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Dave Kiehn gives a talk about lessons learned in church revitalization, including knowing who you are in Christ, prioritizing the preaching of the Word, trusting the Lord's providence, and more. Dave serves as the Lead Pastor of Park Baptist Church in Rock Hill, SC and as Pillar's Director of Ministry for the Americas.

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Talk 7 Elm Park Baptist Church (1951-1958) Part 2 Welcome to Talk 7 in our series where I'm reflecting on God's goodness to me throughout my life. Today I'm going to tell you about my decision to follow Christ, my baptism and church membership, and my call to the ministry. My decision to follow Christ As I mentioned in an earlier talk, I cannot remember a time when I did not believe in Jesus, and, when at the age of eight I was asked by my father if I believed that Jesus had died for me, my immediate answer was yes. That was, after all, what I had been brought up to believe. But there is more to salvation than believing. Jesus began his ministry by preaching, The time has come…Repent and believe the gospel (Mark 1:15). The fact that Jesus loved us enough to die for our sins demands a response. If we truly believe it, we will repent, because we will hate the fact that our sins made it necessary for Jesus to suffer and die in our place. And true repentance will involve not just being sorry. It will entail a decision to turn from our sin, and to dedicate our whole life to him. I made that decision in April 1953 at the age of fourteen. Why it took so long I'm not quite sure. I remember that when I was about eleven my Sunday School Teacher asked us if we would like to ‘ask Jesus to come into our hearts' and for some reason I didn't respond. I think that part of the reason was embarrassment. I didn't want my parents and some of my aunts making a fuss and saying how wonderful it was that David had ‘made a decision'. So what eventually prompted me to surrender to the claims of Christ and give my life to him? Of course the correct theological answer to that question is the convicting power of the Holy Spirit working through the preaching of the Word of God. And that must have been what was happening, although I didn't realise it at the time. For several weeks in Bible Class my father had been preaching on John 3:16. Week by week I was constantly challenged by the thought that, if God loved me so much that he gave his only Son to die on the cross and save me from my sins, surely the very least I could do would be to give my life to him. So the major driving force behind my decision to do just that was undoubtedly the love of God. But that was not the only factor. There was also the fear of hell. And I think that may have been what finally clinched it. I was made very aware of the reality of hell through the preaching of Evangelist Tom Rees one Saturday night in the Central Hall, Westminster. Elm Park was only an hour's journey from central London and a group of us had travelled in to hear him [1]. Towards the close of his sermon, he stressed the dangers of rejecting Christ, and when he made the appeal I knew that I should stand up along with the many others who were responding to his message. But once again I resisted. My pride was holding me back. I didn't want to make a public declaration that I was a sinner who needed to be saved.     My baptism But the next day everything changed. There was to be a baptismal service in the evening and during the day my mother asked me if I had ever thought of being baptised, and I found myself saying yes. I understood very well that her question was not merely about being baptised. It carried with it part of the significance of baptism, the confession of Jesus Christ as my Saviour, my Lord, and my God. And so that evening when the minister made the appeal at the end of his sermon, while the congregation was singing the closing hymn, I walked forward with several other young people to indicate publicly my decision to give my life to Jesus and my desire to obey him by being baptised. The next baptismal service was arranged for July 19th, so there were several weeks to wait. But that gave us the opportunity to attend weekly baptismal classes at the ‘manse', the name given to the house where the minister lived. Each week he taught us the basics about the Christian life, paying special attention to the subject of baptism, and explaining why infant baptism, which is practised in some churches, is not biblical [2]. However, there was no teaching on the baptism in the Holy Spirit, which was something I did not hear about until I met some Pentecostal Christians a few years later. Nevertheless, I did find the minister's teaching very helpful, and I think that's why, when I became a pastor myself, I decided to provide similar classes for all those wanting to be baptised. In fact, the talks that I gave were later to form the basis of the contents of my little book, How to Live for Jesus. And of course they did include teaching on the baptism in the Spirit. When the day