From the monthly archives:

January 2010

New Hope for Nepal

by Jon Konnerup
This past October, I visited Nepal for the second time in my life. The trip brought to mind memories of my first visit nine years earlier.
I remembered how the smoke and smell of incense permeated the air. Clanging bells, whose purpose was to catch a god’s attention, sounded from different directions. Prayer wheels [...]

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The Existence of God – Part 1

Second article in the series “With Good Reason”
by Keith Bassham
I will depart from the expected format a Bible student/teacher might use for getting at the arguments for the existence of God. For one thing, the words used are hard to spell and pronounce (for instance, teleological argument, anthropological argument, cosmological argument, etc.) and hard to [...]

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The Widow’s Might

Pastor Keith Blake of Tulsa, Oklahoma, declares confidently that the first comprehensive ministry established by the early church was designed primarily to meet the needs of widows (Acts 6). He asks why churches today have not kept up a conscious, directed effort to do the same in the 21st century.
That question prompted Keith to begin [...]

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BBFI sends aid to Haiti after devastating earthquake

by the Tribune
As the Tribune was going to press, we received the news of the devastating earthquake in Haiti January 12. Almost immediately, BBFI pastors and church members began making plans to help in relief efforts.
At presstime, the Mission Office had been in contact with both Wes Lane and Tom Franklin, missionaries in the [...]

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Justus Vinton – the hero of Burma

by Thomas Ray
Justus Vinton was born February 17, 1806, in Ashford, Connecticut, and converted at the age of ten. Believing God had called him to preach the gospel, he enrolled at the age of 20 in the Hamilton Institute in New York. While studying the Karen language (a language in what was then known as [...]

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A force for God and good

by Charles Lyons
Steps away from the floor where Michael Jordan led the Bulls to multiple championships, 300 leaders from across Chicago gathered at the United Center meeting room. Mayor’s office reps, Chicago Police brass, elected officials, and secular social service agency leaders were meeting along with about 150 mostly evangelical “faith community leaders.” This was [...]

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Preserving the past, or deserving a future

by Keith Bassham
A day or so before we went to press, good friend and BBFI pioneer evangelist Don Brown was called home by the Lord. A full obituary will be included in the next issue, but I mention his departure as a reminder, along with the other notices on our With the Lord page, of [...]

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Church planting stories old and new

by David Shaffer
Church planting utilizes different methods, different circumstances, and different people. Let me give you four scenarios from my experience.
1967 My family was driving over 20 miles from Clearwater, Kansas, to attend Glenville Bible Baptist Church in Wichita four or five times every week. Several families were driving from this wheat-farming community to [...]

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Preparing for the upcoming meeting

by Mark Hodges
Vance Havner once wrote, “Throughout the history of the Church, when clouds have hung lowest, when sin has seemed blackest and faith has been weakest, there have always been a faithful few who have not sold out to the devil…These have besought the Lord to revive His work in the midst of the [...]

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Partnership for church planting

by Wayne Guinn
Here is a portion of a report from one of our NCPO partners, Pastor Jeff Coffman of Calvary Baptist Church in Muleshoe, Texas:
The dictionary says a dream is “…a vision of something possible or desirable.” On November 1, 2009, a dream was fulfilled when Calvary Baptist Church stepped into a new worship center [...]

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