Talk about a thankless job.
The poor salesguy stood outside the store with his pitiful wares and tried to grab the attention of all passers-by. I was not interested but stopped to listen to his pitch. Maybe I could interest him in what I had to sell - for free…
“Do you do much dry cleaning?” [...]

Just one word. Maybe two. A whole sentence with the word “Jesus” in it. Friendly reminders that He loves them. Tell the whole gospel: Christ died, was buried and rose again. God will use what you say…
“Hi Yolanda! Guess what?” I asked perkily.
With feigned excitement the Rite-Aid clerk answered, “Jesus loves me.”
“And why’s that?” [...]

A trip to the Magic Kingdom presents a lot of opportunities to share the gospel, but can a Disney character really be saved? My goal was to visit Mickey Mouse and ask if he was going to Heaven or Hell…
My family and I started our pilgrimage through “The Happiest Place on Earth” where no [...]

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I was a little bummed out. A tad discouraged maybe. It might have been the caffeine…
I stopped to chat with one of our Children’s Church teachers, Jae Hauser, a committed and serious college student who lives out his faith daily.
“Hey Jae! Are you still reading E-vangie Tales?”
“Yeah,” he replied.
“I’m [...]

The following is a response from Jason, a member of the band, “The Stereo Types. He is answering my E-vangie Tale #59: “Lost Objects” -Steve Sanchez
[From Jason Boyer of "The Stereo Types]:
i feel as if my character, as well as my band was portayed in a position we neither support, nor exercise, i went [...]

“There’s a rock band parked in front of the house!” my wife shouted excitedly, “And they’ve lost their $500.00 camera!” Seizing the opportunity I ran to the street and offered a prayer for them to find it…
I prayed with Jason, a bright, tall, articulate man in his twenties who was in the midst of unloading [...]

I had just ordered a Kid’s Scoop at Coldstone’s when a really old guy called me over. He sat against the wall, wrinkled and smiling, but there was something up his sleeve…
“You know what Tutti-Frutti is?” he queried with a twinkle in his eye. “I asked the servers if they had Tutti-Frutti and they just [...]

The busboy started to clear the tables and it was painfully obvious that he was trying to avoid us…
“How ya doin’? I greeted.
He gave a begrudging nod and averted his eyes while clearing a table adjacent to ours at Seafood Port Restaurant. My friend Dennis asked, “Is this going to be an E-vangie Tale?”
Being an [...]

Sometimes people are grouchy. Irritable. Other times, they just don’t want to be bothered. Still, I have to remember that Jesus loves them too…
I have a love/hate relationship with Whole Foods Market. I get irked by the trendy, New-Age, Buddhisty, cooler-than-you ethos and the “dollar more than other stores” pricing scheme. I have to admit [...]

I heard a loud and enthusiastic voice shouting, “D.D.! LAUREL!” while I was getting our tickets to enter the Natural History Museum with my two little girls. They were visiting the museum store and had made a new friend, Huy Tran. He had no way of knowing what was going to hit him…
I rushed [...]

I’m not in the habit of eaves-dropping, but I overheard the end of a conversation between two customers that was too good to pass up as I wandered aimlessly down the aisles of Home Depot looking for a widget…
“I’m seventy-seven years old,” Chuck said to another man.
“You’re not really seventy-seven are you?” I interrupted. I [...]

“Do you think Jesus ate ice-cream?” I asked the server at Baskin Robbins.
“Did they have ice-cream back then?” she replied.
We were on a family outing and ready to spend some gift certificates. My kids anxiously nosed against the glass to see what they wanted while my wife waited at a table for her one scoop [...]

It’s amazing the flack I’ve received as I’ve tried to witness to people about the love of Christ everyday - the flack that has come from Christians…
I’ve been writing E-vangie Tales for a year now and have received a lot of mostly positive feedback regarding these “evangelistic adventures”. I say “mostly positive” because on occasion, [...]

I was the “Pastor on Duty” when I received a call from the receptionist, “Steve you have two visitors in the lobby.” I wasn’t prepared for what was about to happen as I introduced myself to Gonzalo and Marianna…
“How may I help you?” I asked.
“We have a question,” Gonzalo said in a thick Peruvian accent. [...]

I didn’t have much fire last week. I was going through the motions trying to be faithful to talk about Jesus everyday, even though I didn’t really want to. But I had to, because people are really dying and going to Hell. Sometimes though, it doesn’t go as nicely as I would like and sometimes [...]

I don’t know if you’ve ever encountered a similar dilemma, but whenever I’d tell someone that I’m a Christian, I was always stymied when the other person would respond with, “I’m Catholic.” What do you say then? I think I’ve found the answer…
The problem lies with the fact that both the “Born Again” Christian and [...]

Everybody loves Him! The toothless Jesus. Colorless, odorless and bland. The eternal babe in the manger. Doe-eyed, undemanding and soft. New-Age Jesus. Effeminate. Aquarian. The kind of Jesus everyone wants and everyone loves. Non-threatening and fat-free.
The Jesus who never existed.
I took up the challenge my Pastor gave to the congregation at the end of [...]

I’m continuing to work on my relationship with Andy, the manager at Chong’s next to Hope Chapel… (To get the background on this story read #38, #39 and #40)
This is what happened a few weeks ago:
I went into Chong’s after missing a week and saw three, count ‘em, three guys standing behind [...]

I grabbed my five-gallon container and brought it over to the Crystal Water vending machine. After checking to see when it was last serviced, I wondered if the date was really truthful and tried not to think of the bacteria factor.
Another man was doing the same thing.
I doubt that he was thinking whether a mouse [...]