Pastors often like to tease and make jokes about their deacons (some jokes are downright cruel, while others are pretty accurate!) I'll be the first to admit that there is a lot of teasing that goes around with our group of deacons here at Mountain Lake Independent Baptist Church. However, I am extremely thankful for the deacons God has given me as Pastor and to our Church. They truly are "servants of the church." One characteristic of each of our deacons is a sincere concern for the...

Matthew 4:1, "Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." God has been awfully good to us here at Mountain Lake Independent Baptist Church, and we continue to rejoice in the Lord's blessing on our Church. This past Spring (this is being penned Memorial Day, 2026), our Missions Conference and our Spring Revival were unusually blessed by the Lord. God gave us a significant increase in our Faith Promise giving; we took on two new missionary families...

Luke 10:2, "Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest." “I don’t have the gift of evangelism.” Taking the Gospel to the unsaved is not a spiritual gift, but a clear command. Every Christian has a direct command to take the Gospel to the unsaved. “God hasn’t called me to the mission field.” Fact is, every one of us live in the “mission field,” that is, the...