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Dr. H.L. Champion has pastored churches in Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Virginia, and in Tennessee. He has also served as Youth minister and Staff Evangelist in the earlier years of his ministry. Both he and Pat attended Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Pat attended Liberty University and Bro Champion attended Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary there. Brother Champion received his Masters and Doctors degrees from Bethel Bible College and Seminary in Greensboro, N.C. Dr. Champion loves to witness everywhere he goes. One of his favorite experiences other than winning a soul to Christ is to find someone who has never heard of John 3:16. He says, " It is a very great privilege to share the Gospel with some one for the very first time in their life." Here is another quote of his; "To plant the Gospel in the heart of a lost soul for his very first time is to truly experience, "For God so loved the world. . .'" As the owner and Chief Editor of Baptist.org, Brother Champion provides a platform for Baptist ministers and Christians all over the world to present their Gospel message. He and Pat are organizing a congregation in the Donelson and Hermitage areas of Nashville, TN. Contact him at [email protected] - 615-944-0348Dr. HL Champion has written 13 awesome articles for us at Baptist.org

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John and Wanda Casias

by Dr. HL Champion on February 2, 2012 · 0 comments

From the website of John And Wanda Casias Missionaries to Mexico - http://www.casias.org
“On Janury 31st 2012 John and Wanda graduated to be with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ as their lives were suddenly taken in a home invasion.

Thank you all for your prayers and your continued support for the Ministry they started 29 years ago in The Republic of Mexico. Their love for the Mexican people and the burden they had for winning souls to the Lord will always be remembered.”

"Faithful unto death"

We at Baptist.org grieve with family, friends and congregation there in Santiago, Mexico. We remember the word of the Lord about those who are killed in the midst of service to Christ,”

Rev 14:13 ”And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. “

The bodies of John and Wanda Casias came one last time to the Baptist church they founded in a violence-plagued region of northern Mexico as mourners paid homage Thursday to the Texas couple who were discovered strangled in their home.

More than a dozen mourners passed to view the open caskets, one an American who came from Texas because John Casias officiated at his wedding. He did not want to give his name for security reasons.

Shawn Casias said he discovered the body of his mother at about 4 p.m. Tuesday when he went to their home in the town of Santiago to pick up a trailer.

He said she was lying on the floor with an electrical cord around her neck and a gash from a blunt object on her head.

The house had been ransacked and was missing a couple of computers, a plasma television and a safe that had been chiseled out of the wall.

The couple’s Chevrolet Suburban was also missing, and Casias said he initially thought his father had been kidnapped.

But about four or five hours later, he said, a forensic investigator informed him that the body of his father had been found in a storage room of a small building on the property. His father also had an electrical cord around his neck.

John and Wanda Casias were originally from Amarillo, Texas, but relatives said they moved to an area outside the city of Monterrey in 1983 and later founded the First Fundamentalist Independent Baptist Church.

Fighting between the Zetas and Gulf drug cartels has brought a surge of violence and other crimes to Monterrey and the surrounding region since 2010. In poorer suburbs, entire blocks have been held up by gunmen and young people snatched off the streets.

Another son, John Casias, said his parents had devoted 29 years of their lives to their ministry in Mexico and spent each day in prayer and saving souls.

They were well aware of the violence around them and the risks, but were so secure in their faith that they did not fear it, he said.

They spent Christmas with him in San Diego, and Casias said he told them, “It’s getting kind of rough there” and offered to let them stay at his home for awhile. They refused.

“We were called to Mexico,” Casias said his mother told him. “These are our people.”

Casias said he hoped the bodies would return to the U.S. later Thursday. He was organizing a service to be held at their home church in Lewisville, Texas.

Shawn Casias said a sister-in-law in Dallas had spoken to their mother around 11 a.m. Tuesday and everything was fine. So he believes there was about a five-hour window when the killings could have occurred before he showed up.

He said the killers did not take everything they could have, leaving two of the three TV sets. He said perhaps they were warned that he was coming, because anyone watching the winding road approaching the home could have alerted them.

“They’re scum. They’re not sophisticated,” he said.

Speaking from his parents’ home, about 95 miles (150 kilometers) southwest of the Texas border, Casias said the house was burglarized two years ago when the couple were on one of their periodic visits to the United States to talk at churches about their work in Mexico.

“We’re convinced that it’s somebody he knew,” Casias said of the killers. He said authorities had some leads based on people seen around the home.

