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Book Review: The Pursuit of God (A.W. Tozer)

I usually put up a disclaimer every time I post a book review, the boilerplate “I liked some stuff. I hated some stuff. Don’t drop my support because I read this book please.” I feel like a book disclaimer would be totally unnecessary in this case. Here’s my only disclaimer:  I don’t agree with every [...]

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How have we missed the Gospel?

The following is from a friend of mine who is working in North Africa. He hates praise (good sign), but I have a huge amount of respect for him, and for how He has been used of God. I’m really not praising him actually, but the God He serves, who takes ordinary people and does [...]

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5 Year Anniversary

Vision Baptist Church is celebrating their 5 year anniversary! I am so incredibly proud of my church. I know that I write a lot on here about things going on at Vision (and I hope that my readers don’t get tired of hearing about it), but I love having a home church that is worth [...]

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Vision Missions Podcast #1

Vision Baptist Missions will now be putting out a weekly, 10 minute, information challenge to get involved in the cause of world evangelism! We will have interview missionaries and national pastors around the world to bring you information that is not currently easily accessible. The footage was taken in Varanasi, India. We discuss Hinduism, the [...]

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OG Camp: May 30 – June 3, 2011

Attention all youth pastors and teenagers: If you have a passion and heart for missions, for making God’s name known and glorified, Vision Baptist Church is hosting an event you don’t want to miss! Are you always looking for a way to keep missions in front of your teens in an exciting way? Has God [...]

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Ladies Corner: Thoughts from Melissa

Pro 8:33  ”Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not” Pro 19:20  ”Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.” Pro 24:6  ”For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.” Tit 2:4  ”That they may teach the young women [...]

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Deputation Update:

We are finally home for a few days after spending about 6 weeks on the road: we were in 6 states, and travelled over 3000 miles! Elena is going CRAZY running around the house getting re-acquainted with her toys, she just came up to me with a big grin on her face clutching a stuffed [...]

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Bible Expo!

  From April 5-8, Vision Baptist Church is hosting Bible Expo 2011! This is going to be a fantastic event for those with a passion for expository Bible preaching. We will be hosting special speakers Pastor Scott Tewell,  Jake Potter, Tim O’Donald of Rosedale Baptist Church. This conference is open to everyone, click this link to register. Unfortunately, expository [...]

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Youngest Supporters!

I received one of the greatest phone calls I’ve gotten on deputation yesterday from the Assistant pastor of Lighthouse Baptist in Valdosta GA. We had the privilege of presenting our ministry to Spain to their church a few weeks ago, and got to speak to their Masters Clubs kids about missions. The pastor told me [...]

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March ’11 Prayer Letter

Dear Praying Friends, February has gone by faster than we could have believed possible: I actually had to stop and think about where I was writing this from! We are in snowy Detroit, by way of coal country in southern OH, the mountains of the Carolinas, and just two weeks ago, sunny Florida! Please keep [...]

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