One of the best music conferences in the country is held each year at this time at The Wilds Christian Camp and Conference Center in Rosman, North Carolina (just outside Brevard.) This year, Dr. and Mrs. Trantham will be attending this conference.

If you would like more information about this annual conference, please click the logo above.

There is a terrific conference this week for our young adults. We strongly recommend that you attend this conference on Wednesday through Friday. Inter City Baptist is located 90 miles north of us in Allen Park, MI. We believe that the Lord will use this conference to draw much needed attention to the great work of the Great Commission.

For more information check out the Student Global Impact page.

Winter Camp at CoBeAc is coming up for the Calvary Baptist Church teens. If you are planning to go and have not yet registered, please contact the church office immediately. You won’t want to miss this terrific winter retreat, January 24-26.

If you need a copy of the registration brochure, click here.

Registration
Thursday from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. NOTE: Dinner is not provided, and the first session begins at 8:00 P.M.

Departure
Saturday at 1:00 P.M. (Sack lunch provided)

Program Description
Five preaching sessions, soul-stirring music, indoor broom hockey tournament, tug-of-war competition, ice events, late night activities, individual/group competitions, tow rope tubing, basketball and volleyball tournaments, free time with friends, a taco fest, and much, much more!

Cost: $65.00

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)

As part of the “Come to Calvary” project, many of you are reading Spurgeon’s book on Prayer and Spiritual Warfare. Spurgeon’s sermon “Christ the Conqueror of Satan” is a wonderful sermon to read over the Christmas holidays. We read a portion of it today as part of our family devotions. You can read it in its entirety at http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/1326.htm

I especially appreciated Spurgeon’s description of this passage:

“There lie within it, as an oak lies within an acorn, all the great truths which make up the gospel of Christ. Observe that here is the grand mystery of incarnation. Christ is that seed of the woman who is here spoken of; and there is a hint not darkly given as to how that Incarnation would be effected. Jesus was not shadowed of the Holy Ghost, and “the holy thing” which was born of her was as to his humanity the seed of the woman only; as it is written, “Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel.” The promise plainly teaches that the deliverer would be born of a woman, and carefully viewed, it also foreshadows the divine method of the Redeemer’s conception and birth. So also is the doctrine of the two seeds plainly taught here—”I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed.” There was evidently to be in the world a seed of the woman on God’s side against the serpent, and a seed of the serpent that should always be upon the evil side even as it is unto this day. The church of God and the synagogue of Satan both exist.”
This next Sunday at Calvary, we will study this Seed — the Root of Jesse, Jesus the Redeemer – as part of our Christmas series.