Seldom has there been a more revealing book title than Every Trick in the Book: The Essential Lesbian & Gay Legal Guide.1 Knowing that the common sense of mankind, the testimony of history, and the teachings of the world’s great religions reject homosexuals’ claims of normalcy, they must employ smoke and mirrors to advance their agenda. Such is the case with the push for homosexual adoption.

GULF SHORES, Ala. (BP)–It’s your life. Would you choose to spend years in prison as a convicted felon? Would you choose to lose two young grandsons in the Oklahoma City bombing? Doubtful.

6:30 PM, on Sunday, November 20, the West Africa Team will give their ministry report.  Please join them to see how God answered your prayers.

  Guest speaker Richard Coss will speak at the First Baptist Church of Perryville on Sunday, October 16 at a Combined Sunday School at 9:15am and Morning Worship Service at 10:30 AM.

Pastor John Scripture Reference: i Kings 3:1-15

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. Proverbs 17:9 (ESV)

  by Shannon Baker SALISBURY, Md. (BP)–Damage assessment in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene is underway in Maryland/Delaware, and volunteers from the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware’s disaster relief units and churches are already at work.

On December 1, 1955, a tired black seamstress named Rosa Parks defied what was regarded as a polite custom when she refused to surrender her seat to a white man. Under the “Jim Crow”1 system of racial discrimination, her Montgomery, Alabama, bus driver had the legal right to move her farther back in the bus to make room for this man, but Rosa refused, defying both authority and regional standards of decorum. She was arrested, but she went into custody knowing that social conventions and the laws they generated were accountable to higher principles rooted in God’s justice. And so […]

13 And the king answered them harshly; and forsaking the counsel of the old men, 14 King Rehoboam spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.” 15 So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by God that the LORD might fulfill his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 2 Chronicles 10:13-15 (ESV)

Pastor John Scripture Reference: I Kings 1:5-10, 2:1-12