What Makes A Woman Beautiful
“... even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.” ―1 Peter 3:4
Recently a proud mother was showing my wife and I some graduation pictures of her lovely daughter. She was saying photographer didn’t need to use make-up on her daughter for the photo-shoot. I mentioned that inner beauty doesn’t need make-up.
Perhaps you are a lady who struggles with the way you look? Let me assure you that beauty is NOT found at a cosmetics counter, on a dress rack, or in a Botox injection. Those things are corruptible, and what’s in Vogue today is out of fashion twelve months from now. The only thing that will make you more beautiful, day after day and year after year, is what you nurture within yourself–serenity. “The ornament of a meek and a quiet spirit” is worth far more than even the most expensive jewel you can wear around your neck.
Stand in front of the mirror today. Imagine Jesus by your side, and ask Him to create in you a gentle and quiet spirit of love.
Pastor Al Hughes
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Followers and Fishers
Friday’s Devotion
FOLLOWERS AND FISHERS
Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. ―Matthew 4:19.
Here is a double-barreled combination, a command and a promise. A soul-winner is a creation of Christ, “I will make you fishers of men.” Soul-winning is a product of discipleship. Jesus takes the disciple and makes not a depository but a dispenser out of him and through him reaches others. Andrew went after Peter. Philip won Nathanael. Peter fished for Cornelius, and the evangelist Philip drew in the eunuch.
Fishing for souls proceeds from following the Savior. It is not a pursuit all by itself, to be studied and practiced independently of all else. It is a consequence of obedience, and the Lord who never fails has given His Word guaranteeing the product.
We cannot do it alone. Remember the failure of the disciples in their fishing. “Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing.” But when they fished at His bidding, the miracle happened. And Jesus said, “Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.” It happened when Peter said, “At thy word, I will.” “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Pastor Al Hughes
FOLLOWERS AND FISHERS
Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. ―Matthew 4:19.
Here is a double-barreled combination, a command and a promise. A soul-winner is a creation of Christ, “I will make you fishers of men.” Soul-winning is a product of discipleship. Jesus takes the disciple and makes not a depository but a dispenser out of him and through him reaches others. Andrew went after Peter. Philip won Nathanael. Peter fished for Cornelius, and the evangelist Philip drew in the eunuch.
Fishing for souls proceeds from following the Savior. It is not a pursuit all by itself, to be studied and practiced independently of all else. It is a consequence of obedience, and the Lord who never fails has given His Word guaranteeing the product.
We cannot do it alone. Remember the failure of the disciples in their fishing. “Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing.” But when they fished at His bidding, the miracle happened. And Jesus said, “Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.” It happened when Peter said, “At thy word, I will.” “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
Pastor Al Hughes
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Resting and Rising
Thursday’s Devotion
Resting and Rising
I will give you rest. –Matthew 11:28
Rise, let us be going. –Matthew 26:46
He rests us and He rouses us. This nervous age keeps going with pills to put it to sleep and pills to keep it awake. From sedative to stimulant our generation lives by shots in the arm. We both rest and rouse our jaded selves artificially.
But all we need for both purposes is found in Jesus. He gives us His peace. “Rest in the Lord” is God’s prescription. “Entered Into Rest” should not be limited to epitaphs on tombstones. We can enter into His rest any time we cease from our own feverish works and rest in His finished work.
And He rouses us. “Be not drunk with win wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit.” There you have the world’s false stimulant and the Divine stirring of the Spirit. “Stir up the gift of God” means kindling the Fire within us, although the coals may be covered with ashes. Alas, “there is none that stirreth up himself to take hold of God.”
Whether you need resting or rousing, He does both. But we co-operate as we rest in Him or rouse ourselves to do His bidding. ―Vance Havner
Resting and Rising
I will give you rest. –Matthew 11:28
Rise, let us be going. –Matthew 26:46
He rests us and He rouses us. This nervous age keeps going with pills to put it to sleep and pills to keep it awake. From sedative to stimulant our generation lives by shots in the arm. We both rest and rouse our jaded selves artificially.
But all we need for both purposes is found in Jesus. He gives us His peace. “Rest in the Lord” is God’s prescription. “Entered Into Rest” should not be limited to epitaphs on tombstones. We can enter into His rest any time we cease from our own feverish works and rest in His finished work.
