Posted: December 31, 2008
False Prophet Watch
Warren's inauguration prayer could draw more ire (outside link)
Yahoo News
President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation drew one kind of protest. Whether the evangelical pastor offers the prayer in the name of Jesus may draw another. At George W. Bush's 2001 swearing-in, the Revs. Franklin Graham and Kirbyjon Caldwell were criticized for invoking Christ. The distinctly Christian reference at a national civic event offended some, and even prompted a lawsuit. Read more...
Posted:
December 31, 2008
Attorney says state gives citizens standing to challenge Obama’s citizenship status
Eligibility case finds 'standing'? (outside link)
WorldNetDaily
A new case challenging Barack Obama's natural-born citizenship and, therefore, constitutional eligibility to serve as president has the potential to clear a hurdle that caused several other similar cases' dismissal: the issue of "standing." Read more...
Posted: December 31, 2008
RNC draft rips Bush's bailouts (outside link)
Washington Times
Republican Party officials say they will try next month to pass a resolution accusing President Bush and congressional Republican leaders of embracing "socialism," underscoring deep dissension within the party at the end of Mr. Bush's administration. Read more...
Posted: December 30, 2008
Keynesian Economics Is Wrong: Bigger Gov't Is Not Stimulus
Based on a theory known as Keynesianism, politicians are resuscitating the notion that more government spending can stimulate an economy. This mini-documentary produced by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation examines both theory and evidence and finds that allowing politicians to spend more money is not a recipe for better economic performance. Watch the Video...
Posted: December 29, 2008
The Exodus Mandate Project has been working for years with the SBC and within our Christian churches and organizations calling Christians to exit the public schools. For the year 2009, Exodus Mandate is issuing The Call to Dunkirk, which is a renewed call to the exit call. Baptist Vision of Georgia supports this call and vision to Christian education. Therefore, we state with Chaplain E. Ray Moore (Ret.) in calling for the mass exodus of all Christian students from the public schools. BVG has listed several resources to educate you, your pastor, your congregation, your family and friends as to our reasons to this absolute necessity. Watch the Video...
Posted: December 29, 2008
By E.Ray Moore Jr. Th.M.
“Let My Children Go” is a modern version of the repeated cry of the children of Israel as they prepared to leave for the Promised Land on the Exodus. It has become increasingly clear to the national Christian leadership that there is an educational and spiritual crisis of gargantuan proportions in public education. But what can be one about it? Can the churches leave public education behind as the children of Israel left the dominion of Egypt long ago? Read more...
Merry Christmas!
Baptist Vision of Georgia wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a New
Year that is blessed for the advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ!
Posted: December 19, 2008
America Repent...
Fox Business: Gerald Celente Predicts Revolution 11/10/08
The following is an interview of Gerald Celente on a Fox Business show called “Happy Hour.” By no means are we endorsing the views on the show or Gerald Celente. We do not know enough about either to make comments pro or against. However, we found the interview very interesting. Read more...
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December 13, 2008
Barack Obama Promises to Sign FOCA
FOCA is the Freedom of Choice Act, which would eliminate every restriction on abortion on every state in the U.S. According to the Fight FOCA web site, FOCA would:
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FOCA will do away with state laws on parental involvement, on partial birth abortion, and on all other protections.
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FOCA will compel taxpayer funding of abortions.
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FOCA will force faith-based hospitals and healthcare facilities to perform abortions.
Here is Obama in his own words speaking to Planned Parenthood on July 09, 2008: Watch the video...
Posted:
December 11, 2008
Baptist Vision of Georgia
It is time to put aside all the rhetoric and get in the battle to save our homes, our churches and our civil governments. Enough of sitting back and watching our nation go down in flames. It is time for the saints of God to take their place in Divine Providential history and fulfill our calling to stand and having done all, stand. Read more & watch Dr. Ron Polarik's video...
Take part in WorldNetDaily's petition
Petition for Public Release of Barack Hussein Obama's Birth Certificate
We, the undersigned, assert our rights as citizens of the United States in demanding that the constitutional eligibility requirement be taken seriously and that any and all controlling legal authorities in this matter examine the complete birth certificate of Barack Obama, including the actual city and hospital of birth, and make that document available to the American people for inspection. Read more...
More Info:
To learn more about this very important controversy please read the following links.
Petitioners: If you're eligible, show us the proof!
'Constitutional crisis' looming over Obama's birth location
Is Obama's candidacy constitutional?
Imaging guru: 'Certification' of birth time, location is fake
Posted: December 11, 2008
The Great American Con: Bail-out or Money Laundering?
The Campaign Finance Institute
First it was Wall Street. Now it is Detroit. Wall Street and Detroit will be back for more and everyone else is asking for theirs. Yet, if it was not bad enough to hear about the parties, bonuses and private jets, wait till you read about what these companies were doing with their money for the last few years. For instance, the Ford Motor Company has spent $31,594,000 from 2005-2008 in Federal Lobbying Expenditures. Freddie Mac spent $35,704,048 for the same period. Ford donated $1,603,017 from 05-08 in Federal campaign contributions. Freddie Mac donated $1,672,244. Just this year alone Freddie Mac donated a 1/2 million dollars in Federal campaign contributions. When it comes to Federal campaign contributions Goldman Sacks gave away $10, 177,455 from 05-08. Now they want us, the taxpayers, to fund this? Sounds like money laundering or a shake down to me. The funny thing is that they are calling Blagojevich a crook. The only reason why they are upset with him is because he became to open about it to the public. Read more...
