June is Speaker's Month

This is going to be an active month for my ministry here. With weddings of a special couple in our life. Also, we are headed to Alaska to speak for a pastor friend. I think I'll be doing a series concerning the Kingdom of God. God's personal rule over us during this church age.

The submission to God's rule over the believer is many times over looked.

A special day

Four years ago a student at Boston Baptist College came with his wife to help me restore MBC. His desire to be active in the Lord's work permeated his life. Called at a later stage of life, with wife and two young children he went to Maine to start a church. In my opinion Maine along with Vermont are difficult areas to plant a church, especially in the rural areas. But there he believed that God had called him.

What made today's service special - First, he asked us to be his new sending church. But beyond that he had the privilege to baptize his mother-in-law. She is from the Philippians and was flying back home.

With lack of English - her daughter translated the questions - her responses - her face told it all.

What a day!

MBC's 1st Music Leader - now Pastor

Jon Roe and his wife helped me when I was called to MBC. A struggling church of a dozen members. The church at the beginning probably felt "what did we get our selves into?" But Jon and Kathy stepped in and was a great support for us.
I had the privilege this last Fall to hold a "Missions" conference for him at the Londonderry Baptist Church in NH.
It will a joy to fellowship with them and have them minister the Word to this great congregation.

Welcome 2011

January - named after the god Janus. A two-faced god that could look backward and forward. Looking to where he has been and where he is going. The Apostle Paul, however, tells us not to dwell upon that which is in our past, [Col 3:13] and not to let past defeats follow us, nor to live in the past victories.

I believe that the New Year mentality is necessary for God's people in order not to be trapped by the past. God setup two "New Years" for Israel. One, a secular New Year starting in the month of Tishri - Yom Kippur. Second, a religious New Year starting in month of Nisan - Passover season.

I am setting goals this year and not resolutions. Goals are measurable - reachable.

I get discouraged over resolutions.

Lord may my goals for this new year be your goals for my life.