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My heart overflows with praise to the Lord. He has given me a new day to serve Him. He is the source of my strength and ability. He alone is worthy of all my praise…

Life can be discouraging sometimes. Especially when I focus upon myself. I need a clearer view of God (Isa 6:1) to see that He is in control and all I need to do is trust His appointments in life.

We started the second semester of the Bible institute on Monday. We have an excellent group of young people. Four students did not return and five new students joined us. This week we had an extended evangelist class. At the end of the week the students went into nearby villages and applied what they had learned in practical soul winning. We praise the Lord that seven individuals made professions of faith as a result! Considering that door-to-door visiting is very abnormal here, this is a great result. We pray that these souls will come to the church and grow in the Lord. Next week we start the trade school with classes in computers and auto mechanics. I was able to buy five computers with the funds given, but this is only half of what we need. I need to spend $2,000 on tools for the auto mechanics class. I hope we can get by on buying half now and the rest next semester.

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Audio Sermon: Godly Music, Part 2, Jeff Griffith

Victory Baptist Church

 

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Audio Sermon: Godly Music, Part 1, Jeff Griffith

Victory Baptist Church

 

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“All scripture is given by inspiration of God.”¹

Copied:  During my years of teaching at Pillsbury Baptist Bible College (1978-1985), I was asked to teach several courses in the area of counseling.  I had never had a counseling course in college or seminary.  Where would I begin?  What resources were available to help construct meaningful courses in various aspects of counseling?  I had come out of seminary convinced of the doctrine of the sole authority of Scripture.  I knew that without such an authority, nothing was worth preaching.  I spent the first ten years of my ministry anchored to this important truth.  There was no doubt in my mind but that the Bible had all the answers for life and living.

Nevertheless, as I planned my courses, I began to question the degree to which the Bible actually spoke to this issue.  Distracted by the cacophony of voices coming from the psychological world, I found myself being drawn toward some of the more popular psychological systems— especially that of Maslow.  It seemed to me that there was at least some validity to what he and other secular psychologists were saying.  Given my earlier commitments, why was I so easily convinced that another resource would give better answers than the Bible?  Why have so many other pastors and theologians been so easily persuaded that the perspectives of psychology actually give true answers to the difficult questions of the soul of man?

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1. 2 Tim 3:16 [↩]