Posted:
December 11, 2008
The Blagojevich meeting
Sylvania, GA – It has been Baptist Vision of Georgia's opinion that Barack Obama does not possess the proper Biblical Worldview to hold political office in the United States Government or in any of the 50 states. That much should be easily understood by any level of Bible-believing Christian. Read more...
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December 11, 2008
First Southern National Congress a Resounding Success
Marion, VA – Over one hundred Southern men and women, from all walks of life and from fourteen States, gathered near Hendersonville, NC December 5 through December 7 to convene the First Southern National Congress (SNC). This historic meeting at the Kanuga Conference Center in the shadow of the Blue Ridge was the first all-South congress since 1861. It was a “resounding success,” according to Thomas Moore of Charlottesville, VA, who was elected Chairman. Read more...
Posted: December 10, 2008
Constitutional Crisis: Obama Vs. Constitution (60 Sec. TV Ad)
Baptist Vision of Georgia is calling for all those who love God and liberty to help us get this effort going for the sake of our homes, churches and civil governments. Lord willing, we are trying to detail BVG's purpose and objectives in a public document entitled Beyond Survival: A Burden for the Present, A Vision for the Furture. Baptist Vision's theme verse is taken from Proverbs 29:18 which says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish..." Read more...
More to Come...
Evidence which "questions" Obama's legal citizenship. Find it all here at Baptist Vision of Georgia. Possibly as soon as tonight!
Historical Baptist Church Government
Posted: December 5, 2008
Scriptures that Support our Constitution
By The Georgia Baptist Association, 1828
The brother appointed last year to write the circular, having failed to present it, we, the undersigned, being appointed to select and arrange such scriptures as support the articles of our Constitution, relying upon divine direction, enter upon the duty imposed on us. The plan we propose to adopt is, to insert at large said articles, and such scriptures as have an immediate and direct bearing, in connexion with them. Read more...
Should Women Speak in Mixed Assemblies?
By Rev. John Broadus, D. D., L.L.D., 1880
There is at present a strong tendency in some parts of our country to encourage women in the practice of public discourse to mixed assemblies. This connects itself more or less, with the movements for female suffrage, though some strongly favor the one who are opposed to the other. Read more...
Have Females a right to vote in the Church in matters of Discipline?
By Rev. Jesse Mercer (1769-1841)
"To the law and to the testimony then let us go. In 1 Cor. 14:34, 35, Paul lays down the following order: 'Let your women keep silence in the churches; for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but to be under obedience; as also saith the law -- And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.' And again he saith, 1 Tim. 2:11-14: 'Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, or usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was the first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived; but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression.' Read more...
What Significance Does This Have For The Church Today?
Does I Corinthians 14:34-35 & I Timothy 2:11-14 apply for the 21st Century?
Does this repress women or exalt women?
More to Come...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted: November 27, 2008
Proclamation - Thanksgiving Day - 1777
Forasmuch as it is the indispensable duty of all men to adore the superintending providence of Almighty God; to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to him for benefits received, and to implore such farther blessings as they stand in need of; and it having pleased him in his abundant mercy not only to continue to us the innumerable bounties of his common providence, but also smile upon us in the prosecution of a just and necessary war, for the defense and establishment of our unalienable rights and liberties; particularly in that he hath been pleased in so great a measure to prosper the means used for the support of our troops and to crown our arms with most signal success: Read more...
Posted:
November 25, 2008
Setting the record straight
By Devin Maddox
Can you hear through the joyous noise of the enemy following the election of our new president? We have lost a great battle, but I am still in the war. My candle is not blown out. If I can capture some attention for a moment, I would like to make a few statements concerning my reaction to our country's direction. Read more...
Posted: November 21, 2008
Take part in WorldNetDaily's petition
Petition for Public Release of Barack Hussein Obama's Birth Certificate
We, the undersigned, assert our rights as citizens of the United States in demanding that the constitutional eligibility requirement be taken seriously and that any and all controlling legal authorities in this matter examine the complete birth certificate of Barack Obama, including the actual city and hospital of birth, and make that document available to the American people for inspection. Read more...
More Info:
To learn more about this very important controversy please read the following links.
Petitioners: If you're eligible, show us the proof!
'Constitutional crisis' looming over Obama's birth location
Is Obama's candidacy constitutional?
Caught
on Video!
Posted: November 14, 2008
Homosexuals assault elderly lady
Sylvania, GA - The warm, fuzzy, tolerant homosexual darlings of the media are once again showing their true colors and the national media is refusing to cover the story and many others like it. Read more...
Posted: November 14, 2008
Even our beloved Corps has been taken captive by political correctness
Marines Ban Father of Serviceman Killed on USS Cole from Expressing Opposition to Islamic Terrorism
Jesse Nieto is a 25-year Marine veteran whose honorable service to our nation included two combat tours in Vietnam. His youngest son, Marc, and 16 of Marc’s shipmates were killed on October 12, 2000, by Islamic terrorists who bombed the USS Cole. Nieto has worked as a civilian employee at the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina since 1994. Read more...
Posted: November 13, 2008
New associate director weights in on the need for Baptist Vision
By Devin Maddox
Grace and peace be unto all of the concerned Christians who are willing to stand up for our Lord Jesus Christ. Though we all have moments of weakness, I believe that we can "turn the world upside down" by promoting the truth of the Scriptures and exalting the Lord Jesus Christ. In the next few paragraphs let me explain who I am, the necessity of Baptist Vision of Georgia, and my personal burden for this ministry. Read more...
Blast from the Past Reminder:
Posted: October 23, 2008
Baptist Vision of Georgia is pleased to announce the addition of Mr. Devin Maddox to its team. Devin has been named the associate director for BVG. Read more...
