Welcome to the Batavia Christian Center / Matthew Norville Ministries web site! Batavia Christian Center / Matthew Norville Ministries is a non-denominational, Bible-believing church founded in June of 1988 in Batavia, Illinois, United States of America. (Batavia is a city 60 kilometers west of the city of Chicago.)
This website is primarily a teaching website. It is secondarily a means to disperse information about the church and its ministers. It is tertiarily a way to provide contact information so that we can be contacted with questions, prayer requests, offerings, etc.
On this website you will find a few links to other websites. These links are meant to provide helpful information to enhance your life and further your knowledge of God's Word. It is to be understood that not all of the information on the linked websites is Biblically correct—even though it may claim to be. However, much of the information is very helpful and easy to use to find things in the Bible, and in the studying of God's Word.
We recommend using the Mozilla Firefox browser on this website. In our opinion, the Mozilla Firefox browser is the best browser that is available. Some web pages on this website may not render correctly with other browsers. In particular, the “Passion Week Calendar” does not render correctly with other browsers (with the exception of Netscape Navigator). The other browsers do not render the letters in the words “FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD” correctly at the bottom of the table cells that are the dates of the calendar.
Mozilla Firefox also has a feature called “Reader View” that is accessible by clicking on the icon to the right of the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) in the address bar. By clicking on this icon that looks like a “page,” a webpage with a colored background then becomes a webpage with black lettering on a white background, like in a normal hardcover or softcover book. This is very helpful if you do not want to read a webpage with a colored background. And since most of the webpages on this website have colored backgrounds, this can be very useful.
Wallbuilders (David Barton – Christian Historian)
How Does a Person Get Filled with the Holy Spirit?
What is Speaking in Tongues?
What is a Minister?
What is Heaven?
Should Christians be Foster Parents?
Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go, and When He is Old, He Will Not Depart From It
Are the Jews Still God's Chosen People?