Update

After only being in Andrews for a short time and helping out with the youth at Calvary Baptist, I now serve as a seminary academic advisor at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. You may continue to keep up with my family and I by going to www.dwaynespearman.org. Blessings!

Stateside

We have returned to the States after serving for four years in Lima, Peru. I am currently serving as the interim student pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Andrews, Texas until the Lord opens another door for us. Your continued prayers are greatly appreciated.

Dwayne Spearman.org: The Seven Churches

Dwayne Spearman.org: The Seven Churches: Privileged to be teaching The Seven Churches of Revelation at the Bible College this semester.

Dwayne Spearman.org: Bulletin Bloopers

Dwayne Spearman.org: Bulletin Bloopers: I've been showing these to my students for several days now and they asked me to post them. Here they are!   Thank God for church lad...

Dwayne Spearman.org: CCBC Peru

Dwayne Spearman.org: CCBC Peru: Having a great time teaching on the seven churches of Revelation this week at the Calvary Chapel Bible College.

If Sinners Be Damned

Dwayne Spearman.org: If Sinners Be Damned: “If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped abo...

My Son's Eagle Announcement

Dwayne Spearman.org: My Son's Eagle Announcement:    

Be Thou Faithful Unto Death

In today's text from Revelation 2:9-11, we will talk about how God will reward those who are faithful unto death, and how that God has a divine plan for each of us; even the Devil himself.

Dwayne Spearman.org: Filthy Dreamers

Dwayne Spearman.org: Filthy Dreamers: In today's study we take a look at a further description of the false teachers that Jude is warning us about. They are filthy dreamers, def...

A Picture of Jesus

A father wanted to read a magazine but was being bothered by his little girl. She wanted to know what the United States looked like. Finally, he tore a sheet out of his new magazine on which was printed the map of the country. Tearing it into small pieces, he gave it to her and said, "Go into the other room and see if you can put this back together.

After a few minutes, she returned and handed him the map, correctly fitted and taped together. The father was surprised and asked how she had finished so quickly. "Oh," she said, "On the other side of the paper is a picture of Jesus. When I got all of Jesus back where He belonged, then our country just came together."

Ignatius of Antioch

Just added a paper that I just finished on one of the founding church fathers: Ignatius of Antioch. Studying his life was very insightful for me. I have a new found appreciation for him, as well as many of the other ancient church fathers. They were in some uncharted waters, and much of what we know and believe today is because of them.

Dwayne Spearman.org: Why They Hate Us

Dwayne Spearman.org: Why They Hate Us: Ever wonder why the world hates Christians so much? The Bible says that it is because we are proof that they are going to be destroyed.

Dying Daily

Nothing But Jesus

Paul said in 1 Corinthians 2:1-8 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.  (2)  For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.  (3)  And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling,  (4)  and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,  (5)  that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.  (6)  Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.  (7)  But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.  (8)  None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Again, Paul didn't come with this great ability to make moving speeches. His ministry was simply to teach the Word of God simply. That's all any preachers call is.

That's comforting to me. My effectiveness isn't based on how articulate I am or how I have a deep, commanding speaking voice or how much education I have.

Zech. 4:6 "Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit says the Lord."

Heb. 4:12  says, "For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart."

The Word is alive and all I have to do is give it to you!

Almost There?

The Bible states that either God is your father or Satan is your father. Either you are in a relationship with Christ, or you're not; either you are born again, or you're not. You are either God's child, or you are God's enemy; you are either storing up wrath, or you are storing up mercy; you are either heaven-bound, or you are hell-bound. No one is in the middle. No one is "almost there."

Prayer

God does not want to get us to a place where we don't have to pray about anything, but instead to a place where we have to pray about everything.

Be Ye Separate

The world wants us to look like 'em and talk like 'em, and act like 'em, but the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 that we are to not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?  (15)  And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?  (16)  And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  (17)  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,  (18)  And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Dead Churches

I've come to understand that it takes spiritually dead people to maintain spiritually dead churches.

World Wants vs. God Wants

The world wants us to look like 'em and talk like 'em, and act like 'em, but God says through the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 6:14-18, Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?  (15)  What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?  (16)  What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."  (17)  "Therefore come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you."  (18)  "I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.

Jeremiah 8:11

What a warning this verse is for today.

Jeremiah 8:11 "They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. gPeace, peace,h they say,
when there is no peace."