Featured Person – Rev. Stephen Stetler
TBM: Brother, Please describe your conversion to Christianity. Stetler: Well I began attending church nine months before I was born, but the first real influence toward conversion happened when I was six years old. I sought the Lord as a child and in that...
Importance of Mentoring
Description of Mentoring: Mentor : a trusted counselor or guide. P.W. Keve, a pioneer in the field of criminal justice wrote, “a mentor [is a person] who, because he is detached and disinterested, can hold up a mirror to us.” Historically Christianity has known the...
Mentoring: What Does It Look Like?
If you’ve ever googled the word mentor, you may have stumbled across an obscure fellow from Greek mythology who went by that name. The story goes that Mentor was the trusted friend of Odysseus, a powerful king. Odysseus committed to Mentor the responsibility of...
Ministry Mentor: What Do I Do Now?
Nathan Gumbiner 23 Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “This is what applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall enter to perform service in the work of the tent of meeting. 25 But at the age of fifty years they shall retire from...
Mentoring
by Timothy L. Cooley, Sr. Elijah was a loner! He was a great man of God, but he liked to be alone. He needed people, but he preferred to be alone! When he was discouraged, he ran off ALONE, slid under a juniper bush, and prayed to die! ALONE! Not even God could talk...
True Holiness, That Won Me
Pastor Tom Watkins - Pastoring the Bible Methodist Church, Manchester Tennessee My mind calls up images of my Middle Tennessee Holiness Church of the 1950’s. I’ll start with the building. It was a makeshift church, that turned an old beer joint...
Pentecost and Sanctification
Dr. Bill Ury It was in a country church in central Kentucky forty years ago that I remember truly hearing the fullness of the Gospel. What my parents had taught me through word and deed became crystal clear. I began to comprehend the fullness of God’s...
Holiness
Holiness G. Clair Sams The Biblical motifs that emphasis holiness are designed by the Lord to show the breadth and depth of His desire to engage in the spiritual transformation of those who respond to the Gospel. If you will,...
Did You Pass By the Altar?
Did You Pass By the Altar? Philip DeLemarter After the fifth or sixth day of reading the 46th chapter of Ezekiel, I opened the Bible once again in an attempt to write a devotional based on that chapter. Seemingly, I was getting nowhere. Like previous mornings, my...
Prayer Guide 2019
Asia Highlands Missionaries • Paul & Esther T., Menita, Isaiah, Yashua Mexico Bible Methodist Church Mexico Missionaries • Brennan & Ivon Muir, Brennan, Jared David Martinez Mexico Bible Methodist Church Pastors • Santiago & Edith Hernandez,...