Sunday April 19th

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Hello faithful members of BBT.  I hope you were not stressed out this week with the filing of your Income Tax.  I hope you all are getting money back.  Sometimes it pays not to be rich!  I know my tax bracket has seemed to spring a leak and I need a bucket instead of a bracket.  Regardless of our finances this is a very tough time for this Nation and everyone seems to be seeing ” Red”.  Unfortunately we as Christian’s are not excluded from this turbulent time.  There is a new phrase going around now that I just heard about it is called I.C.S..  This is Irritable Christian Syndrome.  Why is we as Christian’s seem to have less tolerance and more irritable than anyone else?  There was actually a study done on this and I have a list of several reasons why this may be.  What do you think?  Is this a problem and if so what is causing it?  We are going to be talking about this Sunday, be prepared to give me your thoughts.  The Bible verse this week is very simple.  1 John 1:5.

I hoped you enjoyed the Easter service last week and I know we were  all insired by the message from pastor Larry Thacker and the testimony form Larry Jr.  I am looking forward to Pastor Larry Sr. coming back and visting again. I also enjoyed the dinner afterwards and judging from the amount of the little food left over you did too.  We owe thanks to everyone who helped bring the food and all those who helped serve it.

Be sure and go to the prayer room and remember those needing our prayers and we don’t want to just pray and forget but to keep thanking God for answering our prayers.  I hope to see you in Church on Sunday and even though the times are tough we can be the ones to bring the light to all the dark places in people’s lives.  You can start by doing something Good for the people you meet this week and we will see you on Sunday.  We love you!

Pastor David & Priscilla

Sunday April 12 Easter Sunday

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Hello Faithful Members of BBT.  What a great week we had last week.  It started off with a great Picnic on Saturday that everyone seemed to have a great time with and I know it is something we can do more often.  We owe a big thanks to all those that helped get this done because it did take a lot of work to make that happen.  On Sunday we enjoyed the Music of the Senior Moments and we heard Mike share his testimony with us.  This was a great buildup for this week.

This Sunday we are celebrating the most significant week of the Year.  I hope you did take time to remember this week what Christ did for you by sacrificing himself on a cross meant for us.  I am excited to hear the message of Pastor Larry Thacker Sr. this week as he travels into town to share his message with us.  I also asked Larry Jr. to share his testimony with us and he said he would love to give this gift to his dad.  What a great Easter spirit!  After the service on Sunday we are going to have dinner in the fellowship hall afterwards so please invite someone to come celebrate this special special service with us.

Remember to continue to be praying for the ones we have mentioned in our prayer request and remember to keep praying for our building project.  We are still aiming for a compleation date of September 1st.  Keep doing good things for people because we are truly blessed and highly favored!  We love you !

Pastor David & Priscilla

Message for Sunday April 5th

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Greetings fellow BBT members and friends.  I hope you are having a terrific week and I pray that you are counting your blessings this week.  I really enjoyed  the worship service on Sunday. Larry inspired us with his message and it was nice hearing the testimony of Cindy.  It was also nice to have Arvella back to teach Sunday School.  It was wonderful to meet La Trice who was visiting with us and it was good to see Alan back after being gone for quite a while.  Also it was good to see Lupe back and we are praying she will not need any surgery.  What great news Glen shared with us that he had found Christ this week!! How exciting is that.

Ruth found out that a grandaughter of Cathy and Bennie’s who lives in North Dakota was going in to have surgery this week and she is just 8 years old. She and her family need our prayers.  Her name is Desiree and she has pancreastis.  Remember to go to Prayer room every week and pray for those we have mentioned who need our prayers

This Sunday is what we call Passion Sunday and passion is truly what Christ has for us.  The scripture for this week will be Mark 11: 1-11 and we are going to look at ” When the cheering stopped “.  What a turn around in 1 week when Jesus rode into town with shouts of Hosanna to being Crucified on the cross.  What happened? Take the time to read the whole story start reading in Mark Chapter11 and read to the end in Chapter 16. We will talk about that on Sunday and look to see if the same thing is happening today.

