Weekly Update for Sunday, April 8, 2018
- Work Day: April 14, at Baptist Collegiate Missions in Terre Haute. All work is outside: Ramp repair and paint, hand rail and yard work. If interested contact Wally Liechty, or sign up at the Welcome Center.
- Trustee meeting: April 15, following the morning service.
- There is a sign-up sheet for graduates on the Welcome Center. If someone in your family is graduating from high school or college, we would love to know about it.
Evidence for Easter
I love Easter. We’ve just come through what for pastors is the most wonderful and exhausting time of the year (along with Christmas). But I love it. I love sunrise services, shared breakfasts, and the increased crowds on Easter Sunday. But most of all I love the Truth that Easter celebrates.
I don’t love the view of Easter that equates it with springtime, the yearly cycle of birth-death-and rebirth, and some vague sentiment of “what Easter means to us all”. I especially don’t love the claim that Jesus’ resurrection was a myth.
I’m with the Apostle Paul: if Jesus didn’t really rise from the dead, “we are of all people most to be pitied.” (1 Cor. 15:19) If I didn’t really believe that Jesus rose from the dead, I’d quit the ministry and go get an honest job.
There are what are called “minimal facts” about the death of Jesus and what happened next. That means that even disbelieving, skeptical scholars admit the following: Read More »
Easter Week Schedule
Photo by Eberhard Grossgasteiger
Palm Sunday service (March 25) at 10:00 am.
Good Friday service (March 30):
Tenebrae (Service of shadows) service at 7:00 pm.
Easter Sunday (April 1):
Sunrise Service and breakfast at 7:00 am
Sunday School at 9:00 am
Worship at 10:00 am
(There will be no evening service)
Weekly Update for Sunday, March 18, 2016
- Trustee meeting: this Sunday, following the morning service.
- Palm Sunday: March 25. The children will do the procession of palms at the beginning of the service. We’d love to have your children or grandchildren participate!
- Sarah Mission Circle meeting: March 26, 1:00 pm in the library.
- Good Friday service: Here, March 30 at 7:00 pm. This will be a special service called a Tenebrae service or “Service of shadows.”
- On Easter, April 1, we will have a Sunrise Service at 7:00 am, followed by a breakfast in the Fellowship Hall. Sunday School will be at 9:00 am and Worship at 10:00 am; there will be no evening service.
- Teams of two are needed for the Tree House in May and November. See a member of the Christian Education Board if you’re interested in helping.
Weekly Update for Sunday, March 4, 2018
- This Sunday evening, we will be hosting Dr. Elmer Towns. Dr. Towns has written over 100 books, is an editor, college and seminary professor and co-founder of Liberty University. He will teach from his latest publication, I Am God the Son.
- The Christian Education Board needs a team of two in the Tree House for May and November. Please let one of them know if you feel called in this direction.
- March 25 is Palm Sunday. The kids will do a procession of palms at the start of service, then up to the Tree House. We would love to have your children and grandchildren take part this year.
- Greeters are still needed for months from July through December. Please see the sign-up sheet at the Welcome Center.
Billy Graham
It’s the end of an era. We all knew it was coming. Billy Graham has finished his race and is now at Home in Heaven with the Savior he has preached about for all these decades. There are all kinds of retrospectives and news segments rehearsing the details of his life, so I’m not going to do that here. Let me just give you some random thoughts I have as I think about Dr. Graham’s passing.
I first became aware of Billy Graham through my grandparents. Whenever a Billy Graham Crusade would be broadcast on television, it was always on in my grandparents’ home. My earliest memories of him are in black and white, because that’s the only kind of television anybody in our family had until the mid-1960s.
My grandfather came to faith in Christ when he was fifty years old, and it radically changed the direction of our family. The truths of the Gospel became precious to my grandparents, and they loved it when anybody would boldly proclaim those truths. They loved to hear our pastor preach the Bible, but they loved to listen to Billy, too. Ironically, our pastor didn’t support Dr. Graham or his crusades when he came to Indianapolis. But my grandparents didn’t care. When Billy was in town, they would always attend a night or two of his Crusade. Read More »
Dr. Elmer Towns
Dr. Elmer Towns will speak at the First Baptist Church of Linton on Sunday evening, March 4. Dr. Towns will teach from his latest publication, I am God the Son—a paraphrase of the Gospels written as if Jesus was the narrator, telling the story of his birth, life, death, and resurrection. This unique way of reading the accounts of Jesus makes the gospel story both personal and impactful in a whole new way—as if God is personally telling His story.
Dr. Towns began teaching at Midwest Bible College, St. Louis, Missouri. After three years and not satisfied with the provided textbooks, Dr. Towns decided to write his own. Since then, he has published several college textbooks, over 100 books that are listed in the Library of Congress, and seven that are listed in the Christian Booksellers Best Selling List. Alongside being a well-known author, Dr. Towns is an editor, college and seminary professor and lecturer, and dedicated Sunday school worker. He has developed over 20 resource packets in leadership education. Read More »