My friend asked one question after I accepted his invitation to give the opening prayer at the City Council meeting: “Do you have to pray in the name of Jesus?”
I was stunned.
I’m a pastor—a Christian pastor—and he asked if I would consider not praying in Jesus’ name, but rather, “in the name of ‘The [...]

NewsMax reported that Franklin Graham, son of Billy, was scheduled to give the invocation at the first inauguration of George W. Bush. A Methodist pastor, the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, took Graham aside and asked privately if he was going to pray in the name of Jesus. “Yes,” he assured him, “I always do.”

He prayed, [...]

“You’d burn me at the stake!” the woman exclaimed, pulling open the collar of her shirt to reveal a Wicca medallion.
She interrupted the conversation I was having with two Starbucks employees after overhearing my question to them: “If God judged you by the Ten Commandments would be found guilty or innocent?”
The conversation almost didn’t [...]

His epitaph reads:

Here lies a man named Zeke.
Second fastest draw in Cripple Creek.
(From an epitaph in Silver City, Nevada or possibly in Cripple Creek, Colorado) (Thanks to Webpanda.com)

Stay with this. Don’t be offended too fast! Trust me.
(If you’re not familiar with the Blasphemy Challenge or the Guerrilla Action, then click here!

Reggie Peabody, a car wash worker in Melbourne, Australia, liked to “ride the brushes” when business was slow.
But the system malfunctioned during one of his “rides,” and Peabody was crushed to death between two large industrial brushes.
–From The Bathroom Reader (a very interesting book).

“No sort of defense is needed for preaching out-of-doors;
but it would need very potent arguments to prove that a man had done his duty who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse.”

I got up early Wednesday morning and prayed (4: 20 AM) and asked God to help me, to strengthen me, and to give me wisdom to say what is right. I had committed to doing open air 8 days ago at the Torrance Department of Motor Vehicles, but did not know exactly how to [...]

While D.L. Moody was attending a convention in Indianapolis on mass evangelism, he asked his song leader Ira Sankey to meet him at 6 o’clock one evening at a certain street corner. When Sankey arrived, Mr. Moody asked him to stand on a box and sing. Once a crowd had gathered, Moody spoke briefly and [...]

Did someone give you an angry noogie for sharing the Gospel?
What’s your E-vangie Tale?

The first thing I do in my evangelism classes is teach everybody the 10 Commandments. Now you have the opportunity to learn them too!

The 10 commandments are fundamental to effective witnessing because the law is written on everyone’s heart—it’s called the conscience—(Romans 2:15); it’s so important that every Christian should know them, but [...]