Okay… this guy’s not a preacher or an evangelist—I don’t even know if he was a Christian—but this quote I got at the San Diego Zoo is sure applicable to evangelism:
“Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political [...]

My family and I went down to San Diego for a few days last week and spent some time at the San Diego Zoo and SeaWorld. Over the next several days I will post photos of some evangelistic encounters (no, I couldn’t stop!), including the BIG mistake I made when I didn’t heed my own [...]

A few weeks back the evangelism team visited the Palos Verdes Street Fair in the wealthy section of town. There was not one Christian booth represented in the entire festival but plenty of New Age adherents, palm readers, and alternative medicine booths were at hand.
This very friendly interview with hypnotherapist Duncan Tooley gives a [...]

I will be enjoying a few days with my family in a San Diego Bed & Breakfast, but will be back on Thursday, June 28 to post an interview I had with a hypnotherapist who got a bit perturbed at my line of questioning; it’s called “Hypnotist Hell.” In the meantime, enjoy some of these [...]

“Through the mouths of preachers He will do His work—
just as a workman uses a tool to do his work.”
(Calvin was a French Protestant reformer who was generally regarded as second in importance only to Martin Luther as a key figure in the Protestant Reformation

Last Friday I posed these questions: Can someone be too forceful during an evangelistic encounter? Is it possible to “shove” salvation down someone’s throat? Where does one draw the line between tactful and tacky?
Unfortunately, readers of this blog chose not to answer, but I did ask this question to other evangelists and here is [...]

A few members of our evangelism team had the rare privelege of being asked to help out on the set of an upcoming Season 3 episode of The Way of the Master television show. What a blessing to be a part of the crew that is bringing Biblical evangelism back to Christianity—and might even start [...]

Any chance of this happening to you when you evangelize in America? I think not… at least not until the next presidential elections… Here are a few of the lesser known Christian martyrs from previous centuries:
Vitalus, A.D. 99— He was buried alive in Ravena, Italy for his faith.
Wolfgang Binder of Scharding, 1571— He was beheaded [...]

On Wednesday I like to post comments from people who have great faith—in nothing, or weird things, or onion rings. Mostly, atheists reign on Wednesdays because they believe in transitional forms to prove their evolutionary theories (of which none exist), and Wednesday is kind of a transition day that starts the anticipation of the weekend.
You [...]

Penn and Teller are illusionists who perform their irreverent magic act regularly in Las Vegas and major venues around the world. Both guys are very outspoken about being atheists and skeptics; they use it as part of the act.

Teller (The silent half): “Atheists do look for answers to existence itself. They just don’t make [...]

Joe Average doesn’t think about creation, let alone the Creator. If you asked him if God had ever done anything for him, he probably couldn’t think of one thing.
He gets out of bed early in the morning in his beachfront home, makes some toast, and without much thought spreads on some butter and honey. [...]

(Val is a new member of our evangelism team)
The leader of our evangelism team Steve Sanchez, and I, had a meeting over coffee one afternoon; I wanted to share some of my testimony with him. Little did I realize he had a challenge waiting for me. He said, “On your way to work today I [...]

Will you pass?

Most Mondays I dedicate the postings to articles dealing with death. The reason? To remind us that tomorrow is promised to no one, and “that man is destined to die once, and after that to face Judgment.”
Our society sanitizes death, erases its terror, and denies its existence. The urgency of the Christian mission to [...]

Her last words were:
“Pardonnez-moi, monsieur.”
Marie Antoinette was the wife of King Louis XVI. She was convicted of treason following the Revolution and sentenced to death by beheading. As she approached the guillotine, she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner.
(From Last Words)

From its first use, there has been debate as to whether the guillotine always provided as swift a death as Dr Guillotin hoped. With previous methods of execution, there was little concern about the suffering inflicted. But where the guillotine was invented specifically to be “humane,” the issue was seriously considered.
Furthermore, there is the [...]

MONTREAT, N.C.- Ruth Graham, who surrendered dreams of missionary work in Tibet to marry a suitor who became the world’s most renowned evangelist, died Thursday. She was 87. Graham died at 5:05 p.m. at her home at Little Piney Cove, surrounded by her husband and all five of their children, said a statement released by [...]

“The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs.
If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became man for no other purpose.”

“You know… the Gospel is important and all that,” you’ll hear someone say occasionally with furrowed brow, “but you can’t be too pushy; you don’t want to shove it down their throats.”
I have heard that a few times, have you?
Now of course, if you are just letting your little light shine, shine, shine, then [...]

Our church ordered 2,500,000 Million-Dollar Bill Gospel tracts last year with the intention of handing out one million in one year. So far, we have handed out nearly 300,000 in the L.A. area. They are the best tract ever!

(Order your bills here from Living Waters!!!)
Why are they so popular? Everybody want a million dollar bill! [...]

The first evangelistic video I posted to YouTube was called “The Law and the Lesbian”; it showed a very pleasant conversation I had with a young, very polite lesbian woman (see it by clicking here). Some of the words I used to “tag” this video (so the gay community would stumble upon it), were: Lesbian, [...]

Peet’s coffee makes Starbucks taste like 7-11 brew.
Also, they don’t have overt false teachings written on their cups like this one I recently read:
“In reality, Hell is not such an intention of God as it is an invention of man. God is love and people are precious. Authentic truth is not so much taught or [...]

Linda Bush is taking my evangelism class for the first time. She is relatively shy, unassuming… and if you knew her, you would never think that she would ever do something like this!
When I was in class the Holy Spirit gave me the perfect place to hand out my Million-Dollar bill Gospel tracts… I have [...]

HOLLYWOOD – Hollywood actor Tom Cruise, a recent father and husband, may have another new role. According to the British newspaper The Sun, Cruise has been christened the new ‘Christ’ of Scientology.
The newspaper said it was told by leaders of the religion that the actor has been told he has been “chosen” to spread [...]

The evangelism team went to a combined church outreach on Saturday at the Huntington Beach Pier. Many churches combined to “outreach” to all the unsaved who so willingly and enthusiastically attended Christian programs, listened to Christian bands playing Christian music, and took lots of Jesus stuff.
Yeah, right. When you were a pagan, how many [...]

A former police chief, Blair Christopher Hall, was in custody Friday on suspicion of murder after his wife, Cristi Lynne Hall, was found floating face down in their backyard hot tub in Calimesa.
—L.A. Times, 6/9/07

“It strikes me that conflict is the principal feature of the Christian life this side of Heaven.”
So ends the 5-part series dealing with the conflict we faced at the Fiesta Hermosa. (Click here to read it!) Next week, read about a new member of our evangelism class who shared her faith outside a… strip club!

(Click here to begin the series with links to the other parts.)
You’d think that other Christians would see the value of a church in a pagan festival like Fiesta Hermosa sharing their faith. The unfortunate fact is, when people step out in obedience to God and witness for Christ, other Christian brothers and sisters will [...]

This Saturday, we will be joining a multi-church evangelism outreach at the base of the Huntington Pier. The Way of the Master film crew will be there, too. For further details, click here!

(To start at Part 1 click here, then you will be directed to the remaining parts.)
I was not satisfied.
Oh, I was plenty happy with the fact that the evangelism team had established a beachhead from which we could wage a Gospel battle in the pagan festival called Fiesta Hermosa. It’s just that, well, there were [...]