scheduled for the baptismal service finally arrived, the baptisms took place at the end of the Sunday evening service. The minister, who was dressed in black waterproof clothing, went down into the water first. Then, one at a time, the candidates went down to be baptised and each of us was asked by name, Do you acknowledge Jesus Christ as your Saviour, your Lord, and your God? To which we replied, I do. Then the minister would say, Then on the confession of your faith and repentance towards God, I baptise you in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. He then immediately baptised us, leaning us backwards into the water, dipping us right under (because that's the meaning of the word baptise) and as we came up out of the water the whole church would sing,             Follow, follow, I would follow Jesus, Anywhere, everywhere, I would follow on.             Follow, follow, I would follow Jesus, Anywhere he leads me I will follow on. And that is something I can honestly say I have tried to do ever since. And now, 72 years later, I have no regrets. The pathway he has led, and is still leading me on, has been wonderful. It has not always been easy, but it's been far better than going my own way. God's way is always best. Church membership After baptism, the next step was to become a church member. Of course, from the perspective of the New Testament, we all become members of the church the moment we receive Christ as our Saviour. We become members of the universal church which is comprised of all Christians, those already in Heaven, the church triumphant, and those still on earth, the worldwide church, the church militant. Our membership of that church remains permanent as long as we remain Christians. But which local church we belong to may vary from time to time according to where we are living. And, of course, in any one area there may be several different local churches, which has sadly resulted in some Christians having no real commitment to any one local church and acknowledging no real accountability to any church leadership. This is why many local churches, while recognising that all Christians who worship with them are members of the body of Christ, the universal church, nevertheless insist that to be a member of their local church a person must identify with the doctrinal beliefs of that church, acknowledge their accountability to the leadership and their fellow church members, and show a genuine commitment to that church. And that was what was expected of me when, shortly after my baptism, I asked to become a member of Elm Park Baptist Church. The application process was simple. I had to ask someone who was already a member to be my sponsor. After a friendly interview he brought a report to the next Church Members' Meeting and my name, together with the names of other young people who had been baptised at the same time as me, was put to the vote. As a result we were all accepted into membership. Church membership carried with it the privilege of being able to join in the discussions at church meetings and included the right to vote, even for those of the minimum age for membership, which was just fourteen. I always enjoyed those meetings, which were held every two months. Being able to participate in decision making meant that I felt a sense of responsibility and I was constantly aware of developments in the church programme. Now I realise that different churches operate in many different ways and that some leaders are hesitant to involve the members in this kind of way for fear of the kind of unpleasantness that I have heard has gone on in some church meetings. All I can say to that is that, in my experience, the advantages of involving the people in decision making on important matters far outweigh any disadvantages. What's more, the dangers of abuse and corruption that so often have taken place when all the power is vested in a few, or even in just one person, must be avoided at all costs. I do believe that leadership should lead, and lead by example. But to be a leader is not the same as being a dictator. If you are really a leader, people will follow you. That's why, as a church leader, I have never been afraid to ask the people to endorse any major decisions made by the leadership team. But that brings me to my call to ministry. My call to ministry As a teenager, of course, my understanding of church and church leadership was very much determined by my limited experience of  Elm Park Baptist Church. Like most people then, and many people still today, I assumed that a local church must be led by a man called the minister or vicar. It was his responsibility to lead and preach at all the services and that, to do this, he needed to have received a special call from God. So when I refer to my call to the ministry I am using the expression in the way that I understood things back then. I have since come to see things very differently, and that will become evident in later talks. For now, it will be enough to say that I now understand that the word minister simply means servant and that, since