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getting attention for the gospel

We have had our own website for our church for the last year. My purpose in setting it up was to provide an easy way for our people to get audio copies of messages they wanted and to refer their friends and acquaintances to our site as well. As such, our site has been a success and a blessing to our ministry.

An unexpected but welcome additional blessing has been the world-wide attention we have received as well. I don’t mean to imply that we have received attention in great numbers! Our site gets very low traffic. But it is interesting to read sitemeter and see where our traffic comes from and why. Our own people are one thing, but we have gotten interest from many countries around the world.

This last week, we had two visits from China. I was particularly interested to see that one visitor spent almost 13 minutes on the site. Both of these visitors used a similar search to reach us, and it is this type of search that I have noticed increasing our traffic since last fall.

What is our ‘big’ attention getter?

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1.11.09 gbcvic sermons

NewsFlash!!! Christmas is over

And over it is, now, in our church. We complete our Christmas series a couple of Sunday’s late. It is fitting in a way as it is our last day with our boys as they head back to school tomorrow. We will enter another season of mourning without our lads in our household.

Nevertheless, we had a good day in the Lord’s house today and a great four weeks with the boys home.

I Am the Bright and Morning Star (Rev 22.16)

Our Christmas season is over as we look to the promise of the one who authenticates the Scriptures as true and reveals himself to be the bright hope of Scripture promise as the light of the bright and morning star.

Pilgrim’s Progress: Mercy goes with Christiana

The next look at the Pilgrim’s Progress finds Mercy and Christiana admitted into the way of salvation at the Wicket Gate. They learn a valuable lesson on prayer as they set out on their journey from that place.

Endurance in Trials (Jas 1.1-8, 12) · Rory Johnson

My son Rory, on his last day home for Christmas vacation gives us a good message from James on enduring trials and enduring faith. He closed with a clear call to the lost to join in the walk of faith that wholly depends on Christ alone for salvation.

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