From the monthly archives:

July 2010

What about worldviews?

Seventh article in the series “With Good Reason”
by Keith Bassham
We seem to be always pounding the desk about apologetics and evangelism in this series, and, to borrow from the series’ name, we do it with good reason. Though apologetics can make you more certain and thus allow you to feel better about your own beliefs, [...]

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How Ed Chavis Became Augusta’s Biggest Loser

(Editor’s note – Last year, we began following the experiences of Ed Chavis, associate pastor at Lumpkin Road Baptist Church in Augusta, Georgia, as he worked to get his weight down as part of a local version of television’s “The Biggest Loser.” This is the last part of the story.)
On May 16, my involvement with [...]

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BBFI Enters Austrian History

by Curt and Melinda Brown
BBFI missionaries to Austria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sigmund Freud, Adolf Hitler, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Red Bull, Glock, The Sound of Music, United Nations/Vienna, Baptist Bible Fellowship International. Does this list seem to include something out of the ordinary or perhaps extraordinary? The BBFI became a permanent piece of Austrian history when the International [...]

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Learning to let go

by Marty Hughes
Pastor, Grove Baptist Temple, Grove, OK
Yesterday was a milestone day in my life as a father. My daughter, Chelsea, was accepted as a participant in the World Race, an 11-month, 11-country missions adventure that ministers to “the least of these” in some of the worst conditions in the world.
Their website says, “Participants live [...]

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From Korea to Ghana

by Cherlsoon Yim
I heard the gospel while I attended CEF teacher’s seminar in Onyang City which is my home town. After the seminar, when I read John 14:2, I trusted in Jesus who prepares heaven for me to be with Him and I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior in 1974, soon after [...]

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Major W. E. Penn (1832-1895)

The Texas Evangelist
by Thomas Ray
W. E. Penn was described as the Texas evangelist but his ministry extended far beyond the Texas border. For over 20 years he conducted revival meetings throughout the South, Midwest, and California. His ministry also included preaching tours in Scotland and England. J. M. Carroll, author of The Trail of Blood [...]

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City soul-saving station

by Charles Lyons

A gritty Chicago neighborhood ignored the birth of a Sunday school in 1877. Sara Dunn Clarke and her husband, Colonel George Clarke, were determined to reach the rejects of the area and “make crooked men straight.” In 1880, the ministry found vacated space at the notorious Pacific Beer Garden a couple blocks away. [...]

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Elections

by Keith Bassham
Last year, Fellowship pastors made a constitutional change that made our summer more interesting. The change moved the national officers’ election from September to early summer and eliminated the mailed-out ballots. Ballots were distributed in the May Fellowship meeting and were made available only upon request to those qualified to vote. The deadline [...]

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God, bless America

by Mark Hodges
W e have been so blessed by God to live in such a wonderful country. I have already been in eight foreign countries this year representing the Lord and our Fellowship. There is nowhere on this earth that I have found that compares to America. Our founding fathers were led by God Almighty [...]

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What’s the point?

by Jon Konnerup
T his is a question often asked by today’s Christian young people when brought face to face with the need to carry the gospel to the regions beyond us. If we can answer this question, we’ve got their attention.
As in all organizations, BBFI missionaries are aging, and the key to future growth is [...]

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