all God's people are called to serve him, all God's people are in a sense ministers. But that is not to say that some people do not receive a special call to some particular area of service. In my particular case, I now realise that other people may have seen in me the potential to become a preacher long before I realised it myself. I was only fourteen when I was asked to give a short talk in the Sunday evening service at my church. It was what was called a Youth Sunday when the young people from my father's Bible class were asked to take responsibility for the service. Three of us were asked to speak for five minutes each and my father gave us help as to what we might say. That was my first experience of public speaking and, to my surprise, the following year I was invited to take on the preaching single handed. Then, another year later, I was asked to preach at the Sunday morning service. I am so grateful to the church leaders for spotting the potential that was in me and giving me the opportunity to develop it. Even then, however, although I enjoyed preaching, I did not feel any sense of call. That came when I attended a Baptist Church summer school held at Mamhead, not many miles from where I now live in beautiful Devon. Mamhead House, built in the nineteenth century regardless of cost and set in 164 acres of glorious parkland overlooking Lyme Bay and Exmouth has been described as ‘Devon's grandest country mansion'. Summer School was a holiday for young Christians which included sessions of teaching until 11:00 AM and evening meetings for worship and further teaching after the evening meal. The rest of the day was taken up with leisure activities which included trips to the nearby seaside town of Dawlish, coach trips to Dartmoor, and rambles in the countryside surrounding Mamhead. I attended Summer School there for three years in succession from 1954 to 1956. But it was in 1955 that the Lord clearly spoke to me about my future. I had completed my O Levels in 1954 and was now halfway through my A Level course and beginning to think about my future. But I wasn't particularly looking for guidance at that point as I was expecting to go to university after my A Levels and felt I had plenty of time to make up my mind.     Then, one evening, after the preacher had finished speaking and we had sung the final song, the Revd. Cyril Rushbridge, who had been leading the meeting, said something like this: This isn't part of what we had planned for this evening, but I just feel that the Lord wants me to tell you how I felt my call to the ministry. He went on to explain that he had had no dramatic experience like Saul on the road to Damascus but described in a simple way how he had ‘received his call'. Unfortunately, I can't remember the details of what he said. All I can tell you is that when he had finished speaking I just knew that God wanted me to be a minister. And to clinch it, Kathleen O'Connor, a girl from our church came up to me as soon as the meeting had finished and said, David, do you now know what God wants you to do with your life? To which I replied, Yes, Kate, I'm going to be a minister. I later went and spoke with the Revd. Rex Mason, a graduate of Regent's Park College, Oxford, who had been the preacher that evening and asked for his advice. He had read English (I think) at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, before going on the read Theology at Regent's Park. He recommended that I do something similar, widening my outlook on life by taking a degree in something different before concentrating on Theology. The next thing to do was to let my parents know what had happened and, as I was away at Mamhead for at least another week, I sent them a postcard saying something like, I hope you don't mind, but I've decided to be a minister! And when I got home they told me something they had never told me before. They had prayed for this from before I was born. I also told my minister, the Revd. Leslie H. Moxham, about my call to the ministry and asked if there was anything I could do immediately to start to prepare for what God was calling me to. And he suggested that I start attending the midweek Prayer and Bible Study meeting, something I had not done because of all my other commitments to church activities. So I did what he suggested and was not disappointed. He was a great Bible teacher and I learnt a lot in those meetings, even though, as I have already mentioned, the number of meetings got me into trouble with my History teacher at school. So looking back, I am very grateful to God for my years at Elm Park Baptist and, although I was to move on when I was baptised in the Spirit in 1959, my remaining years there were to prove some of the most exciting and significant years of my life. But that's the subject of the next talk.   [1] Incidentally, in the years that followed we also went several times to hear Billy Graham during his visits to Haringey, Earls Court, and Wembley Stadium. [2] Please see Chapter Thirteen of You'd Better Believe It where I show the biblical reasons for saying this.

