First Baptist Church of Perryville Archives: November 2008
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30 November 2008
Thankful People Want Others to Know God
Pastor John
Scripture Reference: Psalms 67:1-7
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30 November 2008
Melting Hearts: Crime and Accountability
As she sat in her boyfriend’s car, a young Texas woman named Dee Dee Washington was shot and killed — an innocent bystander of a drug deal gone bad. For 14 years, the man who fired the shot, Ron Flowers, never admitted to killing her — not until, that is, Ron was admitted to the InnerChange Freedom Initiative® (IFI), the prison program launched by Prison Fellowship in Texas. (more…)
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28 November 2008
Bored?
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26 November 2008
College, Sex, and Integrity
In March 2005, a group of students at Vermont’s St. Michael’s College had had enough. They decided to challenge the “campus hookup scene” that consisted of sex-saturated spring break getaways and one-night stands.1 “They wanted the right to demand more from their peers when it came to sex and relationships—more joy, more satisfaction, more commitment—and less sex. Maybe even no sex.”2 They started a student newspaper, Dateline SMC, and engaged the relationship between sex and religion, in large part because religion proved to be the only foundation that powerfully challenged the licentious culture these students had come to deplore. “Not because they hoped to convert, but because it helped them to see how something as powerful as religion can hold an entire community accountable in ways that might, in the end, relieve them of all this sexual pressure.”3 (more…)
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24 November 2008
Hamas Leader’s Son Declares Faith in Christ
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–The son of a prominent leader in the Hamas terrorist organization has publicly declared his faith in Jesus Christ and warned that Israel can never be at peace with the “wicked and cruel” men who lead Hamas.
Masab Yousef, who now prefers to be known as “Joseph,” is the oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a political leader of the Hamas organization in the West Bank and one of the movement’s most popular public figures. He gave his life to Christ in 2004, four years after a friend invited him to a Bible study and he began to read the Christian scriptures for himself. (more…)
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23 November 2008
Opportunities in Namibia
Rev Gary
Scripture Reference: Matthew 6:19-21
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23 November 2008
Thankfulness Is Not Self-Centered
Pastor John
Scripture Reference: Psalm 66:1-20
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22 November 2008
Days of Prayer
The First Baptist Church of Perryville will offer two days of prayer for international missions on December 5 & 6. Prayer guides will be available for your use. The church will be open from 5-8 PM on Friday and 8 AM-Noon on Saturday. Come when it is convenient. Leave when you are finished. Most people enjoy 30 or more minutes in prayer. A prayer captain will be available at the door to answer any of your questions. (more…)
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20 November 2008
THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS
Through the Devil’s Eyes
On his latest “Great Books Audio CD,” Dr. Ken Boa returns to the work of C. S. Lewis, this time examining THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS. In this amusing and delightful book about a demon instructing his nephew in the art of tempting humans, Boa says, Lewis again displays his “wonderful ability to distill so much good theology in such a . . . condensed way.” (more…)
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18 November 2008
Thirty-Five Years in the Light: Reflections on My Conversion
by Chuck Colson
Thirty-Five Years in the Light Reflections on My Conversion August 12, 2008 A lot of people have asked me what I think about when I remember back to that hot, humid August night in 1973 when Tom Phillips, then the president of the Raytheon Company, witnessed to me in his home. I left his house that night shaken by the words he had read from C. S. Lewis’s MERE CHRISTIANITY about pride. It felt as if Lewis were writing about me, former Marine captain, Special Counsel to the President of the United States, now in the midst of the Watergate scandal. I had an overwhelming sense that I was unclean. (more…)
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