Happy New Year 2013!

Happy New Year 2013!

Yes, I know that I haven't been written much blog posts this past year 2012. Yet, I can't promise for this year either. Yet, I do want to write more and to encourage you all in every way too.

Mainly, I do want to encourage you all to live your life for Christ this year all the more which is very important goal too.

Have you started your Daily Bible Reading Plan yet? If not, I would encourage you all to start this with the Lord's help. You can't do this without His help. There are many Daily Bible Reading plan out there. I have been doing this for numbers of years, but I am planning to start a whole different Bible plan for this year, so that I can focus more in His Word instead just reading through it. My plan is to focus on the book of Romans which is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Just a bite size, I just did Romans 1:1-7, this morning and will focus more through out the day and this week too. There isn't any set scripture reading schedule per day like regular Daily Bible Reading plan or checklist plan, but it is to fully focus on it as I move along in His Word.

Last year, 2012, with the Lord's help, I have read 49 books a year which is more than I expected to read. My goal is that I do hope to read at least 36 books this year (3 books a month) with His help. The truth is that I mostly read theological books. This past summer, I did read number of fictions, and that is why I had read 49 books this year. I am on Goodreads online too. I am a slow reader too, and I prefer to dig and dig as I read through theological books. If I am reading fiction, I will speed read through that book with enjoyment.

This past summer, a wonderful friend blessed me with Kindle Touch. I am so thankful for this and love it and taken it with me everywhere I go.  It is a great investment to have and a great gift to give someone that loves to read all the time. I was able to download a lot of wonderful free e-books and almost nothing to the cost to buy some great e-books. If you are on a limit budget to buy books, I would encourage you all to get an Kindle to read, and you will be amazed how much you can save by owning your very own Kindle.

There are number of Kindle that you can get. As for me, I love my Kindle Touch and wouldn't trade that in for Kindle Paperwhite, or Kindle Fire, or whatever Kindle out there. I didn't want another computer screen to read books from. I love e-ink on Kindle Touch which came out before Paperwhite did. Later, I did compared my Kindle Touch with  Kindle Paperwhite. I prefer e-ink over Paperwhite. You will have to pick out whatever that will works the best for you. Please do go to Staples or whatever store that does carry Kindle or Nooks or other e-book reader and compare them before you buy them online through Amazon or somewhere else.

Please do subscribe to get Gospel e-books email. You can find a lot of free e-books or almost no cost e-books through Gospel e-books. FYI, I  just gotten one free e-book that is Abortion: A Rational Look at An Emotional Issue by R.C. Sproul which is special today only.

Does your church have a church's library? If not, you can help them to get that started. Talk to your pastor about this. Yes, I started Christ Baptist Church's Library in the beginning of 2012 from no book to 35 books as of right now, and more books are on the way too. I can't wait to get them when they do come.  No Library budget! No problem! That is not problem, and don't worry about that! We didn't have any library budget either. How can I get the books without a budget? Here is a great news, you can start entering the books giveaway contest like I did, and that is how I keep winning them. Today, I just won another one. If you follow me on Twitter or on Facebook, you can keep up with me whatever books giveaway contest out there that I have enter and enter them. We can't win every one of them, but we can at least win some of them. I haven't yet win any Tim Challies' Free Friday yet, but one of these days when I will win them, and I will shout from the roof top when I do win them. Yes, there are a lot of books giveaway contest out there, but there are some which is no-no to enter to win them. You will have to judge whether to enter the contest or not.  Yes, I would encourage you all to start a church's library. FYI, I used Library Thing online for Church Library to keep record what books that we do have. It is free up to 200 books then one time lifetime fee which is like $25 for lifetime I think or that might have changed since then.

Here are the list of books that I had read last year, 2012:

