Student Organization Fair

Hi everyone … It’s that time again and the school year is underway. Come join all your brothers and sisters in Christ at the student organization fair on Wed. September 2nd at our table in front of Coates Hall.
Also, Harvest will have its first night of worship and study in the Word this Thurs. September 3rd in Coates Hall room 145. Our speaker will be Pastor Todd Whirley. Pastor Todd is from Riverdale Baptist Church and will be preaching about the holiness of God.
We look forward to a great year in the Lord and doing all things to His honor and for His glory. See you soon!

HARVESt’s First Annual Spring BanquAt

Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.
Vietnamese Hope Baptist Church
$5 for Dinner

During this banquet, we would like to take the time to show our appreciation to those of you who have been faithfully supporting us through prayers and encouragements throughout the year.  We also want to share with you the amazing work God has been doing at LSU and in the community through HARVESt.  We hope you can join us for a night of encouragement as we reflect on God’s faithfulness to His ministry!

If you are able to attend, please let us know ASAP.  Feel free to bring your family and friends along; we look forward to seeing you there!

Follow Me

Matthew 4:19 And He said to them, “Follow Me and I will make you fishers of men.”

I want to encourage all of you at Harvest to come out to evangelism training on Saturdays.

You can see the implication in scripture is that when Christ saves someone He continues to work in them by conforming them into His image, “fishers of men”. Do you fish for lost souls?

Fishing is the business we “Christians” are to be about. If you are not baiting your hook, casting into the waters and enticing sinners to be saved you might need to inspect the boat and talk to the captain of the ship!

Jesus said, “He will make us fishers of men”. Do you fish?

Fish do not catch fish. Fishermen catch fish.
Sinners do not win souls. Saints win souls.
If we march in Satan’s army we have no hope to defeat it.

Evangelism starts with your soul. Let me ask you, is it well with your soul? If it is bait your hook and throw out the line … Come fishing with us Saturdays at 11:00.

True Church Conference 2009 continued …

WOW … all I can say is praise be to God for His grace, His glory, His sovereignty and most of all His Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

The True Church Conference is underway! Over 1000 in attendance and Conrad Mbewe preached the first message last night, “The Radical Depravity of Man.” You can hear the message at www.sermonaudio.com.

I have read, quoted and studied Romans chapter 3:9-18, but never have I heard it preached in such a way! The Word of God is truly amazing and ever impacting our lives for the glory of God. The statement in this message that affected me the most is “we (Christians / Church) do not see the reality (spiritual warfare) of what we are up against.

Brother Conrad really drove home the point that human beings are incapable of saving themselves, but not only incapable, apart from His grace they are HOSTILE enemies of God. We fail in our evangelistic efforts to realize this and oh my friends we so desperately need to recover the preaching of the truth of the Word of God.

Today we were privileged to hear the preaching and sit under the teaching of Pastor Jeff Noblit, Senior Pastor-Teacher of Grace Life Church of the Shoals (the home church of the conference). Brother Jeff preached “Grace Wrought Repentance”. The two wings by which born again believers fly … repentance and faith. Amen.

Brother Jeff brought the truth of the Word in really showing that repentance and faith are inseperable graces of God. He also said that the Word and the Spirit of God are te agencies for repentance … that is to bring men to repentance. The Word is a hammer … the Word is fire … to bring about the miracle of God. The Holy Spirit is the “active agent” (third person of the trinity and sovereign) … we are just organ pipes and God provides the wind!

We also heard from brothers Jonathan Sims, Paul Washer and Voddie Baucham … equally God centered preaching … praise the Master for His ministers.

One thing I would encourage you all to look at is Reality Check 2009 in Chattanooga, TN

Anchored in Truth Ministries is hosting the Reality Check Student Conference on June 29th through July 2nd, 2009 in Chattanooga, TN. You will benefit from 4 days of incredible teaching and wonderful fellowship. The speakers for Reality Check will include: Jeff Noblit, Paul Washer, and Paul Tripp, author of several books including Instruments in the Redeemer’s Hands. You guys and girls should strongly consider attending.

I’ll write more later. God bless all of you and I can’t wait to see you on Tuesday.

True Church Conference 2009 – Grace Life Church of the Shoals.

 

Hello everyone … this is brother Anthony Battaglia. Vinh thought it would be a good idea to post from the True Church Conference of 2009. I will attempt to give updates as it is going on. The conference starts tonight and goes until Sunday with a line-up of speakers that is unbelievable.

The topic for this year is “The Wonderful Grace of Repentance”.  Brother Craig Gremillion and I drove up to Alabama yesterday from Baton Rouge. We wanted to arrive early so things wouldn’t be as hectic as last year. Last year we got here a day late and everything was rushed. This year, it is different … we got here early … checked into the hotel and had a decent nights sleep.

We just went to Grace Life Church of the Shoals ( www.fbcms.org ) to check in for the conference and had a chance to go through the bookstore! THE BOOKSTORE IS AWESOME. Seriously, I wanted every book in there … at least the ones I don’t have.

I did buy the DVD set of this years conference, so for all of you that would like to see the conference messages, we will have to plan some times to meet and watch them.

We will be starting tonight at 6:30. Conrad Mbewe is the first preacher … he is regarded as the “African Spurgeon” and is presently overseeing the establishment of 10 reformed churches in Zambia and Botswana.

Other preachers for this years conference include Voddie Baucham, David Miller, Jonathan Sims, Paul Washer and Jeff Noblit. You can read more about these guys at www.anchoredintruth.org or just google their names.

