Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Anna “Banana” Jackson created a cool T-shirt inspired from some articles from this blog. (Read what the T-shirt says by clicking here.)
Here’s what she wrote: “This shirt was inspired from a great series of articles on EVTales.com called “You might be a fundamentalist atheist if…” Some of them just made me laugh out loud, and I thought [...]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Here’s a review by Ray Comfort on the movie “Expelled.” If you haven’t ever heard about it, you may want to check it out when it opens in April. (See the trailer here.)
It’s 11:20 PM Friday night. We have just returned from watching a special Hollywood screening of Ben Stein’s “Expelled.” I didn’t know [...]
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
A woman found dead and packed in dry ice at an upscale hotel near John Wayne Airport has been identified as Felicia Tripp of Huntington Beach. No further information was available on how she died or how long her body had been in the hotel room. Police found Tripp packed in dry ice in a [...]
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
E-vangie Tales went public on this day two years ago.
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
“Does it work?”
—A lady at the Farmer’s Market who just received a Giant Money $100 bill Gospel tract. I replied, “Yes! If you read the back and believe.”
“Ohhhhh… noooo thank you. I’ve seen one of those.”
—A thoroughly disgusted woman refusing to take the Giant Money $100 Gospel tract from me.
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Oh no! The atheists are on the attack! (Gotta blame it on someone…)
My home computer crashed and the server for my blog has been erratic, therefore I cannot guarantee any new postings until Monday, March 31. But check out these stories and videos from the archives in the meantime.
The theme will be Different People Groups:
Witnessing [...]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Who were the first New Testament evangelists? (From Sunday’s question)
All women!
Then as today, men were too afraid to go out and share the good news. Here are the names of these wonderful women: Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, Salome, Joanna, and the others with them… (From Mat. 28:1; Mk. 16:1; Lk. 24:10; Jn. [...]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
This is a great article about using apologetics versus using the Law on sinners and atheists. It’s by Ray Comfort and I think you will enjoy it:
I’m not big on fishing. I far prefer catching. However, there can be no catching without fishing, so I have made a point of studying the skills that make a difference as [...]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
The Alliance Defense Fund continues to challenge an Ohio university’s policy that silences Christians on school grounds.
In October 2002, Jim Gilles was witnessing on the campus of Miami University when he was approached by security officers, who told him that without a permit, free speech was not allowed throughout the entire university. Click here [...]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
What’s up Doc? This bunny bugs me! Hey! It ain’t about rodent hordes, but the Risen Lord! Try to talk about sin, Judgment Day and Hell to a dude like this and it ain’t worth jack… he kept taking me down rabbit trails.
So I gave him the Million-dollar bill Gospel tract; let it do [...]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
A 27-year-old Orange County man climbed a 50-foot Italian Cyprus tree to rescue a cat, then fell to his death while reaching out to grab the stranded feline.
Sgt. Dan Adams says the man managed to grab hold of the cat, but lost his grip and fell to the sidewalk. The cat fell to the ground [...]
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
HE IS RISEN INDEED!!!
Question: Who were the first evangelists after Christ rose?
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
This is a wonderful illustration of this wonderful day…
The story is told of a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life, positive or negative, and remarking, “This is good!”
One day the king [...]
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
“I’m calling the police… and I’m going to press charges.”
—An older gentleman in a pink shirt who was angrily protesting—and trying to interrupt—my preaching to the line at Pink’s World Famous Hot Dogs in Hollywood last Sunday. The cops never came and my daughter burst into tears.
“You’re brainwashed.”
—The young man reading his Gospel tract while [...]
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
“No one lights a lamp and hides it in a jar or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a stand, so that those who come in can see the light.” —Luke 8:16
With the start of a new evangelism class comes a new round of E-vangie Tales (hopefully) from Christians ready and willing to share their [...]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Right across the street from Oscar I launched into a seven minute sermon. Would the stars be offended at the message delivered on this most hallowed of Hollywood nights? Would the thousands of gawkers consider me foolish for preaching the cross at the crossroads of Hollywood and Highland?
I sure hoped so…
This was one of about [...]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
ON THE ISSUE OF ORIGINS, YOU MIGHT BE A FUNDY ATHEIST IF…
21. You think that humans are products of chance but when it comes to human reason we can believe in logic! (Think about it!)
22. You have recently stuck a Darwin fish on your car in the hopes the people with the Jesus fish [...]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Philadelphia-based street preacher Michael Marcavage has been found guilty of disorderly conduct for proclaiming the gospel in Salem, Massachusetts.
Marcavage is president of Repent America, a ministry that calls America back to its Christian roots. On Halloween night last year, Marcavage was street preaching in Salem, a community also known as “Witch City.” Marcavage was eventually [...]
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
On occasion, we get some encouragement. Here are two emails I received from happy customers waiting in line at Pink’s World Famous Hot Dogs (read the article with photos and bad puns here), an eatery that has been a staple tourist attraction for nearly 70 years in L.A.. Every time we go to Hollywood, we [...]
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Here is an actual photo of an American Christian responding to Christ’s call to preach the Gospel.
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
This Saturday we will head on down to the Huntington Pier to evangelize with Ray Comfort.
Meet at Hope Chapel at noon. For more details, and for other info on future adventures, click here!
Read about what happened at a Christian “Outreach” last summer when Ray, his team, and us were out there by clicking here. [...]
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
25-year-old Jehad Ramzi Razack has been arrested in connection with the beating death of his mother, a 58-year-old resident of Highland Park, authorities said.
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A 26-year-old man died after a vehicle-to-vehicle shooting on the Hollywood Freeway early Saturday morning, the LAPD said.
—Both reports from The Daily Breeze, 3/2/08
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
“Because I have a bad mouth, I like fighting, and I steal.”
—Siond Tuli, a very large college student of island descent on why he thinks that he would go to Hell instead of Heaven.
“#?@&%!! Why don’t you shut up! #?@&%!!
You blankin’ #?@&%!!”
—The very manly, angry, linebackerish woman standing in line and reacting enthusiastically to my [...]
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Friday, March 14th, 2008
I reported last week that my wife Karen woke up one morning and discovered that half of her face was paralyzed, a symptom, we discovered, of Bell’s Palsy. Though there has not been much improvement, we are very grateful for the many tears and prayers that have been shed on her behalf. Thank you for all your support. [...]
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
What do you do when the person you start sharing your faith with is already a Christian? You want to make the most of every opportunity; you can’t just let the guy go… can you? After all, God had you stop this person for a reason, right?
A janitor was driving by in his little broom-mobile when I [...]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
When he’s not complaining about how cold it is in Canada or how much snow he has to shovel from the roof of his house, Paul LaTour contributes witty, encouraging commentary to this blog and is a fervent Gospel preacher.
Paul sent me a few pictures about how things are done in the frozen North:
I’m just [...]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
ON THE ISSUE OF ORIGINS, YOU MIGHT BE A FUNDY ATHEIST IF…
16. You believe that planes, computers, calculators, compasses, etc, were “all obviously designed,” yet the human body, being intricately more complex was “obviously a product of biological evolution.” It seems the more complex the apparatus, the more obvious the “fact” that it was not [...]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
The following E-vangie Tale is by a brand new student who showed up the third week of our 6-week class. On the third week, I surprise the students by taking them out unexpectedly to share their faith. And boy, was she surprised—and touched.
By Mia McName
I started the Evangelism (without fear) class two weeks late and Steve [...]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Last week I asked you to pray for a man who had taken our evangelism class several months ago. He was arrested recently in a Communist country as an evangelist and his whereabouts were unknown. The good news is that he has been located and was able to call his wife to tell her he [...]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Here are four questions from a radio sermon by Dr. Charles Stanley concerning whether everyone should preach the Gospel. Ask yourself:
What can you do?
What should you do?
What is God telling you to do?
What am I willing to do?
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