Hello and Welcome in to another episode of A Pastor and His People. Join us as we learn more about one of our member here at Park Baptist Church

Talk 6. Elm Park Baptist Church (1951-1958) Part One   Welcome to Talk 6 in our series where I'm reflecting on God's goodness to me throughout my life. In the last two episodes I have been talking about my experiences at Brentwood School. Today we're turning to my time at Elm Park Baptist Church.   One great advantage of being a day boy rather than a boarder at Brentwood School was that I was free on Sundays to attend church. It also meant that I came into regular contact with girls, something which was seriously lacking for boys who were boarders.   This, I think, was quite important for me because, as an only child, I had no sisters, but at least through the activities of the local church I was able to form healthy relationships with the opposite sex. In fact I suspect that as a teenager the girls were one of the attractions of going to church! And at Elm Park Baptist there were plenty of activities to choose from. So let's begin by talking about the church programme.   Church programme Unlike many churches today where there is only one meeting on a Sunday and another, perhaps, during the week, at our church something was happening every single day of the week. Of course, Sunday was the busiest day. From 10-11am the Boys' Brigade held their Bible Class. From 11-12 there was the Morning Service.   In the afternoon there was Sunday School from 2.30-3.30 and again from 3.30-4.30, the numbers attending being so great that two separate sessions were necessary. For teenagers there was Bible Class (taught by my father) followed by a discussion group for young people held between 4 and 5pm.   Very often we stayed at church for tea in order to be there for the 6.30 Evening Service which was then followed by a ‘sing-song' at about 8pm. In fact, apart from going home at lunch time for the traditional Sunday roast prepared by my mother, as a teenager I was at church from 10am to 9pm every Sunday.   During the week, meetings for young people included the Boys' Brigade, the Girls' Life Brigade, the Young People's Fellowship (YPF), and the Youth Club. For adults there was a midweek meeting for Prayer and Bible Study conducted by the Minister, and there were separate men's meetings and women's meetings too. All these activities took place on church premises. There were never any home groups in those days. That was something that became popular in the 1970s.   My personal involvement I was personally involved in most of the activities I've just mentioned. This was not the result of any parental coercion. I just wanted to be there and, as I have already mentioned, on Sundays I was at church for almost the whole day. This was from the age of 14 until I was about 17.  It was largely through my father's teaching in Bible Class on Sunday afternoons that I decided to give my life to Jesus – but more of that later. Dad was a gifted preacher and teacher, and the majority of the thirty or more young people attending Bible Class made decisions for Christ as a result of his ministry. Whenever there was a baptismal service on a Sunday evening, Mum and Dad would invite three or four young people to come for tea after Bible Class and then go on to the service after tea.   Over the years, many of those young people responded to the appeal at the end of the service and walked forward to indicate that they were giving their lives to Jesus and would like to be baptised. One of those young people was my friend, Don Campbell, who emigrated to Australia and, when I last heard from him two or three years ago, he was still attending a Baptist church over there.   Apart from the Bible Class I attended on Sunday afternoons, I also went to the Boys' Brigade Bible Class every Sunday morning. The Boys' Brigade was found by Sir William Smith in 1886. If I remember it correctly, its purpose was: The advancement of Christ's kingdom among boys, and the promotion of habits of obedience, reverence, discipline, self-respect, and all that tends towards a true Christian manliness.   As well as the Sunday morning Bible Class, our company, which was known as the Second Hornchurch Company of the Boys' Brigade, held two other meetings each week. Tuesday evenings were dedicated to drill practice, where, after we had been inspected to ensure that we were smartly dressed and our uniforms were being worn correctly, we learned how to stand to attention correctly, to salute the Lieutenants and Captain, and to do basic marching manoeuvres both individually and as company.   When I was seventeen and had been promoted to the rank of sergeant I was awarded the N.C.O's Proficiency Star after demonstrating that I could give the correct commands for the Company to make these manoeuvres on drill parade.   Of course all this was exactly the same kind of thing the other boys at my school were doing in the CCF and I realise that some might see my being in the Boys' Brigade as quite inconsistent with my refusal to join the CCF on the grounds that I was a conscientious objector. However, unlike the boys in the CCF, in the BB we were not taught to use military weapons.   On Fridays, time was given for more recreational activities, and opportunity was given to learn to play the bugle or a drum. After a couple of attempts at making the right sound come out of a bugle – it's by no means as simple as just blowing – I decided it wasn't for me. This was partly because at the time I found it difficult to sing in tune and I reasoned that if I couldn't sing properly I probably wouldn't be able to keep in tune on the bugle either! And sadly all the drums were already allocated to other boys.   