Archive for February, 2018

BMIC MEMBER INSPIRES SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS!

Monday, February 19th, 2018

Pastor Dan Boyer has been a Business Men in Christ (BMIC) fixture since he came to speak at our monthly meeting, in 2004, during the early days when we met at the Hoogland Center. The former Air Force (20 years) veteran was (and still is) the Pastor of Community Fellowship Church in Petersburg, Illinois. It is a non-denominational Bible church and has done some great work in their town.  In 2012, brother Dan came to our monthly BMIC meeting and made an announcement which saddened us. We called him to the front of the large group of men and we laid hands on him for healing. Since then, it has been a long hard journey for our dear brother and friend and his family. Many of us have prayed for his recovery and extended kindness to his family. His extended and family and friends in Menard County have been phenomenal.

This month, Springfield Clinic – the main healthcare organization – for both in- and out-patient treatments, featured our brother and friend on not just their billboards across the region, but in a really beautiful, inspiring and powerful article on the Springfield Clinic Website. There is also a very well-done and edited video where Pastor Dan Boyer gave credit to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ….the true mark of a BMIC member, and a man of God.

 CLICK HERE TO READ THE SPRINGFIELD CLINIC ARTICLE

MEN OF GOD – LEAVE A LEGACY

Monday, February 19th, 2018
But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep His covenant and remember His precepts to do them (Psalm 103:17-18)
Leaving a good name or reputation for upright and Godly living as well as just pure goodness is the mark of a life well-lived. It is called Legacy.  The goal of every wise parent or Christian is to not just leave our children better off than we found ourselves but to set a standard towards which they may attain. (Legacy (Webster’s Dictionary) is defined as ‘something transmitted by, or received from, an ancestor or predecessor or from the past”.)
There are two types of legacy. We see the legacies of millionaires, billionaires, and celebrities, many of whom may have had a somewhat moral or even Christian compass at some point in their lives. Brittany Spears, of all people, used to sing in a Southern Baptist church choir in Texas. These people never passed on Godly teaching or values from the Bible to their children, because they themselves were never saved. What then happens is chaos, after their heirs inherited their riches. They soon fritter away their parents’ “legacy” with decadent lifestyles and immoral living. On the other hand, we have the legacy of a great American like Jonathan Edwards, who is well known for preaching the greatest sermon ever in the United States of America!
“Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God” was preached in East Windsor, Connecticut in July 1741 and was responsible for 500 new souls being convicted and being saved in one service. (Pastor Jonathan Edwards read his sermon monotone, almost without looking up, due to his near-sightedness, while holding his notes close to his face, as an aside.) Here is the legacy of Jonathan Edwards: They were able to locate and research 1,394 of his known descendants. Thirteen of them became college presidents, 65 college professors, 3 United States Senators, 30 judges, 100 lawyers, 60 physicians, 75 army and navy officers, 100 preachers and missionaries, 60 authors of prominence, one Vice-President of the United States, 80 public officials in other capacities, 295 college graduates, among whom were governors of states and ministers to foreign countries. (Source: America is Too Young to Die by Leonard Ravenhill, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Bethany Fellowship, 1979, p. 112)