Keep Reading Your Bible

Keep Reading Your Bible

The key to success is often perseverance. It is profoundly true that the size of your commitment to anything is revealed by the size of the object it takes to stop you. That is certainly true of your reading of the Bible. Here are some words of encouragement from the...
Fall 2018 Church-wide Work Day

Fall 2018 Church-wide Work Day

Fall Church-wide Work Day is scheduled for Saturday October 6, 2018 Please join us for a day of work and fellowship at BCL! Projects include roadside trash pick-up on a two-mile section of State Highway 71, trimming shrubs & spreading mulch around the outside of...
The Value of Reading Your Bible

The Value of Reading Your Bible

Alphonso Smith’s book, What Can Literature Do for Me?, states six benefits of reading. They are: 1. Gives you an outlet. 2. Keeps before you the vision of the ideal. 3. Gives you a better knowledge of human nature. 4. Restores the past to you. 5. Shows you the glory...
James Fenimore Cooper and the Bible

James Fenimore Cooper and the Bible

Webb Garrison in Strange Facts About the Bible, notes the influence the Bible on one important American author: “James Fenimore Cooper, author of the famous Leatherstocking series that constituted the first cycle of successful novels about the American frontier, had...
An English Historian and the Bible

An English Historian and the Bible

George M. Trevelyan notes in his History of England: “But though Shakespeare may be in the retrospect the greatest glory of his age, he was not in his own day its greatest influence. By the end of Elizabeth’s reign, the book of books for Englishmen was already the...
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