April 20, 2015...Training Material

Greetings on this rainy April Monday morning.
                                                    
PERSONAL NOTE: I want to thank everyone who assisted in preparation for the Sunday worship service. Thank you Choir and Mr. Bud for the special music of the day. I enjoyed it. Thank you, Leroy DeMasellis for the inspiring mission's message! Special thanks goes out to everyone who made the Missions Conference a success! Thank you, Nikki and Missions Committee for all of your work! Thank you Mary and kitchen crew for the great lunch on Saturday! Thank you everyone who offered your Faith Promise for the 2015 year of missions giving!!! What a blessing the weekend was.
 
LEADERSHIP APOLOGETICS: Click this LINKfor our eleventh apologetics short video. I believe there is much to learn for these nationally recognized Christian teachers and philosophers. Today's lesson is "Recapture Passion for God's Word".
           
TRAINING THE TEACHER: My intent here is to provide long-term biblical training for those who are in church work but may not feel adequately trained in the Bible and Christianity teaching in general. I want all of you to take this training (whether you teach or not) because it will better equip you to teach or live as a disciple of Christ. All of the material for this training is  coming to you by Biblical Training.org. I am linking you to their site for each of the lessons. You will be exposed to some of the finest Bible teachers in the country. You will receive Bible Institute level training. Our sixth session is one of 12 lessons (one each week). It is Lesson 6, "Learning More About God" from the module: Life is a Journey with Dr. Bill Mounce as teacher. Click this LINK for the video lesson. Visit their website and see that there are different levels for your involvement. By registering with them (free), you can have access to outlines, transcripts, etc. If you choose to do more than one lesson each week...go for it! Study at your pace!                                            
                           
 HOPE FOR PARENTS: Click this LINK for the article, Life in the Fast Lane.
                                                             
ADVANCED DISCIPLESHIP: Click this LINK  for the article, An Exposition of the Gospel of Matthew...Lesson 21...The Feeding of the Five Thousand. This series will last for a number of weeks. The host for this series is Dr. Allen Ross.
                                                               
HERE'S MY QUESTION: Scripture mentions nose and ear piercing, but is other body piercing OK? Click on this LINK . Check this out. Do you have an answer to this question?
                                                           
GRADUATE STUDIES: Bibliology and Hermeneutics..."Proving Inspiration". This is Lesson 7 of 10. Click on this LINK . These are video lessons (they also have an audio version available on the same page). At the end of Dec. 2014, we started the Graduate Program over from the beginning. If you missed any lessons previously, get them this time around.
                                                   
COUNSELING HELP: The category is Child Abuse. Click this LINK for the article, How to help abused grandchildren? Knowing what this says may be of help to someone else.
                                                 
LEADERSHIP QUOTE: "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." Vince Lombardi. Here is a humorous bonus by that great baseball player and philosopher, Yogi Berra, to lighten your day. Yogi was reminiscing about the 1969 amazing Mets, when he said : "We were overwhelming underdogs."
 
My desire for you this week is that in your pursuit, you catch excellence.
In His Majesty's service, Pastor Darrell.