Posted: November 13, 2008
THE DEATH MARCH CONTINUES
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan broke his silence Sunday in a sermon entitled “America’s New Beginning; President-Elect Barack Obama:”
"For nine months, I kept quiet because I saw that the good words that I spoke about this beautiful young man at our Saviours' Day convention and the way they were misused," Farrakhan said of Obama. "I decided it would be better for me to just be quiet rather than be drawn into the controversy that was swirling around his pastor, Father Pfleger, and others."
Radical Socialist Father Michael Pfleger and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Both are associates and friends of Barack Hussein Obama along with Rev. Wright and William Ayers. All of whom are now breaking their silence.
Listen to Father Pfleger break his silence in his heretical sermon "Yes We Can! Now We Must."
“America has been raping people of color and America has to pay the price for the rape!” -Father Michael Pfleger
“I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.” -Father Michael Pfleger
Posted: November 13, 2008
A Grave Mistake and an Abiding Hope
By Fr. Frank Pavone
Americans have made a grave mistake in electing Barack Obama to the presidency. Yet America herself remains great and is not a mistake, which is why so many of her citizens will continue, with even greater energy and determination, to defend her founding principles. Read more...
Coming Soon! Cutting Edge Commentary by Baptist Vision of Georgia
Posted: November 12, 2008
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Can You Hear Me Now? By Devin Maddox
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People Get Ready, Obama is Coming! By James Brown Jr.
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Doth Not Nature Teach You? Part 2 By James Brown Jr.*
*See Part 1 - Doth Not Nature Teach You?
Happening Now! And Obama's Not Even in Office Yet!
Posted: November 12, 2008
Emanuel Describes Mandatory National Security Force in 2006 Audio
In a 2006 New York Daily News podcast interview, Rahm Emanuel takes questions from Ben Smith about an aspect of "the plan," mandatory civil service. Read more...
Posted:
November 12, 2008
Anti-Christs wasting no time
Military atheists want new rules on prayer (outside link)
A coalition of atheists and agnostics wants the new White House to protect young military members from what they see as rampant religious discrimination in the services. Read more...
Posted:
November 12, 2008
BVG couldn't agree more
Georgia congressman warns of Obama dictatorship (outside link)
A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist or fascist dictatorship. Read more...
Posted: November 12, 2008
Obama is coming...
Obama Appoints Fairness Doctrine Backer (outside link)
President-elect Barack Obama has designated former Federal Communications Commissioner Henry Rivera to head the team that will select the next FCC chairman — an Obama move that bodes poorly for conservative talk radio. Read more...
Posted: November 12, 2008
The beginning of the campaign lies
Obama Moving to Halt Oil Drilling (outside link)
Environmentalists on Monday applauded an announcement that U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama would consider curtailing oil and gas drilling in some areas, and expressed hope future energy policy decisions would contain more environmental protections. Read more...
Breaking News: Obama has announced a new
domestic drilling idea
Posted: November 12, 2008
Obama Executive Orders Will Force Abortion, Embryonic Stem Cell Funding (outside link)
Responding to the news, Patrick J. Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition told LifeNews.com that Obama's making taxpayers fund abortion takes away from his claims to want to govern from the center and find common ground on abortion. Read more...
Posted: November 12, 2008
Brown seeks new world order (outside link)
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will call on fellow world leaders to seize the opportunity created by the current worldwide economic crisis to create a "truly global society".
In his annual foreign policy speech to the Lord Mayor of London's Guildhall banquet, Mr Brown will say that the trans-Atlantic relationship between Britain and Europe and the USA can be the driving force behind the creation of a new international order.
"As America stands at its own dawn of hope, so let that hope be fulfilled through a pact with the wider world to lead and shape the 21st century as the century of a truly global society." Read more...
Posted: November 12, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama is being embraced worldwide as a symbol of a new beginning for international relations.
In Some Nations, People Look to Obama as President of the World (outside link)
"This may be the beginning of a new world. It marks the end of old elites and opens the door for new approaches worldwide," an Israeli man in his mid-50s said in Tel Aviv. Read more...
Posted:
November 12, 2008
I wonder why the Communist Party would be so happy?
Communist Party ecstatic over '08 election results (outside link)
Hailing Barack Obama's win as a victory for the "working class," the Communist Party USA is calling on the president-elect to carry out his promises, including his noted commitment to "spread the wealth." Read more...
Posted: November 7th, 2008
Doth Not Nature Teach You? Part 1
Controversies over gender roles and unisex issues have erupted in the strangest place...The GFL was created to give homeschool and Christian high school boys the opportunity to participate in a football sports program. Lack of organization, funds and school size limits opportunities for many of these boys in athletics, especially in football. Read more...
Posted: October 31, 2008
The following is a year-by-year chronology that tracks the relationship between Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.; his father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr.; his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham; his mother's parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham; his mother's second husband, Lolo Soetoro; family friend Frank Marshall Davis — a known communist; Barack's wife, Michelle Robinson Obama; and others connected with the above individuals. Read more...
Posted: October 31, 2008
Obama Compares America to Nazi Germany
Barack Obama tells Chicago Public Radio WBEZ-FM that America looked 'uncomfortably similar' to Germany under 'the doctrines of Nazism.' See the Video...
Posted: October 31, 2008
Persecution or a Great Awakening?
See Missionary Paul Washer's chilling assessment of what is coming on America. This is a short clip of a panel discussion from a Revival Conference in Atlanta in October of 2008. See the Video...
Posted: October 23, 2008
Invitation Letter to Screven County Pastors (PDF)
As you are undoubtedly aware, our nation is in need of revival. Jesus declared that His followers are the salt of the earth and the light of the world (Matthew 5:13-16). Read more...
