinking from Polluted Wells: The Mission to the Aborigines
In November 1906, at the Australian Church Congress in Melbourne, Bishop George Frodsham appealed for missionaries to the Australian Aborigines: “The Aborigines are disappearing . . . Missionary work . . . may be only smoothing the pillow of a dying race, but I think if the Lord Jesus came to Australia he would be moved with great compassion for these poor outcasts.”1 As gracious as these words were, Bishop Frodsham’s speech assumed that the Aborigines were a weak, underdeveloped race who could not survive competition with the fitter, more developed whites. His mindset was sadly infected with racist views of the Aborigines common in Australia at the turn of the century. (more…)
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19 July 2011
When Technology Oversteps Its Boundaries
In a psychology experiment, researchers showed their subjects a one-minute movie in which six people move around a room while passing basketballs back and forth in teams of three. Subjects were instructed simply to count the number of passes made by one team. But while concentrating on their counting, nearly half of viewers completely failed to notice a woman in a gorilla suit who walks through the group, briefly pausing to pound on her chest. In all, she is on screen for nine seconds—an eternity in attention research. Repeated many times over, the experiment demonstrates the concept of “inattentional blindness,” or missing something fully visible because one fails to attend to it. For author Maggie Jackson, it serves as a reminder of the many important details in life that are overlooked because technology-addicted, overloaded multitaskers divert their attention incessantly to electronic devices.1 (more…)
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17 July 2011
Gerardo, Brother of Faith
Armando found sustained sleep impossible since Castro’s prison guards continually jabbed him awake with a long pole.1 His cell had a chain-link ceiling for easy access, and his tormenters also used it to shower him with buckets of human excrement.2 His first prison (La Cabaña, across the bay from Havana, where he was sent in 1960) was bad enough; the warden called it his “private hunting preserve” and let his dog lap up the blood after firing squad executions.3 But things got worse when Armando was shipped, along with 6,000 other prisoners, to the Isle of Pines, off the southwest coast of Cuba. There, in addition to beatings, they suffered from such malnutrition that pellagra4 and edema5 were common.6 Yet it was in this hellish prison system, in which he suffered for 22 years, that Armando found Christ. (more…)
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17 July 2011
I Will Destroy The Wisdom Of The Wise
Pastor Dan
Scripture Reference: I Corinthians 1:17-31
