Alpine Baptist Church of Columbia will host the combined South Carolina and Low Country Baptist Fellowship on Monday, August the 12th. This is the second Monday of August. The services will start at 2:00 PM. We have scheduled to preach in the afternoon: Pastor James Baker of Welch Creek Baptist Church in Walterboro, Missionary Bob Ford of Bearing Precious Seed and Pastor Larry Pearson of Temple Baptist Church of Anderson. There will be special music throughout the afternoon services and if time allows a couple of testimonies. The ladies of the church will provide supper at 5:30.

Alpine's 4th Annual Jubilee will get under way at 7:00 that evening with the preaching of Brother Earl Ankrom from Ohio. His family of eight are missionaries to America. He preached for The Old Country Church in June and the families fell in love with the singing of his children and the preaching of Brother Earl. Brother Ankrom will preach on Tuesday at 7:30. He has written his testimony in tract form called Searching for Peace. Then Wednesday through Friday Brother Joe Arthur will be preaching. Brother Earl Ankrom is new to the readers of the Bible Trumpet but Brother Joe is one that is known and loved by our readers.

The church is located at the corner of Alpine and Percival Roads. The exit off I-20 is # 76. Coming from Columbia take a right on Alpine and the church is one half mile on the left. Coming from the Florence direction, take a left after the exit to the church. I-77 intersects with I-20 at Alpine Road exit. The church phone is 803-788-2646, if more information is needed. J. Earl Green is the host pastor.

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A front-page article in the Los Angeles Times for June 19 entitled "Hold the Fire and Brimstone" noted that the "mention of hell from pulpits is at an all-time low." Indeed, it is, because so many churches have turned from the faith once delivered to the saints. The emphasis of the average preacher is on things are that are positive and non-controversial. To illustrate the downgrading of the doctrine of hell in American pulpits, the article mentions a Vineyard Fellowship church, the Presbyterian Church USA, the Episcopal Church, Robert Schuller, Rick Warren of the Saddle Back Community Church, and Billy Graham. In 1991, Graham said, ". to describe hell in vivid terms like I might have done 30 or 40 years ago, I'm not at liberty to do that because ... whether there is actually fire in hell or not, I do not know." In contrast, Jesus Christ often preached on hell and plainly stated that there is fire in hell. Herbert Reynolds, president emeritus of Baylor University, wants to see a new denomination called "Baptist Convention of the Americas." The reason? "I am concerned about my children and grandchildren and their children. I don't want them to grow up in Fundamentalism" (Baptists Today, May 2002). As a Fundamental Baptist, I am in total agreement with this man. I recommend they follow the lead of Bob Jones III, and change their name. Your name should identify you. If you are not a fundamentalist, call yourself what you are. They are not Fundamentalists and should not be allowed to wear that honorable label. I would also recommend they drop the name Baptist as soon as possible as well. June 21, 2002 – LOXLEY, Ala. -- Authorities in Loxley, Ala., are investigating the alleged beating of a preacher by funeral mourners who didn't like his blunt eulogy. Glynis Bethel told The Associated Press that her husband -- the Rev. Orlando Bethel -- was attacked during a June 14 funeral and dragged out of the church. That's because Bethel told mourners the deceased was in Hell and that they were headed the same way. The dead man was Glynis Bethel's uncle. Orlando Bethel referred to him as a "drunkard and a fornicator." Glynis Bethel, who's also a preacher, says "the fornicators didn't like what he said so they got up and beat him." She says police didn't make any arrests, so she and her husband -- who may have a broken nose -- are taking out warrants.

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After preaching this message 150 times by request, Dr. Kidd has retired his sermon "Leaving the Luxuries of Lucifer's Palace". Over the years, hundreds of people have been saved while they listened to this message. The night Dr. Kidd retired this message, it was put on video and edited in a professional studio. This video is available for a limited time. To order, send $25.00 plus 6.00 shipping and handling to: Dr. Phil Kidd, 30013 Kidd Dr., Amory, MS. 38821. Log on to www.DrPhilKidd.com to preview the tape.

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Do not expect to get, in the first year of your pastorate, that result which is the reward of twenty years continuous toil in one place. Young men sometimes make a very great mistake in the way they talk to those who never saw them until about six weeks ago. They cannot speak with the authority of one who has been as a father among his people, having been with them for twenty or thirty years; or if they do, it becomes a sort of foolish affectation on their part, and it is equally foolish to expect the people to be all at once the same as they might be after they have been trained by a godly minister for a quarter of a century. -- C. H. Spurgeon

Some brethren think that they ought to lower their note to the spiritual ability of the hearer; but this is a mistake. According to these brethren, you ought not to exhort a man to repent and believe unless you believe that he can, of himself, repent and believe. My reply is a confession: I command men in the name of Jesus to repent and believe the gospel, though I know they can do nothing of the kind apart from the grace of God; for I am not sent to work according to what my private reason might suggest, but according to the orders of my Lord and Master. Ours is the miraculous method which comes of the endowment of the Spirit of God, who bids His ministers perform wonders. -- C. H. Spurgeon

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Announcement.. The annual Greenwood Baptist Camp Meeting will be held at Greenwood Baptist Church located on Deadfall Rd. in Greenwood, SC. Brother Tommy Holbrooks will be the preacher for the meeting. The meeting will be held from August 4 – 9. Services will begin at 6:00 PM on Sunday and at 7:30 PM, Monday thru Friday. For more information call Pastor Boland at 864-223-8263.