But perhaps the best thing about the BB was its annual camp. This took place every year during the school summer holidays. Wherever it was held, it was always within walking distance of the sea. My first camp was a great adventure for me as, at the age of twelve, I had never been away from home without my parents. It was held in Mudeford on the south coast of England, and I loved it. I went to BB camp on six occasions, Mudeford (1951), Highcliffe in Dorset (1952), Walmer in Kent (1953, '54, and '55), and Corton in Suffolk (1956).   It was fun sleeping in a field with six other boys in a tent, each with a straw-filled sack called a paillasse (pronounced pally ass!) as a mattress, your kit bag as a pillow, and only a couple of rough, rather itchy, blankets to keep you warm. If sleeping-bags were invented back then, we'd certainly never heard of them! I say it was fun, and it was, just rather uncomfortable fun.   And, of course, the first night we hardly slept. And when we did finally get to sleep it wasn't long before we awakened by the musical notes of the bugle playing Reveille. Time to get up, get washed and dressed and go to the toilet. The toilets or ‘latrines' were just holes in the ground dug the day before by the ‘advance party' who had travelled down earlier to prepare the camp site, and the washing facilities were just metal bowls of cold water on trestle tables.   Every day was punctuated with a variety of bugle calls summoning us to ‘fall in' (form a line outside our tents), or telling us that the next meal was ready, and so on, until the final call of the day, which was ‘lights out.' Apart from mealtimes, activities included getting your tent ready for ‘tent inspection' each morning, doing chores like peeling potatoes (otherwise known as ‘spud-bashing'), going down to the beach for a supervised swim, leisure activities such as football and cricket, and a certain amount of free time.   There were also various devotional activities, like a service in the marquee on Sunday mornings and, if I remember correctly, a Bible reading and short word from the camp padre after breakfast on other days. But for most boys, the majority of whom did not come from Christian homes, the ‘religious' bits were something you endured rather than enjoyed in order to be allowed to join in the fun that the other aspects of BB had to offer. In fact, as far as I know, sadly, very few of the fifty boys in the company ever made a decision for Christ.   The benefits for me, however, were inestimable. BB instilled in me the need for personal discipline and loyalty. It gave me the opportunity to mix with boys who were from a very different social background from most of my friends at Brentwood School. It gave me experience in leadership, and it taught me a great deal about how to organise a camp – something that was to prove very valuable when later, in pastoral ministry, I was able year after year to run a Youth Camp for up to 150 teenagers where we saw dozens of young people saved and filled with the Holy Spirit. But that's a story for a later talk.   Apart from the uniformed organisations like the BB and the GLB (Girls' Life Brigade, a title later to be abbreviated to Girls' Brigade), there were three other weekly opportunities for young people to meet together.       I have already mentioned the teenage Bible Class led by my father on Sunday afternoons, but I also attended the YPF (Young People's Fellowship) on Friday evenings and Youth Club on Saturday evenings.   YPF was an opportunity for young Christians to meet together to worship the Lord, pray, share testimonies, and learn from the Word. There was also plenty of time for discussion, which was something I particularly enjoyed. It took place in what was called the parlour, which even then was a rather old-fashioned term for a lounge. This was at the back of the church building, right next to the kitchen, so conveniently situated for making hot drinks at the end of the meeting.   The Youth Club was primarily intended to be an opportunity for evangelism. Held in the Youth Hall, part of the church's property but separate from the main building, it provided facilities for table-tennis, snooker, darts etc. and was followed by a fifteen-minute epilogue which included a hymn, a prayer and a short message.   Looking back on it, I think that, although it was valuable as a means of keeping young people off the streets, Youth Club was not an effective tool of evangelism. Most of the forty or so young people who came to it never came to any of the other church activities and I cannot remember any who became Christians as a result of it.   But that is not to say that such activities can never be effective. Perhaps if it had been led by someone with a clear evangelistic gift the results might have been very different. I was later to learn that for effective evangelism there is no substitute for the power of the Holy Spirit. That is what will attract people to Jesus, and that is what will keep them going on with God. But that's a subject for later.   Next time I'll be sharing how at Elm Park Baptist I first dedicated my life to Christ, was baptised, became a church member, started to preach, and felt God calling me to become a minister of the Gospel.    

