Welcome:

We thank you for visiting with us today. We are a church that is Baptist in doctrine, in other words we take what we believe from the Bible, and we try to teach and preach only what the Bible declares. If you would like to learn more about us please ask or look up our church web-site: http://idahobaptist.com

Prayer Requests:

Bro. Seth Stewart - Diabetes.

Bro. Steve Kjeldgaard - Leukemia.

Bro. Bill Asmundson - Leukemia.

Missionary Robert Ellis - Cancer.

Missionary Tim Parrow - Heart Trouble.

Schedule:

Today's Nursery Worker - Shirley Little.

Music Next Week - Jenny and Jackie

Family Camp - July 26-30, 2010.

Next Fellowship Sunday - March 21^st.

Next Men's Prayer Meeting - April 3^rd .

Spring Work Day - April 3^rd ??? May 2^nd ???

Special Meetings - F. Keener - October 4-10

Word of the Week :

"Supercilious" (s›"p…r-s¹l"¶-…s) adj. Def. - Feeling or showing haughty disdain. Biblical use - "But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the supercilious, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you" ( James 4:6-7).

Did you hear?

The decrees of God are multifaceted, intricate, personal, guaranteed, holy and final.

Services:

Sunday School - 10:00 a.m. - Numbers 30-31

Morning Service - 11:00 a.m. - "Nebuchadnezzar and the Dream"

Evening Service - 6:00 p.m. - "Jehovah and the Dream"

Wednesday Prayer Meeting - 7:00 p.m. - A Study of the Life of David

Memory Verse:

This week: "Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation" (Numbers 27:16).

Next week: "If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth" (Numbers 30:2).

People who have doubts ... about getting married (and the pastors who counsel them beforehand) should listen to those doubts. About 8 in 10 respondents in author Carl Weisman's survey said that before the wedding they felt "somewhat" or "extremely certain" the marriage would end in divorce. The rest were "slightly certain." But they got married anyway.

"I have had people who came to a pre-marriage workshop, and it became evident they shouldn't be married," says Presbyterian minister and pastoral counselor Bill Hedrick, executive director of Tidewater Pastoral Counseling in Norfolk, Virginia. "Quite frankly, many of us make an unconscious choice ... 'If I don't take advantage of this, I may have wasted an opportunity.'"

Hedrick believes many people don't even know what a good marriage looks like. "More than any generation in the past, we have the most unrealistic expectations." - S. Jayson

Erasmus, who had always ... been noted for his waspish wit, seems to have rather enjoyed pointing out these errors, perhaps anticipating the pandemonium they would cause. Two of these translation mistakes are particularly interesting, as they illustrate how easily some contentious theological ideas came to be based on rather shaky biblical foundations.

The opening of the third chapter of Matthew's gospel tells of how John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, and proclaimed the need for repentance on the part of his audiences. The Vulgate offers the following account of the ministry of John (Matthew 3:1-2): "In those days, John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, saying: Do penance for the kingdom of heaven is close to hand."

Few of the late medieval readers of this text could miss the implications of what was being said, given the highly developed theory and practice of penance of the era. John seemed to be demanding that they "do penance"--that is to say, to find a priest, confess their sins, and carry out any acts of penance this priest might require of them. The Vulgate version of the passage suggested that John's words were firmly connected to the penitential system of the Church, so that this network of penitence was sanctioned by Holy Writ.

Erasmus would have none of this. The Greek original could not possibly mean "do penance." The most natural translation was "repent" - a demand for an inward change of mind and heart. What might, therefore, be taken as an endorsement of the Church's complex and somewhat cumbersome mechanics of penance was thus converted at a stroke, into a simple demand for a personal change of heart. It was subjective change that was required of converts. The involvement of the institution of the Church was no longer necessitated--or even implied--by the passage. Repentance was now a private matter of the individual before God. - A. McGrath

Throughout the South ... he preached, lectured, held meetings, rallied the churches, gave unity to their aims, and expounded and illustrated, as few like him could do, the doctrines of grace through faith in the Redeemer, against salvation through ordinances, or the church, or aught under the heavens but Jesus only. The Lord seemed to endow him with extraordinary power, and showers of blessings followed his fervid ministrations. - Cathcart on J. R. Graves

I t should be borne ... in mind that, since the ordinances set forth in most forceful symbolism, all the saving truths of the gospel, so long as they are duly administered, the faith of the church will be preserved in its purity, but that a corruption of the saving doctrines follow immediately upon a perversion of the ordinances. Let these be perverted in their design, and the more extensive the missionary operations of the churches, the greater the injury resulting to both Christianity and the world. The first and most important work of the churches is to guard the purity of the ordinances, that a pure faith and a pure practice may be conserved.

This fact should rebuke those Baptists who now are carrying fagots to the feet of the faithful few who are witnessing for a pure faith and a pure practice, while they at the same time encourage missions! - J. R. Graves

State of the family ...

Unmarried childrearing - The rate of births to unmarried women has more than doubled since 1980, from 18% of births 1980 to 40% of births today.

Cohabitation - America has seen a 14-fold increase in unmarried cohabitation (an unmarried man and woman living together) since 1960.

Increasing childlessness - Only 40% of Americans agreed that "children are very important to a successful marriage" in 2007. That number was 65% as recently as 1990.

Busyness - Nearly 3 out of 5 Christians say their hectic schedules prevent them from spending enough time

with God. American parents spend 40 % less time with their children than they did 50 years ago. - Focus on the Family