Service Video - Dec. 27, 2009 - New Year's Resolutions for our Church #1 - "I Will Grow"

Resolutions for a New Year: #1 "I Will Grow" from Bruner's Chapel Baptist Church on Vimeo.

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Elders in the Bible: Notes from Discussion #2

Our meeting on Wednesday night, December 30, covered a lot of ground on the topic of Elders. Below are the notes from that meeting, along with some helpful articles and links from other SBC churches on this topic:

Elders in the Bible
Notes from our Discussion (In Word format)

FAQ's about Elders
PDF file from a SBC church in Oklahoma that has incorporated elders.

Check out the following links for more information:
The Elder's Information page at Henderson Hills Baptist Church (SBC)

Info on elders from The Point Community Church (SBC)in Frankfort, KY.

Mark Dever's Elder information from his 9 Marks ministry.

Deep Questions for a New Year

We have been going through a new series on “Resolutions for a New Year.” I provided some questions for you to think through as you seek to grow in Christ for the next year. Since the beginning of a new year is an ideal time to stop, look up, and get our bearings, here are some questions to ask prayerfully in the presence of God. (Note - these questions come from Donald Whitney, professor at Southern Seminary)

1. What's one thing you could do this year to increase your enjoyment of God?

2. What's the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?

3. What's the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year?

4. In which spiritual discipline do you most want to make progress this year, and what will you do about it?

5. What is the single biggest time-waster in your life, and what will you do about it this year?

6. What is the most helpful new way you could strengthen your church?

7. For whose salvation will you pray most fervently this year?

8. What's the most important way you will, by God's grace, try to make this year different from last year?

9. What one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?

10. What single thing that you plan to do this year will matter most in ten years? In eternity?

In addition to these ten questions, here are twenty-one more to help you "Consider your ways." Think on the entire list at one sitting, or answer one question each day for a month.

11. What's the most important decision you need to make this year?

12. What area of your life most needs simplifying, and what's one way you could simplify in that area?

13. What's the most important need you feel burdened to meet this year?

14. What habit would you most like to establish this year?

15. Who do you most want to encourage this year?

16. What is your most important financial goal this year, and what is the most important step you can take toward achieving it?

17. What's the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your work life this year?

18. What's one new way you could be a blessing to your pastor (or to another who ministers to you) this year?

19. What's one thing you could do this year to enrich the spiritual legacy you will leave to your children and grandchildren?

20. What book, in addition to the Bible, do you most want to read this year?

21. What one thing do you most regret about last year, and what will you do about it this year?

22. What single blessing from God do you want to seek most earnestly this year?

23. In what area of your life do you most need growth, and what will you do about it this year?

24. What's the most important trip you want to take this year?

25. What skill do you most want to learn or improve this year?

26. To what need or ministry will you try to give an unprecedented amount this year?

27. What's the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your commute this year?

28. What one biblical doctrine do you most want to understand better this year, and what will you do about it?

29. If those who know you best gave you one piece of advice, what would they say? Would they be right? What will you do about it?

30. What's the most important new item you want to buy this year?

31. In what area of your life do you most need change, and what will you do about it this year?

(Copyright © 2003 Donald S. Whitney.)

Here are the 10 questions from the notes on Sunday Morning -

10 Questions to Assess my Growth as a Christian:
1. Am I thirstier for God than ever before?
2. Am I more and more loving?
3. Am I more sensitive to and aware of God than ever before?
4. Am I governed more and more by God's Word?
5. Am I concerned more and more with the physical and spiritual needs of others?
6. Am I more and more concerned with the Church and the Kingdom of God?
7. Are the disciplines of the Christian life more and more important to me (prayer, tithing, witnessing, reading the Bible)?
8. Am I more and more aware of your sin?
9. Am I more and more willing to forgive others?
10. Am I thinking more and more of heaven and of being with the Lord Jesus?

I want to encourage you to prayerfully answer the above questions, and to resolve to have 2010 be a year of great spiritual growth in your life!

Study through the entire bible book-by-book begins this Sunday Night. Be there! Let’s grow together!

May God bless our growth!

- Bro. Dave

Joel Osteen and Propserity Gospel Videos - Acts of the Apostates Series

Our Sunday Evening series through the book of Jude has looked into the current Prosperity Gospel heresy. This heresy teaches that Jesus did not die only to forgive our sins, but to make us all rich. We also looked at Joel Osteen's version of the Gospel, where Jesus did not die for our sins but to make us victorious. It may sound good, but it is lacking in one key element of the Gospel - that we are sinners and that Jesus is our Savior.

Prosperity Gospel Videos:




Click here for an eye-opening report on the prosperity gospel in Africa.

Joel Osteen Videos:



Osteen's Gospel Presentation:




A great critique of Osteen's version of the Gospel can be heard from Todd Friel's recent radio program:



William Lodbell is a journalist who has followed the ministries of many of the individuals in the Prosperity Gospel Movement:


Check out John MacArthur's recent discussion for more information.

What are your thoughts? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below.

Bible Reading Plans for a New Year

Here are the two Bible Reading Plans for Bruner's Chapel Baptist Church for the New year. Feel free to download them, print them off, and place them in your Bible.

Through the Bible Plan
In Microsoft Word Format.

Book at a Time Plan (From Discipleship Journal)
In PDF Format. Will require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open.

Other Plans that may be of interest

Chronological Plan
In PDF Format. Will require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open.

New Testament and Old Testament Plan
In PDF Format. Will require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open.

(New!) Topical Bible Plan (Read a different topic each day through the Bible)
In PDF Format. Will require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open.

For more plans check out the following links from:
www.bibleplan.org
www.zondervan.com
www.esv.org

Church News Update

Lottie Moon Update

I am excited to report that we have shattered our goal of $10,000 by bringing in a record total of more than $11,240! Praise God for helping us to exceed our goal! With every penny of this offering going to support our missionaries, I am proud of the way our church rose to meet the challenge. Please know that there is still time to give if you have not done so.

Walk Through the Bible

On Sunday Nights beginning in January, we will be walking book-by-book through the entire Bible. Beginning in Genesis, this series will focus on a new book each week and look at the major themes and purposes of the book. I guarantee that you will learn a lot about each book, and as a result your literacy in the Bible and desire to read it completely will increase. I have already learned a lot and have been excited in my preparation for these evenings, and I cannot wait to see what God is going to teach us! I want to challenge you to commit to coming on these evenings so that we can grow together in our understanding of God's Word.

"Focus on the Church" Radio Program

Bruner's Chapel Baptist Church was chosen as the featured church for a new radio program called "Focus on the Church" that will air on Lexington's WJMM, FM 99.1 and WCGW, AM 770. This program looks at area churches and learns about their pastors and ministries. Air times are as follows: Weekend of January 2-3; On WJMM 99.1 Sat.6:30am, 2pm, & Sun 7am. On WCGW 770am, 9am). The AM station reaches the cities of Cincinnati, OH, Louisville, KY, Lexington, KY and of course, Harrodsburg, KY. Pray that God would use these radio programs to help invite people from our area to our church.

New Year's Resolutions

This upcoming Sunday, I will begin a new four-week series on New Year's Resolutions for our church. I will be challenging us to make some commitments as a church for 2010. I want to ask for your prayers for me as I prepare these messages.

Lord's Supper Service

We will be observing the Lord's Supper on Sunday Morning, January 3, during our 11AM service.

Updated/Upgraded Website

A lot of work has gone into our church website making it more user friendly and helpful for visitors. Everyone can access videos, audio sermons, photos, and read church news on our church blog. Check it out by going to www.brunerschapel.com.

Have a wonderful Christmas!

- Bro. Dave