Recent studies show that 9 out of every 10 churches need some form of revitalization. In the latest episode of the N.C. Baptists' Podcast, hear from a panel of guest speakers about how they've seen revitalization bring life back into churches.  In this episode, hear from a panel of ministry leaders featured at the recent Reconstruct Conference as they discuss the variety of methods for church revitalization, including church fostering, merging and replanting. Hear powerful testimonies of how God is using revitalization efforts to grow and strengthen His church. List of panel speakers include: Ben McRoy, mobilization pastor; Faith Baptist Church, Youngsville Dave Kiehn, lead pastor; Park Baptist Church, Concord Joey Baynes, lead pastor; Restoration Church at the Rock, Greensboro Randy Titus, executive pastor of worship services; Mercy Hill Church, Greensboro Jonathan Yarboro, executive pastor of sending; Mercy Hill Church, Greensboro Aaron Wallace, lead pastor; Hephzibah Baptist Church, Wendell John Wilson, associate pastor; Hephzibah Baptist Church, Wendell Mark Gray, N.C. Baptist contractor for the Church Revitalization Team

What does it take to bring struggling churches back to health? In this episode of the N.C. Baptists Podcast, hear from revitalization ministry leaders about the ways churches can be on mission together to see dying churches transform and flourish. In this episode, Terry Long, N.C. Baptist church health and revitalization coordinator, sits down with Ben McRoy, mobilization pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Youngsville, and Dave Kiehn, lead pastor of Park Baptist Church in Rock Hill, S.C. Together, the three discuss their stories in church revitalization, how to be on mission to bring churches back to health and more.

Hello! Welcome to the Park Baptist Church sermon review podcast. Each week we talk about the previous Sunday's sermon. We go through the text, ask questions, and look for more ways to apply the text to our lives. If you have questions about Sunday's text, or something from the sermon you want expounded upon. Please feel free to contact Pastor Whit at whit@parkbaptist.org

This week on A Sermon and His People, Pastor Victor breaks down for us the end of Acts 26. We discuss evangelism, figuring out who is actually imprisoned, and Paul's insanity. If you have any feedback for this sermon review podcast for God's people at Park Baptist Church, please let Pastor Whit know at whit@parkbaptist.org. If you have any questions or things you want discussed from that weeks sermon feel free to email as well. 

This week on 'Pastor and His People' we talk about worthy investments, encouraging others, and more as we follow Paul on his travels. On Pastor and His People, we sermon review that weeks sermon at Park Baptist Church and attempt to draw out more applications from the text. If you have a question or want something discussed more please contact us at John.whiteaker07@gmail.com

This episode features Dave Kiehn, author and pastor at Park Baptist Church in Rock Hill, S.C., discussing the role of pastoral authority.

Malaquías 1 Mensaje predicado por el Pastor John Whiteaker el Domingo 25 de Abril del 2021. Traducido por Roberto Blanco.Park Baptist Church en Español - 717 E. Main St Rock Hill SC 29730

Most Christians are unaware that John Newton's Amazing Grace was associated with more than 20 melodies before an American composer William Walker set it to the tune known as New Britain, which is the version most frequently sung today.Clearly the song's first verse is lifted from the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. In this parable, Jesus declares there is great joy when things that are lost are now found.

“It’s Christmas Time” from Matthew 1:18-25 by Pastor Rick Murray on December 22, 2019

“The Christmas Code” from Luke 2:10 by Pastor Rick Murray on December 8, 2019

“Series on Heaven #6: Marriage of the Lamb” from Revelation 19:6-10 by Pastor Rick Murray on November 24, 2019

“Series on Heaven # 7: Heaven’s Glorious City” from Revelation 21 by Pastor Rick Murray on December 1, 2019

Evening service with guest pastor Dave Kiehn, from Park Baptist Church in Rock Hill, SC.