1.       All of Grace by C. H. Spurgeon

2.       Taste and See by John Piper

3.       The Murder of Jesus

4.       Delivered by Desire by Daryl Wingerd

5.       Why God Gave Us a Book by Gene Edward Veith

6.       How to Study the Bible by John MacArthur

7.       Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die by John Piper

8.       Respectable Sins by Jerry Bridges

9.       Discussion Guide Respectable Sins by Stephen Sorenson

10.   God Has a Wonderful Plan for Your Life by Ray Comfort

11.   Tortured for Christ by Richard Wurmbrand

12.   Dug Down Deep by Joshua Harris

13.   Revolution in World Missions by K.P. Yohannan

14.   Get Wisdom 23 Lessons for Children about Living for Jesus by Ruth Younts

15.   The Visitation by Frank Peretti

16.   Poems by C.S. Lewis

17.   Monster by Frank Peretti

18.   Hangman's Curse (The Veritas Project) by Frank Peretti

19.   Nightmare Academy (The veritas Project) by Frank Peretti

20.   ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments by Rany Alcorn

21.   The Dwelling Place by Elizabeth Musser

22.   The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

23.   The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 24.   The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis 25.   Prince Caspian By C.S. Lewis 26.   The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis 27.   The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis 28.   The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis 29.   Lord Foulgrin’s Letters by Randy Alcorn 30.   Choosing Gratitude by Nancy Leigh DeMoss 31.   No Longer A Slumdog by K.P. Yohannan 32.   Weight of a Flame by Simonetta Carr 33.   What is a Healthy Church Member? By Thabiti M. Anyabwile 34.   Heaven by Randy Alcorn 35.   Modest by RW Glenn and Tim Challies (Cruciform) (e-book in my Kindle Touch)

36.   A GodWard Life by John Piper

37.   The Glory of Christ by John Owen 38.   What is the Gospel? By Bryan Chapell (TGC) 39.   The Apostle: The Life of Paul by John Pollock (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 40.   The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler 41.   How Then Should We Think by Julian M. Motley 42.   Grace Abounding by John Bunyan (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 43.   Awaiting Savior by Aaron Armstrong (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 44.   Gospel by J D Greear 45.   Cruciform: Living the Cross-Shaped Life by Jimmy Davis (e-book in my Kindle) 46.   Lies Women Believe by Nancy Leigh DeMoss  47.   Good News of Great Joy by John Piper (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 48.   The Christ of Christmas: Readings for Advent by Calvin Miller (e-book in my Kindle Touch) 49.   Innocent Blood by John Ensor (e-book in my Kindle Touch)

I do have a lot to learn and to do this year. I am looking forward for that in every way! Let us live our life for Christ all the more.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

More Precious Than Gold

I am looking forward for this wonderful Spring Conference that we do every year! Here is the link: More Precious Than Gold.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Where have I been?

Well, I know that I haven't been writing much for this month. Yes, I have been busy reading and doing odds and ends job. There isn't any thing to brag about!

This early this month, I have been to The Glory of Christ Conference. I have learned a lot during this conference that some of the churches got together as well as our church, (Christ Baptist Church of Wilson) that we do every year. Here is the link to this The Glory of Christ Conference sermons that is available online. There we got another book by John Owen that is The Glory of Christ. I am looking forward to read his book as soon as I finish reading other books. This is my third John Owen's book. I love to read his book.

Yes, I am still reading a lot of books and blogs too. I am still currently reading Girls Gone Wise in the World Gone Wild by Mary A. Kassian (I am reading this for my pleasure). I need to catch up blogging about this wonderful book. I would encourage you all girls and women and including married women too to read this wonderful book. It is a true eyes opener. I am so thankful for this wonderful book too!

The God Who is There by D.A. Carson (I am reading this with the Care Group with my Wonderful church family). I am also reading The Mortification of Sin by John Owen (I am reading this for Wednesday night at Mount Hermon Missionary Baptist Church).

Oh, of course, I have been eating His Word daily too. I am doing a lot better this year than I did last year. This wonderful Bible Reading Plan does really help me a lot. We all do need to be eating His Word Daily!

As for reading the blogs online, I do have a lot of wonderful blogs that I love to read from. Some of the blogs, I do get their email to keep me updated.

With all the talk about Rob Bell, I am currently reading or watch video what is going on and whatever blogs/video against Rob Bell's message or book too. I am trying to collect all of the blogs/video that is about Rob Bell's new book called Love Wins. I am also praying for those who believe in the false gospel will come to know the truth and come to Christ alone. Without any questions of doubt, I know that Rob Bell isn't preaching the truth.

I might be blogging more about Rob Bell or be posting post linking to a great website against Rob Bell's fault messages. We all need to be standing firm for Christ and the truth too.

I forgotten to mention about that I also have been working in my garden for this year too. I might post something on this too.

Hungry to eat His Word,

'Guerite ~ BoldLion

The Heidelberg Catechism #1

Today at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson, we all were eating Hebrews 9:27-28 (To listen to Justin's sermon on this). (Update: Here is the link to Justin's blog: 4 True Truths from Hebrews 9:27-28)

27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

Hebrews 9:27-28 ESV

And then we all are learning something new too that is Heidelberg Catechism Question #1 that I want to share with you all. I want you to think about it and understand the meaning of it too.

