“If Jesus Had Not Come”

A Musical Drama by Ken Collier and Mac Lynch
Directed by Dr. Gene Trantham
Sunday, December 18, at 6:00 p.m.

One of the Lasseter family’s Christmas traditions is watching the old black and white film, It’s a Wonderful Life. A famous line in the film reads, “One man’s life touches so many others. When he’s not there it leaves an awfully big hole.”
If the absence of an ordinary human life would leave an “awfully big hole,” just try to imagine what the absence of the life of Jesus Christ would be like. His absence from our lives would not only be sad, it would be tragic, as the Lasseter family soon discovers. This musical drama causes us to consider how rich we are because Christ has come!

Musical selections include works by Felix Mendelssohn, Dan Forrest, Craig Courtney, Brigette Smisor Shevy, and Mac Lynch.

The public is welcome. A nursery will be provided.

Christmas Eve Service, 6:00 p.m.

Christmas Day Service, 9:30 a.m.

Pastor Gordon Dickson
Calvary Baptist Church
2000 Broad Ave. in Findlay (on I-75)
419.422.6842
www.glimpsesofcalvary.com

What is this all about?    Find the answers here…

the God of Heaven, and He were to ask you,

“What will you give in exchange for your soul?”

What would your answer be?

Read more…

TIME: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Guest Speaker, Pastor Jason Knight

Get ready! Here it comes! Family Camp will soon be in session here at Calvary. Each evening, weather permitting, we will have special activities for all ages on the back parking lot and soccer field.

Then, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings, we will gather in Spurgeon Hall, for some “down home fun” with games, skits, songs and funny gags. These have been the highlight of previous family camps and we know that you won’t want to miss this fun time. After the fun time, Pastor Jason Knight, our church-planting missionary, will be delivering a life-changing message!

(Click here for more details)

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This is a fascinating, scientific description of our universe from a startling perspective.

This is an Illustra Media production.

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From the website

The Search for Purpose in the Universe

Many scientists and philosophers have claimed that Earth is an ordinary speck of dust adrift, without purpose or significance, in a vast cosmic sea. Yet current astronomical evidence seems to suggest just the opposite.  We now know that a rare and finely-tuned array of factors makes Earth suitable for complex life.

Through stunning computer animation, interviews with leading scientists, and spectacular images of Earth and the cosmos The Privileged Planet explores a startling connection between our capacity to survive and our ability to observe and understand the universe. Is this correlation merely a coincidence? Or does it point to a deeper truth about purpose and intelligent design within the cosmos?

Narrated by John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings).

These Bible rallies for children will feature

Creation Creatures

Multi-media presentations, replica dinosaur fossils, Bible stories, games, songs and prizes.

Amazing migrations: Monarch butterfly
A flash of color: hummingbirds
Special creations: woodpeckers
The ugliest fish: the hagfish
God’s grossest recycler: the dung beetle
God’s record in stone: dinosaur fossils
The tiniest Mammal: the Least shrew
The amazing Pederson cleaner shrimp
Amazing migrations: the Black Poll warbler
The Australian incubator bird: Mallee Fowl
A bold fisherman: the kingfisher
What you think you see: illusions & the human eye

Dr. Whitely will begin this presentation on Sunday, March 20 at 9:30 am, 11 am and 6:00 pm. The rallies will continue Monday through Thursday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm each evening.

The Exchange is coming to Findlay, Ohio!

Pastor and Mrs. Jeff Musgrave will be conducting The Exchange evangelism seminar here at Calvary on Saturday, March 19 through Thursday, March 24. Pastor Musgrave will also be speaking in our services on Sunday, March 27.

These practical, yet dynamic seminars  have effectively trained many believers in practical, personal evangelism. We invite you to attend these meetings.

Pastor Musgrave will be speaking in our Sunday services on March 20 at 9:30 am, 11 am and 6:00 pm. He will conduct the seminar training each evening, Monday through Thursday at 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm each evening.

• How can I keep out of credit card debt?    

• How much should I have in savings?

• How do I know what insurance I need?

• What is the best way to save for retirement?

• What about Wills & Living Revocable Trusts?

Here’s help! read more…

Saturday, November 6, 2010 at Calvary Baptist Church in Findlay, Ohio.

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Proverbs 24:3-4

Calvary Baptist Church is hosting this special event at the Inn at Amish Door, a beautiful bed and breakfast in the heart of Amish Country, Friday and Saturday, October 1 & 2. The speaker for this year’s retreat is Mrs. Linda Phelps.

