By Evangelist John BJ Hall This is the only picture in existence of my Great-grandma Jett, Grandma Stanfill, my mother Marylee Faye Hall and me. I don’t know a lot about Great-grandma Jett, other than the fact that she reared a daughter who became the best grandmother I can imagine. Grandma Stanfill was the most
By Evangelist John BJ Hall My father was reared during the depression and dust-bowl days in northwest Oklahoma. His family farmed a forty acre patch of sand and scrub. His father, besides being a farmer, was a mule skinner. He raised and trained mules for work. It was hard work but it built character into
By Evangelist John BJ Hall Romans 7:13 (NASB77) “…sin might become utterly sinful.” The sense here is, that by the giving of the command, and its application to the mind, sin was completely developed; it was excited, inflamed, aggravated, and showed to be excessively malignant and deadly. It was not a dormant, slumbering principle; but it
Oklahoma Baptist State Evangelism Conference 2017 was a blessing to all who participated. Some of our OCOSBE members were sick and unable to attend. And one of our speakers woke up with a fever the morning he was to preach. (We are praying for you Bro. Bobby Dannatt.) I want to take this opportunity to
By Evangelist John BJ Hall As we stand on the brink of a new year I’m convinced that more than ever we need a breakthrough in the church – I don’t mean that we need new gadgests or programs — no what we need is a Spiritual Breakthrough – we need Revival, Renewing, Re-awakening and
By Evangelist John BJ Hall The summer had been so harsh. It seemed the trees could not survive another day. Many leaves had already turned brown and fallen to the parched earth. The grass crunched underfoot as one walked. It seemed that one would suffocate by merely taking another breath. Eyes burned as a cutting
By Evangelist John BJ Hall No matter what your political leanings are, after the election November 8, 2016, many are asking “What now?” What can we really expect from the new administration? How will this change impact my life? What a new presidency (no matter what party) provides is a new opportunity, a fresh start,
By Evangelist John BJ Hall As I sit here, at my computer, writing this article my antivirus program is chugging away in the background. Its task is to scan for any virus that might have slipped in while I was looking for some information on the internet. My computer has a firewall, but occasionally some
By Evangelist John BJ Hall There once was a neighbor who was incredibly nosey. She would sit in her house and watch the mailman leave mail at her neighbor’s house. Nearly every day when her neighbor came home from work she watched as the neighbor anxiously opened a letter. The letter was always in the
By Evangelist Ernie Perkins, Th. D., D. Min., Ed. D., Ph. D. “There is no such thing as ‘a spiritual gift,’” I heard the seminary professor proclaim. “Ernie, evangelism is not a spiritual gift,” my evangelist friend said as we sit together on the plane. “Evangelism is not a spirit gift,” was the headline of