And He rouses us. “Be not drunk with win wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit.” There you have the world’s false stimulant and the Divine stirring of the Spirit. “Stir up the gift of God” means kindling the Fire within us, although the coals may be covered with ashes. Alas, “there is none that stirreth up himself to take hold of God.”
Whether you need resting or rousing, He does both. But we co-operate as we rest in Him or rouse ourselves to do His bidding. ―Vance Havner
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Spoiling of Your Goods
Wednesday’s Devotion
Spoiling of Your Goods
“…and took JOYFULLY the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that yea have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.” –Heb. 10:34
Today there is a growing number of Christians who have lost sight of an imminent rapture and have begun to make preparations to endure the tribulation period. They have turned their eyes from looking for the blessed hope to looking for places to hide from the antichrist. The focus has turned to stock-piling supplies for survival instead of seeking God’s face for revival. Some are even arming themselves with guns and ammo to shoot anyone who would attempt seize their property.
Is this proper behavior for a New Testament Christian? Paul wrote to Hebrews, “Call to remembrance the former days, in which… ye endured a great fight of afflictions...and took JOYFULLY the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that yea have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence” (Heb. 11:32, 34, 35). It was not an uncommon thing for early Christians to be plundered. When these first century Christians were persecuted, turned out of their homes, and their possessions were confiscated, they didn’t whine about it. They JOYFULLY yielded their property without resistance. Why the joyful attitude when the government taken everything they owned? Because they knew that in heaven they had “a better and an enduring substance” than they had on earth!
I pray it doesn’t come to this , but if the government came to confiscate your goods, would you take it joyfully, or would you shoot anyone who tried? Remember Christian, this world is not our home; We’re just a’passin’ through. Don’t get your roots down too deeply in this earthly sod. It won’t be long and we’re out of here!
“Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Rev. 22:20).
Pastor Al Hughes
Spoiling of Your Goods
“…and took JOYFULLY the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that yea have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.” –Heb. 10:34
Today there is a growing number of Christians who have lost sight of an imminent rapture and have begun to make preparations to endure the tribulation period. They have turned their eyes from looking for the blessed hope to looking for places to hide from the antichrist. The focus has turned to stock-piling supplies for survival instead of seeking God’s face for revival. Some are even arming themselves with guns and ammo to shoot anyone who would attempt seize their property.
Is this proper behavior for a New Testament Christian? Paul wrote to Hebrews, “Call to remembrance the former days, in which… ye endured a great fight of afflictions...and took JOYFULLY the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that yea have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence” (Heb. 11:32, 34, 35). It was not an uncommon thing for early Christians to be plundered. When these first century Christians were persecuted, turned out of their homes, and their possessions were confiscated, they didn’t whine about it. They JOYFULLY yielded their property without resistance. Why the joyful attitude when the government taken everything they owned? Because they knew that in heaven they had “a better and an enduring substance” than they had on earth!
I pray it doesn’t come to this , but if the government came to confiscate your goods, would you take it joyfully, or would you shoot anyone who tried? Remember Christian, this world is not our home; We’re just a’passin’ through. Don’t get your roots down too deeply in this earthly sod. It won’t be long and we’re out of here!
“Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Rev. 22:20).
Pastor Al Hughes
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
We Asked For It
Tuesday’s Devotion
We Asked For It
"Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?" ―Jeremiah 2:17
"Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?" ―Deuteronomy 31:17
Our plight today is our own fault. We asked for it. All our modern evils are come upon us because God is not among us. Of course, He is omnipresent, but He is not among us in that we have not His favor, the smile of His approval.
God has been among us in blessings unnumbered, but we have forgotten Him. And to be lost it is not necessary for a nation to blaspheme God. “The wicked shall be cast into hell and all nations that forget God.”
Even God’s people sometimes ask, “Is the Lord among us or not?” (Ex. 17:7). And in the absence of Him we are faced with the presence of evils galore.
We have lost the sense of God in our nation, in our churches, in our lives. The biggest business of the hour is to draw nigh to God that He may draw nigh to us. His presence with us is too often an assumption in our heads instead of an awareness in our hearts.
