Archive for December, 2006

DON’T WASTE YOUR LIFE!

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

John Piper writes:
I will tell you what a tragedy is. I will show you how to waste your life. Consider this story from the 1998 Readers Digest:
A couple took early retirement from their jobs in the Northeast 5 years ago when he was 59 and she was 51. Now they live in Punta Gorda, [...]

Famous Lost Words: Bill Gates

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Gates was interviewed November 1995 on PBS by David Frost. Below is the transcript with minor edits.

Frost: Do you believe in the Sermon on the Mount?
Gates: I don’t. I’m not somebody who goes to church on a regular basis. The specific elements of Christianity are not something I’m a huge believer in. There’s [...]

I Got Off at George Street

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

For the benefit of my evangelism class that ends tonight, I have posted this awesome 9 minute video again. It shows how God can use one man handing out Gospel tracts faithfully.

Million $ Moments: Laws of Eternal Dynamics

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Making the most of every opportunity I handed my Million-dollar Gospel tracts to the counter people at the Science Center in Los Angeles. I tried to engage them in conversation, but the lead man insisted that they couldn’t answer questions about religion.
Hmmm… what should I do? The only thing I could do was [...]

LOSING LIBERTIES: Goodbye Trees, Bye- bye Wisemen

Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Some sad news briefs from AP and Agape Press:
…All nine Christmas trees have been removed from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport instead of adding a Jewish menorah to the holiday display as a rabbi had requested. Maintenance workers boxed up the trees during a weekend graveyard shift, when Click here and scroll down to [...]

E-vangie Video: The Law and the Lesbian

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Okay. So you’ve read these E-vangie Tales for some time… but now you get to see it for yourself. Pay attention to how this woman reacts when she’s confronted by some of the 10 Commandments. And notice that I didn’t make an issue of her lesbianism. This 5 minute video will be the first of [...]

mini-vangies: Opportunity Knocks

Monday, December 11th, 2006

My wife called to me, “Honey! There are some men at the front door!”
I rushed at the opportunity; I suspected that I knew who these men were: Jehovah’s Witnesses! Now most normal people would be glad to see these cultists move right along; not me! I wanted the chance to strike up a conversation [...]

Sudden Death: Pole!

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Upland police arrested a crane operator on suspicion of manslaughter Thursday after a driver slammed into a power pole being moved by a Southern California Edison contractor, killing the 81-year-old motorist and a utility worker.
The power pole was suspended by the crane four feet above a north-south traffic lane when it was struck by the [...]

FoundATIONS: Charles Spurgeon

Friday, December 8th, 2006

“I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.”

E-VANGIE VIDEO to Debut Next Week

Friday, December 8th, 2006

A new feature starting next week will be E-vangie Video. Not only will you be able to read about evangelistic adventures, you’ll see them too! As a test I posted a video of an interview I had with a lesbian on YouTube. I posted it with the tags: Evangelism, Witnessing, Lesbian, Gay & Homosexual. This [...]

EV Tips: Decisions, Decisions

Friday, December 8th, 2006

In American Christianity there is a great emphasis on “getting decisions” for Christ when evangelizing. This puts the pressure on the person sharing their faith to get as many decisions as possible without regard for the “sinner’s” heart. Many people will say the “sinner’s prayer”, walk down an aisle, raise a little hand, do a [...]

Appointment with Eternity #5

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

This guy is the reason I try to share my faith everyday…

And this is why I ask: “If you were to die today, would you go to Heaven or Hell?”

MARTYRS : Tortured for Christ

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Is there a threat of this ever happening to you when you talk about Jesus?

This is an excerpt from Richard Wurmbrand’s book, “Tortured for Christ.”
Handcuffs, which had sharp nails on the insides, were put on our wrists. If we were totally still, they didn’t cut us. But in bitterly cold cells, when we shook with [...]

Guest E-vangies: THE SECRET CHRISTIAN SOCIETY by Ed Lee

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

I handed a Million-dollar bill Gospel tract to an elderly man who was fishing on the Redondo Pier and asked him, “If you were to die today, would you go to Heaven or Hell?”
Smiling, he said, “I would be going to Heaven.” I asked him why and he said he [...]

Famous Lost Words: Ron Reagan Jr.

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

In a June 26, 2004 interview on Larry King Live:

KING: Do you ever think of running for office?
REAGAN: No…
KING: You’ve got a pretty good name going in.
REAGAN: It seems to work for some people.
KING: Wouldn’t hurt you.
REAGAN: No, I’m not really cut out to be a politician. You know that [...]

Evangelism Schedule

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

Hour of Power” (H.O.P.) every Friday. 4PM-5PM Meet at Hope Chapel at 4pm. And then we’ll go to the Galleria Mall for one hour to evangelize.
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P.I.E. (Pizza, Intercession, Evangelism)
December 9— See Ray Comfort open-air preach at the Huntington Pier (if he is town) Meet at Hope at noon. Leave at 12:15 sharp!

LOST LIBERTIES: Chicago Bans “Nativity” Ads

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

The so-called war on Christmas has been reignited with an ironic decision by the city of Chicago to ban advertisements for “The Nativity Story” movie from a local Christmas festival, fearing they might offend non-Christians.
“This is one of the most blatant forms of religious discrimination imaginable,” said Jay Sekulow, a Christian who is [...]

CODA: Ludwig van Beethoven

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

His last words were:
“Friends applaud, the comedy is finished.”
The famous composer died March 26, 1827

Million $ Moments: Sanctifying Idols

Monday, December 4th, 2006

You’re on the horns of a dilemma: A member of your family loves restaurants that serve all-natural-no-preservatives or meatfat, fleshless-food.
You don’t.
It’s not a matter of faith, just a matter of taste. She doesn’t mind bland tasting things soaked in soy, battered in bristle flour, tasting like wet cardboard and tempe.
You do.
As a loving [...]

Sudden Death: Bookshelf!

Monday, December 4th, 2006

Death is strange and (most of the times) unexpected and sudden. I marvel (and am quite shocked) at the way in which some people die—how weird or funny—then I realize once again that God is very creative—even when it comes to death. Though the death of a person is always tragic, let us not lose [...]

Tombstones: Ellen Shannon

Monday, December 4th, 2006

Her epitaph reads:
Who was fatally burned
March 21, 1870
by the explosion of a lamp
filled with “R.E. Danforth’s
Non-Explosive Burning Fluid”
-From a grave in Girard, Pennsylvania

FOUNDations: Charles Spurgeon

Friday, December 1st, 2006

“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies.”

“And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled with the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go [...]

Tools: Dr. Zilch Books

Friday, December 1st, 2006

If you are on a plane, train or automobile with the unsaved, this is a great way to break the ice and get a laugh before starting an evangelistic conversation. I like to tell the unsuspecting unsaved that this is the best book for the scientific proof for evolution that I’ve ever read, [...]

EV TIPS: The Big IF!

Friday, December 1st, 2006

When I teach my evangelism class these questions always come up when it comes to verbally sharing our faith:
What should you do when someone doesn’t believe in God?
How do you handle a person who says that they just go in the ground when they die?
What if they insist that God will not judge them [...]

Joke

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Those of you who are sharing your faith verbally know that one of the questions we ask the unsaved is: “Have you ever told a lie?” Don’t just limit that question to pagans!
A preacher finished the service one morning by saying, “Next Sunday, I am going to preach on the subject of liars. [...]


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