Pacesetters Bible School Newsletter

The report letter on the John Webb Winter Golf Tournament for 2006 is now posted.
Once again, the John Webb Winter Golf Tournament has grown in its outreach to the Pensacola community. We are proud to report that $5500 has been given to the Child Life Program of Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital! There will [...]

One of the key elements of the Bible is its stories. In our fact oriented society, we often tend to lose site of how little of the Bible is dedicated to providing us with theological propositions, and how much of it simply tells the story of people acting in relationship to God. Many [...]

This is a fairly simple and short post in this series.
If you want to see Bible study ignited in your church, you have to demonstrate it. This means the pastor and the church leadership model an excitement about the Bible. If you are having problems yourself being excited about Bible study, spend time [...]

This program that we are offering at Gonzalez UMC has now gone into its third session (of six), and my wife Jody is currently teaching the sessions, so I’ll update.
I’m always excited when we get to this part of the program because we start inviting people to listen to the Holy Spirit for themselves and [...]

Try an experiment some time when you are at the library or in a bookstore. Select a book on a topic that interests you but that you have never had the opportunity to study–even the basics. Open the book to a random page and read a paragraph. Close the book and ask [...]

I want to make a few short posts about Bible study in the church and the things that tend to prevent it. You can see some of my comments on this in my pamphlet Seven Barriers to Hearing the Word.
One major barrier to hearing the word is the elitism of some pastors and Bible [...]

Prayer training seems to be quite rare in churches. It’s possible that we generally feel that prayer isn’t something that should be taught, but rather is something that just happens. Many pastors that I’ve talked to over the last few years tell me that they had no training in prayer prior to taking [...]

My wife recently needed to activate her nursing license in the state of Florida. In order to do so, she needed to certify that she had completed a certain amount of continuing education. Pacesetters Bible School has been involved many times in providing continuing education for pastors. Many denominations require such education.
Recently [...]

On Thursday, March 9, 2006, Doris Murdoch presented the “Restoring Your First Love” mission trip to the Madison County Kiwanis Club. Doris began the program by reading Revelation 2:1-7 where the church of Ephesus is commended for its works, but reminded that it had lost focus of its first love, relationship with God. She tied [...]

Pacesetters Bible School, Inc. welcomes Consider Christianity Week to its family of educational Christian ministries.  Consider Christianity week will be celebrated April 2-8 this year.
The vision for Consider Christianity has been fostered by Elgin Hushbeck, Jr., author of the two volume set, Consider Christianity, Volume 1:  Evidence for the Bible and Consider Christianity, Volume 2:  [...]