Please complete the registration envelope and return it with your $20 non-refundable registration fee by Wednesday, September 15. The balance for the retreat is due by September 26. You won’t want to miss this retreat!

Cost for the retreat is: Friday & Saturday:  $85,    Saturday Only:  $45

(Please make checks payable to Calvary Baptist Church, 2000 Broad Ave., Findlay, OH, 45840)

Ladies Retreat Workshops

Wisdom at workshops

Wisdom at Workshops, lovingly developed by some of our ladies at Calvary, will encourage you and give you new insight into making your home a haven filled with heavenly hope.

Delicious and Nutritious

with Ruth Furiate and Lisa Wehrly

Tired of the same old green bean casserole? Get ready for some fresh ideas for good nutrition with budget savvy.Ruth and Lisa are eager to share their knowledge and experience to inspire you to serve attractive, healthy, and tasty meals for your family.

Gifts for Keeps

with Lillian Terpening and Denise Ward

Plumb out of ideas? Spark your imagination with new inspirations in Gifts for Keeps. Lillian will share creative alternatives for resourceful, individualized, and non-traditional gift giving. Denise will share unique and attractive approaches to wrapping and presenting gifts.

How Does that Verse Go?

with Joy Logan

Wish those verses would just stay in your head? Come join Joy’s session to learn helpful, creative ways to memorize Scripture. These will inspire you to help your children and grandchildren hide God’s Word in their hearts. Proverbs 23:23 urges us to “buy the truth and sell it not.”

But He did just that.

When my family entered a Bible church for the first time, I was eight years old and unaware that I needed God.

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In that message, I referred to a previous message from Psalm 73 (“Your Glorious Reception”) located here in order to learn how to enjoy God’s Blessings, even when you feel beastly.

As part of the message on Sunday morning, I mentioned  this poem by Martha Snell Nicholson

My Advocate

I sinned, and straightway, post-haste, Satan flew
Before the presence of the Most-High God,
And made a railing accusation there.
He said, This soul, this thing of clay and sod,
Has sinned. Tis true that he has named thy Name,
But I demand his death, for Thou has said,
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. Shall not
Thy sentence be fulfilled? Is justice dead?
Send now this wretched sinner to his doom.
What other thing can righteous ruler do?
And thus he did accuse me day and night.
And every word he spoke, Oh God, was true!

Then quickly One rose up from God’s right hand,
Before whose glory angels veiled their eyes.
He spoke. Each jot and tittle of the law
Must be fulfilled The guilty sinner dies!
But wait. Suppose his guilt was all transferred
To Me and that I paid his penalty!
Behold my hands, my side, my feet! One day
I was made sin for him, and died that he,
Might be presented faultless, at Thy throne!
And Satan fled away, full well he knew
That he could not prevail against such love.
For every word my dear Lord spoke was true!

–Martha Snell Nicholson

“Sailing the Seven C’s”

Monday through Friday, August 2-6

The doctor told me that I had Multiple Myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.  How could this be? I was physically active, reasonably athletic and fairly strong.

Since I had seen my sister die from this very same cancer some ten years earlier, I thought that in a matter of months, I would die also. This is my story…

Read Bill’s story and listen to his interviews here.

The neighbor had seen him run the same stop sign many times. One evening as usual the farmer was drunk and as usual he ran the stop sign, but this time there was a car approaching with a mother, a father, and two young children inside.

I am that mother, and this is my story of how God led me to Himself.

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Sincerely,

Gordon Dickson

In the Sunday morning message on February 15, we will carefully consider that fact that every believer receives ministry abilities (called “spiritual gifts”). If you would like to study these spiritual gifts more carefully, here is a very good and thorough study of the matter. (Click here.)

Several sites on the web provide ways to look at your ministry abilities more carefully. Each of these are “weighted” according to the authors’ assumptions, but, used wisely, they can be helpful. Here is a sample.

As we learn from 1 Corinthians 4:6-7, these gifts are not to be abused by drawing comparisons. They are special abilities that are to be used to manifest the Spirit of God, 1 Corinthians 12:7.

“From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions”

by Ruth A. Tucker. © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530, U.S.A. Click this link to read the full excerpt.

Joshua Marshman

The remarkable spirit with which William Carey and his fellow missionaries approached their ministry allowed them to make tremendous progress together.