Message by Derrick Miller and Glenn Wade, given on January 6, 2019. Visit www.MakersChurch.org for more information.

Please join Devin and Melissa Pellew as they discuss topics in apologetics, theology and biblical worldview issues. Today we are re-airing a popular episode from April 2014. During our first segment we interviewed Rev. Dave Kiehn, Pastor of Park Baptist Church in Rock Hill, SC. Rev. Kiehn graduated with a B.A. in Intellectual History from the University of Pennsylvania and received his Masters of Divinity at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and joined us to discuss the need for sound theology and biblical preaching from our pulpits. In the second segment, we were joined by Dr. Jay Richards of The Discovery Institute as we discussed the controversial science documentary TV series, "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey", presented by Fox and National Geographic starring  astrophysicist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson.   Dr. Richards is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Wealth, Poverty, and Morality at the Discovery Institute. Between his roles as a contributing editor of The American at the American Enterprise Institute, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and research fellow and director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute, Richards has authored many books, including "Money, Greed, and God," "The Privileged Planet" and "God and Evolution." His newest book, co-authored by James Robison, "Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom Before It’s Too Late". Richards is the executive producer of several documentaries, including The Call of the Entrepreneur and The Birth of Freedom. He has a B.A. with majors in political science and religion, an M.Div., a Th.M., and a Ph.D. in philosophy and theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. His work has been covered in publications such as The New York Times and he has appeared on many national radio and TV programs, including Larry King Live.

Please join Devin and Melissa Pellew as they discuss topics in apologetics, theology and biblical worldview issues. During our first segment we will interview Stanley Vickers, who currently resides in Kentucky. He was was our first Pastor as a married couple many years ago and encouraged and propelled us into teaching and discipleship ministry. He is faithfully still serving and teaching! During our second segment, we will be interviewing our current Pastor, Rev. Dave Kiehn, Pastor of Park Baptist Church in Rock Hill, SC. Rev. Kiehn graduated with a B.A. in Intellectual History from the University of Pennsylvania and received his Masters of Divinity at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.and is currently pursuing a Ph.D in Missiology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He will join us to discuss the need for sound theology and biblical preaching from our pulpits and the issue of Church Membership. Many in our generation church hop and do not see the importance of being connected to a local body of believers. We'll dig into these issues so don't miss this episode!

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Please join Devin and Melissa Pellew as they discuss topics in apologetics, theology and biblical worldview issues. During our first segment we will interview Rev. Dave Kiehn, Pastor of Park Baptist Church in Rock Hill, SC. Rev. Kiehn graduated with a B.A. in Intellectual History from the University of Pennsylvania and received his Masters of Divinity at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.and will join us to discuss the need for sound theology and biblical preaching from our pulpits. In the second segment, we will then be joined by Dr. Jay Richards of The Discovery Institute as we discuss the controversial new science documentary TV series, "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey", presented by Fox and National Geographic starring  astrophysicist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson.   Dr. Richards is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Wealth, Poverty, and Morality at the Discovery Institute. Between his roles as a contributing editor of The American at the American Enterprise Institute, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and research fellow and director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute, Richards has authored many books, including "Money, Greed, and God," "The Privileged Planet" and "God and Evolution." His newest book, co-authored by James Robison, "Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom Before It’s Too Late". Richards is the executive producer of several documentaries, including The Call of the Entrepreneur, The Birth of Freedom, and Effective Stewardship. He has a B.A. with majors in political science and religion, an M.Div., a Th.M., and a Ph.D. in philosophy and theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. His work has been covered in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal; he has appeared on many national radio and TV programs, including Larry King Live.

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London - Surrey :: August 10, 2013 15:30

London - Surrey :: August 10, 2013 15:30

London - Surrey :: August 10, 2013 15:30