Posted: October 23, 2008
Baptist Vision of Georgia is pleased to announce the addition of Mr. Devin Maddox to its team. Devin has been named the associate director for BVG. Read more...
Posted: October 21, 2008
Georgia Right To Life Issues a Call to Prayer
Please join us as we gather in prayer, next Tuesday night, October 28 - one week before the election. Read more...
Posted: October 20, 2008
Screven County Prayer Vigil for National Revival PDF Version
Sylvania - On November 3, 2008, Baptist Vision of Georgia will be uniting with participating Screven County churches, and public officials and citizens for a public prayer service. Read more...
Posted: October 17, 2008
Is the U.S.A. on the Verge of Becoming Socialist/Communist?
The Communist Manifesto was published on February 21, 1848. It was written by Karl Marx and is essentially the "sacred book" for all socialists and communists. We have listed the 10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto below and ask our readers to explain to us any real significant difference between these ten planks and the Obama platform? Read more...
Posted: October 11, 2008
A plausible question is starting to be asked about global economic terrorism. See and hear the beginnings of the evidence that could become a theory for the economic meltdown. At this point, all it would take is one tangible piece of evidence to propel this into a theory. See more...
Posted: October 11, 2008
Ron Paul Predicting Economic Collapse
One year ago on the House floor Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) predicted the collapse of the American economy. Although BVG disagrees with Representative Paul on a few issues, we do believe he is one of the few statesmen in Washington D.C., especially on economic philosophy. BVG also admires his constitutional and conservative principles. See the video
Posted: October 11, 2008
The Plan is, there is no Plan other than Government Takeover
The Group of Seven finance ministers and central governors released their plan to save the world from financial collapse yesterday (10-10-08). Read more...
Posted: October 10, 2008
Is this the End or the Beginning?
By James Brown Jr.
Baptist Vision of Georgia (BVG) has been busy preparing to launch a full-scale assault against the gates of hell in 2009. However, it appears we will have to adjust to a completely different environment for 2009. Read more...
Posted: October 10, 2008
On August 5, 2002 the “Born Alive Infant Protection” legislation was signed into law by President Bush. The U.S. Senate voted 98-0 in favor of the bill. However, Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has voted repeatedly to deny the unborn and survivors of abortion their basic rights. As an Illinois Senator, Barack Obama, voted four times against laws that would have given medical care to babies that survived an abortion attempt. Read more...
October 2, 2008
On September 19, 2008 Mr. Jimmy Ondriezek courageously stood alone against the decision of the BOE to acknowledge God. Friday night, Baptist Vision of Georgia is calling on all Screven County Gamecock Fans to let their voice be heard. Read more...
September 24, 2008
September 24th begins THE 40/40 PRAYER VIGIL FOR SPIRITUAL REVIVAL AND NATIONAL RENEWAL. Please unite in prayer for revival lest our nation be destroyed by its enemies from without and within. For more information about the 40/40 Prayer Vigil please click here.
Pray Down the Divine Cloud of God’s Grace!
“God has sent this day, over this great city, a divine cloud of his grace. Now, ye Elijahs, pray it down! To your knees, believers, to your knees. You can bring it down, and only you. ‘For this thing will I be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them.’ ‘Prove me now herewith,’ saith the Lord of hosts, ‘and see if I will not open the windows of heaven, and give you such a blessing that you shall not have room to contain it.’ Will you lose the opportunity, Christians? Will you let men be lost for want of effort? Will you suffer this all-blessed time to roll away unimproved? If so, the Church of one thousand eight hundred and sixty is a craven Church, and is unworthy of its time; and he among you, men and brethren, that has not an earnest heart to-day, if he be a Christian, is a disgrace to his Christianity…Let us meet together as often as we can, and plead at the throne; and each man of you in private be mighty with your God, and in public be diligent in your efforts to bring your fellow-men to Christ.”
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s Sermons Vol. 7: A Revival Sermon [preached in Exeter Hall, Jan. 29, 1860] (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007), pp. 241-2.
September 17, 2008
By James Brown Jr.
This letter to the editor is in response to Screven County High School's ban on the pregame prayer at high school football games. It is a call to stand up and reclaim our nation for Christ. Read more...
August 13, 2008
Most companies in US avoid federal income taxes
(outside link)
Two-thirds of
U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005,
according to a new report from Congress. The study by the Government
Accountability Office, expected to be released Tuesday, said about 68
percent of foreign companies doing business in the U.S. avoided corporate
taxes over the same period.
Read
more... Editor's note: Thought you would be interested to know
where Washington's loyalty was.
August 8, 2008
Robust Christian worldview needed to confront New Atheism, argues new book by Mohler
There is a new atheism afoot in the marketplace of ideas, and it presents a far more potent challenge to the Christian worldview than the atheism of former times, R. Albert Mohler argues in a new book. Read more...
August 8, 2008
Swayback, Brokeback Saddleback
By James Brown Jr.
Some of my good friends think that Rick Warren is a mastermind false prophet. I wish I could give him that much credit. Don’t get me wrong, he is a false prophet, in a weird sort of way. However, you will have to let me explain. Read more...
August 8, 2008
California Legislature Approves Gay Day in Public Schools
Sacramento, California – Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), a leading California organization protecting parents’ rights and children’s innocence, condemns the passage of AB 2567, which will instruct all California public schools to “conduct suitable commemorative exercises” in support of the anti-religious, sexual-anarchy agenda of the late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk. Read more...
