FBFI 100th Annual Meeting Report

Five pictures grace the top of the 100th annual fellowship booklet. From left to right is a picture of a Black Lives Matter protest, the COVID-19 virus, President Biden walking with a military leader, and a gathering at the Lincoln monument supporting LGBTQ. In the center of those images is a picture of a church.…

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Looking Back to Think Ahead

Doug Wright Calculating your trajectory is critical if you want to reach your intended destination. By today’s standards, the technology used in the Apollo manned lunar program was archaic. It was no more powerful than a pocket calculator, but still able to guide a 239,000 mile journey from the Earth to the Moon and return…

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Celebrate Like a Christian at Christmas

Doug Wright Ephesians 4:17-18 seems like a strange passage for a Christmas message, but that was what I had chosen for a final chapel message before the Christmas break. The combined chapel was especially challenging since it included students from Kindergarten through the twelfth grades. To make matters worse, the chapel precedes the class Christmas…

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A Word for Thanksgiving

Doug Wright Luke 17:11-19 tells the story of ten men which were lepers – outcasts from society. They had a disease which not only signaled their physical demise, but it made them social outcasts. The problem was that they could do nothing to change their lot in life. Their leprosy was a condition that they…

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Should I sin more so I can love more?

Doug Wright The perception among many Christian families is that their young people are too “sheltered.” Christian parents have the idea that if their young person is exposed to more sin, they will appreciate their salvation more. In fact, Christians often have the idea that unless they have “sinned big,” their salvation is not that…

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Make Time to Pray

Doug Wright Just before Jesus walked on water the disciples had participated in the “feeding of the 5000” in Bethsaida. When the bread and fish were eaten and the fragments gathered, Jesus “made his disciples get into the boat, and go ahead of Him to the other side, while he sent the multitude away” (Matt.…

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Is Not This Jesus?

Doug Wright The Jews had a natural hesitancy to accept a person’s Messianic claim. Jesus made the audacious claim that he was the bread that came down from heaven – comparing himself to the Old Testament manna. To this claim, the Jews responded, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother…

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One Wish: Aligning my desires with God’s call

Doug Wright I Kings 5-9 records a verbal exchange between God and Solomon. That exchange, set in a dream, culminates with Solomon saying, “Give therefore Thy servant an understanding heart to judge Thy people that I may discern between good and bad [evil]. For who is able to judge this thy so great a people…

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Get it Straight! (Proverbs for Dummies)

Doug Wright Proverbs is one of the most practical books in our Bible. It is a contrast between wise and foolish behavior – surely you want to understand that! However, Proverbs could also destroy your confidence in God. I suspect that there are many believers whose faith has been undermined because they improperly interpret Proverbs.

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61 Percent Wrong

Doug Wright Winchester Star, May 24, 2013 – “The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders . . . Of the roughly 1,400 voting members of the BSA’s National Council who cast ballots, 61 per­cent supported the proposal draft­ed by the governing Executive Committee.” Those…

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