John Casias was 76. He had recently priced a knee replacement because he couldn’t walk more than 100 yards (100 meters) without having to sit down, Shawn Casias said. Wanda Casias was 67.

Casias said his parents held services and prayer meetings at a church about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from their home.

The couple maintained a website, http://www.casias.org , with details of their lives and their missionary work

“The only hope for the Mexican people today is Jesus in them, the HOPE of glory,” they wrote in one dispatch from last summer. “I confess that it’s getting easier to witness to the wealthy, at least they are listening. The wealthy are fleeing to Canada and the USA for protection. The only problem is that when they return to renew their visas the cartel is waiting, and either kill them of (sic) kidnap them for thousands of dollars, in some cases millions. The cartel has NO mercy or value for life. They are ruthless murderers!”

It was the second slaying involving American missionaries in a year in the Mexican region bordering Texas.

In January 2011, a Texas couple who had been doing missionary work in Mexico for three decades were attacked at an illegal roadblock in one of the country’s most violent areas.

Nancy Davis, 59, was fatally shot in the head while her husband, Sam, sped away from suspected drug cartel gunmen who may have wanted to steal their pickup truck, authorities said.

The Davises were driving along the two-lane road that connects the city of San Fernando with the border city of Reynosa in the state of Tamaulipas, which borders Nuevo Leon.

Information gathered from AP and Fox News

Good and Evil Search Words

by Dr. HL Champion on January 10, 2012 · 0 comments

Baptist.org Bible Search
The words “Good” – “Evil” found in a single verse.

New Testament references listed first, Old Testament references follow

Matthew Chapter 5

v45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Chapter 7

v11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

v17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

v18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forthgood fruit.

Chapter 12

v34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

v35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

Chapter 20

v15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

Mark Chapter 3

v4 And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to doevil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

Luke Chapter 6

v9 Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

v35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

v45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which isgood; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which isevil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Chapter 11

v13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Chapter 16

v25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy goodthings, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

John Chapter 5

v29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

Acts Chapter 10

v38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

Romans Chapter 3

v8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

Chapter 7 v19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

v21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

Chapter 9 v11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

Chapter 12 v9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which isgood.

v21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Chapter 13 v3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:

v4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Chapter 14 v16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

Chapter 16

v19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

1 Corinthians Chapter 15

v33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

2 Corinthians Chapter 6

v8 By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

1 Thessalonians Chapter 5

v15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which isgood, both among yourselves, and to all men.

1 Timothy Chapter 3

v7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Hebrews Chapter 5

v14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

1 Peter Chapter 2

v12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Chapter
3v10 For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

v11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

v16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as ofevildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

3 John Chapter 1

v11 Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Genesis Chapter 2

v9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

v17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Chapter 3

v5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

v22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to knowgood and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Chapter 44

v4 And when they were gone out of the city, and not yet far off, Joseph said unto his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

Chapter 50

v20 But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

Leviticus Chapter 5

v4 Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.

Deuteronomy Chapter 1

v35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

v39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

Chapter 30

v15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

Joshua Chapter 23

v15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evilthings, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

1 Samuel Chapter 24

v17 And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded megood, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

Chapter 25

v3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

v21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.

Chapter 29

v6 Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.

2 Samuel Chapter 17

v14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat thegood counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.

Chapter 19

v35 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

1 Kings Chapter 22

v8 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

v18 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no good concerning me, but evil?

2 Chronicles Chapter 18

v7 And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

v17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?

Job Chapter 2

v10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Chapter 24

v21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

Chapter 30

v26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Psalms Chapter 34

v14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Chapter 35

v12 They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

Chapter 36

v4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Chapter 37

v27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

Chapter 38

v20 They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

Chapter 52

v3 Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

Chapter 109

v5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Proverbs Chapter 13

v21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.

Chapter 14

v19 The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

v22 Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devisegood.

Chapter 15

v3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Chapter 17

v13 Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Chapter 28

v10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.

Chapter 31

v12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

Ecclesiastes Chapter 12

v14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Isaiah Chapter 5

v20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Chapter 7

v15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

v16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

Chapter 41

v23 shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

Jeremiah Chapter 4

v22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Chapter 10

v5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

Chapter 13

v10 This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

v23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also dogood, that are accustomed to do evil.

Chapter 18

v10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

v11 Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

v20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Chapter 21

v10 For I have set my face against this city for evil, and not for good, saith the LORD: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.

Chapter 24

v3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; thegood figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

Chapter 32

v42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

Chapter 39

v16 Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.

Chapter 42

v6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our God.

Chapter 44

v27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

Lamentations Chapter 3

v38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

Ezekiel Chapter 36

v31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were notgood, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

Amos Chapter 5

v14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

v15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

Chapter 9

v4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not forgood.

Micah Chapter 1

v12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Chapter 3

v2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Zephaniah Chapter 1

v12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.

Malachi Chapter 2

v17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

Writing For Baptist.org

by Dr. HL Champion on December 19, 2011 · 0 comments

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Is the NT Sabbath A Day or A Saviour?

by Dr. HL Champion on September 16, 2011 · 9 comments

The Second and Fourth commandments were the longest of the Ten. Of all the commandments it was these two that the Children of Israel broke the most often and was chastised repeatedly! These were serious offenses to Jehovah! The prophets repeatedly warned Judah and Israel as to the consequences through out the Old Testament.

The Fourth Commandment

20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

This is what God said in Ezekiel 22 about Profaning His Sabbaths

v8 Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths. v26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

This is just one profound reference through out the Old Testament. Had God intended for this memorial of His Creation be predominant in the New Testament, He would have at least mentioned it ONE TIME! Actually, He would have repeated the mandate to keep the sabbath and would have added warnings for breaking it!

No! It is a New Day in the New Testament!

While the Sabbath Day is still Saturday, the 7th day of the week! We who have experienced the Sabbath Rest in the person of Christ at our Salvation now assemble on the First Day of the week. This is by example of the early church in Acts 20:20 and command in 1 Corinthians 16.And t Our rest is not on the 7th Day of each week but in Christ daily, as taught in Acts 3 and Hebrews 4. The First Day of the week is only a day of celebration of Christ’s Resurrection. There is no Sabbath

Rest on Saturday or Sunday! It is not a Day it is a Saviour.

Acts 3:19 A Key verse teaching that

v.19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

v.20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:

v.21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

Sabbath day activity in the Book of Acts was to preach the Gospel to the Jew First . . . Gentiles attended the Synagogue to hear the Gospel as well!
In the 7 Epistles to the Local Churches there is NO mention of Sabbath Day attendance. Christians can meet daily, and from house to house.

It is not the Day, It is HIM, Jesus! In the New Testament there is no emphasis to memorialize the Creation, But there is for Salvation!
This is why we find no Sabbath Breaking scriptures in the New Testament. It is not the Day – It is Christ, daily!

Colossians 2:16 “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: ”

The Sabbath Day is not apart of the Gospel! It is not a New Testament Commandment! It is not a New Testament Promise! And there is no statement of the number ”Ten Commandments” in the New Testament.

The list of sins in the New Testament goes beyond the Ten

Read Matthew 5-7,
Matthew 19,
Romans 1,
1Corinthians 6,
Galatians 5.

All of these New Testament teachings leave out Sabbath Day observance. It is not the 7th Day; It is Christ – Every Day!

Can You Say “Jesus” in Unknown Tongues!

by Dr. HL Champion on August 7, 2011 · 3 comments

My birthplace is the Holy Ghost, Tongues Speaking, Healing Capitol of the World! When I tell people this, they always look stunned, especially Pentecostals and Charismatics. Everyone else responds with, “Oh, yeah! Oral Roberts.” “Did he speak in tongues?”. That is not purpose of my article, now!

What city would that be? To short circuit a multitude of guesses and jockeying for ” edification superiority “, let me just offer my vote; Tulsa, Oklahoma! You know who is from there. And, how many there are of them. Well, here is a seeming authoritative physiological/spiritual take on “Speaking in Tongues”. I have set the following in bold type!

Warning the following is fraudulent!

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a neurosurgeon and a researcher; was doing research on the relationship between the brain and praying in tongues. Some amazing things were discovered. Through the research and testing, Dr. Peterson found that as we pray in the Spirit; there is activity that begins in our brain. As we engage in our heavenly language, the brain releases two chemical secretions that are directed into our immune system giving a 35 to 40 percent boost to our immune system. This promotes healing within our bodies. This is amazing because this secretion is triggered from a part of the brain that has no other apparent activity in humans. It has only been identified as being activated by our Spirit-led prayer and worship and Slain in the spirit.

Romans 8:9-14 (Go to your own Bible and get the real understanding )

So if necessary just babble like a baby! (Where is this in scripture?) Start praising God and yield your tongue to the stirrings that rise up from your heart by the Holy Spirit. Don’t tune in to the sounds being made – attend to what is happening in your spirit. Try to gauge the depth of the outpouring that is taking place from your heart and go with. (As you do this, often over time the sounds emerging from your mouth become more varied and spiritually expressive.)

You’ll get groanings that cannot be uttered in your known vocabulary! You’ll get a tremendous release of pent up, heart-cries to God for His salvation and restoration! You’ll get a new lightness in your spirit!

Warning the preceding was fraudulent!

Isn’t this amazing? How fraudulent this account is! This is the same physician who’s wife, Vicki Peterson, he treated with a drug called Seroquel as a drug used to treat bipolar mania. She was 71, when she died. Peterson was the subject of a bizarre court case in 2005 and 2006, in which the state’s Department of Human Services took custody of Vicki and had Carl Peterson barred from visiting her on the grounds he was giving her the psychotropic drug Seroquel.

This proposed medical authority of the Charismatic World seeks to inject you with a toxic doctrine that is deadly!

Ethiopian Muslims Warn Christians to Convert, Leave City Or Face Death

by Dr. HL Champion on January 26, 2011 · 0 comments

Baptist.org encourages our viewers to be aware of Muslim activities. The following is of grave concern. Please contact ICC and support this emergency! Dr. H.L. Champion

Washington, D.C. (January 25, 2011)–International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Christians in the Ethiopian city of Besheno are being harassed and physically abused after Muslims posted notices on the doors of Christian homes warning them to convert, leave the city or face death.

Three Christian leaders were forced to flee the city and two Christians have been forced to convert to Islam. In the Muslim majority city, the entire evangelical Christian community consists of about 30 believers. Evangelist Kassa Awano remains in critical condition after Muslims attacked him on November 29, 2010. A few days after the attack, nearly 100 Muslims surrounded a vehicle carrying Christian leaders on their way to negotiate for peace with Muslim leaders. Two men, Tesema Hirego and Niggusie Denano, were seriously wounded, and the other leaders suffered minor injuries. On January 2, Muslims assaulted Temesgen Peteros with a knife after he testified about the attacks on these Christians in court.

Christians in Besheno have been targeted by Muslims for many years. On May 21, 2004, Muslims murdered the 7 year-old daughter of Evangelist Tesfaye Hobe. Muslims continuously attack Christians for listening to Christian songs and watching Christian videos.

“We ask for our constitutional right [to freedom of religion] to be respected. We want this inhumane act to stop. We are unable to live in our own city due to the inhumane acts,” one of the Christian leaders who fled the city told ICC. The local Muslim officials of the city refuse to protect the Christians. The officials ignore their appeals for justice, declining repeated requests for the building of a place of worship and a cemetery. On January 19, a Christian mother was forced to bury her deceased daughter in a town more than 20 miles from Besheno, due to the absence of a cemetery for Christians.

Besheno is a city located in the province of Alaba in Southern Ethiopia. According to the 2007 national census, 93.84% of the population of the province is Muslim. Christians make up 5.82 % of the population.

“We are alarmed by the posting of threats on Christian homes and the attacks against Christians in Besheno. We urge Ethiopian officials to bring the perpetrators of the attacks to justice, protect the Christians from further attacks and grant them permits to build a place of worship as well as a cemetery,” said Jonathan Racho, ICC’s Regional Manager for Africa.

Please contact the Ethiopian officials in your country and politely ask them to protect Christians in Besheno from the ongoing attacks by Muslims and grant them land for building churches and cemeteries.

Ethiopian Embassies:

USA (202) 364-1200
Canada (613) 235-6637
Germany 493077206
UK 020 78383897/020 7838 3898.

International Christian Concern
2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW #941 • Washington DC 20006-1846
www.persecution.org / Email: [email protected]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:

Jonathan Racho,

Regional Manager for Africa and South Asia,

1-800-422-5441, [email protected]

Equality for Black ‘babies’ To Live

by Dr. HL Champion on January 24, 2011 · 2 comments

Why is there a higher abortion rate of babies born to Black mothers than those of other races? This question is way out of my spectrum focus and ministry. It is - except for the fact that I care for everyone and I believe the Bible. Susan Cohen of the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion advocate correctly surmises the dilemma;”This much is true: In the United States, the abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white women. Antiabortion activists, including some African-American pastors, have been waging a campaign around this fact. . .” ^[1] Even an abortion advocate had to admit the facts in spite of her ‘rangling’ justifications.

In this article, I am not addressing the educational, social, and political reasons for abortions. Since 1973, Roe vs. Wade is the law of the land. There is not much anyone has done to reverse it, so far.

And I was thinking of Martin Luther King and what he would think about aborting Black babies. His sermon, “I have a dream”, certainly couldn’t include the eliminating of unwanted babies from any ethnic group! I know that he, being a Baptist Preacher of the Gospel, believed in liberty for all Men, Women and Children. He non-violently arose to the defense for the right of a Black woman to ride anywhere on a bus she chose. He led the fight against racial social preferences, courtroom sub-versions, KKK Cross burnings, hangings, and mutilations of all those who were freed from the Emancipation Declaration.

All Baptist preachers have in their Bible Psalms 139:13-34 which is the epitome in scriptures of God’s creation process for everyone. Even Dr. King read and preached from this passage on numerous occasions:

v. 13, 14 “For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well”.

Amazingly, another scripture in this passage certainly directs my mind how to categorize those who would break one commandment and then to break another.”

v. 19 “Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men”.

I am not an Anti-Abortion activist and have never protested an abortion clinic, neither have I marched with those who have and do. I do believe ‘No baby should be left behind’! I believe God is the Creator. He created the first human parents and has been creating mankind from the wombs of mothers ever since. The Bible is very clear on this subject!

1 John1:9, “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”

Being a typical Baptist Preacher, it has been my passion to preach the Gospel to all people, no matter their ethnicity. ”Red and yellow, black or white; they are precious in His sight” has always been my socio-religious mantra. Not only this, but also to win them to Christ and baptize them into my congregation. Disciple everyone has been my effort through out my frugal lifetime ministry. I have counseled mothers and have arranged adoptions of dozens of “inconvenient children” before and after delivery of God’s blessed arrivals into the hands of ’wanting parents’.

With the ”inconvenient birth” of Affirmative Action into our white dominated society, societal fairness was the goal, but new inequities have emerged. The minority race has the same rights in everything educational, vocational and political as the majority race and even more in many instances. Unfortunately, this includes abortion rights, as well. Now the Black community has exceeded the norm of other races. More of their babies are now being aborted than allowed to live. Is this equal justice? No! It is not!

Now, It has been a peripheral thought of mine as to what the Dr. Martin Luther King had to say about aborting Black children. Then one day, while watching television, I was mesmerized in hearing his niece, Alveda King affirm her pro-life stance and identifies Dr. King as a pro-lifer as well.

From the article “What Martin Luther King called evil, Barack Obama calls good.” written by Dr Clenard H Childress, Jr, I found the quote from Dr King that I was hoping existed.

And it did exist! In the August 10, 2008 issue of RenewAmerica.com, http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/childress/081028, Dr Childress wrote an amazing article for all to read. I copied only his quote from Dr. King making the point as to the power of a few Christians making a difference. Read the above link to read the whole article. Save Dr. King’s quote below to convince the naysayers.

“There was a time when the church was very powerful in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Whenever the early Christians entered a town, the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict the Christians for being “disturbers of the peace” and outside agitators. But the Christians pressed on in the conviction that they were “a colony of heaven” called to obey God rather than man. Small in number they were big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be “astronomically intimidated.” By their effort and example they brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide.” (bold and underline is mine)

Is it time to bring the percentages of Black babies aborted to the same of Hispanic and White babies! Yes! They should all be the same percentages. Zero!

The above quote is from Rev. Dr. Clenard H. Childress, Jr., the senior pastor of The New Calvary Baptist Church in Montclair, NJ. He is the founder of the website Blackgenocide.org and president of Life Education And Resource Network, Northeast. LEARN is the largest African-American pro-life group in the US.

^{[1] http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/11/3/gpr110302.html}

Dr. Jack Hyles

by Dr. HL Champion on January 4, 2011 · 4 comments

At age 74, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, February 6, 2001, at the University of Chicago Hospital.

Dr. Hyles had suffered a serious heart attack on January 30, 2001. He was admitted to Methodist Hospital Southlake Campus, Merrillville, Indiana, on Tuesday.

He was subsequently airlifted to the University of Chicago Hospital at 1:00 am Friday. Dr. Hyles underwent eight hours of open-heart surgery performed by a team of top surgeons and specialists.

In spite of heroic attempts by the medical staff, Dr. Hyles was pronounced dead at 9:43 am.

He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Beverly;

Four children,

Becky Smith of Texas,
David Hyles of Florida,
Linda Murphrey of Texas,
Cindy Schaap of Indiana;

11 grandchildren,

Trina Beebe,
Teresa Horton,
Trent Smith,
Jamie Hyles, Julie Hyles, Amy Hyles, Bethany Hyles,
Melissa Murphrey, Michael Murphrey,
Jaclynn Schaap, and Ken Schaap;

4 great-grandchildren; one sister, Earlyne Stephens of Illinois; and a host of other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by two sisters, Lorene and Hazel, and a namesake grandson, Jack David Hyles.

The viewing for Dr. Hyles will be held in the First Baptist Church auditorium, 523 Sibley Street, Hammond, Indiana, on Friday, February 9, beginning at 10:00 am until 6:30 pm. At 7:00 pm on Friday, there will be a memorial service to be attended by all out-of-town guests and friends, all non-First Baptist Church members, and all Hyles-Anderson College students.

The viewing will resume after the memorial service and will continue throughout the night until 9:30 am Saturday, February 10. There will then be a funeral service at 10:00 am for the First Baptist Church membership, including all First Baptist young people who are college students.

There will be a private graveside service conducted for the family only.

Flowers may be sent to First Baptist Church, 523 Sibley Street, Hammond, Indiana 46320.

Dr. Hyles’ ministry has touched and influenced the lives of over a million people nationwide as well as untold millions worldwide.

Date of Birth: September 25, 1926

Date of Passing: February 6, 2001

Laid to rest at: Memory Lane Cemetery on US 30

Pastor’s Church: First Baptist Church

City: Hammond

State: Indiana

Country: United States

Association: Independent Baptist

Biography:

Jack Frasure Hyles (September 25, 1926 – February 6, 2001) was a leading figure in the Independent Baptist movement. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Hammond in Hammond, Indiana, from 1959 until his death.

Dr. Hyles was born September 25, 1926, in Italy, Texas, to Willis Athey and Coystal Mattie Hyles. During World War II, Jack Hyles served as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. Dr. Hyles was a graduate of East Texas Baptist College and attended Southwestern Baptist Seminary.

He pastored five churches:

Marris Chapel Baptist Church, Bogata, Texas;
Grange Hall Baptist Church, Marshall, Texas;
Southside Baptist Church, Henderson, Texas;
Miller Road Baptist Church, Garland, Texas;
The First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, which he pastored for 41 years, from August 1959 to present.

He is the author of 49 books and pamphlets.

He founded Hammond Baptist Schools in 1970 and Hyles-Anderson College in 1972.

He was also well-known for being an innovator of the church bus ministry that brought thousands of people each week from surrounding towns to Hammond for services.[1] Jack Hyles built First Baptist up from fewer than a thousand members to a membership of 100,000. In 1993 and again in 1994.

It was reported that 20,000 people attended First Baptist every Sunday, making it the most attended Baptist church in the United States[2][3][4] In 2001, at the time of Hyles death, 20,000 people were attending church services and Sunday school each week.

Thousands laud Dr. Hyles as the one who influenced them to “Go Soulwinning”. No pastor was more loved and more hated for his stands on the Bible and the essentialness of the Local Church.

W.A. Criswell

by Dr. HL Champion on January 4, 2011 · 0 comments

– “At 4:17 A.M. central time, January 10, 2002, Dr. W. A. Criswell sailed placidly from the earthly port where for 92 years he had been moored and instantly was received on the merits of our Savior’s blood into the presence of the ever-living God. Given the intense ‘boyish’ curiosity during the entire life of the pastor, one can only begin to imagine the delight of his eye and the elation of his spirit at this moment.

“Dr. Criswell loosed from port at the home of beloved and trusted friend and son in Christ, Jack Pogue, while Mr. Pogue held his hand and read to him the familiar words of Philippians 2 and John 14. The final words of the pastor were spoken to Mr. Pogue a few hours before his homegoing. Having been responsible for Mr. Pogue’s conversion to Christ more than 30 years earlier, Dr. Criswell said to Jack, ‘I love you, son.’

“We rejoice today for Dr. Criswell even as the Church of our Lord Jesus contemplates the loss of the greatest preacher of our generation.”

Paige Patterson, president, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Date of Birth: December 19, 1909

Date of Passing: January 9, 2002

Laid to rest at: Hillcrest Memorial Park – North Dallas, TX

Pastor’s Church: First Baptist Church

City: Dallas

State: Texas

Country: United States

Association: Southern Baptist

Biography:

W. A. CRISWELL
1909-2002

“If [we] are true to that expression of faith (the infallibility of Scripture) we shall live. If we repudiate it, we shall die. God will remove our lampstand….There is no exception in this judgment….”

Wally Amos Criswell, Jr., on December 19, 1909, was born along the Texas-Oklahoma border to a Baptist deacon and the daughter of a doctor. He loved to read at an early age. Having read the Bible through at the age of six, he was saved and baptized at ten. Although his mother wanted him to be a physician, and his father, who had seen many pastors mistreated, wanted him to be anything but a preacher, he announced his intention to enter the ministry after surrendering to preach at age twelve in a meeting conducted by Dr. John R. Rice and another preacher. After moving to Amarillo in 1925, he had the opportunity to hear men such as L. R. Scarborough and George W. Truett. He went to college at Baylor in Waco and was ordained and preached in small churches while there. He completed a Ph.D. at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. Soon after seminary he was married to Bettie Marie Harris, whom he had met while pastor at nearby Mt. Washington, Kentucky. He was later pastor of First Baptist Church of Chickasaw, Oklahoma and First Baptist Church of Muskogee, Oklahoma. In 1944, he was called to be pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas. The legendary George Truett, after forty-seven years as pastor, had died. The young Criswell was given the daunting task of following this great preacher. Under his leadership the church grew dramatically.

In his early years as pastor he preached through the entire Bible, taking almost eighteen years to complete the task. He was known for his stand on the inerrancy of Scripture and wrote the important book “Why I Preach the Bible Is Literally True.” He became the leader against liberalism among Southern Baptists. After a full life of ministering the Word he loved, Dr. Criswell was called home to Heaven on January 9, 2002

“Don’t worry, Jesus will make it real!”

by Dr. HL Champion on December 30, 2010 · 4 comments

H.L. Champion

In 1957 I ran out of my back door from having a fight with my dad. While in a rage, as a 13 year old son of parents who were Deaf, I experienced hatred for being born to them. I looked up and saw the stars in the sky. I knew the God of the universe was the one who made all things and was responsible for the shame I experienced from many of the other kids whose parents could hear and talk. So, I thought, “I hate God”. I didn’t raise my fists to heaven with that declaration, but I did so with a conscious will and soon forgot about it.

Soon after that it was amazing how profane words became a high interest to me. Being in a home where ASL, American Sign Language, was my means of communication, my vocabulary was two to three years behind my peers. I began to use God’s name in vain, as well as four letter cuss words.

Clearly, I broke purposely two of the Ten Commandments; “Honor thy father and thy mother & “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain”. I

“Hell” was a new word that I began using among dozens of others. It seemed empowering. One could banish another with disdain to an eternal Hell just like God would do; just by telling them to go there. A friend of mine used it differently. “Eldon”, where are you going?” I asked him one day as he was skipping school. He said with a laugh, “Hell, if I don’t change my ways!” I responded by mimicking the others I had heard say, “I’ll go with you and we can have a party”.

Later that week I was at Eldon’s funeral, after dying from pneumonia. The preacher said that Eldon was in heaven with Jesus. I thought, “Eldon is not in heaven told me where he was going.” A still quiet voice in my heart echoed, “Don’t worry about Eldon; worry about your self!” I trembled at the thought!

A few more instances surfaced in my soul as to my relationship to God being absent. I was selected to be he song leader of a Youth for Christ organization at the James Madison Jr. High School . I was not a church kid but I was leading over 800 of my peers in Christian chorus and songs. This sure made up for my sinful ways of which I have not begun to reveal here. I was aware that I broke others of the Ten Commandments ( Exodus 20:3-17 ). My mom forgot to wake me early on one Friday and I was late for YFC and came in and sat in the back while someone else too my place leading the song service. Boy, was I mad at my stupid Deaf mother. Then the preacher got up and said, “Do you know why God made you? Do you know what God wants from you? And, do you know why Jesus died for you”. I had heard these thoughts though out my childhood but not all them together!

The preacher (he was more of a talker) basically said that God wanted me to love him the same way he loved me! He wants me to be with him for all eternity in Heaven”. “Jesus died because His Father took all of my sins and every transgression I ever committed and poured them on His Son. Jesus died because of my sins and suffered death and hell for me. But, He rose up from the grave and defeated my death and my Hell; because he defeated my Sin! When I saw all of the hands of the student body raised for prayer to accept Christ as Saviour, I raised my hand, too. During the rest of the day, the entire student body was much more subdued and less rowdy. But, no one said anything about the YFC meeting. Nothing changed in me and I was left wondering.

