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Monday, March 18, 2013

11th Annual Wayside Weekend Bible Conference


Wayside Gospel Chapel is hosting its 11th Annual Weekend Bible Conference Saturday, June 1st, and Sunday, June 2nd, 2013. Two sessions are scheduled for Saturday evening beginning at 5:00 p.m. with a Fellowship Dinner between sessions. The closing session of the Conference will be the Sunday morning worship service beginning at 11:00 a.m.

David B. Morris will once again be expounding the Scriptures at Wayside. David is no stranger to Wayside Gospel Chapel as this is his tenth visit as our featured Bible Conference preacher.

Pastor John T. "Jack" Jeffery (left) with Pastor David Morris (right)

David studied Classics and Linguistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, following his conversion in 1973. After nearly twenty years of pastoral ministry, he entered an itinerant ministry of evangelism and conference speaking. He and Terri, his wife of 32 years, have six children.

David has ministered in the past at:
1) the John Bunyan Conference (New Ringgold, and Lewisburg, PA);
2) the International Baptist Conference (Toronto, Canada);
3) the Sovereign Grace Bible Conference founded by Elder D. J. Ward, Main Street Baptist Church (Lexington, KY); and most recently at, 
4) the Center for Pioneer Church Planting of To Every Tribe Ministries (Los Fresnos, TX).

Many of his sermons are available on SermonAudio.com at David Morris [accessed 18 MAR 2013].

Pastor David Morris (left) with Pastor John T. "Jack" Jeffery (right)

Don't miss this opportunity to gather at Wayside as we are ministered to by this gifted preacher and teacher of God's Word! Please contact Pastor Jeffery if you plan on attending Saturday evening to assist with planning the dinner at waysidegospelchapel (at) yahoo (dot) com.

Friday, March 1, 2013

Conference Manuscript Now Available

The link to the manuscript of the material delivered at the Conference is now available as a  PDF file at
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13946111/Cessation%20of%20Tongues%20-%20Termination%20of%20Signs%20of%20Apostles%20-%20Continuation%20of%20Counterfeit%20Miracles%20-%20for%20publication.pdf [accessed 19 NOV 2019]. Anyone desiring the manuscript of the material that was presented at the Conference in other formats may request it by contacting Pastor Jeffery by email at waysidegospelchapel (at) yahoo (dot) com.


The two audio files of the conference sessions are linked on the Faith Baptist Fellowship Church (Lake Ariel, PA) page at  http://faithbaptistfellowshipch.com/index.php/bible-conference [accessed 19 NOV 2014], from Internet Archive at http://archive.org/details/TheCessationOfTongues [accessed 19 NOV 2014], and  http://archive.org/details/TheTerminationOftheSignsOfTheApostlesAndTheContinuationOfCounterfeitMiracles [accessed 19 NOV 2014].

The Cessation of Tongues, 
the Termination of "the Signs of the Apostles",
and the Continuation of Counterfeit Miracles
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John T. "Jack" Jeffery
Pastor, Wayside Gospel Chapel
Greentown, PA
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February 23, 2013
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Faith Baptist Fellowship
1397 Easton Turnpike
Lake Ariel, PA 18436

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Audio of Conference Sessions Available

The audio recordings of the three sessions of the recent Bible and Theology Conference are now available.

The Cessation of Tongues, the Termination of "the Signs of the Apostles", and the Continuation of Counterfeit Miracles

John T. "Jack" Jeffery
Pastor, Wayside Gospel Chapel
Greentown, PA

Saturday, February 23, 2013
Faith Baptist Fellowship
1397 Easton Turnpike
Lake Ariel, PA 18436

The audio recording of the 1st session of the Conference has been uploaded by Faith Baptist Fellowship (Lake Ariel, PA) on Internet Archive at http://archive.org/details/TheCessationOfTongues [accessed 19 NOV 2014].

The audio recording of the 2nd and 3rd sessions of the Conference have been uploaded by Faith Baptist Fellowship (Lake Ariel PA) on Internet Archive at

Both recordings which include all three Conference sessions are also linked directly from the web site of Faith Baptist Fellowship Church (Lake Ariel, PA) at
http://faithbaptistfellowshipch.com/bible-conference/ [accessed 19 NOV 2014; web page no longer exists as of 26 MAY 2021]. 

Anyone desiring the manuscript of the material that was presented at the Conference in either MS Word or PDF formats may request it by contacting Pastor Jeffery by email at waysidegospelchapel (at) yahoo (dot) com.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Word of Life Baptist Church (Pottsville, PA) celebrates 20 years of service by Pastor Paul Zaspel


"Church honors pastor's 20 years"
By Thomas Leskin (Staff Writer Tleskin@Republicanherald.com)
Published: February 18, 2013

"Pastor Paul Zaspel of the Word of Life Baptist Church in Pottsville celebrated his 20th anniversary as pastor Sunday."

Republican Herald (Pottsville, PA) at http://republicanherald.com/news/church-honors-pastor-s-20-years-1.1446108 [accessed 18 FEB 2013].

Friday, February 15, 2013

Acts Study Guide

Read the entire book through at one sitting in at least one translation, and preferably more, prior to beginning an in-depth study of the book. Once this initial reading is done then begin studying the book including answering the following questions while continuing to reread it.

1.  What is the title usually associated with this book?

2.  Can that title be improved on?

3.  Who is the author of Acts?

4.  What significance does the author have for the content of Acts?

5.  Are there factors either in what Acts does or does not contain that may assist us in narrowing down when it was written?

6.  What is unique about the book of Acts?

7.  What kind of literature is Acts?

8.  What intended purposes may the author have had in mind in writing Acts?

9.  What is usually understood to be the key verse for Acts?

10.  Where are significant turning points found in Acts?

11.  What does the beginning and the ending of Acts have in common?

12.  What tools might be useful for studying Acts?

13.  Who are the most significant people in Acts?

14.  What are the most significant places in Acts?

15.  What are the most significant events in Acts?

16.  Are there any patterns in the way the material is presented by the author in Acts?

17.  What major issues either arise in the content of Acts or might be produced by it?

18.  How would you outline Acts?

19.  What Old Testament book could be thought of as having a lot in common with Acts?

20.  How should Acts be applied to your life today?


Sola Scriptura, Solo Christo, Solus Spiritus, Soli Deo Gloria,

John T. "Jack" Jeffery
Pastor, Wayside Gospel Chapel
Greentown, PA

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology 2013


Conference title:  "In the Beginning: God, Adam, and You"

Plenary Speakers:
Joel Beeke
Kevin DeYoung (MI)
Liam Goligher (PA)
Richard Phillips
Derek Thomas

Pre-Conference:  "Our Forgotten Heritage: Recovering a Reformed Ministry"
Speaker:  Jon Payne

Venues and dates:
Grand Rapids, MI
March 15-17, 2013

Philadelphia, PA
April 19-21, 2013

For more information on this conference go to their web site on Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals at http://www.alliancenet.org/CC_Content_Page/0,,PTID307086_CHID811018_CIID,02013.html [accessed 13 FEB 2013].