August 7, 2008
"Mizpah Declaration" Adopted at Reclaiming Africa for Christ Biblical Worldview Summit
Delegates from as far afield as Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, from all over South Africa, and from France and the USA participating in the Reclaiming Africa for ChristBiblical Worldview Summit at Mizpah near Cape Town, South Africa, adopted The 42 Articles of the Essentials of a Christian Worldview. Read more...
August 7, 2008
Three American Christian and Pro-life Leaders Lead Demonstration in Tiananmen Square on August 6
(video and news story)
Three American
Christian pro-life leaders will lead a demonstration in
August 6, 2008
Going Deeper in the Southern Resurgence
By James Brown Jr.
On October 17-18, 2008, Way of the Masters Ministries will be hosting a Living Waters Conference in Woodstock, Georgia. The conference is going to be held at First Baptist Church of Woodstock, whose pastor is Dr. Johnny Hunt the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Read more...
August 4, 2008
Why your next Pastor should be a Calvinist
By Dr. Tom Nettles
Southern Baptists inherited the most compelling aspects of all the Baptist Calvinists that preceded them. James P. Boyce summarized this well. He encouraged every preacher to get theological education in some way, even if it could not be at the Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina. If no other means were available, he advised, 'work at it yourself.' The fathers of the convention did this, Boyce claimed; 'They familiarized themselves with the Bible, and Gill and Andrew Fuller, and they made good and effective preachers. God is able to raise up others like them.'1 But this is the very difficulty that we face at this moment in Southern Baptist history. God indeed is raising up others like them, that is, like the fathers. Whether self-educated or seminary-educated, Boyce and all his contemporaries viewed a Bible theology that reflected a blend of Gill and Fuller as normal and expected. Churches should have no other kind of pastor. Today, however, some Southern Baptists are warning the churches against them. This is a mammoth historical irony that many find difficult to appreciate. Read more...
July 30, 2008
Washington Times Op-ed—Teens Challenged to do Hard Things
By J. Michael Smith
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “teenager”? For many, it is not positive. Teenage rebellion has become commonplace, and our culture has responded by expecting less and less of teenagers. But is teenage rebellion inevitable, or are there new ways of thinking that could address the problem? Responsibility for teenage rebellion and underperformance must fall primarily at the feet of parents and other adults. This is because our current expectations for teenagers provide very little challenge. Read more...
July 30, 2008
“Rebelution” Founders To Be Freshmen This Fall at Patrick Henry College
Sleepy-eyed young people filled Patrick Henry College’s Town Hall, tired from their week of work and play at Generation Joshua teen camp, but intent on the two figures onstage. Brett and Alex Harris, twin nineteen-year-old brothers and best-selling authors of a new book for teens, Do Hard Things, swapped a microphone back and forth in the characteristic style they have developed in the last year-plus, explaining the premise of what they have termed the “Rebelution,” a “teenage rebellion against low expectations.” Read more...
July 24, 2008
In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel for the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has declared that a policy preventing City Councilman Hashmel Turner from praying at council meetings according to his conscience and religious beliefs does not violate his free speech and free exercise rights. The opinion, which was authored by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, comes in response to the appeal of a lower court ruling dismissing Turner’s First Amendment lawsuit against the City Council of Fredericksburg, Va. Attorneys for The Rutherford Institute had filed suit over the City Council’s efforts to prevent Turner from ending his prayers at council meetings with three small words, “in Jesus Christ’s name.” Hashmel Turner, assisted by The Rutherford Institute, has announced his intention to appeal the Fourth Circuit’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. Read more...
July 19, 2008
Justice Denied To Philadelphia 11
Despite being vindicated of all wrongdoing in criminal court, the Philadelphia 11 lost their federal lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia when an appeals court ruled that their rights were not violated when they were arrested and jailed for attempting to witness and preach the Gospel at a homosexual event in 2004. The suit was filed on behalf of eleven Christians, who became known as the Philadelphia 11, who were cleared of "hate crime" and other felony and misdemeanor charges following their arrests at the City's annual tax-payer funded homosexual event called "OutFest". Read more...
July 18, 2008
Stone Wins Republican Primary in Georgia's 12th District
John Stone has won the Republican nomination for Georgia's 12th Congressional District Seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in a landslide election. Stone won 57% of the vote in a three-candidate race, and 19 of 21 counties in the sprawling district. He will face Democrat incumbent John Barrow in the November 4 General Election. Read more...
July 18, 2008
McDonald Baptist Church Homecoming and Revival Services
On Sunday, July 20, McDonald Baptist Church will hold its annual homecoming service and begin revival meetings Sunday evening going through Thursday. Read more...
July 17, 2008
Voters in Georgia's Fastest Growing Metro-Atlanta County Approve the Human Life Amendment
Georgia voters still showing approval for Human Life Amendment long after the traitorous Republican House Speaker Glenn Richardson killed it. The facts continue to come in, Georgians want abortion overturned. Now is the time to join Baptist Vision of Georgia as we assault the gates of hell! Read more...
July 17, 2008
40 Days for Life Prepares for Largest Pro-Life Mobilization in History
"Cities across America are applying to participate in the fall 2008 nationally coordinated 40 Days for Life campaign – a focused initiative that promises to be the largest and longest coordinated pro-life mobilization in history," said David Bereit, national campaign director of 40 Days for Life. "Abortion claims more than 1.2 million innocent lives in the United States each year," he added, "and in 2008, the stakes for our nation are higher than ever. People of faith and conscience are approaching this challenge with a heightened sense of urgency." Read more...
July 17, 2008
Historic Revival Conferences For Atlanta, Georgia and Greenock, Scotland!
