This post was written by Derek Duvall the FBC Middle School Pastor.
 
I love technology. Actually before I came to Bible College in Tennessee, I went to a school in Indiana for Electrical Engineering Technology, with the hopes of one day becoming the guy you might see on the Today Show on NBC, showing all of [...]

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As we approach what is suppose to be a “major snow event” in the Tennessee Valley, the anticipation is so thick you can feel it. It is the subject of discussion around work places and on the news. Schools and businesses are already closing before the first flake falls. And, the milk and bread isles of the grocery [...]

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Last summer, I tackled a home improvement project that nearly got the best of me. I knew the eight-feet tall privacy fence in my back yard was in pretty bad shape when Sherron and I moved into our current home a couple of years earlier. After making a few repairs along the way, I began [...]

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Last week, I and 27 others from FBC-Powell went to New York City to work with the New York School of Urban Ministry during the Thanksgiving Holiday. The ministry opportunities presented to us were amazingly diverse. Our two teams ministered to the homeless by volunteering in shelters and soup kitchens and through street ministry at [...]

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In my estimation, the weakest area of spiritual nurture in the Christian home is parents that neglect their responsibility to teach and explain the Bible to their children (Eph. 6:4; Deut. 6:6-7). There are a few parents I am aware of who make a daily habit of reading the Bible to their children. There are [...]

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Someone asked me recently if I thought parenting was getting more and more difficult. Without hesitation my answer was “YES!” Though there are several reasons I believe this, my primary concern stems from the bombardment of media choices presented to families today. On a 24/7 basis, visual images and life messages stream into Christian homes [...]

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I am really excited about several aspects of the new direction our church is taking with family ministry. Close to the top of the list is the fact that we are making a concerted effort to provide more opportunities for families to serve on mission trips together. I have had the privilege of going on [...]

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The great pastor and theologian of the 18th century, Jonathan Edwards, once said in regard to family life:
“Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by His rules. And family education and order are some of the chief means of grace. If these [...]

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Last week I began a phrase by phrase examination of a quote by Jonathan Edwards concerning the Christian family. This week I want to look at the second phrase in the paragraph.
“Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church, consecrated to Christ, and wholly influenced and governed by His rules. And [...]

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