by Doug Van Meter | 2 Mar 2014 | Brackenhurst Baptist Church (Alberton, South Africa), Events
Brackenhurst Baptist Church’s annual World Outreach Celebration for 2014 will take place from Wednesday, 5 to Sunday, 9 March 2014. Our guest speaker this year is Daniel Bennett, pastor of Bethany Community Church in Washington, Illinois. Pastor Bennett, who has a...
by Doug Van Meter | 12 Jan 2014 | Articles
In a previous article I sought to make the biblical case that a woman who is blessed to be a mother is called to workas a mom. She is to work hard at raising a godly seed. This is clearly the calling of a woman with children, as indicated in such passages as 1 Timothy...
by Doug Van Meter | 4 Dec 2013 | Articles
There is no higher calling for a woman with children than that of motherhood. But such a high calling requires dedication; it calls for “blood, sweat and tears.” All moms are called by God to work, and to work hard. In this article I want to emphasise the need for...
by Doug Van Meter | 25 Nov 2013 | Articles
Fathers, please, for God’s sake and for your children’s sake, be apologetic for the gospel. If you do not then your children may grow up ashamed of the gospel. In a recent Family Bible Hour series we came across 1 Peter 3:15 where the apostle exhorts believers,...
by Doug Van Meter | 14 Nov 2013 | Articles
As our church has been studying Hebrews 2 we have been growing in our appreciation of the reality that our Lord Jesus Christ, our “Elder Brother,” has once and for all defeated the devil, the one who for so long held us enslaved to the fear of death. Jesus secured...
by Doug Van Meter | 7 Nov 2013 | Articles
According to Acts 20, it seems to have been the custom for the early church to celebrate the Lord’s Supper each Lord’s Day. At least this would be a fair inference from the words, “Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread” (v....