What is your only comfort in life and in death?

That I am not my own,
but belong—
body and soul,
in life and in death—
to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ.

He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood,
and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil.
He also watches over me in such a way
that not a hair can fall from my head
without the will of my Father in heaven:
in fact, all things must work together for my salvation.

Because I belong to him,
Christ, by his Holy Spirit,
assures me of eternal life
and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready
from now on to live for him.

Hungry to eat His Word,

'Guerite ~ BoldLion

The Trellis and the Vine Part 2!

Last night, we in our Care Group finish reading, studying, and discussing about The Trellis and the Vine. It is a wonderful book for us to read and learn a lot from it. I am so thankful that we all did this. I can see how helpful this book is for us at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson. (Back in October, I wrote a blog about reading this book in our Care Group.)

I truly to believe that every new church or little church (under 120 members) need to read this wonderful book. But again it is for every church no matter how large they are. It will be trickier for a very large church in my personal opinion to get this start. If you just start a new church, please don't put this off. You will be thankful for this wonderful book, and it will help the church in a lot of way.

All of us, believers for Christ are both disciples and disciple-makers for Christ. We all do need to point and encourage one another to Christ daily.

The growth of the number in church isn't that important but disciplining, and reaching out to others, and pointing others to Christ is far more important.

There are a lot of good resources that you can use from this. Matthias Media, The Ministry Training Strategy, Two Ways to Live

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

The Trellis and the Vine!

I am so thankful that we, at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson for the Care Group are studying and reading The Trellis and the Vine by Colin Marshall and Tony Payne. I am learning a lot there and still have a lot to learn. We just started the first chapter last night. There are 12 chapters in this book.

Here is a wonderful book review link: The Trellis and the Vine from blogger Tim Challies and in this review you will see a video clip of Mark Dever, who is the Senior Pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC. It is a great video to watch and very easy to understand him.

I would encourage you all to get this book which is available through Westminster Book. I am sorry that this book is not available through Amazon.

Please do check out their wonderful website that is Matthias Media, the publisher of this book, and you will see a lot of wonderful interesting tools in there too.

I am looking forward to learn a lot through this book and other books offer through Matthias Media.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

PS. If you do have facebook, both The Trellis and the Vine and also Matthias Media is on the facebook. Please do join them on the facebook.

Listen Up! by Christopher Ash

On Sunday, October 3rd, we, the member of Christ Baptist Church of Wilson during the member meeting got a booklet of Listen Up! A practical guide to listening to sermons by Christopher Ash. The next day, I read through out that booklet of 30 pages. I would encourage you all to get this booklet and read it.

Here is the link to an excellent review of this book: Becoming a Better Listener and of course, Tim had posted other books as well as Listen Up! in that same review.

This booklet will challenge us to keep our pastor on his toe as he is preaching His Word to us, sheep. We, sheep all do need to hold the pastor accountable as he is preaching his sermon with His Word.

4 :1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. 2 Timothy 4:1-5 ESV

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

BoldLion vs. Real Lion in Soccer Dream!

Yesterday, I had a very crazy dream during my afternoon power nap time. I was dreaming that I was playing soccer with a real Lion who like to play soccer. It was a very cool kind of dream. I wouldn't mind to do that for real! Yes, I am that crazy to think about that too!

I do love Lion and would love to have them for a pet! I am not joking about that. I had held two of them before. The first one in 1993 with my Daddy, but he didn't like it, and the second one in 2005 on my own. One of them was at 3 months and the other were at 6 months old. I would love to hold them again.

Someone in my family said that I had been watching too much of Bedknobs and Broomsticks. The answer is "No!", and I haven't seen that movies what seems like a thousand years. Really, I don't watch movies any more.

Recently, I had been very involve at the Christ Baptist Soccer Camp for Kids and had a blast to be involved in that. I was playing with 3 years old little girl and 1 1/2 little boy. I was kicking the soccer ball to them and for them to kick to me. They were not on the team with the older kids learning to play soccer. What a joy to do this for them. I know that I am looking forward to have this again next year, Lord willing!

Actually, I had watch a short video clip last year about a Lion name Christian. There is a book for A Lion Called Christian. I haven't read that book but have seen it.

Do you ever get a very crazy dream something like this or different but crazy?

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

God Revealed Conference!

I am so thankful that I was able to attend all of the God Revealed Conference! I had learned a lot through this wonderful conference. I do want to encourage you all to listen to this on audio online and read some of the blog that is related to this wonderful conference.

Here is information about this God Revealed Conference. (This is up for a little while).

