Women’s Conferences Galore!

Praise God that the women in the Church of God love to attend women’s conferences! These assemblies offer wonderful opportunities for women to assemble. They worship, praise, teach, fellowship, and show love for one another.

I am pleased to note that they do all of this without the need of some male to “oversee” them. The holy spirit guides them into mature actions without the need of a man to “supervise” their efforts. Believe it or not, there are some who feel that women can’t assemble for a conference like this without the guidance of men!

Let’s look at three specific women’s conferences in three different parts of the country.

But first, I would like to encourage you to check out our brand new article entitled, “What is the Role of Women In the Church?” You may be surprised by the answers that we find from the Bible. If this article on women is not on our website by the time you read this blog, please be patient. It should be posted within a few days.

Back to our women’s conferences.

Hot Springs, Arkansas. A women’s conference will be held in Hot Springs from May 16 thru May 18 (Friday thru Sunday). The theme will be “God’s Greatest Gift” (I Corinthians 13:13).

The setting will be the beautiful Ouchita Mountains which should be lush and green that time of year.

For more information, contact:
Rosy Halley
501/915-8843
rosyhalley@earthlink.com

Barbara Marlowe
501/915-0538
rhmarlowe@earthlink.com


Big Sandy, Texas. About 100 women met together here in Big Sandy several weeks ago. The women who organized this conference have been involved in Women’s Conferences since 1999! The theme of their 2008 conference was “A Christian Woman’s Journey: Growing Along the Way.” Their next conference will be held March 13 - 15, 2009. The theme will be “Preparing the Bride of Christ.”
For more information, contact my lovely wife, Nancy. Her email address is Info@EastTexasWomensConference.com.


Birmingham (Fultondale), Alabama. Many women will be congregating in the Fultondale Fairfield Inn for the July 18 – 20 women’s conference. They haven’t announced the theme yet. You may contact Peggy Wooten at RayWooten@aol.com. Or call 888/985-9066.

We are grateful to all these women for the wonderful example they set when it comes to Christian fellowship! Too often, the world thinks that being obedient to God makes for a dull and boring life. Not so! Being a follower of Christ brings us so much happiness and joy! I would like to encourage all women who seek the Lord to attend one or some or all of these conferences. No matter what your age, these conferences will benefit you. They are run by sincere, dedicated women. I have known Rosy Hally and Peg Wooten for years. These sisters in Christ are working hard to serve you in this great ministry.

Reacting to Others: Churchill’s Way or Lincoln’s Way?

People have pointed out that the Dynamic Christian Ministries website doesn’t hesitate to take on the teachings of the churches of this world. Some wonder if we carry this even further by having bad feelings toward the leaders of these churches.

Let’s answer this question by looking at two prominent leaders in the English-speaking world: Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln. No one at DCM is suggesting that any of us can here in Big Sandy Texas be compared to these to leaders. We can only look to their virtues for example.
Churchill knew how to demonize his enemies. He showed utter contempt for the leaders of the Nazi party. He said they practiced “barbarous paganism.” He talked about their “aggression and conquest.” He noted that they took “perverted pleasure from persecution.” He didn’t stop there. He talked about their “pitiless brutality” and “murderous force.” And his points were well-taken in describing these evil monsters: Hitler, Himmler, Geobbels, et al.

Lincoln, on the other hand, had a different approach when he talked about his foes in the Civil War. In his second inaugural address, he stated, "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds...” (“Charity” is another word for “love.”)

Lincoln genuinely and lovingly looked at the rebellious South, not as evil monsters, but as wayward brothers! He longed for their return to the union. He lived for the day when all Americans would be reunited.

Lincoln’s example is the one that we at Dynamic Christian Ministries have attempted to follow because, when we look at people who teach and follow false doctrines, we don’t see evil monsters. We see wayward brothers. We don’t sentence them to everlasting torment in hell fire. (Listen to our broadcast on the subject of hell.) We believe that God will call these people into His truth at some time and that they will have the opportunity to accept the TRUE Jesus of the Bible some time in the future. In the meantime, we harbor no ill feelings toward them. We look forward to the day when all mankind will be united in God’s precious truth!

We will continue to teach against false teachings while extending love to and extending prayer for the world’s deceived. It is our hope that all who truly understand the Bible will follow Lincoln’s example of having charity for of our brothers who have temporarily lost their way.

We know that God will call them on His timetable. May that day come soon! Thy Kingdom come!
(For more information on what God has in store for you, check out our article, “Why Did God Create Man?”)

Fishing or Fighting: It’s Your Choice!

Nancy came home for her lunch time women’s Bible study last Friday all excited. She said that the lesson was something that I have been harping on for some time. Of course, the study booklet put it more eloquently than I did. J She told me the study booklet said, “In your church, if you are not fishing, you are probably fighting.”

What a lesson for God’s people!

Christian fellowship is important, but the fact remains that God did not call us just to be part of a friendship club where we get together every Sabbath. God called us for many reasons, but one of our main functions is to be fishers of men! And, as Nancy’s study booklet pointed out, if we are not fishing, we are probably going to end up fighting.

I have been kinda making this point for some time, but in more of a sports metaphor. Have you ever been in a locker room after a basketball team loses another game? They have lost eight in a row and the losses are becoming unbearable. They take their frustrations out on each other. They point fingers. They play the blame game. Then punches get thrown.

Local churches are similar in this regard. A congregation sees its attendance decline year after year through splits or through normal attrition. There are less people to do the things that need to be done.

“We don’t have enough Sabbath school teachers.”

“We don’t have enough people to do volunteer work in the community.”

“Our local treasury is to the point that it’s hard to afford any new projects.”

These are the kinds of problems that cause church members to develop frustrations and lash out at each other. Again, it’s like being in a locker room after the team has lost one more heart breaker.

That’s the bad news. The good news is this: Apparently, it is in our church DNA to want to evangelize and grow! It seems to be in our nature to desire to promote the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. It’s as though the Holy Spirit is prodding us to want to be fishers of men. The problem is that too many times we just never learned how to evangelize!

There’s more good news: There seems to be a new awareness in the Churches of God of the desperate need to evangelize.

So who has the answers on how to bring people to Christ? No one. God’s people are going to have to learn to do this together. But, if we prayerfully rely on God to lead us into this type of work with a pure heart, we must go on faith that He will teach us.

Three important points:

1) You don’t always see the fruit of evangelism. Sometimes your efforts to preach the Gospel affect someone that you don’t even know about.

2) You don’t own the person you evangelize. A newly-converted person does not belong to any church or ministry or group. That new person belongs to Jesus. We shouldn’t care where the new person attends Sabbath services after baptism. Instead, we should rejoice that a sinner has been brought to Christ.

3) Sheep stealing is NOT preaching the Gospel. Convincing a person to leave one Church of God to attend another Church of God is not a form of evangelism.

God’s people should be working hard to bring new people to the real Jesus. Not the Jesus who was born on December 25, who was resurrected on Easter Sunday morning, and who did away with His Father’s Law.

Let’s rejoice that we have the freedom to preach Jesus. Praise God that His truths are precious and that He is inspiring many to want to work harder to teach these truths to the world!

By the way, we just added eight more exciting articles to this website. And we answered several more Bible questions on the Bible Q&A section. I hope you will check them out.