Archive for August, 2006

Fun w/ Millions: Tough Crowd

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

At the AM/PM gas station last night: I gave a Gospel tract to some guy filling his car. He looked me straight in the eye and told me that he got one of these before—then threw it right in the trash as he looked at me.
Today at lunch: A woman heard our conversation and pulled [...]

Famous Lost Words: Carrie Fisher

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

“I love the idea of God, but it’s not stylisticaly in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God.”
“I can see that people who believe in God are happier. My brother is. My dad is too. But [...]

Gospel Water

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

I need volunteers to help hand out free water to the minions at the “Fiesta Hermosa” this weekend. We have made special labels that ask the million-dollar question, give the full Gospel, church times and contact info. We purchased 3,000 bottles! One problem: There are not enough volunteers to help on Sunday and Monday [...]

Jerry’s Mom

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

My friend, Jerry Zell sent me this picture of his 86-year-old mother Doris, handing a million-dollar bill Gospel tract to her nurse. When you get to be of a certain age—you just don’t give a darn! Good job, Mom!

E-vangie Tales #87: Slices of Strife

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

“Why don’t you just get outta here?” said a snotty teen at Starbucks last week when I asked her the million-dollar question. How rude! Poor girl. What kind of parents didn’t raise her.
At another Starbucks next to Redondo Beach high school, two teen girls were hugging and kissing on each other’s lips in a [...]

Tombstones: Rastus Sominy

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

This epitaph, from Savannah, Georgia reads:
Here lies old Rastus Sominy
Died a-eating hominy
In 1859 anno domini

-From webpanda.com

Guest E-vangies: The Million-Dollar Answer

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

My administrative assistant, Barbra Twyman wrote this:
Someone very close to me had their life changed because of the million dollar question.
I came home on a Saturday afternoon from P.I.E. (Pizza, Intercession, Evangelism) at the Hermosa Beach Strand. I was so excited about what happened that I began telling one of my family members that [...]

Million-Dollar Accessory

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Look like a million bucks when you go out stylin’ with your Gospel tracts…

Fashion by Bekah Wiedenhoeft. Million-Dollar Duct Tape Purse: $25.00

Out of a Cult

Monday, August 28th, 2006

This is from a now on-fire Tim Teeboom:
I read the account of “A Cloud of Jehovah’s Witnesses” on evtales. We are Jesus’ Warriors. I really longed to be there with you that day. To illustrate my feelings I grew up in a closed church that did not accept the Holy Spirit as God and [...]

FOUNDations: G. Campbell Morgan

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

“To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction. “
For a brief bio:

Dunkin’ Evangelism

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

A man is stumbling through the woods, totally drunk, when he comes
upon a Preacher baptizing people in the river. He proceeds to walk into the water… and subsequently bumps into the Preacher.
The Preacher turns around and is almost overcome by the smell of alcohol, where upon he asks the drunk… “Are you [...]

EV Tips: P.E.E.P.

Friday, August 25th, 2006

The Bible says that we are to make the most of every opportunity because the days are evil ( Ephesians. 5:15), that’s why I don’t let anyone get away when I ask the million-dollar question, which is: “If you were to die today, would you go to Heaven or Hell?” I use the acrostic P.E.E.P. [...]

Coda: Henry Ward Beecher

Friday, August 25th, 2006

His last words were: “Now comes the mystery.”

Henry Ward Beecher was a prominent, theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and famous speaker. He died March 8, 1887

Booting the Witnesses

Friday, August 25th, 2006

This is from a Paul Tucker, who was next to the convention center at a company picnic when we did our incursion of the Jehovah’s Witness Convention.
I thought you like know while your team was [invading the JW convention] at the Long Beach Arena, the Jehovah’s Witnesses were in our food lines next door.
I [...]

Fun w/ Millions: Saving Captain Kirk

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

This is a fun story from my friend, Shirley Kuzmunich, who is a set nurse on the T.V. show, Boston Legal.
I remember hearing you talk about William Shatner saying that he wondered where he would go when he dies. Now everytime I work with him I am praying for a chance to tell him. [...]

Da Vinci & Denisse

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how a young woman, Denise was handed a million-dollar bill after watching the Da Vinci Code. Here’s her actual version:
A while ago I went with my friend and her mother (who are unbelievers) to see the movie The DaVinci Code. We ended up going to the Palos [...]