Will God send another great awakening? Can revival still change nations? These are the questions that Greg Gordon, the 29 year old newest member of the Canadian Revival Fellowship group in Regina, Canada asks. Greg is the founder and moderator of www.sermonindex.net, a website dedicated to the preservation and propagation of vintage audio preaching from the former generations, and has offered over 10 million sermon downloads since its inception in December 2002. Since the beginning of this vision there has been a genuine burden to see the sovereign act of authentic revival occur in the Church of Jesus Christ today. It is from this burden that the conviction for a Revival Conference was implanted into this young man's heart. Read more...
July 17, 2008
Vitter to Introduce Concealed Carry Reciprocity
Senator David Vitter (R-LA) is planning to introduce a concealed carry reciprocity bill next week. Senator Vitter had been working closely with Gun Owners of America to draft and file a reciprocity amendment a few weeks ago, but that amendment, unfortunately, never saw the light of day -- thanks to powerful opponents inside the Senate. Read more...
July 15, 2008
Alaska court: Tax exemption for religious school constitutional
ANCHORAGE, Ala. — An Alaska court has ruled that a property tax exemption for religious schools does not violate either the state or federal constitution. ADF-allied attorney Kevin Clarkson represented two churches in the case. Read more...
July 11, 2008
Senator Barack Obama Wants You to Pay for Abortions
SYLVANIA -- Christian group launches new effort in their campaign to educate American voters on the radical and extremist abortion policies of Senator Obama. Read more...
July 11, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Former Alabama Chief
Justice Roy Moore and attorneys with the
Foundation for Moral Law argued in
an amicus curiae brief filed today that
Gideons International's 30-year tradition of distributing Bibles to
fifth-grade students in the
South Iron R-1 School District in Missouri did not violate the First
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. In this case,
Roark v. South Iron R-1 School District,
after the American Civil Liberties Union sued, a Missouri federal district
court
ordered the schools to stop allowing the Gideons to distribute Bibles,
even though any other outside group may distribute material to the students.
The
July 11, 2008
Baptist Vision of Georgia has a new page that will be providing news, updates and resources with information about the movie Fireproof. It is our desire to include information on this site about movies and even music that would assist the Christian in their relationship to Christ and in their service but also in making the Supremacy of Jesus known throughout all nations that He is both Lord and Christ. Baptist Vision encourages the bringing of all areas of life under the dominion of Jesus Christ till even every thought is captive to His will. Read more...
“ Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.” -II Corinthians 10:5-6
June
30, 2008
Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore and the Foundation for Moral Law welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision today in District of Columbia v. Heller, holding that D.C.'s handgun ban violated the individual "right of the people to keep and bear arms" protected by the Second Amendment. As the Foundation urged the Court to do in its amicus curiae brief filed in this case, the Court not only came to the correct conclusion about the Second Amendment but it did so by consulting the words of the Constitution, its history, and the people's common understanding of the amendment when it was adopted in 1791. Read more...
June 30, 2008
Makes
ya proud to be a Southern Baptist!
Assembly proposes amendment to delete G-6.0106b and replace it with a new version
The 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted today (June 27) 380-325 to send a proposed amendment to the denomination’s 173 presbyteries that would delete the current paragraph G-6.0106b in the Book of Order — which requires church officers to live in “fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness”—and replace it with a new G-6.0106b. Read more...
June 30, 2008
NRA Files Second Amendment Cases in Illinois, California
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Second Amendment protects a private right to possess firearms not limited to militia service, the National Rifle Association of America filed five lawsuits challenging local gun bans in San Francisco, and in Chicago and several of its suburbs. Read more...
June 20, 2008
"The Albert Mohler Program" live greeted with enthusiastic turnout at SBC
Fans of the “Albert Mohler Program” had the opportunity to see as well as hear the radio show during the 2008 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Read more...
May 19, 2008
By James Brown Jr.
Saturday was a glorious day for our church, our community and our country. That might sound absurd in these perilous times in which we live. However, we gathered at the McDonald Baptist Church Cemetery to honor 24 Confederate Veteran’s. Read more...
May 13, 2008
Confederate Veteran Memorial Service
Margaret Jones No. 27 United Daughters of the Confederacy of Waynesboro will be sponsoring the service in cooperation with Black Creek Volunteers No. 549 of Screven County and McDonald Baptist Church. Read more...
May 11, 2008
New Documentary Exposes Border Nightmare
Controversial Documentary on Illegal Immigration which Exposes the Dangers of Our Porous Border with Mexico is already benefiting from Nationwide Media Campaign – Hispanic Audiences and Opinion Makers, Political Candidates, College Communities are among Target Audiences
Los Angeles - BORDER filmmaker Chris Burgard’s edgy, in-your-face documentary portrait of illegal immigration and our porous southern border with Mexico is getting the kind of national viral marketing treatment that has propelled previous doc features like Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911 and Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me. The film, itself, is currently in national release through a special website – www.bordermovie.com - where BORDER can be purchased directly from the filmmaker. In the first month of national release, he has sold over 5000 copies. Read More...
Watch the Trailer - Warning: Graphic gestures and language.
May 5, 2008
The Compromise of Greater Gain - Part Two
By James Brown Jr.
By no means do we want anyone to misunderstand our intentions here. Baptist Vision of Georgia is not a headhunting organization seeking to take down the “big dogs.” However, these are serious issues that we as Baptists, as well as the larger part of Christendom, need to consider. Read more...
May 1, 2008
The Compromise of Greater Gain - Part One
By James Brown Jr.
Baptist Vision of Georgia may at times be controversial, how can we not be in the age of political correctness, but we will always be fair. Mrs. Margret Manning of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries has responded to our request to explain why Dr. Zacharias chose to exclude any references to Jesus Christ in his prayer for the National Day of Prayer event in Washington D.C. Read more...
