Announcements

• Everlasting Nation Fellowship will meet at Shoney’s on Clinton Highway at 6:00
  See All...PM on Saturday, March 16th.  Jason Byrd and David Judy will be speaking.  The theme will be the importance of the nation of Israel and our support of that nation.
• Spring Break for Antioch Baptist College will be the week of March 18th.  We wish all the students a good break.
• King James Bible Believers’ Conference will be held at Antioch Baptist Church in Knoxville on June 10th and 11th.

Missions

Jim Joines (Mexico) reports:

• He has been able to start four churches in Mexico
• This fall the Bible College there will have three years of students
• They are still roofing the Bible College for needed additional space
• Souls are being saved every week

March Bible Offering (Penny March in March)

• Change alone totaled over $100 last Sunday
• This gives a total of over $740 with three weeks to go
• This will purchase about 185 Bibles in Zambia and the Philippines

Thank You Note from R. E. Stokes (Victory for Troubled Youth)

• “Brother Reagan and church, Thank you so much for allowing us to come and present the work the Lord has put upon our hearts.  It was a real joy being with you all again.  It’s an inspiration to us to see folks still staying in the work the Lord gave you.  We look forward to helping you all get a ministry going in the Richard L. Bean institute.  Many folks will be praying towards that end.  Thanks for the generous love offering and lunch.          Ralph (R. E.) and Sandy Stokes”

Preaching/Teaching

• Sunday morning Andy Soon preached at Victory Baptist Church in Morristown
• Jonathan Judy preached chapel Monday night in the College
• Jeremiah Dixon preach Tuesday night chapel from 1 Kings 19 on Elijah and the Unbowed Remnant.
• The Sunday School was combined to hear R. E. Stokes tell of his ministry in Juvenile homes across America.  We are praying for an opening in the Knoxville Juvenile Detention Center.  Brother Stokes is going to help us check into it.
• Pastor Reagan preached AM on The Ties That Bind from Proverbs 5:20-23 [20] And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? [21] For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. [22] His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. [23] He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
  See All....  The message was centered around the Biblical uses of cords. His points were:
1. The cords of our sins (Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
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2. The cords of vanity (Isaaiah 5:18
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3. The cords of the wicked (Psalm 129:1-4)
4. The cords of affliction (Job 36:8And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
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5. The cords of restraint (Psalm 2:1-4 [1] Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? [2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, [3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. [4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
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6. The cords of love (Hosea 11:1-4 [1] When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. [2] As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. [3] I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. [4] I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.
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7. The cords of sacrifice (Psalm 118:27God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.
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• Pastor Reagan preached PM on The Four Beasts Round About the Throne (Revelation 4:6-9 [6] And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. [7] And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. [8] And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, LORD God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. [9] And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
  See All...).  They were compared to the living creatures of Ezekiel One, the cherubim of Ezekiel Ten and the Seraphim of Isaiah Six.

Web Site

• www.LearntheBible.org now has a link from www.scourby.com and has received several visitors from there.
• Visitors have recently gone up and we are averaging about 30 visitors per week

Publications

• We are trying to nail down a cover design for the booklet What the New Testament Says About the Jew so that we can get a thousand of these booklets printed.

Ministry Redesign

• The redesign of our Music ministry is progressing as planned.  We are now gathering ideas and discussing possibilities.
• Thanks to all who have turned in questionnaires.  If you did not receive one and would like to receive one, contact Pastor Reagan.
• Pastor Reagan will be contacting those who serve in the music ministry to determine exactly what they are doing at this time.
• The Praise and Thanksgiving time on Sunday Night was a great blessing.  The verse given out by the pastor was Psalm 71:8Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
  See All... – “Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.”

World News

• The largest church in Africa is a Pentecostal church in Nigeria called the Winner’s Church.  It is located on a 565 acre campus called Canaan Land with a hotel, gas station, bank, restaurants and shops as well as a church auditorium that has seating for 50,000 people.  The church is modeled after the work of Kenneth Hagin of Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The church is built on promising members financial success in a country where a third of the people live on less than $1 a day.  At a tollgate into the church, hawkers sell white handkerchiefs for 15 cents to be waved during the service and donation envelopes for one penny.
• At the similar Household of God church in Lagos, the Rev. Okotie shows off his new Mercedes-Benz.  He said that the drums, electric guitars and dancing at Pentecostal churches allowed for a closer connection to God by focusing on the outpouring of emotions.  “It’s like being at a party.”
• Information and some wording taken from The New York Times, Wednesday, March 13, 2002 – “Africans Fill Churches That Celebrate Wealth.”
• “A month after the September 11 tragedy, a Muslim cleric, Fisal Hammouda, shared Hybel’s pulpit [Bill Hybels’s of Willow Creek Community Church] for a discussion about Islam.  The imam and pastor discussed strong ties between Christianity and Islam and the congregation was impressed.  They learned…that jihad, more often than not was an individual “holy war” to overcome personal weaknesses such as a sweet tooth…Hybels was concerned that there ‘are some Christians spreading rumors and half-truths that the Qur’an encourages violence.’  …Hammouda claimed that Muslims ‘believe in Jesus, more than [Christians] do in fact.’”
• Robert Schuller has personally preached in the mosque of the Grand Mufti in Damascus and has allowed the Islamic leader’s son to preach in his own pulpit.
• Taken from The Berean Call, March 2002, “Where’s Your Head…and Your Heart” by T. A. McMahon.