To listen to all of the conference please go to this link: God Revealed Conference Audio

As far as I know there are two blogs about this conference that you can read.

Justin Childers on The Knowability of God (The outline of his sermon.)

Justin Nale on The Doctrine of the Trinity (This is a very long one and not just the outline.)

I know that I am always looking forward for the next conference to go to and just can't wait for this. Please do continue to pray for this wonderful godly man who does desire to continue to preach His Word and to share with us.

I want to thank to all of them for this wonderful conference, and their time to do this conference, and preaching His Word. HT: Justin Childers, Justin Nale, Jonathan Brooks, Jason Gault (I don't have his blog link yet, and Lord willing, I will post his blog link on this.), Jim Upchurch, and Dan Rolfe.

If you don't have any church home, please do come and taste and see that the Lord is good at one of their church or come to Christ Baptist Church of Wilson.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Don't Waste Your Life By Not Eating His Word!

Yes, we can't afford to waste our life by not eating His Word daily.

Just because we all were snowbound and worship service was cancel due to the danger on the road. This doesn't give us the excuse to skip the worship at home. I am thankful for the opportunity for this to teach me a lesson today. I am also thankful that Justin Childers, our pastor at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson had email us that worship service had to be cancel, and he also gave us an assignment what we should be doing on Sunday morning.

Our assignment was to read the entire book of Philippians and be praying for our members of CBCW along with Philippians 1:9-11. I also did pray for the regular attender as well as the members of CBCW. Sing some songs of the faith. And also to listen to one of his sermon that we had missed. What a wonderful time I had this morning. Thank you, Justin for having us to do this at home. I do thank the Lord for you.

Now, on the other subject again about Don't Waste Your Life By Not Eating His Word.

It isn't too late to start reading your Bible daily and meditation daily too. Last year, I did read the whole ESV Bible daily, and I am doing this again this year in NASB (New American Standard Bible) and with meditations (Taste and See by John Piper) for the first time this year. I can tell you how bless I was to do this and still am thankful for the time to eat His Word daily. I would encourage you all to do the same thing. If I can do it, then you can do it.

We all need to be hungry to eat His Word daily! It is YUMMY to eat His Word and reviving the soul.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Eating Micah!

Yes, I am eating Micah. Last night and since the first Tuesday night of September, I had been eating, and studying, and eating, and studying Micah for Women's Bible Study! I am finding it very challenging book to eat and study. The Lord is so good! I am so thankful for Bible Study. The name of our Women's Ministry for Bible Study is called Grace Group and Front Porch Fellowship too.

There are another part of the Women's Ministry that is Lunch Bunch Book Study. I am not involve in that as I wish that I am because I am having to work during that time. They will be reading Outrageous Mercy by William Farley.

Are you involve in any Bible Study? We ought to be involve in Bible Study!

If you are in Wilson area, I would invite you, women to be involve in the Grace Group and Front Porch Fellowship with us.

If you are not in Wilson area and not involve in Bible Study, I would encourage you all to be involve in Bible Study Group in your church family if there is one for you. If not one, I am sure that you can be involve in Bible Study at the other church and still be able to go to your church. Or you can go to Bible Study Fellowship, BSF if there is one near by.

If you don't have a church home, please do find one. If you are in Wilson area, please do come, and taste, and see that the Lord is so good at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson.

Let us continue to eat His Word and lives our life for Christ.

Hungry to eat His Word,
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

What books am I reading?

What book(s) are you currently reading in these three categories: (a) for your soul, (b) for biblical study or (c) for personal enjoyment?

For my soul, I am still currently reading ESV The One Year Bible for my Daily Bible Reading every night.

For Biblical Study, I am reading Bible Doctrine by Wayne Grudem for Tuesday Morning Theology Breakfast. Also I just started to work on Bible Study on Galatians for the summer.

For my personal enjoyment, I am currently reading Ben Hur: A Classic Story of Revenge and Redemption by Lew Wallace. (I got this book as a gift, but I can't find this copy online but a different version of it online.)

There is a lot of other books that I would want to read them right now! I got a lot of books on hand that I haven't read yet. Number of John Pipers and other books that I have gotten.

I had finish reading The Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English by John Bunyan, and I really enjoy reading this book! It is not too King James to read it.

Recently, I finish studying 1 and 2 Peter for Bible Study with the Grace Group that we meet together once a month expect for the summer time. I have learned a lot. I did miss some nights that I had to go to work. OUCH! I don't like to miss a night of this wonderful Bible Study.

