BTTBM JUNE 2015 UPDATE

“THE THREE TREES” at Halle Stadium in  Memphis, Tennessee where I met with the Lord and prayed most every day after jogging from  June 1977 – June 1981.

BACK TO THE BASICS MINISTRIES
JUNE 2015 UPDATE

“Keep in the Word, on your knees, loving God, loving each other,
building godly homes, worshiping together, sharing the faith,
supporting the Lord’s work financially, living life abundantly”

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100th EPISODE OF A FRESH START 

The second week of May I taped the 100th episode of A Fresh Start, which was titled “The Best Is Yet Ahead”. Praise God from whom all blessings flow! The first broadcast of A Fresh Start was the first Tuesday in November, 2009.

On network television, getting to the 100th episode is a milestone. Twenty-six new programs a year was once the standard number for most network TV programs per year, but now it has tapered down to 13 per year for some TV series. Our goal has been to tape around 16-20 new programs per year. We do not mind repeating every new program at least one other time each year because to the thousands of vacationers who view the program in a hotel, cabin, or chalet in the Smoky Mountains corridor of towns, they don’t know if a program airing is a new one or one previously aired. I do tell some of our faithful weekly viewers that we don’t show as many repeats as network programs like NCIS, Duck Dynasty, or 19 Kids and Counting, etc., so please bear with us in being good stewards of the Lord’s money and getting more than one week of airing out of each program of A Fresh Start.

We usually get four new programs from a three hour taping session, but a handful of programs have been edited without a taping session by editing portions of previously aired programs into a new program. So, to get to the 100th episode of A Fresh Start has taken about 23 separate taping sessions and $23,000.00 to cover the costs of those taping sessions. Your generosity through your financial donations to Back To The Basics Ministries has made it possible to tape those programs and to provide for the $100,000.00 it has taken to air just over a thousand broadcasts of the program on WVLR in Knoxville and WTWV in Memphis. The airings of the program on the Creative Christian Network are free. Thank you, Lord!

Click on the following link for a special preview of the 100th episode of A Fresh Start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8te30XcI5Fc

BETRAYED BY A FELLOW CHRISTIAN

The message for the 99th episode of A Fresh Start is titled “Betrayed By A Fellow Christian”. I have only preached this message twice prior to its scheduled airing date of June 11, 13, and 14. I preached it initially on Sunday morning March 29 at Fellowship Baptist Church in Hernando, Mississippi, then for a revival service at White Hall Baptist Church in Trenton, Tennessee on April 21. From the response at both of those churches and from those who heard me preach it while taping the TV program this past May 13, this message really hits home with those who hear it. I had wanted to preach such a sermon for many years, but I wanted to do so at a time when I was not mad at anyone or about anything that had happened at a church where I was serving or what had happened to one of my ministry friends.

Every Christian has been betrayed at some time by a fellow Christian, and often by one of their closest friends. I don’t really have anything profound to say about how to deal with someone who has betrayed you in some way. It is just pretty basic Bible principles that we need to follow on how to get through it. But, the first point of the message is one that does catch some off guard who want a quick fix for overcoming what devastates too many Christians, the point being that in most cases there’s nothing you can do to change their mind that caused them to betray you; only God can do it. You can, though, become better, not bitter because of it, and move on beyond it.

The following link should take you to a special preview of the A Fresh Start TV Program “Betrayed By A Fellow Christian”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV2oRZOUTj0

AT SOME TIME WE ALL NEED A FRESH START

Please help us continue to help others to make a fresh start spiritually by sending a tax-deductible donation to the address at the top of the top of the page or going to the web address listed above and clicking on the Donate link.

Blessings,

Dr. Bobby Mullins, executive director

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