Why Have a Statement of Purpose? …
An Invitation to Three Special Sunday School Classes
If every member could express why we exist as a church, there would be a new intensity about all we do.
The Overarching Mission of Bethlehem Baptist Church …
We cannot define our mission in terms of deeds alone because any deed can be done with an attitude that does not glorify God.
Preaching a Plan for Ministry …
A church's priorities should be based on the relationships each Christian should develop with God, fellow believers, and unbelievers.
Your Place in the Strategy …
If any good discovery is made in ministry we should consider how to multiply its effects in other churches.
Remember, We Are a Small Part of Something Very Great …
How to Prepare for Next Sunday's Discussion
God is stirring all over the world in governments and churches to do a new thing in our generation.
What Is Bethlehem? …
Bethlehem is most essentially a vision of God.
Rebuilt Ruins Will Reach the World …
We are ruins being rebuilt by the grace of God. And we are here that the rest of men may seek the Lord.
Your Love Is Better Than Life …
Savoring the Vision
God is worshiped and honored and savored both by fainting for him and by feasting on him.
Working with You for Your Joy …
Instilling the Vision
Striving for the Faith of the Gospel …
Spreading the Vision
The mark of living worthily of the gospel is a unified, fearless striving for the faith of the gospel.
Let God Be All in This Building! …
It's the absence of the centrality of the biblical God in all of life that is leading to the collapse of our civilization.
The Sacrifice of Praise …
It is your sacred duty and joy to praise God continually with your lips.
If It Is of God, It Will Not Be Overthrown …
Commitment Sunday Service At Maranatha Hall
What does building a new worship building have to do with real worship?
Why Does Bethlehem Exist? …
What I Said at the Leadership Retreat
Bethlehem exists to reassert God’s rightful place in all of life.
The Counsel of the Lord Stands Forever …
Reflections on Corporate Planning
A truth stripped of God is not a whole truth and will not guide the church well.
Paul's Ambition and Bethlehem's Mission …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
A Passion for the Supremacy of God for the Joy of All Peoples …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples.
Through Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Power of the Holy Spirit …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
Jesus Christ has released the merciful power of God by his sin-bearing death; and the Holy Spirit is applying it to our church.
By Treasuring All That God Is, All Whom He Loves …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
Faith works through love. It becomes active and visible in the form of love that people can see.
Praying for All His Purposes, Meditating on All His Word …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
Believing that the Bible is the Word of God is a gigantic event in the soul. Therefore God does not leave it merely to man.
Sustained by All His Grace …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
All things are by his grace because all things are for his glory. The all-sufficient, inexhaustible Giver gets the glory.
Vision for the Harvest: 2000 by 2000 …
Unpacking the Master Planning Team Document
When we give ourselves to the work of personal evangelism and world missions, God pours more life into our souls.
The Value of Relationships …
Unfolding Bethlehem's Fresh Initiative #1
All Christian relationships have this as their goal: to help each other stay satisfied in God.
Urban-Suburban Partnership …
Unfolding Bethlehem's Fresh Initiative #2
Our mission is to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in everything, including choosing where we live.
Diversity in God-Centered Worship …
Unfolding Bethlehem's Fresh Initiative #4
The abiding foundation of our corporate worship is God-centeredness.
Good News to the Poor …
Unfolding Bethlehem's Fresh Initiative #5
The fact that Jesus was born to a poor couple in a cow stall tells us something about the way God meant to reach the world.
Challenging the Church and Culture with Truth …
Unfolding Bethlehem's Fresh Initiative #6
Believing in the supremacy of God leads us to believe in the existence of absolute truth.
God's Purpose for Jacob and Bethlehem …
Everyone we lead to Christ is a fulfillment of the promise, "I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply."
Walk in Wisdom: Seize the Moment …
Wisdom is the use of knowledge to reach worthy goals, such as winning outsiders to Christ.
Becoming All Things to All Men to Save Some …
Until the wrath of God figures as largely in our worldview as it did for Paul, we will not have the passion for evangelism that he had.
I Have Other Sheep …
The sovereignty of God over the wills of men doesn't make evangelism unnecessary; it makes it hopeful.
Let All Who Seek Thee Rejoice and Be Glad in Thee; Let Those Who Love Thy Salvation Say Continually, "The Lord Be Magnified" …
Commitment Sunday of "Freeing the Future"
Our joy in God is both our worship and our evangelism.
Should Missions Be Secondary In the Life of a Local Church? …
John Piper says missions is too intertwined with God's glory to be peripheral.
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