I am so thankful to have God’s people praying for me and the ministry that He has given me at Vision and around the world. I strongly desire your prayers. This prayer letter will not be going out on the blog.

You can sign up by clicking on this link. Charles Spurgeon said “Let me know the day when you give up praying for me, for then I must give up preaching, and I must cry, O my God, take me home, for my work is done.”

I feel the same way!

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The minister is not responsible for his success. He is responsible for what he preaches; he is accountable for his life and actions; but he is not responsible for other people.

Spurgeon, C. H. (2005). Exploring the Mind and Heart of the Prince of Preachers: Five-Thousand Illustrations Selected from the Works of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (550). Oswego, IL: Fox River Press.

But, you will say, surely it might have been as well if Moses had lived to have seen Joshua win the country. Would this have been desirable? Do active men find much delight in sitting still and seeing others take the lead? Moreover, had Moses lived, he would before long have felt those infirmities from which he had for one hundred and twenty years been screened: is it so very desirable to survive one’s powers, and to be a tottering old man amidst constant battles? Peace suits age; age agrees not with war’s alarms.

Had Moses remained the leader of the people, he might have injured the glory of his former days.

Have we not seen aged men survive their wisdom?

Have not their friends wished that they had closed their career long before?

Have we not seen pastors, once able and efficient, holding to their pulpits to the injury of the churches they once edified?

Oh that men would have wisdom enough not to undo in their age what they have wrought in their youth! Moses is removed before this evil can happen to him, and it is well.

Spurgeon, C. H. (2005). Exploring the Mind and Heart of the Prince of Preachers: Five-Thousand Illustrations Selected from the Works of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (545–546). Oswego, IL: Fox River Press.

I can say, and God is my witness, that I never yet feared the face of man, be he who or what he may; but I often tremble—yea, I always do,—in ascending the pulpit, lest 1 should not faithfully proclaim the gospel to poor perishing sinners. The anxiety of rightly preparing and delivering a discourse, so that the preacher may fully preach Christ to his hearers, and pray them, in Christ’s stead, to be reconciled to God, is such as only he knows who loves the souls of men. It is no child’s play to be the occupant of a pulpit; he who finds it to be so may find it to be something more fearful than devil’s play when the day of judgment shall come.

Spurgeon, C. H. (2009). C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography, Compiled from his diary, letters, and records, by his wife and his private secretary: Volume 2, 1854-1860 (335). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.

Aaron, Anna, and Dylon are celebrating Aaron’s step of obedience this past Sunday morning. Aaron was baptized. He thought he was saved but at the Summit this past December God made it clear to him that he was not saved. He trusted the Lord Jesus as his Saviour and is sure of his salvation now!

Pastor Trent Cornwell baptized him on February 12, 2012 in the AM service. We are excited to see all that God is doing in Aaron’s life and also in the life of Vision Baptist Church. This Sunday Aaron became the newest member of Vision!

I hope as you read this you will follow the Lord in this step of obedience if you have not already done so!