On the 4-14-08 segment of the FFWB Prayer Warriors / Ask Pastor Vic on BTR, we received a blessing in the form of both a prayer request and a testimony from a caller, J Strickland. After beginning the segment with a few technical problems, along with the absences of Pastor Vic and Chris Anderson, due to illness, we were particularly blessed to hear from Sister Strickland, who coincidentally resides close by in North Carolina. She had been listening in on this segment and called in with her testimony! If you’d like to hear her testimony on our media player, click here and it will open in your media player.
Praise God and we thank Him for His blessings. Keep those souls in physical, emotional and spiritual need, as well as those who are lost, in your prayers!
Just this past Wednesday night at Faith Free Will Baptist Church in Greensboro, NC, Brother David Lawson made a point that with our outreach program, we should not put aside the importance of evangelizing in our own neighborhood as well! In other words, when it comes to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and as God opens doors, take advantage of ALL the doors He has opened without neglecting to walk through previously opened doors.
Pastor Vic has often stressed the importance of leaving our comfort zones to go out into the places where there are souls who need Christ. Interestingly, on this week’s segment of FFWB Prayer Warriors / Ask Pastor Vic on BlogTalkRadio, we were blessed with a visit by Evangelist Jose Luciano. He is an evangelist in New York City, who goes out into the streets and subways to take the Gospel to those he finds there, including gangs (where he was when he received Christ). Listen to this segment, which begins with an ad (BlogTalkRadio must pay the bills, of course). This segment lasts 1 hour, and begins with other discussion before Brother Luciano calls in. Click the player below to hear the segment that was on the topic of Evangelism:
The “That’s My King” video got a great deal of feedback on our main site, FFWBC! Derl Curry, Jr. at our church, played it for his devotion last Sunday morning and we were again blessed! Efrain Gomez has recited a version of S. M. Lockridge’s message since he was 14, and has done quite a bit of research on the various versions. Play Efrain’s recitation below and be blessed yet again!
Along the way, I’ll post videos that I find here and there. This was on JesusClips and I love the story and the artwork! This is someone’s offering of the Crucifixion of Jesus from the imagined view of Simeone.
Are we doing what Jesus has commissioned us to do? If not, or at least not with zeal, is it because we can’t imagine what a difference one person makes. Always remember - when you go forward in God’s work, you’re not just one! This is dedicated to Pastor Vic, who God recently allowed a look at what an effect his Testimony has had. We must always pray for God to place the lost in our path and then have faith that He will finish the work!
Wow! This is offered in memory of S.M. Lockridge. Whether or not you like the background music that as added, this powerful! The only reason I made mention of the background music is a comment from the site of the source of this video. I’ve decided to do a search on S.M. Lockridge and see what audio had been archived. What a message on the Salvation and Deliverance of our Savior, Jesus Christ!
What a wonderful testimony as to how Jesus Christ can love us in sin and change our lives. Read Omar G’s witness to God’s work in his life:
The Greatest Choice I Have Ever MadeSin was a part of my life at a very early age. Lying, stealing… the sort of stuff that just gets passed along as “regular” kid things in the world. I didn’t know it was a sin and to be honest with you I didn’t care. I had to get my candy one way or another! Sin is so deceitful. Unless you know about God you don’t even know what sin is.
Apparently, according to my fellow sixth graders, I was a nerd. Believe that? A nerd! How was I suppose to know that being good at school, collecting baseball cards, and wearing “medical” glasses would classify you as a nerd?! Have you ever been to the optometrist with no cash, only your medical card? They dust off a cover and present you with the wide selection of two different pairs of glasses to choose from,
Hello everyone. My name is Miranda Lawson and I am a member of this wonderful church. I am 21 years old and have been a born again Christian for about eight years now. I am the junior Sunday school teacher and my mom and I do children’s church once a month. I really enjoy working with little children. I am attending Guilford Technical Community College with a major in Early Childhood Education. I am blessed by God everyday in some way. Today I found out that I am getting financial aid to fund my last year at GTCC. It i a blessing because I am not working anywhere and my family needs help paying for my college. I am also blessed to have grown up in such a loving family and better than that a Christian family. I remember when my parents were not saved. My grandmother would take my brother and me to church on Sunday’s. My parents eventually came to Christ and then my brother and then me. I have not been through the tough time that some of our church members have been but I fill that is the way God wanted it to be. I was never offered drugs or alcohol in school. I was never picked on by people in school except once in my senior year because of a boy. I can say that my life has been blessed from the beginning. When my mom was pregnant with me the doctors said that I could be born missing a limb, be a water-head baby, or even still born. God didn’t want that for me or my parents and made me a “Perfect Angel” (Perfect maybe not). I have come a long way in my twenty-one years and I am thankful for every day that God has given me.
This is a post from August 25, 2007 by Tony Thompson on his blog - “Thoughts in Christ”
Tonight I believe I need to express my deepest thanks to first of all my savior who, I am not worthy. I also want to thank my pastor and all the members of my church. I feel I need to thank each and every one of you for the kindness you have shown me and my family . I feel at home in this church. I feel like I belong. I heard a song the other day (boy, how many times have I said that) that goes a little something like this. (paraphrasing)” I used to believe that the more you had, got you through these days , made your poor heart glad. I’m baring down, I been cutting back, and I don’t even miss, all the things I lack. I’m learning how to seperate the wants from the needs, the good life now consists of just a few simple things. Jesus in my heart, and a place to belong, a few good friends, and one good song. Oh my latest list ,well it aint to long, just a Godly love, and one good song.” Now everyone who has heard that song knows who sings it. If you haven’t check out The Gaither Vocal Band’s album “I Do Believe” track “One Good Song”
I feel that I have been blessed with all these things since I was saved. Got Jesus in my heart, a place to belong, a few good friends, and well, a bunch of good songs. I have more than that, much more. My point though, is I don’t need, or care for the things of this world. In the words of another good song “I’m not on an ego trip. I’m nothing on my own. I make mistakes, and often slip. I’m just flesh and bone.” I still slip up and make mistakes. I have to say though that I wouldn’t trade one second of what I have now, for what I had before I was saved. I mean it, I wish I could crucify and blot out who I was. I can’t stand to think about the things I did. I think maybe that is why God gave us a memory. Now don’t get me wrong I don’t pretend to know the mind of God, but why else can we remember so well every wrong doing. I do know this though. these things I remember that I don’t like keep me mindful of who I am. They also remind me of who I don’t want to be, and where I have come from. “I am not who I want to be, but thank God I am not who I was.”
I feel the church I attend is a good church. I believe the people try very hard to stay in Gods Will. We have our hard times sure, but we always seek Gods Will and pull together during hard times. I thank everyone there for helping support my family and myself. I intend on doing more than just thanking you all in words as soon as God sees fit for us to move closer. I pray we will continue to seek Gods will in everything we do. I know there are people in my church that if I called would be here in a flash. I pray they know I would do the same for them. I thank you God for the endless blessings you have bestowed upon my family at home and my church family. Help us to seek you Lord in all we do. Blessings without end. Keep us mindful Lord in our everyday walk to be what you would have us be and act and talk as you would have us do. We are unworthy of your blessings and we thank and praise you. In Jesus\’ Holy Name we pray AMEN.