I look forward to sharing more with you as it unfolds. This years conference is going to be powerful and we are praying that God will use it mightily for His glory. Pray that these pastors, deacons and leaders in attendance would be encouraged and strive to build not big churches necessarily, but “true” churches for His glory. Their will be over 1000 leaders from all over the world in attendance this year.

God bless you all … talk to you soon.

Running The Race

Just a heads up, we will be having our Harvest jogging fellowship every Saturday. This week we will be meeting at the flagpoles at 9:30 am and then head out to the run.

The idea of running is not only beneficial physically but it can also help us understand the race that is set before us spiritually.

As described in Hebrews 12:1-2, we have a great cloud of witnesses (mainly from chapter 11) that show us by their life the road of peseverance in faith.

What better way to help understand better the author of Hebrews then to run. Hope to see you there!

The Harvest is Plentiful, but the Workers are few…

Hi.  If you are visiting our site for the first time, we want to thank you for dropping by.

Harvest Campus Ministry is a ministry serious about God’s glory and what he has done through Jesus Christ.  Our goal is to equip you with the Word of God and live lives worthy of the calling we received (Ephesians 4:1).  This involves areas of worship to God, accountability among the community, and evangelism to an unbelieving and dying world.

We meet every Tuesday at 7:30 pm in Coates Hall room 145.  We would love for you to come out and visit.  If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at harvestlsu@gmail.com.

Upcoming Events for Harvest

Tuesday (1/13)
After Harvest, join us as we head on over to REGINELLI’S PIZZERIA for some fellowship and a bite to eat. (124 W. CHIMES STREET)

Saturday (1/17)
Play, picnic, and prayer on the Parade the grounds. Join us at 10 am on the parade grounds for some time of fellowship to welcome everyone back for the semester.

Monday (1/19)
PHO-llowship and movies. This Monday we will be grabbing PHO and then heading over to Sophia’s house to watch Facing the Giants. The time will be announced at the meeting.

Wednesday (1/21)
Student organization fair. We will be having the student organization fair in Free Speech Ally between 9 am to 2pm. Let us know if you are able to come out this day and help us. We will passing out Gospel Tracts along with information about Harvest. Please pray and join us if you are free.

The Master’s Seminary – Top 50 Books for Every Christian’s Library

Often, the question comes up, what is a good book to have for Christians?  If you go to the local christian store, there is just a plethora of material out and how could we discern what is good and wise to spend our time reading?  Well, here is a list of the top 50 books that every Christian should have in their library. Feel free to look some of these up to enrich, engage, and encourage our minds on the things of God instead of the mindless and senseless entertainment that too commonly happens around us.  Take up and read your bibles!

Top 50 books that should be in every Christian’s library

1. A text only Bible
2. The MacArthur Study Bible by John MacArthur
3. New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance edited by Robert L. Thomas
4. The MacArthur Topical Bible by John MacArthur
5. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words by W.E. Vine
6. Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible edited by Walter A. Elwell
7. The Moody Bible Atlas by Barry Beitzel
8. How to Interpret the Bible for Yourself by Richard L. Mayhue
9. The Greatness of the Kingdom by Alva McClain
10. Bible Exposition Commentary by Warren Wiersbe
11. Wycliffe Bible Commentary edited by Charles F. Pfeiffer and Everett F. Harrison
12. Survey of Old Testament Introduction by Gleason A. Archer
13. New Testament Survey by Merrill C. Tenney
14. A History of Israel by Walter C. Kaiser
15. New Testament History by F.F. Bruce
16. Wycliffe Historical Geography of Bible Lands edited by Charles F. Pfeiffer and Howard F. Vos
17. The Moody Handbook of Theology by Paul Enns
18. Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties by Gleason A. Archer
19. The Battle for the Beginning by John MacArthur
20. Scripture by Robert Saucy
21. Seeking God by Richard L. Mayhue
22. The Gospel According to Jesus by John MacArthur
23. Who am I? by Robert L. Thomas
24. Our Sufficiency in Christ by John MacArthur
25. The Church in God’s Program by Robert L. Saucy

That was the first 25.  Here is the second 25.

26. Commentaries for Biblical Expositors by James Rosscup
27. Think Biblically by John MacArthur and the Faculty of TMC
28. The Bible and Archaeology by J.A. Thompson edited by Robert L. Thomas
29. Harmony of the Gospels by Robert L. Thomas
30. Evangelical Hermeneutics edited by Robert L. Thomas
31. Evangelical Dictionary of Theology by Walter A. Elwell
32. No One Like Him by John Feinberg
33. The Love of God by John MacArthur
34. Ten Lies About God by Erwin Lutzer
35. Inspiration and Authority of the Bible by B.B. Warfield
36. Ashamed of the Gospel by John MacArthur
37. Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J.I. Packer
38. Understanding Spiritual Gifts by Robert L. Thomas
39. Charismatic Chaos by John MacArthur
40. The Healing Promise by Richard L. Mayhue
41. Understanding End Times Prophecy by Paul Benware
42. The Second Coming by John MacArthur
43. Sketches from Church History by S. M. Houghton
44. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada by Mark A. Noll
45. The Biblical Basis for Modern Science by Henry M. Morris
46. Creation and Change by Douglas F. Kelly
47. Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin with Hank hanegraff
48. Apologetics to the Glory of God by John Frame
49. Whose Money is it Anyway?  by John MacArthur
50. Holiness by J.C. Ryle

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther