Bethany Baptist Church
The Home of Jesus' Friends in Gardner, MA

Spiritual Growth Resources

We offer these online resources to enrich and support your walk with the Lord. If you are a member of Bethany Baptist Church and know of others sites or materials that have blessed your spiritual growth that you'd like to share with your Christian brothers and sisters, please send them to the webmaster. This section is updated regularly, so visit often.


Daily Lectionary Readings

Ordinary Time: May 12 - Nov. 29, 2008



Clicking these links will open a new browser window, so please click your browser's Back button to return here.

Daily Devotions & Scriptures

Elisabeth Elliot

Today's Verse

What Jesus Did

My Utmost For His Highest

A Daily Devotional with Pastor D. James Kennedy


"God's Yellow Pages"

This website links truth seekers with scriptural references by topic, divided into three categories:
  • Where to look when you're feeling.... (afraid, depressed, lonely, tempted, thankful, etc.)
  • Christian virtues and character (abundant life, courage, diligence, patience, temperance, etc.)
  • Teachings about life's problems (adultery, conceit, divorce, doubt, fault finding, sin, worldliness, etc.)


The Presidential Prayer Team

Pray for the President and his administration. This website offers historical information and focuses on current issues that need our intercessory prayers.

Readings and teachings on issues of the day


20 Scripture-based Prayers to Pray for Your Pastor
By Terry Teykl   more...

10 Spiritual Principles of Church Health
Dr. Philip Van Auken
Much current literature is devoted to church growth—what the church must do to be successful. In this article, church management authority Dr. Phil VanAuken focuses on the 10 principles of church health—what the church must be to be successful.   more...

31 Ways to Pray for Your Child
Bob Hostetler
This list, along with suggestions for prayer from Scripture, will help you pray specifically and purposefully for your children to experience and evidence salvation and growth in grace, as well as other concerns.   more...

Asking Good Questions
Jan Johnson
Asking good questions keeps students interested and awake and helps them understand God and the gospel in new ways. Jesus asked more questions than he answered.   more...

At the Root of Sin is Failure to Worship
Ron Man
Worship requires a recognized difference between the one who is worshiping and the One who is worshiped. Sin attempts to minimize that distinction but Christ's work restores the believer to a proper relationship with the Creator. As redeemed souls, we can truly honor God and give thanks for his marvelous works.   more...

This site updated November 30, 2008 by Carolyn Abbott.
Send feedback or input to Carolyn.Abbott04@comcast.net


These are links to a wide variety of Christian resources from Bible search tools to daily devotionals and Bible studies to webzines by Christian publishers and teachers.   more...

Try this new resource from Christianity.com 

Includes a scripture for the day, a daily devotional, and a Bible study tool.

  

Two Ways to Read the Bible in a Year

Statistics show that most people professing faith in Christ have never completely read their Bible. Many people start reading but then become overwhelmed by the number of chapters (1189) and verses (31,102) they will be reading. However, it can be accomplished by reading less than four chapters a day.

Here are two reading programs from which to chose.

Clicking these links will open a new browser window,
so please click your browser's Back button to return here.

Robert Murray McCheyne's Bible Study Guide -
a calendar of daily readings.
Go here to print it out in PDF format* (2 pages). 
Read through the Old Testament once, the Psalms and New Testament twice.

Bible Study Tools on Crosswalk.com

Read Old and New Testament verses each day (available in text and audio). A goal of reading the Bible in a year can easily be accomplished by dividing the Bible into 365 daily readings. Not only can you come and read on a daily basis, we can help you chart your progress over the following 365 days. That means you don't have to wait till the New Year, you can start today.


Educational, patriotic, and traditional Christian family values resources




These are links to individuals and groups whose sites may: 1) update you on what Congress, the states, the UN, Hollywood and the media are doing to support or undermine traditional family values; 2) provide ways to express your opinions and concerns to major advertisors and sponsors of morally-offensive network and cable TV programs; or 3) present the Judeo-Christian heritage of America's founding and history; or 4) inform you about Christian outreach organizations whose work you may wish to support or learn about.   more...

The "Apologetics Courses" and the "Bible & Archaeology" sites are published by The Creation Research & Apologetics Society Of India.


Apologetics Courses
www.
ApologeticsCourses.com

Bible & Archaeology
www.biblicalarcheology.net



 
  • Ancient Inscriptions & Bible
  • Apologetics & Bib Arch
  • Arch & Bibl Passages/History
  • Arch & People Mentioned in Bible
  • Arch and Accuracy of Bible
 
  • Disciples Of Christ
  • Imp Bible Events And Arch
  • Imp Bible-related Discoveries
  • Jesus And History
  • Notable Breakthroughs
 








Home - Annual Church Events - Bethany Youth Group - Coming Events - Devotional Resources - Family Ministry - Health Ministry - Member Ministries - Nursery School - Our Military Members - Our Missionaries - Senior Ministry Team - Weekly Ministries -


American Bible Society
Web tools and hosting powered by ForMinistry, a service of the American Bible Society.
The content of this website is the responsibility of this website's editor and
does not necessarily reflect the views of the American Bible Society.
© 2006







Progress