A major one was my Grandmother’s death, when I was 14. My dad and I were standing in front of her in a casket. My dad being Deaf had no knowledge to control his very loud and grievious crying. I reached up and patted him and signed, “Not Worry! See Grandma in Heaven.” He looked down at me with a look of sheer disgust and shook his head, “NO!” violently and increased his expression of pain. I was in shock, about the thought of not seeing Grandma, again or that Dad would not see her again. The preacher said about Eldon, “In my Father’s house were many mansion, and that Jesus prepared him a place there and for all that believe in him.” I didn’t know who was really going there. I didn’t think I was going there.

Carl was the first Christian teenager I ever knew who was for real. He was 17 and I was 15 when some events caused me to ask him if I could go to church with him (Carl threatened a friend who kept using God’s Name in vain). Driving home, he started talking and apologizing about what he had done wrong. I thought he was talking to me. But, he was praying to God; scared me to death! Carl was talking to Jesus just like Jesus was right there in the car with us.

Sunday morning, I asked my mom if I could borrow her Bible, She signed, “Careful – You – Not Lose! I Whip!” Carl picked me up in his 1940 green Chevy, four doors, with a vacuum shift transmission. His three red headed, freckled faced sisters sit in the back seat.

We arrived at the Glenwood Baptist Church on the Sand Springs Line, which is on the west side of Tulsa. Carl went one way to his Sunday School Class and I went a different way to a younger class. The teacher was in his thirties, Wally was his name. I saw some of my school mates there in the 15 year old boys’ class. I was surprised that some of them were religious. They weren’t like Carl. One of them even led in prayer, short, cold, and embarrassed.

Wally asked us all to turn to Acts 16:22-31 and go around the table each reading a verse in sequence. I quickly counted the class members and figured that my verse was Acts 16:30. The story was about Paul and Silas who were thrown into prison for preaching about Jesus. They just sang praises to God and prayed while being shackled; the other prisoners and the jailer listening. At midnight God sent an earthquake and all of the prisoner’s chains were loosed and were free. The Philippian Jailer knew he would be executed for losing even one prisoner. So, he drew a sword to himself to end it quickly. Paul restrained all the prisoners from fleeing and said, “Do thyself no harm”. The Jailer couldn’t take it any more and just dropped to his knees. It was my verse to read now. Verse 30 “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” Just as I was reading this verse, my heart raced and I knew this was my question. The Sunday School teacher read the answer; in verse 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. . . I knew that while I believed that Jesus was God’s Son I had yet to reach this level of belief. I knew I was not Saved! I fell under conviction that He was the Saviour and I was like the jailer, I was a sinner! Hell to me became very real!

Leaving the class, I walked to the church auditorium knowing I was going to meet God. I just did not know how it worked. Carl was seated in the third pew from the front on the right bank of pews. He was seated with the church basketball team. Carl’s head was bowed with his eyes closed. He was praying to Jesus, again! I reached over to him and nudged him. Not knowing the first thing about Salvation, I said, “Before I leave today, I am going to be a Christian.”

My eyes just burst with tears, “I just don’t want to be a hypocrite” Carl said, “Don’t worry, Jesus will make it real!” I preempted the finishing of the pastor’s sermon and came forward the first time he said that if anyone wanted to become a Christian to respond publically. I quickly left my pew and was standing at the front facing him. He stepped down and said, “Son, what’s on your heart?” I didn’t know what to say!

How does one explain about breaking God’s laws repeatedly, that you don’t want to be banished to Hell, and that you are worthless? How do you explain that you are filthy and God is Holy, and that you want to join up with him? And it had something to do with Jesus? I stood there dumbfounded, not knowing what to say!

Almost simultaneously, Carl arrived and put his arm around me and said to Brother Post, “Champ wants to be Saved!” There it was; the words that said it! ‘I want to be Saved!’ Carl and I knelt beside a altar worker and looked at an open Bible.

For the first time in my short life I saw John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” There it was! I understood!

Other verses were shown to me about my sins, my lostness, my need to repent, and especially how to believe. They showed me Romans 10:9 – 13 that I talk to God from my heart through my mouth about Jesus dying for me and coming alive to save me. I did and He did!

Romans 10:13 “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved.”

Jesus Christ saved my soul that moment. He became my Saviour on the second Sunday of September in 1959. So many things happened to me that I have been discovering for over these 52 years. None of which I am worthy. I praise God that my salvation is irrevocable.

Add Ephesians 2:8-10 to Galatians 2:20 and that sums up of who I am and what I am in Jesus Christ, my Saviour, High Priest, Lord, King and my God!