Famous Lost Words: Bruce Willis

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Willis comments on religion in an interview in the July 1998 issue of George magazine.
“Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms,” he says. “They were all very important when we didn’t know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened,” he continues. “Modern religion is [...]

Your Thoughts: Does God Love the Unsaved?

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

I want to ask you this question: Christians are called to “hate the sin, and love the sinner.” Is it accurate to say that God hates the sin and loves the sinner?
Answer: Modern evangelism often tries to soften the approach by saying that “God hates the sin, but loves the sinner.” This isn’t a [...]

E-vangie Tales/EDGE #4: A Great Cloud of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

We synchronized our watches. At exactly 1:50 the evangelism team would be at their posts handing out million-dollar bill Gospel tracts to every Jehovah’s Witness coming back from their lunch break to continue another session at their Annual Convention. It was a secret mission; we were spies in enemy territory hoping to blend in with [...]

SUDDEN DEATH: Bike Ride!

Monday, August 21st, 2006

There is an urgency to preaching the Gospel. That is why I ask the million-dollar question in all seriousness, which is, “If you were to die today, would you go to Heaven or Hell?
A Laguna Beach youth riding a bicycle on South Coast Highway near Upland Road was struck by a a hit-and-run driver early [...]

Post JW Incursion: Battered and Bloodied

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Today’s evangelistic adventure was the most intense, adrenaline filled, gnarly excursion ever as we infiltrated the Annual District Jehovah’s Witness Convention in Long Beach with our million-dollar bill Gospel tracts.
It didn’t turn out as we had planned, but all 17 members of the team made it home safely—barely! God worked this occasion in [...]

FOUNDations: A. A. Allen

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

“If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go.”

For brief bio:

The Starfish

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Why risk going to a JW convention? Why do we need to get the Gospel out? Why should we hand out a silly tract? What difference does it make? Read the story below…
Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He [...]

A Few Famous JW’s

Friday, August 18th, 2006

From www.adherents.com
-Dwight D. Eisenhower - U.S. President (raised JW)
- Evelyn Mandela - first wife of South African president Nelson Mandela (convert to JWs)
- Prince - pop singer (convert to JWs) - Selena - Tejano singer (Selena Quintanilla)
- George Benson - singer, guitarist
- Michael Jackson - singer, pop superstar (lapsed)

JW’s: “They Won’t Like It!”

Friday, August 18th, 2006

A very gracious and humble man from Hope Chapel approached me yesterday and expressed his concern about our team of evangelists going to the JW convention. “If someone came to our church,” he said, “we wouldn’t like it if they passed out literature contrary to our teachings…” I agreed and reminded him that people have [...]

Get Equipped!

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Here are two short lessons from “The Way of the Master” to help you in your understanding of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Click here to get to the site. Then put your cursor on “Get Equipped” and click on “Answers to 100 common questions”
Then hit “In Depth,”
then “Jehovah’s Witnesses” It’s worth it!

EV TIPS: How to Witness to a Jehovah’s Witness

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

In anticipation of our incursion of the Jehovah’s Witness convention on Saturday, I’m rerunning this article by Ray Comfort. Never be afraid to answer your door again…
I rushed down the stairs to the sound of a barking dog and our doorbell. When I opened it, two well-dressed young men stood in front of me. [...]

Snicker, Snicker, Wink, Wink!

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

I got out of the shower and my wife informed me that some Jehovah’s Witnesses had just come to the door. I tore off my towel, got dressed and saw them walking right outside my house. As always, they were very well-dressed and so polite. I asked them what they were doing and they handed [...]

E-vangie Tales # 86: A Day at the Races

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Eight of us piled into our cars at about 7:30AM Tuesday morning to drive the 45 minutes to Fullerton and catch a train to Del Mar Racetrack, where we would feed 600 Mexican workers who live on the track in tiny apartments out of view of the public. This was an opportunity to show God’s [...]

Kirk’s Parents’ House

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

After Ray Comfort spoke at our Sunday night service, he invited my wife and I to a shoot at Kirk Cameron’s parents’ house. They were filming a DVD for a book that his mom wrote about Kirk and his sister Candace Cameron, of “Full House” fame. The name of the book is “A [...]


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