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Vacation with A Vision Summer Program? We welcome individuals, couples and families. We will feed you, give you a place to stay and provide opportunities for fun and fellowship along the way. We have an exciting project for this summer. Over the past several years, we have made many great improvements on our campus. A new library was completed, with the old library being converted into “Bredin Suites,” a residence for many of our female students. Our main office was renovated and is now much more welcoming to guests. And last summer, we renovated two rooms in Liberty Hall (our girls’ dorm). After seeing the finished result of the updated rooms, we have decided to move ahead and continue working towards the completion of this project.
Our goal is to complete one floor of the girls’ dorm this summer, which will cost approximately $50,000. This equals $10,000 per room which is much below the cost of a new dorm. We are going to need many labourers and we ask you to consider coming for a week or even a few days to lend a hand. If you are not a carpenter, there are always many more projects taking place and we welcome workers with all skill sets. If you can’t come, maybe God would lead you to give to help us complete this much needed renovation. Our ladies are excited about the possibility of having a fresh, new updated residence and we are eager to complete the project. Would you pray
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Guest Speaker, Dr. J. Ronald Blue is a former missionary and president of CAM International. He has traveled to more than 50 countries. He joined the staff of Dallas Seminary in 1975, winning the Faculty Award the same year, and served as professor and chair of the World Missions and Intercultural Studies department. He helped launch the Seminary’s Spanish Doctor of Ministry program in conjunction with Seminario Teológico Centro Americano (SETECA) in Guatemala. Dr. Blue is the author of Evangelism and Missions. He
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MATTHEW LITTLE April 5 Faith Bible Church Olamon, ME Morning Service
You have heard it said, as I have, that it seems that people are battling with so much these days. Illness, aging, death, family struggles, spiritual battles, emotional stresses, and simply the cares of life are weighing people down. There does seem to be an increasing awareness of such things for all of us as we age. Sometimes, sincere and believing people will say about the trials of life, “Well, that’s just the cross we’re called upon to bear.” To that type of statement, we must say, and say kindly, “No, it’s not.” When Jesus talked about crossbearing in the life of His disciples, He was talking about the results of their willingness to follow Him. In Luke 9:23 we read these words, “Then He said to them all, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.’” Cross-bearing is all about following the Lord Jesus. It involves hearing His words from Scripture, understanding those words, and doing them no matter what.
That is what being a disciple of the Lord Jesus is all about. It can be a challenging thing, and indeed a costly thing to really follow the Lord Jesus. Your family might not understand. Your friends might not understand. We can know that the unbelieving world will not understand. The words of the Lord Jesus call us to follow Him, deny ourselves, and make that our daily way of life. Life will bring its challenges to everybody living on this planet. Life will bring extra challenges to anyone who desires to go after the Lord Jesus. He never lied to anyone and He tells His followers, “Get ready for a life of cross-bearing.” The words of JC Ryle are very appropriate for our modern day: “If any...feels that he has counted the cost and taken up the cross, I bid him persevere and press on. I daresay you often feel your heart faint, and are sorely tempted to give up in despair. Your enemies seem so many, your besetting sins so strong, your friends so few, the way so steep and narrow, you hardly know what to do...The time is very short. A few more years of watching and praying, a few more tossings on the sea of this world, a few more deaths and changes, a few
more winters and summers, and all will be over. We shall have fought our last battle, and shall need to fight no more. The presence and company of Christ will make amends for all we suffer here below.” (Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties & Roots, 1877) Don’t quit. Keep going.
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PRESIDENT’S CHALLENGE BY MATTHEW LITTLE
WHAT DOES YOUR SPEECH TASTE time-tested principles to polish up our speech and make it more LIKE TO OTHERS? Colossians 4:6 says, “Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” We live in divisive times today. The ease with which most can and do communicate has led to our current communication crisis. The mantra of today is, “My voice must be heard and it shall be!” Social media platforms allow your ideas to set sail and reach vast and far-off places with the click of a button. After all, most would argue, “My concerns need to be addressed”, “My truth needs to be defended”, “I must correct the egregious wrongs done”. For some it is in their nature to want to quarrel or fight. On-line conversations often digress into jockeying for position and ideologically sparring where one person is trying to strangle hold his opponent. I am not talking about defending the purity of the Gospel against encroaching heresy. The mudslinging is mostly for entertainment value, rooted in nothing more than an insidious desire to be right. In Colossians 4:6, we are given some heavenly, divinely-inspired,
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First, it is to be “with grace”. It can actually read “in grace”. The Bible is not saying that every conversation needs to be about grace, rather it is in grace. The aroma of grace needs to be the fragrance that permeates our speech. We need to be cheerful without frivolity and serious without a doom and gloom mentality. It is to speak like Jesus of Whom it was said, “And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.” (Luke 4:22a). Second, our speech needs to be “seasoned with salt”. The world’s chatter is nothing but bland and hollow, and often tasteless and pointless. In contrast, the believer’s speech is to be seasoned with the savoury freshness of spiritual wisdom and the sweet taste of divine truth. Finally, Paul informs us why we need grace-filled, seasoned speech. It is so that “ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” Gracefilled, seasoned speech is the answer to the question, “What makes my speech impactful to others?” Grace-
HOMEGOING Dorothy (Smalley) Clark-Ginson passed away on Friday, July 19, 2019. Dorothy graduated from NBBI in 1949. Her first husband, the late Weldon Clark, also graduated in 1949. Weldon and Dorothy served the Lord in Newfoundland, France, Quebec and later in Northwest New Brunswick. Weldon also taught a French course on our campus to interested students.
filled, speech, seasoned with the sweet aroma of truth, makes my answer more acceptable to others whatever that answer may be. Christians should never be known as verbal assassins taking out people with their clever arguments, motivated by nothing more than a need to see others hurt. Such are brawlers in the truest sense of the word. When you identify them, whether it be in person or on-line, your tendency is to want to avoid them. Yet there they stand confidently using their platform to engage and argue with whomever will dare challenge them. Such behaviour is of the devil and can never be the outflow of a Spirit-controlled life. Wouldn’t it be great if we all prayed, “Lord, I want my speech to be saturated with grace and salted with the savour of your truth and wisdom so that I can glorify you and lead others to the Saviour?” Proverbs 20:3 says, “It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.” An old American proverb states, “A bulldog can whip a skunk, but sometimes it’s not worth it.”
Dorothy’s daughter, Rebecca and her husband, Steven Urquhart also graduated from NBBI in 1973. Her son, Mark attended here in 1973 and his wife, Bethany (Holmes), graduated in 1978. Dorothy also had a daughter, Colette, married to Ken Keith. Pray for Dorothy’s husband, Earl Ginson and the extended families as they continue to mourn the loss of this wonderful lady.
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