Join me in praying today for the United States as we go to the polls.  

Join Jonathan in this episode for a few references to some Baptist history during the American Revolution of the 1770's and 1780's and some great advice from an older pastor to younger ministers.  

Making Disciples.  What we must do as a church to make disciples.  

Join Jonathan as he share the strange, but ultimately, successful entry of the 2nd Baptist Church of New York into the Association.  Jonathan also will share a letter to the associational churches written in 1778 that could have just as easily have been written last week.  

Join Jonathan for this episode looking back on Sunday's sermon from John 8:31-36.  

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Jonathan gives you a few fun stories from Baptist history today.  The Philadelphia Baptist Association was the first baptist association in the United States.  The full documents of their first 100 years annual meeting minutes can be accessed here.

https://archive.org/details/minutesofphilade00phil/mode/2up

We're wrapping up our series on Biblical Interpretation as we examine OT Wisdom, Psalms, Acts and Revelation.  Angry comments about my instructions on how to interpret Revelation can be sent to [email protected]. Hope you have enjoyed this series.  

Join Minister of Discipleship and Administration Jonathan Raffini as he talks about reading the New Testament letters.

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Book Suggestions

Zondervan's Compact Bible Dictionary

Nelson's Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Encountering the New Testament

Life Application Bible Commentary

Holman Bible Commentary

Join in for this episode as we look back at Pastor Mark's sermon from September 20th.  We will review the things that light can do and spend some time in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 on 5 truths of Scripture.   

Love to hear your comments.  Also send us suggestions for other genres of Scripture or books of the Bible you want us to talk about in our series on Biblical Interpretation.  Email Jonathan at 

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