by Doug Van Meter | 8 Apr 2013 | Articles
Recently as a church we saw, in both Leviticus 19 and in Acts 16, the value of the elderly. In the case of Leviticus 19:32 we were exhorted, “You shall rise before the grey headed and honour the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.” We learned...
by Doug Van Meter | 7 Apr 2013 | Acts
Properly speaking, Acts 15:36 commences the second missionary journey of the apostle Paul from his sending church in Antioch of Syria. As we saw previously, the launching forth of this missionary endeavour was not without its difficulties and contention. The story of...
by admin | 13 Oct 2011 | Discipleship, Ministry
Every believer is a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. The early believers were known as “disciples” long before they were called “Christians.” A “disciple” is a follower, and a disciple of Christ is therefore one who follows Christ. It was as the believers in Antioch...
by Doug Van Meter | 30 Jan 2011 | Articles
Brackenhurst Baptist Church is not for everyone. Does that statement strike you as alarming, or even arrogant? Perhaps—but I hope not. Rather, I trust that we would have the honesty and the insight to confess that BBC is for a particular type of person: those who are...
by Doug Van Meter | 8 Apr 2009 | Articles
For some fifteen years, BBC has been meaningfully committed to the making of disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. One of the tools that we have used is a set of discipleship booklets. Originally, we used material made available to us by the Kansas City Baptist Temple,...
by Doug Van Meter | 2 Apr 2008 | Articles
There is something within the human psyche that desires to achieve greatness, to do something of great significance, to excel to heights of success. This sense of ambition, contrary to much of popular Christian opinion, is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, this...