Missions Month
By wsbt | February 5, 2010
How is Your Vision?
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NEAR SIGHTED-Only see the need of home missions
FAR SIGHTED-Only see the need of foreign missions
SIGHTLESS-See no need of missions
PERFECT SIGHT-See the need of world missions
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Missions Month
By wsbt | February 4, 2010
Our Missions Conference this month teaches us the importance of prayer. Here is a true story about the importance AND the power of prayer.
During the war, an English farmer sent a contribution to a mission group making apology for the smallness of the gift “due to dry weather and the lack of water on his farm.” He added a request that the staff pray that no German bombs would fall on his property.
The leader of the mission answered thanking him for the gift but saying that they were only praying “the Lord’s will be done” as far as the bombs were concerned.” The answer was somewhat of a puzzle to the farmer who had so earnestly requested prayer for God’s protection.
The farmer’s faith was severely shaken when, not too long after, a huge bomb shook the earth with a deafening roar breaking windows and tearing things up in general. “Is this the Lord’s will?” questioned the man. “Should this happen to me?” But investigation showed no damage to any livestock or to his family. And what should rise from the bottom of the still-smoking crater, but a gushing spring of crystal-clear water!
The next harvest a much-enlarged check arrived at the mission as the man wrote of the blessing that the bomb had been to him and his water-needy neighbors! This was better than having no bomb fall!
When we have prayed, and what we have feared comes, look for the gushing springs of God’s blessings!
-J.W. Mellick
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February is our Missions Month!
By wsbt | February 2, 2010
A Christian must always be ready for service when the Lord calls him. Some believers once felt definitely led to do missionary work, but did not follow through.
Ten future missionaries heard God’s call divine;
One married wrongly, that left only nine.
Nine future missionaries-they could hardly wait;
Mother needed one thought, that left only eight.
Eight future missionaries bound for God and Heaven;
One got to making money, that left only seven.
Seven future missionaries-if only each one sticks;
One lost out completely, that left only six.
Six future missionaries for the Lord alive.
One preferred the homeland, that left only five. Read the rest of this entry »
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Family Month
By wsbt | January 29, 2010
If Jesus Came To Your House
If Jesus came to your house to spend a day or two…
If He came unexpectedly, I wonder what you’d do.
Oh, I know you’d give your nicest
room to such an honored guest
And all the food you’d serve to Him
would be the very best,
And you would keep assuring Him
you’re glad to have Him there…
But…. when you saw Him coming,
would you meet Him at the door
With arms outstretched in welcome to
our heav’nly visitor? Read the rest of this entry »
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Family Month
By wsbt | January 27, 2010
Shall I Force My Children to Go to Church?
“Shall I make my child go to church? Yes, and with no further discussion about the matter. Are you startled? Why? How do you answer them when they come to breakfast on Monday morning and announce to you that they are not going to school anymore? You know! They go! How do you answer them when they come and say: “I’m not going to take a bath.” They bathe!
Why all this timidity then in the realm of their spiritual guidance and growth? Going to wait and let them decide what church they will go to when old enough? You did not wait until they were old enough to decide whether they wished to remain dirty or be clean. Do you wait until they are old enough to decide if they want to take medicine when they are sick?
What will you say when they announce they do not like to go to church? That is easy to answer. Just be consistent. Tell them “In our family we all go to church and that includes you!”
The parents of America can strike a telling blow against juvenile delinquency if our mothers and fathers will take their children to worship our Lord regularly.”
-J. Edgar Hoover
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Family Month
By wsbt | January 20, 2010
The Late J. Edgar Hoover had this to say about
“How to Raise a Delinquent”
-Give him whatever he asks for, because it is easier than arguing.
-Pride Yourself on not prying into his life-where he spends his time, his friends, his after-school activities.
-His side is your side in his arguments with teachers.
-Home is a battleground for his parents.
-You expect him to attend religious services but are too busy yourself.
-You say, “I’m busy now. Tell me later”
-He is expected to live up to the law, while you run through stop signs.
-You smile when he scoffs at “squares” and admires those who “get away with it”.
-You assume his problems are minor ones.
-White lies are all right for you, but he isexpected to tell the whold truth.
-You think the world is against you-and accept it.
-”Let someone else do it” is your attitude toward charity and community service.
-Your threatened punishments are not carried out.
-Your punishments are too harsh.
-You are looking for “something for nothing”.
-You never admit you could be wrong.
“Even a child is known by his doings, whether his word be pure, and whether it be right” -Proverbs 20:11
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” -Proverbs 22:6
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January is Our Family Month
By wsbt | January 15, 2010
Your Child Deserves…..
1. Your child deserves to hear you pray earnestly and often.
2. Your child deserves to go to worship and Bible classes with you regularly.
3. Your child deserves to see you sacrifice for the Lord.
4. Your child deserves to hear you talk to others about becoming Christians.
5. Your child deserves to be taught the Bible by you.
6. Your child deserves to hear you praise the church and it’s leaders.
7. Your child deserves to be encouraged by you, and to see and obey the truth always.
8. Your child deserves to see you putting the Lord first in your giving.
9. Your child deserves to know the Christ living in you.
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January is Family Month at WSBT!
By wsbt | January 13, 2010
Peer Pressure
Submit to pressures from peers and you move down to their level.
Speak up for your own beliefs and you invite them up to your level.
If you move with the crowd, you will get no further than the crowd.
When 40 million people believe in a dumb idea, it is still a dumb idea.
Simply swimming with the tide gets you nowhere.
So if you believe in something that is good, honest and bright- stand up for it.
Maybe your peers will get smart and drift your way.
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A New Year
By wsbt | January 6, 2010
It seems that a great deal of emphasis has been placed upon a new year. Let us try to make this new year the best ever:
H old fast to your faith (Heb. 4:14)
A ssemble with the saints (Heb. 10:25)
P ray earnestly every day (1 Thess. 5:17,18)
P ray for great blessings (Mal. 3:10)
Y ield not to temptation (1 Thess. 5:22)
N eglect not your talents and opportunities (Gal. 6:10)
E xamine yourself daily (11Cor. 13:5)
W ork diligently for the Lord (1 Cor. 15:58)
Y ield your members to righteousness (Rom. 6:11,16)
E xercise yourself in godliness (1 Tim. 4:7)
A im at sinless perfection (Heb. 6:1)
R edeem the time (Eph. 5:15,16)
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New Year’s Prayer
By wsbt | December 30, 2009
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!! “Dear Jesus, for this coming year !!!!!
!!!!! Just one request I bring: !!!!!
!!!!! I do not pray for happiness, !!!!!
!!!!! Or any earthly thing- !!!!!
!!!!! I do not ask to understand !!!!!
!!!!! The way Thou leadest me, !!!!!
!!!!! But this I ask; Teach me to do !!!!!
!!!!! The thing that pleaseth Thee. !!!!!
!!!!! I want to know Thy guiding voice, !!!!!
!!!!! To walk with Thee each day. !!!!!
!!!!! Dear Jesus make me swift to hear !!!!!
!!!!! And ready to obey. !!!!!
!!!!! And thus the year I now begin !!!!!
!!!!! A happy year will be- !!!!!
!!!!! If I am seeking just to do !!!!!
!!!!! The thing that pleaseth Thee.” !!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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