April 25, 2008
Why I will not sign 'A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change'
By David Hankins
Executive Director, Louisiana Baptist Convention
ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP) — Recently a number of conservative Southern Baptist leaders endorsed the document, “A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change,” which asserts: “We believe our current denominational engagement with [climate change] issues has often been too timid, failing to produce a unified moral voice. Our cautious response to these issues in the face of mounting evidence may be seen by the world as uncaring, reckless and ill-informed. We can do better.” Read more...
April 25, 2008
Georgia’s 10th Congressional District advances God's Law by Baptist politician
Congressman Broun Introduces Anti-Pornography Legislation
Washington D.C.- On April 17th, U.S. Congressman Paul C. Broun, M.D. announced the introduction of legislation designed to stem the sale of pornography on military installations. Broun’s legislation, the “Military Honor and Decency Act,” closes a loophole in current law that is allowing the sale of sexually explicit material on American military installations located both within the United States and around the world. Read more...
April 25, 2008
Cowardice by any other name is still cowardice
Will Jesus Also Deny Ravi Zacharias?
By James Brown Jr.
With the announcement of Dr. Ravi Zacharias’ “Christless” prayer, Baptist Vision of Georgia is encouraging all participants in the National Day of Prayer to pray to God the Father through and in the name of Jesus Christ. Read more...
April 25, 2008
Baptist Vision of Georgia unsatisfied with answer
Ministries respond to “Denying Jesus” report
By James Brown Jr.
Baptist Vision has received a response from national leaders concerning the Ravi Zacharias story. Dr. Zacharias has been accused of purposely excluding Jesus Christ from his prayer for a National Day of Prayer event in Washington D.C. Read more...
April 24, 2008
Dr. Ravi Zacharias refuses to pray in Jesus name
Ashamed of Jesus at the National Day of Prayer
The 2008 Honorary Chairman of the National Day of Prayer, Dr. Ravi Zacharias, is refusing to pray in the name of Jesus Christ in his prayer posted on the official NDP website. A receptionist with the National Day of Prayer in Colorado Springs stated that the Honorary Chairman's prayer does not include the name of Jesus so as not to offend the Jewish participants in the event, and that others are free to pray in Jesus name if they desire. Contrast that betrayal of Jesus Christ with the faithfulness of the first martyr, the Apostle Stephen, who died in a hail of stones for his fearless preaching of Christ crucified to the Jewish religious leaders of his day. Read more...
April 7, 2008
Georgia Third Grade Teacher Target of Student Rage
A group of third grade boys and girls have been caught conspiring to do physical harm, if not kill, their teacher at Center Elementary School in Waycross, Georgia. The plot was hatched in retaliation for the scolding of a student for standing on a chair. Read more...
April 7, 2008
AB 2943 would punish parents for lovingly disciplining their children
Assemblywoman Reintroduces Law to Ban Spanking
SACRAMENTO -- Assemblywoman Sally Lieber has introduced a bill that will effectively ban spanking in California. Identical to last year's highly publicized AB 755, this new AB 2943 will make it a crime to spank a child. Read more...
April 7, 2008
McDonald Baptist student inducted into the National Honor Society
On the evening of March 31st, Jakob (Jake) Williams, son of Bobby and Wanda Williams and member of McDonald Baptist Church, was inducted into the National Honor Society. With several hundred in attendance, Jake and 35 other Screven County High School students were accepted into the Gertrude Enneis chapter of the National Honor Society for “outstanding scholarship, character, leadership, and service.” Read more...
April 4, 2008
SBTS students get sneak preview of “Expelled” documentary
Some 200 students at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary got a taste of what life is like in institutions where the notion of a Creator is openly scorned Tuesday during a free preview of Ben Stein’s new movie “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.” Read more...
April 4, 2008
Must see advertising video
CEI Launches National Ad Campaign on the Impact of Al Gore’s Global Warming Policies
The Competitive Enterprise Institute has launched a national advertising campaign, focusing on the threat to affordable energy posed by Al Gore’s global warming agenda. The ads contrast Gore’s energy-consuming lifestyle with the life-and-death need for energy in developing countries. Read more...
March 29, 2008
Charles Barkley, the former NBA star, called conservative Christians “hypocrites” on national TV in a interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN. His accusation is that because Bible-believing Christians judge people by their actions they are hypocrites. But, what is a hypocrite? Read more...
March 28, 2008
It is obvious that Barack Hussein Obama does not follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In a recent speech, Obama told a Greensboro, N.C. audience, “I think it’s very important to think that you do not have to have the same faith as me to be a moral person – there are a lot of Jewish people who are as moral, or more moral than I am, there are a lot of Muslims who are decent kind people…I don’t think they are any less children of God.” Read more...
March 28, 2008
R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Monday received good news from the results of his recent surgery: a tumor removed last week from his colon is not cancerous. Read more...
March 13, 2008
Unmasking the deceptive non-Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change
There are several troubling issues concerning Jonathan Merritt’s A Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change. Every Southern Baptist needs to consider these issues with great care. Read more...
March 13, 2008
ERLC president reacts to ‘Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change’
Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, issued the following statement today regarding the recently released “Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change.” Land answered questions about the ERLC’s lack of support for the declaration explaining that as an official SBC entity, the ERLC follows the consensus of Southern Baptists on public policy matters as determined by the SBC meeting in session each year. Read more...
