Archive for September, 2006

China Cry

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Tomorrow morning I’m headed on a plane to China along with the team from Hope Chapel.

We will be teaching a house church and will stay for two weeks. Obviously I won’t be able to evangelize freely there, but I will be teaching the house church to do so. I will try to get something on [...]

Evangelism Schedule

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Here are your opportunities to write your own E-vangie Tales…
Hour of Power” (H.O.P.) every Friday 5:15-6:15. Meet at Hope Chapel at 5pm. And then we’ll go down to Pier Ave. for one hour to evangelize.
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P.I.E. (Pizza, Intercession, Evangelism)
Saturday, Sept. 30- Venice Beach. Meet to carpool at Hope at Noon.
Saturday, Oct.7- Manhattan Beach Festival. [...]

E-vangie Tales #90: Hollywood Babble-On, Part 1

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

(Parts 2 & 3 follow below)
What an opportunity!
I had the chance to meet with 70 other evangelists from around the world at Ray Comfort’s headquarters, Living Waters, and teach them the 10 Commandments in two minutes (I can teach you how to do it too). It was the Evangelism Boot Camp, a gathering of people [...]

E-vangie Tales #90: Hollywood Babble-On, Pt. 2

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

(Part 3 follows below)
Darrel Rundus was the man who brought a lawsuit against the Secret Service last June when they busted into his Texas “Great News Network” headquarters, and illegally seized 8,300 million-dollar bill Gospel tracts. He’s a big man, bold, and strong in the Lord—and he led the Boot Camp that met together in [...]

E-vangie Tales #90: Hollywood Babble-On, Part 3

Monday, September 25th, 2006

The L. Ron Hubbard building was just across the street. I asked my partner Danny, “You wanna do it? You wanna go in?”
“Ya sure?” he said with a little hesitation.
“Yeah… let’s go for it!”
Scientology makes normal cults look comforting. I don’t know what motivated us to want to go into this place to give the [...]

Million $ Moments: Sowing and Mowing

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

“I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.” (1 Corinthians 3:6-7)

And some need to sweep up afterwards!

Dirty Work

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

A missionary in Africa was once asked if he really liked what he was doing. His response was shocking. “Do I like this work?” he said. “No. My wife and I do not like dirt. We have reasonably refined sensibilities. We do not like crawling into vile huts through goat refuse.
But is a man [...]

The Gates of Hell

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

This is an excerpt from “Dante’s Inferno” describing the gates of Hell:

I am the way into the city of woe
I am the way to a forsaken people
I am the way to eternal sorrow
…Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

Famous Lost Words: Frank Sinatra

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

“I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It’s not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Mathew five to seven, “The Sermon on the Mount.”
“There are things about [...]

Battle Plan

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

I called a lawyer.
“Bob, they won’t allow us to hand out literature at our church booth in El Segundo this weekend, so we cancelled the booth and now we will be going down as a team to hand out tracts and share the Gospel. I fully expect to be stopped by the police. What [...]

Tombstones: Jonathan Pease

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

On a grave from the 1880’s in Nantucket, Massachusetts:

Under the sod and under the trees
Lies the body of Jonathan Pease.
He is not here, there’s only the pod:
Pease shelled out and went to God.

Guest E-vangies: Tripped Up!

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

By Lori Porter
There is a 55-year-old Chinese man who played basketball with us on our women’s team.
A couple of Fridays ago I decided he would be my “person of the day” when we practiced. I discussed the million-dollar bill Gospel tract with him, but he was very nonchalant about Hell. I called [...]

mini-vangie: McPriorities

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Ronald McDonald House was sponsoring a day at the beach for kids stricken with cancer. I was on the same beach with my two daughters for our Hope Chapel Family Camp. I handed out about a hundred million-dollar bill Gospel tracts, when I decided to strike up a conversation with three young people in their [...]

Evangelism Schedule: A Change of Plans!

Monday, September 18th, 2006

There will be a change of plans concerning this Saturday’s P.I.E. event. We will not be sponsoring a booth at the Richmond Street fair in El Segundo because we were informed that we can’t hand out literature from our church. PLAN B: We will meet at Hope Chapel at noon to go to the fair [...]

SUDDEN DEATH: Volcanoe!