Hungry to eat His Word and learn more!
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Psalm 119 and Challenge to Memorize His Word!

Yesterday, I was so blessed to hear three sermons on Psalm 119 and the whole thing! Yes, it is a longest Psalm.

It was divided into three parts (four parts). (The link to portion of the Psalm is to read the Psalm online, and the link to the title of the sermons is to download and listen to it online.)

All the passage is from ESV (English Standard Version) and http://www.esv.org/ which is one of my favorite Bible translations.

The first part is Psalm 119:1-48 as a daily Psalm reading.
Tim Dale, our elder of Christ Baptist Church of Wilson (CBCW) preached from Psalm 119:49-96, Profitable Plan.
Justin Childers, our pastor and elder preached from Psalm 119:97-136, Challenge 2009: Love God's Word. Here is Justin's blog about Psalm 119 Sunday.
Jonathan Brooks, our associate pastor and elder preached from Psalm 119:137-176, Great Peace.

Here is another Great Challenge for us this coming year 2009. We will continue to memorizing His Word.
1) We will finish memorizing John 15.
2) We will memorize Isaiah 53.
3) We will memorize James 1.

Here is the link to Justin's blog about Memorizing God's Word Together in 2009.

Early this year 2008, we had memorized Psalm 96, and John 14, and still currently working on John 15. Last year, 2007, we had memorized Psalm 34 and Romans 8.

Let us eat His Word this coming year and many years to come!
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Thank you, my wonderful Church family!

I do want to thank the Lord for a wonderful church family that came out here on Saturday, Dec 6th. They came to help me to fix the dog pen, so that my dogs will not have to be on tie-out or can't escape from the pen, and also fix the hole where the dogs had been digging to get out of the pen. They also had fix barn door which was broken. They also did a lot of yard work (1 acre) and house work too. This was a lot of work to do. They all did a great job and more than I deserve to get.

It is a true blessing to have a wonderful church family that is willing to help me. It is far better than I deserve because I don't deserve such a wonderful blessing from them.

They also gave me some food including a lot of Dark Chocolate (Do I need to plead guilty for Dark Chocolate?), books, and 3 gift cards (one for food, book, and gas).

The best present of all is their love to help me out!

I would encourage you all to do this for your church family who does really need your help. Or you can do it for your friends that doesn't go to church to shower them the blessing from the Lord, so that they will see Christ in you.

Thank you! Justin, Jonathan, Lori, Hannah, Madeline, Lisa, Sheryl, Bill, Anne, Steve, Glenna, Blayne, Jeff, Josiah, Kristen, Alyse and Emma. (I do hope that I didn't miss someone out of this. If so, please email me to correct it.) It seems like there were more than 17 of them at my place to help me out. What a wonderful blessing to have them to help me out. Also thank you to the other who would have come but couldn't, but they did pray for the wonderful time and safety for all of us.

This is one of the best Christmas present that I have received. The best of all is Christ Himself.

May the Lord Bless You always!
'Guerite ~ BoldLion

Justin Childers, my wonderful Pastor!

I got this challenge to write this on my blog about Justin Childers, my wonderful pastor at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson, from Abraham Piper's blog, who is the son of John Piper of Desiring God.

There are so many reasons why I am so thankful for Justin Childers, my wonderful pastor.
1) He is always hungry to eat His Word. Jer. 15:16
2) He does preached Bible-Saturated ~ His Word. 2 Timothy 4:2
3) He does preached God-centered Focus, Christ-centered Focus, and Cross-centered Focus. 1 Cor. 1:23a, 1 Cor 2:2
4) He does preached expository and not story-telling way.
5) He does encourage us to apply His Word to our life for Christ by sharing what the Bible had to say.
6) I am ever hungry to learn from Justin what he had learn from eating His Word.
7) I always look forward going to church and knowing that I will be hearing the Word and applying to my life.

There is so many to list why I am so thankful for Justin.

Thank you! Justin for being our pastor at Christ Baptist Church of Wilson. Also thank you for preaching His Word every Sunday and Wednesday night.

We at the small care group, (my pastor is in another small care group), always love to talk about how much you had pointed out the passages that hadn't gotten our attention before. We all have learn so much about His Word through your wonderful sermons.

Again, Justin, Thank you for leaving Texas and bigger church to come to Wilson, NC (which seems to be a very small city) to be our pastor and start a new church when there were just a handful of people (9 of us). (I believe there were 7 of us, but I counted 9).

I would encourage you to listen to his wonderful sermons and read his wonderful blog too.

Hungry to eat His Word!
'Guerite ~ BoldLion