LIVING FAITH BIBLE INSTITUTE

The Living Faith Bible Institute has a heart for church planting. Our curriculum and experienced pastoral instructors and professors focus teaching on equipping men and women for the work of missions and church planting, domestically and all over the world. 

Many of our graduates are investing in this very work, one of whom is Blade Sbisa, who along with his wife and children, are currently preparing to leave their home church in Lee's Summit, Missouri, to establish another disciple-making church across the state in Saint Louis. He's heading east. Blade tells us all about that work and what God's doing in his life.

Hello Students,

We want to remind you that there is still time to enroll for second quarter classes. We have a great lineup for you!

• Apologetics (Shelby) - a course intended to instruct you in how to prove biblical Christianity and the claims of scripture.
• Prayer & Worship (Phillips) - a study highlighting the primacy of effective prayer and worship in the life of leaders and the entire church
• The Biblically Principles Church (Miles) - a leadership course that helps establish a principle-based approach to ministry intended to set your church free to own the work of ministry.
• World Religion & Cults (Reneau)- an overview of major world religions and dominant cults to help expand your knowledge for the sake of evangelism.

Also, for those of you writing essays, we are beginning to build out more writing resources for our student body. Check out our "Writing Helps" to get tips on how to write a more effective essay.

In Revelation 11, we are given a depiction of the second half of the tribulation, the moment in the end times narrative where two men, two prophets will be used to open the eyes of the Jewish people to the reality that Jesus Christ is the Messiah.

Revelation 11:3 says, “And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.”

These two witnesses will spend three and a half years performing miracles like the prophets and apostles of old – with command over the weather, power over plagues and the ability to breath fire and will even be raised from the dead!

These two unnamed men, called “olive trees” in Zechariah 4, stand tall as central figures in the story of Israel’s redemption and the second advent of Christ – but who are they? Can we know? And is it important to our understanding of the Bible?

To chat about the identity of the two witnesses, provost Brandon Briscoe has invited Sam Miles, president of the Living Faith Bible Institute and biblical studies instructor onto the show.

Since the inception of The Postscript, we have been meeting with Pastor Greg Axe, Church History instructor at the Living Faith Bible Institute, to discuss just that, the history of the church and God's work in the world through his people.

The last few times we met, we chatted about Europe during the Reformation and then the Counter-Reformation. We've discussed quite a cast of characters over the last few episodes: Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Bloody Mary, Queen Elizabeth, but today we want to discuss King James, King of England and Scotland at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century.

King James was undoubtedly a flawed man. His legacy as king is marked by peace, unity and general prosperity, as well as the sins of an unrighteous man. Even greater than these strengths and also his weaknesses, was God's determination to accomplish an incomprehensible work - a translation of the Bible that would ultimately change the whole world.

We have made a habit over the years of inviting church planters and missionaries onto The Postscript to share their testimony, along with the twists and turns of the work of church planting, which is not an easy endeavor. One such church planter is Vinnie Nigro and his wife, Megan, of First Baptist Church in New Philadelphia, Ohio.

Brandon Briscoe, the provost of Living Faith Bible Institute, has invited missionary Vincent Nigro to discuss the many ways God has shaped his heart for the mission field, as well as how he discovered Kosovo, the predominantly Muslim nation which he intends to plant a church.