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Rescuers searched the ash-coated slopes of a volcanoe in Ecuador for 30 missing people after a devastating eruption sent lava, rocks and vapor onto Andean villages, forcing tens of thousands to flee. At least one person was killed and dozens suffered injuries, mainly burns, when Tungurahua erupted. -L.A. Times, 8/19/06

FOUNDations: D.T. Niles

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

“Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.”
Niles was a Sri Lankan theologian.

The Crocodile Hunter

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

By Ray Comfort
It’s not often that someone from down-under is the lead story on primetime TV. The fact that presidents from other countries die is a big deal, but they don’t get to head the news. Some don’t even get the tail. But when Stephen Robert Irwin was suddenly killed on September [...]

CODA: Benito Mussolini

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

His last words were:
“Shoot me in the chest!”
The Italian dictator said this to his executioners.

Million $ Moments: Profits a Little

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

This is a picture taken at a Venice body-building competition by Tui Letuli, who publishes a Polynesian Fitness Magazine called Muscle Polynesia www.musclepolynesia.com

Let’s hope that William is concerned with his “inner man” as well.

An Appeal to Caesar

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Who says you can’t fight city hall? Or the police department? Well, it’s not going to be a fight exactly, but I am planning to go to “the powers that be” and inform them of my First Amendment rights when it comes to handing out Gospel tracts. Since Hope Chapel is starting a 1 Million [...]

E-vangie Tales # 89: Ed’s Supernatural Day

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

I thought this story from Ed Lee, (who has been a Christian for only eleven months), was so moving that I wanted to share it with you. You will be encouraged!
Last Saturday afternoon was amazing… the most amazing day I have ever experienced in the four months that I have been evangelizing. There were [...]

Guest E-vangies: Do-it-Yourself

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

This is from an on-fire student, Natalie Foley, who is currently taking my evangelism class.
At my first class of “Sharing Your Faith Without Fear” I took my million-dollar bill Gospel tracts with me to Home Depot where I was ordering appliances. The mild-mannered young clerk, “Reggie,” led me to the special services desk [...]

Tombstones: Ann Mann

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

From a London cemetary, her epitaph reads:
Here lies Ann Mann,
Who lived an old maid
But died an old Mann.
Dec. 8, 1767

5 Years After: No Faith Lift

Monday, September 11th, 2006

A Barna Group study shows that despite an intense surge in religious activity and expression in the weeks immediately following 9/11 the faith of Americans is virtually indistinguishable today compared to pre-attack conditions.
Click here to read the Barna report.

SUDDEN DEATH: Terrorists!

Monday, September 11th, 2006

Another remembrance of the double tragedy of 9/11/01: To the countless thousands who died unexpectedly, tragically, and suddenly five years ago because of a false religion’s belief system. To their families: may they come to know the Savior who died willingly for them. May they hear the Gospel from fearless Christians… The second tragedy: [...]

Your Thoughts: What Would You Tell Them?

Monday, September 11th, 2006

I remember hearing the first reports of our national tragedy in my garage while on my exercise bike. KKLA had a brief announcement: “A small plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.” I didn’t think much of it—it sounded like an unfortunate accident. I showered and went to work. I learned of what really [...]

Dial 91:1

Monday, September 11th, 2006

“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.”
Psalm 91:1

Famous Lost Words: Larry Flynt

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Flynt is publisher of more than a dozen adult magazines, including Hustler.
In the epilogue of his autobiography, An Unseemly Man, Flynt says, “I have left my religious conversion behind and settled into a comfortable state of atheism. I have come to think that religion has caused more harm than any other idea since [...]

Think About It!

Friday, September 8th, 2006

While camping in Yosemite we threw a log on the fire. A swarm of ants emerged, scurrying and confused, trying to get out of the log but unable. One managed to free itself but couldn’t escape the ringed firepit. Sad those ants. God’s poor little creatures. A whole colony wiped out JUST LIKE THAT!
-Tim Teeboom

E-vangie Tales # 88c: Pest of Hermosa, Part 3

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

On Monday, it started with nachos.

And an irate lady.
My two little girls and I were enjoying some high-calorie chips with yellow jalapeno cheese goo glopped over the top of them in front of the Beer Garden at the “Fiesta Hermosa” when I noticed a Mexican family standing next to us. “Did you get [...]


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