Don’t forget the Picnic on Saturday.  We are going to have a great time and lots of good food so I hope all of you will be able to make it.  On Sunday Chuck Cagle and the Senior Moments will be there to sing their Easter program and Mike is going to give his testimony.  I hope all of you will make plans to be there.  As you go through this week remember the week that Christ has on the week leading up to Easter Sunday.  You will surly be able to count your blessing and you will see what a Great God we serve.  Do something good for somebody this week and be part of the movement of Christ that is about to sweep over this Nation.  We truly love you

Pastor David & Priscilla

Message text for Sunday, March 29

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Thanks as always to Pastor David for allowing me the privilege of speaking to you this Sunday.  Here are some questions to ponder.  Do you think you are blessed?  If you know you are blessed, why do you think that is?  Could God have a greater purpose for what He has given you?  read Genesis 12:1-3.  I look forward to seeing you on Sunday.  We’ll talk about it.

Sunday March 22nd 2009

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Hello faithful members of BBT!  This has been a great month and it is only half over.  Love it when a month has 5 Sundays.  Last week I really enjoyed spending Sunday with you.  I loved the fact we had a couple of visitors with us and I really enjoyed the Sunday School class and the testimony from Sarah.  I was touched how God kept leading her back to us and what 2 beautiful girls her and Chuck have! I hope you enjoyed the birthday and anniversary party as well.

This week Summitt church will be back with us and I am anxious to see what God has for us.  What a special group of people this group is.  God is blessing them in their ministry and every time I talk to Joel I hear about the miracles they are seeing every week.  God is really using them to get his word out to this lost and dying world, and we can be a small part of that just by the short time we get to worship with them.  Be there Sunday and bring your Bibles and pen and paper to take notes.

Continue to be praying for those on our prayer list as we have many who really need our prayers right now. You can be reminded of those who need our prayers by going to Prayer room and reading the request.  Also if you want to hear the Sunday School lesson, Testimony or the message last week you can do so by going to this website and clicking on audio from last week.  I really appreciate how Larry has been able to do this for us and Linda for posting the prayer request each week.  I am expecting all of us to be doing great things as we have a great God. Keep doing what you are doing. invite people to come with you on Sunday, keep praying and reading your bible, keep putting your faith into action and do something good for somebody because people are looking to us to set the example.  We love you more than you know.

Pastor David and Priscilla

Sunday march 15th

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Greetings faithful members of BBT I hope you are doing well and I hope you feel blessed.  I certainly do!  I enjoyed last week’s service and I appreciate Linda for providing the Sunday School lesson and Kim for sharing her testimony. I get inspired every week when I hear how God has blessed you and I hope you are sharing that with your family and friends.  My hope is that others can look at us and see the Joy and Peace and Passion that is in our lives because we have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

This week Sarah is going to share her testimony with us.  We need to be praying for her as she has really been suffering from a previous incision that has become infected and will not seem to heal.  She will be going to the doctor on Thursday for day surgery on this so keep her in your prayers this week.  My sermon this week is called when Christians disappoint and the scripture is Acts 5:1-11.  This can be a very disturbing scripture but we need to see how we disappoint each other and how we disappoint God and we can also see that when we are doing something in the name of God that is not honest or we are trying to show others how great we are, we are not just lying to them according to this scripture we are lying to God. There is a heavy price to pay for that.  I know all of us have been disappointed in someone before and that someone may have even been someone who you had placed your faith in as a good upstanding Christian, but as you all know you don’t need me to tell you this, but when we put our faith in a human being we are going to be disappointed but if we have our faith where it belongs we will not be disappointed and we will not be let down.  Although we don’t want to put too much faith in our brothers and sisters we do need to be able to forgive others when they do disappoint us.  I think one of the most powerful and healing things we can do is to help heal broken relationships.  We are instructed in scripture to go to that person that has either offended us or may have been offended by us and make things right.  We don’t wait for them to come to us we go to them!!  I hope you will be praying about how we can stop being a disappointment to others but how we can lead others to the saving grace that God has for each and every one that will receive it.

Keep praying for those listed in our prayer request and if you need me to get a special prayer request out during the week call me and we will call and get other people praying for it as well.  This month is already half over and next month we will have several special things in April.  We have got the Picnic scheduled on April 4Th Chuck Kagel and his group will be there April 5Th and Easter is the 12Th.  Don’t forget about celebrating the anniversary’s and birthdays this week and Summit church will be here the 22ND and Larry will be preaching on the 29Th.  We are making advances towards the renovations on the church and our goal is by September 1st to be finished but  we will need your prayers to make sure we get this done right and we can afford to do all the things that need to be done.  Have a great week and I will see you on Sunday remember you are truly blessed and greatly favored.  do something good for somebody this week and I will see you on Sunday.  We love you

Pastor David & Pris

Sunday March 8 2009

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Hello faithful BBT members,  I hope you are having a great week and that you are recognizing the blessings God has provided for you.

I loved getting the chance to share my testimony with you last week and I feel like I have been blessed this week by getting to share with others this week what out church is all about.  We met with 2 Architects this week about our renovations on the church and we got to share with them what we are all about.  I hope you tell everyone you meet about us and continue to invite everyone to come and visit with us on Sundays.

This week Kim is going to give her testimony and no doubt will tell what great parents she has!  No, Kim is a young lady that has seen some heartache but she knows that there is more trials still ahead of her but she has really learn to trust God to lead her and I know she will continue to grow in the Lord as we all will if we can just learn to trust our faith.  Linda is going to teach the Sunday School this week and she is going to be talking about “finishing what we start “.  I didn’t use to finish sentences, but now I.  This weeks sermon is Titled ” The worlds worst bargin ”  The scripture for this week is Mark 8: 31-38.  Here Jesus is telling the disciples for the first time what is ahead of them and they can not accept it.  Would you like to know what Tomorrow holds?  If we did many people would be more grateful for today but in reality we would be scarred to death to know what lies ahead.  What we do have to do is make good decisions today so we can face tommorrow with out regrets and fear, but we can anticipate the blessing God has for us.  What are we selling our souls for?  The answer is what is it that we give our attention, our love, our loyalty to.  Hopefully we can say we have asked Christ to come into our lives and we have allowed him to take control of our souls.

I am looking forward to seeing all of you on Sunday and looking forward to meeting any quest that you may bring.  Do something good for somebody this week because that is what separates us from everybody else.

Love you

Pastor David

Sunday March 1, 2009

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I hope this message finds all of our BBT members feeling truly blessed & highly favored!  You are whether you feel it or not.  We had a great time last week and I appreciate Linda sharing with us her dream for Bartimaeus.  Lets all grab hold of this dream and work very hard to reach the ones that need our help.  I also appreciate Brenda Potts sharing her testimony with us.  My how I love to hear people say this is where God wants me.  I truly believe that is the absolute truth.  I also want to think The Potts girls Sarah and Becky for the lovely shower for baby Cheyenne.  I know Sarah and Chuck loved it!

Baby Cheyenne got to come home form the hospital on Tuesday and Mike & Cindy are helping take care of her.  Mike and Cindy have been a great help to Chuck and Sarah over the past few weeks and we need to tell them how much we appreciate what they are doing.

I can not believe we have already hit March but the older I get the quicker time goes by.  I hope we can take time to enjoy life and not just walk through it.  It is the only life you will have here on Earth so make the most of it.  As I was watching the Oscars Sunday night I saw what a value we put on winners.  We are such a competitive society that we only seem to care about the ones who come in first, as I have said many times second place is just first loser.  In our scripture this week we will look at another contest that is between to very good men Joseph and Matthias.  The scripture is Acts 1: 15-26.  These two men are the final two to replace the fallen disciple Judas.  We will look at what we expect from life and is winning the most important thing in life?  What do we value and what do we strive to be?  I know what the world says but does what does the Bible say?  We will look at this closely this Sunday.  I hope you will be able to be in Church on Sunday and I hope you will invite someone to join you there.

Lets start the month off right by praying together sharing together.  Lets be there for each other and continue to support this ministry.  I hope you have remembered to pray for our prayer request everyday at 10:00 this week.  I am anxious to see what God has done for you and your family because of the prayers of his People.  Do something good for somebody this week and receive the blessing God has for you, I will see you on Sunday.  We love you

Pastor David

Sunday February 22 2009

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Hello faithful BBT members!  I really appreciate your prayers this week.  This is Wendsday  and it is my first day out of bed since Saturday.  I really missed church last week but I heard Summitt Church really ministered to the body.  I  know I felt your prayers.  Hopefully I will be completely over this by Sunday.

This week Linda is going to  present her new program that we are involved in during the Sunday School time,  Brenda will be giving her testimony and I am going to finish up on the first chapter of Mark.  The scripture this week is Mark 1: 40-45.  Jesus wants to show us something on how to treat others in the way he treated this man also he wants to teach us how we need to depend on him for the things in life that mean something.  I know many of you have felt at times that you been treated differently or unfairly, I think we all felt that way at some time or another.  God has a plan to stop this and you are part of that plan.  Make yourself available.

After the services we will be having a shower for baby Cheyenne.  We will have some quest Sunday so lets make them welcome.  The prayers from last Sunday are not listed in the prayer room but ask God to bless and heal those that were mentioned.  If you have not given Cindy your information for the directory, please do so as she has worked hard on getting all this information together and has it assembled for us to print out.  I hope to see you on Sunday because I really missed you.  Do something good for somebody today and ask God to bless our ministry.

Love you

Pastor David

Sunday February 15th 2009

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Hello faithful BBT members.  I really enjoyed the service last week and I want to thank Richard and Preston for sharing their testimonies with us last week.  I hope you are thinking about when you would like to share because so far no one is volentering.  That’s OK I don’t mind asking!

If you have not noticed, Larry has been able to record our service and you can go on our website and listen to the testimonies from last week, and if you have a hard time sleeping at night you can listen to my sermon again.  The way I can put John to sleep I ought to be anesthesiologist.  You may not want to go and listen to service if you are able to be there but if you have to miss a service you can go back and listen to it later.  My we are big time, next thing you know we will be broadcasting on TV.

Remember Summitt Church is going to be here this Sunday.  Expect to be blessed and I hope you come Bible in hand and paper and pen to take notes.  I don’t know what Joel is preaching on but I am sure you will be encouraged and blessed when you leave.  Larry and Linda will be traveling to Arkansas this weekend so we are praying they have a great trip and a safe return.  We will miss them on Sunday

On the last week of the month we are going to hear Linda share with us about her new program called Mission Accessible.  She is very excited about what God is doing in her life and ours.  After the service we will have a Baby Shower for Sarah and Chuck and little Cheyenne.  Last week Don and Brenda had to leave early as they took Sarah and Chuck to the hospital with Cheyenne.  She is doing fine and we want to continue to keep them in our prayers.  We will also celebrate the Birthdays and Anniversary that week.

Keep praying for the renovations on the church as I grow impatient God has this all under control, lets trust him to do his part as we do our part.  Ruth is back and the food bank will be open.  She had a great time and has some photos to show us of her trip.  I look forward to seeing you on Sunday and keep praying for those that need our help because God is blessing us every day.  Do something good for somebody this week and remember to confess who you are because you are blessed and truly favored.  We love you

Pastor David