Pastor Al Hughes
We Asked For It
"Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?" ―Jeremiah 2:17
"Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?" ―Deuteronomy 31:17
Our plight today is our own fault. We asked for it. All our modern evils are come upon us because God is not among us. Of course, He is omnipresent, but He is not among us in that we have not His favor, the smile of His approval.
God has been among us in blessings unnumbered, but we have forgotten Him. And to be lost it is not necessary for a nation to blaspheme God. “The wicked shall be cast into hell and all nations that forget God.”
Even God’s people sometimes ask, “Is the Lord among us or not?” (Ex. 17:7). And in the absence of Him we are faced with the presence of evils galore.
We have lost the sense of God in our nation, in our churches, in our lives. The biggest business of the hour is to draw nigh to God that He may draw nigh to us. His presence with us is too often an assumption in our heads instead of an awareness in our hearts.
Pastor Al Hughes
Monday, April 27, 2009
No Secret Destination
Monday’s Devotion
No Secret Destination
Today’s devotion is a poem based on Job 30:23—“For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.”
Along this road that walks into a million different ways;
A hundred thousand moments pass, in every single day.
But there’s no way of postponing, the appointment has been made.
There’s no secret destination, as we end the masquerade.
Far past midnight in the darkness, glowing moonbeams point the way;
Through the never ending shadows, which be turned into the day.
While the mantle clock is pounding, in a voice as if to say,
There’s no secret destination, waiting not too far away.
On the faces in the cities, fear is written very plain;
People running from each other, to their privacy of pain.
And though everyone is shouting, still their meaning is not clear
While no secret destination, is forever drawing near.
With this same thought always waiting, somewhere underneath our smile
We continue through the hours, ever constantly on trial.
And for everybody knowing, that the verdict is their own.
There’s no secret destination, we must each face all alone.
We all have a destination and it is no secret what it is: “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” —Hebrews 9:27
ARE YOU READY?
Pastor Al Hughes
No Secret Destination
Today’s devotion is a poem based on Job 30:23—“For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.”
Along this road that walks into a million different ways;
A hundred thousand moments pass, in every single day.
But there’s no way of postponing, the appointment has been made.
There’s no secret destination, as we end the masquerade.
Far past midnight in the darkness, glowing moonbeams point the way;
Through the never ending shadows, which be turned into the day.
While the mantle clock is pounding, in a voice as if to say,
There’s no secret destination, waiting not too far away.
On the faces in the cities, fear is written very plain;
People running from each other, to their privacy of pain.
And though everyone is shouting, still their meaning is not clear
While no secret destination, is forever drawing near.
With this same thought always waiting, somewhere underneath our smile
We continue through the hours, ever constantly on trial.
And for everybody knowing, that the verdict is their own.
There’s no secret destination, we must each face all alone.
We all have a destination and it is no secret what it is: “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.” —Hebrews 9:27
ARE YOU READY?
Pastor Al Hughes
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Our HistoryA BRIEF HISTORY OF BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH
Bible Baptist Church is the oldest independent Baptist Church in Kitsap County, celebrating 50 years of ministry.
Bible Baptist Church was started in 1958 as a Bible study conducted by Pastor Henry King in Bremerton, and was officially incorporated in 1963. In 1968 the congregation moved to Port Orchard and acquired the old Elim Lutheran Church building on Woods Road E. This building was destroyed by a fire in 1985. Shortly thereafter, the church purchased the old First Christian Church building on Dekalb Street in Port Orchard.
In 1986, Dr. Al Hughes became the church's third pastor. By 1990 the congregation had grown to the point where the Dekalb St. facility was no longer adequate to comfortably accommodate the congregation's growing needs. They had a vision to improve the facilities and begin more outreach ministries.
In 1993, God provided four acres of property on Bethel Road for a new church facility consisting of 3 buildings. The first phase was the 4,800 sq. ft. Fellowship Hall and Administrative Office building which was dedicated in 1999. In 2003, our 300 seat auditorium was completed. Work was completed in early 2007 on a 4,800 sq. ft. educational facility for our Sunday School classes, Youth group, and Bible Institute.
During the last fifteen years four men have been ordained to the Gospel ministry. Also, three missionary families have been sent out from our church to serve in China. We sent out a summer missionary to Ukraine in 2008.
We praise God for His bountiful blessings. As a congregation we desire to continue being a place where people can KNOW Christ and MAKE HIM KNOWN.
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