Web Site for New Church - Grace Covenant Baptist Church

Please visit the website for Grace especially if you are in the Gainesville, GA. area.

Beginning in August 14th - time change for Sunday Morning worship

We will be having Sunday Morning services beginning at 9am 'til about 10:15 or so. This will take affect on August 14th. This allows us to accommodate the new church in Gainesville beginning their services at 11am. For more about the new plant called Grace Covenant Baptist Church, see http://chplantgainesville.blogspot.com/

Thanks for your prayers and support as we minister in both ministries.

The Sunday evening and Wednesday evening services will not change.

Sunday evenings will be the 1st and 3rd Sundays at 6pm. We meet usually at the pastor's house.

Wednesday evenings will be the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays at 7pm usually at a members house.

Call pastor Steve at 706-778-9374 for more.

Piper and Warren

I am troubled with both Piper and Warren. Both have made some very bad moves in recent years with the kinds of guest speakers that they both have and are having that give the impression that theology is one thing and practice is another. Warren still has his name on 'A Common Word' where Muslims are tickling the ears of evangelicals. He still subscribes to the Manhattan Declaration which is the practical outworking of ECT (The ECT in the 90's dealt with the doctrine extensively; the Manhattan basically assumes the united doctrine). Warren endorses Brian Maclaren, the Tony Blair's interfaith agenda and Rob Bell (http://apprising.org/2011/05/22/saddleback-church-of-rick-warren-using-rob-bell-teachings/).

Warren's ecumenism is obvious (“Now I don’t agree with everything in everybody’s denomination, including my own. I don’t agree with everything that Catholics do or Pentecostals do, but what binds us together is so much stronger than what divides us,” he said. “I really do feel that these people are brothers and sisters in God’s family. I am looking to build bridges with the Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges with the Catholic Church,….” [http://christianresearchnetwork.com/?p=5265]); Piper's is sadly growing (see http://oxgoad.ca/category/issues/ecumenism/ and http://apprising.org/2011/01/10/more-questions-concerning-dr-john-piper/).

May the Lord give us grace not to look to man but to Jesus of the Scriptures.

May the Lord give repentance to both men for being part of the confusion that is so prevalent in our world today.

Tumor Update

Psalm 28:6-9   6 Blessed be the LORD, Because He has heard the voice of my supplications!  7 The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, And with my song I will praise Him.  8 The LORD is their strength, And He is the saving refuge of His anointed.  9 Save Your people, And bless Your inheritance; Shepherd them also, And bear them up forever. 

I praise the Lord for His great mercy to me.  Praise Him with me.

Great News indeed: Just got off the phone with my DR. who just got off the phone with the radiologist who did my PET/CT on my brain to determine my tumor size and activity. The radiologist said that normal brain uptake of glucose is a factor between 8-12. With gliomas the normal uptake are factors up to 20. According to the radiologist, the uptake factor with my tumor was 0. This means that my tumor is dead! Or at least, non-detectably alive. This means that the tumor will not grow under these current conditions. So, the goal is to keep the tumor good and dead and decaying so that the body will continue to deal with dead cells in a detoxifying environment. My treatments will continue as we have been so we can continue to get the mass to shrink. This way it will relieve my seizure symptoms which I do still have. Praise the Lord Jesus! May He help me and heal me completely. Thanks for your prayers and loving support.

God Never Sends His Word in Vain

"For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it." (Isa. 55:11-12)

"In some cases, the Word takes effect another day. One faithful man of God labored in his parish for many a long year; and though greatly blessed elsewhere, yet died without, I believe, knowing one of his people brought to the knowledge of the Saviour. Another servant now stands in his room; and souls have been gathered in in crowds, every one declaring that it is the word of their departed minister that comes up into their heart, and makes them flee. Ah! God is a faithful God. He will not let any of his words fall to the ground.

The excellent John Flavel was minister of Dartmouth, in England. One day he preached from these words: " If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema maranatha." The discourse was unusually solemn, particularly the explanation of the curse. At the conclusion, when Mr. Flavel rose to pronounce the blessing, he paused, and said, "How shall I bless this whole assembly, when every person in it who loves not the Lord Jesus is anathema maranatha?" The solemnity of this address deeply affected the audience. In the congregation was a lad named Luke Short, about fifteen years old, a native of Dartmouth. Shortly after he went to sea, and sailed to America, where he passed the rest of his life. His life was lengthened far beyond the usual term. When a hundred years old, he was able to work on his farm, and his mind was not at all impaired. He had lived all this time in carelessness and sin; he was a sinner a hundred years old, and ready to die accursed. One day, as he set in his field, he busied himself in reflecting on his past life. He thought of the days of his youth. His memory fixed on Mr. Flavel's sermon, a considerable part of which he remembered. The earnestness of the minister, the truths spoken, the effect on the people, all came fresh to his mind. He felt that he had not loved the Lord Jesus; he feared the dreadful anathema; he was deeply convinced of sin, was brought to the blood of sprinkling. He lived to his one hundred and sixteenth year, giving every evidence of being born again. Ah! how faithful God is to his word. He did let none of his words fall to the ground.

Be of good cheer, Christian mothers, who weep over your unawakened children. They may be going far from you, perhaps across the seas, and you tremble for their souls. Remember God can reach them everywhere. A believing mother never prayed in vain. Be instant in prayer. God will not forget his word. He will let none of his words fall to the ground.