Pastor Fisher’s 10th Anniversary!
Congratulations Pastor Fisher & family! It was on June 9, 2002, that the New Testament Baptist Church of Butler installed Dr. Steve Fisher as their third pastor with a unanimous vote. We are excited about celebrating this milestone – a decade of service at New Testament Baptist Church as the senior pastor. While the church has a glorious history of proclaiming the Gospel here and abroad, the future could not be any brighter. The church continues to serve as a Gospel beacon to our community and across the globe through worldwide...
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We are pleased to announce that the Adult Choir of the New Testament Baptist Church has been asked to sing the National Anthem for a Pittsburgh Pirates home game in 2012. The Pirates’ organization has been very gracious to extend this invitation to our church’s choir. We are confident that Bro. Waterhouse will do an excellent job leading our choir. Go Bucs!
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December 4 A Man Who Wouldn’t Take “No” for an Answer Scripture: Psalm 103:1-5 The names of Carey, Marshman, and Ward are outstanding in missionary history. We have previously considered William Carey and William Ward, but Joshua Marshman deserves our serious contemplation as well. Born in a Baptist home in Wiltshire, England, on April 20, 1768, the lad knew early the message of saving grace. He possessed a voracious appetite for reading and perused everything available to him in his youth. When he was twenty-four, he moved to...
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December 3 Richard Major Watered the Plants Scripture: I Corinthians 3:1-9 During the early history of our nation, it was customary to bury the bodies of the dead in a cemetery adjacent to the church where the family were members or on the estate in the “Family cemetery.” Many of these cemeteries throughout our land have gone into oblivion, being overgrown with brush and forests or excavated for highways and high-rises. Fortunately, the estate of Richard Major, who was the subject of the entry of February 6, has been preserved and the...
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December 2 Preparing Great Men Through Great Hardship Scripture: Psalm 130 Many men who have been used mightily of the Lord went through a refining time early in life, and this process prepared them for a ministry that would stand above the mediocre. Thus it was in the life of Billington McCarter Sanders, who was the eldest child of Ephriam and Nancy Sanders. Sanders was born in Columbia County, Georgia, December 2, 1789. 1 By age nine he had lost both of his parents, but the family of Mr. Ambrose Jones provided him with an excellent...
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