March 13, 2008
A [not so] Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change
Read the complete text of the document causing all the controversy among Southern Baptists. Baptist Vision may get criticized for "perpetuating" the controversy, however, we believe the only thing which can set us free is the truth. Please remember, we did not create, publish or market this declaration and ministry. We are only responding to what someone else is doing. Also, we believe this is not a good direction for the SBC or America. Therefore, we must engage in this discussion. Our only wish is that Mr. Merritt would have chose to do it in-house at the convention and not in the public sector. Read the Declaration...
March 13, 2008
Southern Baptist Convention President responds to climate change initiative controversy
Some of you are aware of a recent document about biblical stewardship and environmentalism which I, along with other Southern Baptist Convention leaders, signed. Let me share some of the important issues found in this document as well as the intent of this particular signer. I am very thankful to be one of those who signed this document which calls for believers to be involved in responsible environmental care. This document mentions the fact that some of God's people have been too timid in years past about speaking to this issue. Read more...
March 13, 2008
Press Release by the Southern Baptist Environment and Climate Initiative
Prominent and influential Southern Baptist leaders called for a "unified moral voice" on the need for people to care for creation and to take a "position of prudence" in "taking responsibility for human contributions to global climate change" in a declaration signed by 46 leaders and released today. Read more...
Warning: This is not an official Southern Baptist entity.
March 5, 2008
By James Brown Jr.
Due to the articles and statements we have made about Gov. Mike Huckabee’s campaign, it calls upon us to comment about his decision to bow out of the race for the Republican nomination. Read more...
March 3, 2008
By James Brown Jr.
In the midst of nearly impossible odds, Gov. Mike Huckabee has pledged to continue his campaign for the Republican nomination. Citing the impossibility of victory, many conservative leaders (so-called) are urging Huckabee to drop out and pledge his support for McCain. Even today, Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia and Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi endorsed Sen. McCain. Read more...
March 3, 2008
By James Brown Jr.
It appears that social conservatives are in grave danger in 2008. This is nothing to brag about but some of us on the Right have been saying this for some time. The handwriting has been on the wall for some time but conservatives are hard-headed. Read more...
February 21, 2008
Human Life Amendment is Tabled in the House Judiciary Subcommittee
The Human Life Amendment (HR 536) was tabled Wednesday in House Judiciary Subcommittee One despite our intense pressure to get the measure to a vote. Read more...
February 21, 2008
Top Ten Pro-Homosexual Sponsors on Television
Procter & Gamble is the top pro-homosexual sponsor on network television. That is the result of a 12-week monitoring project by American Family Association. Other companies listed in the top ten pro-homosexual sponsors include Verizon, Target, Ford Motor Company, Sears, and Macy's. Read more...
February 21, 2008
The 10 Biggest Differences Between Christian Schools and Public Schools
A side-by-side comparison of Christian and public schools was written by Jonathan Ekeland, Director of Admissions of The Christian Academy and Mr. Robert Walton, the academic dean of The Christian Academy High School. Read more...
February 21, 2008
Montana, the Second Amendment and D.C. v. Heller
The United States Supreme Court is considering the case of D.C. v. Heller, the first case in 70 years in which the Court will squarely addressed the meaning of the Second Amendment. A core question is whether the Second Amendment secures an individual right to keep and bear arms, or if it merely protects a right for the states to arm their National Guards, known as the "collective rights" theory. Read more...
February 21, 2008
Wheaton College Invites Leftist, Pro-Homosexual Evangelical Jim Wallis to Speak
By Peter LaBarbera
With polls showing more evangelicals — especially younger evangelicals — warming to the idea of voting Democratic (despite the party’s rigid pro-abortion-on-demand and pro-homosexuality agendas), we found this item of interest: this coming Tuesday, Wheaton College will be hostng liberal evangelical advocate Jim Wallis as a featured speaker at the college’s Center for Applied Christian Ethics (CACE). Read more...
February 14, 2008
Mohler to undergo additional surgery
R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, will require additional surgery after a scheduled colonoscopy on February 11 revealed a tumor in his colon. An initial biopsy indicated that the tumor is pre-cancerous and further tests are to be scheduled, along with surgical options. Read more...
February 7, 2008
I have entitled this blog “Southern Resurgence” for several reasons; personal, congregational, and denominational. Therefore, we shall consider the question in three parts. Read more...
February 1, 2008
Culture Shift: New book by SBTS president encourages Christians to engage culture biblically
In his new book “Culture Shift: Engaging Current Issues With Timeless Truth,” R. Albert Mohler Jr. compares Christians in America to Aristotle’s fish: they spend all of their time in water, but do not know that they are wet. Read more...
January 31, 2008
Transforming Culture: Christian Truth Confronts Post-Christian America
By Albert Mohler Jr.
Peggy Noonan is right. At some point, in some moment, all of us must admit that something remarkable has happened to American culture. Mrs Noonan, a former presidential speechwriter, recalls that this moment came for her during a high school graduation in the early 1970s. A young girl walked across the stage to received her diploma. The girl was obviously pregnant. Noonan recalls that her first impulse was admiration for the girl's grit and determination against social disapproval. "But," recognized Noonan, "society wasn't disapproving. It was applauding." As she reflected, "Applause is a right and generous response for a young girl with grit and heart. And yet, in the sound of that applause I heard a wall falling, a thousand-year wall, a wall of sanctions that said: We as a society do not approve of teenaged unwed motherhood because it is not good for the child, not good for the mother, not good for us." Read more...
January 19, 2008
BVG announces new name, new design
Baptist Vision has announced that it will now be know as Baptist Vision of Georgia (BVG). Although maintaining a national view, its focus will be Georgia. The purpose is to adopt the Biblical principle of kingdom work where it begins locally and builds to expand from there. Read more...