First Baptist Church of Perryville Archives: July 2007
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31 July 2007
Shaking Hands with Reality
Dr. House (explaining procedure to Emma, a pregnant patient): The injection goes into the umbilical cord.
Dr. Cuddy (gently): The baby won’t feel a thing.
House: Fetus. (Off Cuddy’s look) I’m lowering expectations. It works here and on dates. (To Emma) The benefits outweigh the risks, and the paralytic will wear off in an hour, okay?
Cuddy: Must be easier to hear you might die than that your baby might die. But if there is anyone I would trust to save my baby, it would be Dr. House.
House (in a stage whisper): Fetus.
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The above dialogue came from an episode of House, M.D., one of the highest-rated medical dramas currently on television. As a viewer could easily tell at once, the scene, from the episode “Fetal Position,” reflects a debate that has been going on in this country for so long that most of us could recite all the threadbare words and phrases from memory. Baby or fetus, life or potential life, person or nonperson, human being or part of a woman’s body with which she can do whatever she likes. On and on it goes, apparently not making any headway at all.But this time, it didn’t stop there. In fact, the direction that the episode took signaled a shift in the way we think about abortion—a whole new path that the debate is taking, not just on TV, but in real life. (more…)
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29 July 2007
Do You Believe in the Real Jesus? 7/29/2007
Pastor John
Scripture Reference: I John 4:1-6, 5:1-13
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25 July 2007
Creation Museum
PETERSBURG, Ky. (BP)–The Creation Museum, which opened Memorial Day weekend, unveiled a new dinosaur exhibit July 4 that likely will become a favorite of visitors. (more…)
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22 July 2007
Do You Love Your Family In Christ? 7/22/2007
Pastor John
Scripture Reference: 1John 3:1-24
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20 July 2007
6:30 PM Sunday, August 12
Becca Mason will report on ministry this summer in Namibia, South Africa with the Minks. She assisted in many ways at the orphanage teaching and caring for children. (more…)
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16 July 2007
Give Away 90% and Live on 10%
No Job Too Big
Whenever the United States and others marked the anniversary of D-Day, there is usually the viewing of remarked film footage of the June 6, 1944, invasion of Europe.
Accompanying the largest invasion force ever assembled onto the beaches of Normandy was an equally impressive display of machines and equipment, much of it built by the energetic, American businessman R.G. LeTourneau. His equipment was also well known in the Pacific theater of World War II. (more…)
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15 July 2007
Do I Show I Love God By Obeying His Commands? 7/15/2007
Pastor John
Scripture Reference: 1John 2:3-27
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14 July 2007
Barna: American Christianity a lukewarm church
11 July 2007
Battling Racism with the Gospel
11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Colossians 3:11-13 (ESV)
Racial issues make the headlines: In 1991 it was the Rodney King arrest; in 1995 a jury acquitted O. J. Simpson; in 2002, Senator Trent Lott lost his Majority Leader post after affirming Strom Thurmond’s 1948 candidacy for president (Thurmond had supported racial segregation); in 2007, radio host Don Imus was fired when years of ill-conceived humor climaxed in a joke at the expense of the Rutgers women’s basketball team.
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9 July 2007
A Moral and Religious People
“Like a Whale through a Net”—John Adams (1735 – 1826) 
Besides serving as the second President of the United States (1797-1801), John Adams was in many other ways a pivotal figure in the founding of his nation. As a delegate to the Continental Congress and the author of the Massachusetts Constitution (on which the national one was later modeled), Adams understood the American experiment at least as well as any other person of his time. As Adams saw it, the American people faced a stark choice: esteem and embrace godly virtue and thrive or cast it away and decline. (more…)
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