I post articles about sudden death every Monday to remind everyone that death can strike at anytime. My hope is that by posting these morbid little curiosities people will be spurred on to think about where they will go in eternity, Heaven or Hell. Also, these articles show how very creative God is when causing death. [...]

I was tired of all the other DMV preachers having all the fun, so I started preaching on the second Tuesday of January, 2008.

You’re probably asking, What other DMV preachers are you talking about?
Well, there is “Righteous Richard” Chavarria who started all of this a year ago today, first at the Torrance DMV once [...]

(The following is from “Charity and its Fruit” by Jonathan Edwards)
Those in Hell hate God, and Christ, and angels, and saints in Heaven; and not only so, but they hate one another, like a company of serpents or vipers, not only spitting out venom against God, but at one another, biting and stinging and tormenting [...]

You may remember that ’70’s T.V. show “Good Times”; I watched it a lot in “the day.”

Well, in addition to handing out a Gospel tract to Stevie Wonder at the Martin Luther King Jr. Parade, I had the opportunity to hand out a few Million Dollar Bill Gospel tracts to John Amos, the Dad in [...]

When Jesus said to “Go!” in Mark 16:15 I’m pretty sure He didn’t mean this:

I wanted to preach at the Rose Parade Porta-Potties last year when I saw the crowd waiting nervously in line, but I wasn’t prepared. This time, at the 2008 Tournament of Roses, “Righteous Richard” Chavarria brought along his portable preaching stool at [...]

“Make it an object of constant study, and of daily reflection and prayer, to learn how to deal with sinners so as to promote their conversion. It is the great business on earth of every Christian, to save souls.”
“People often complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, [...]

(This is Part 2 of The Golden Compass tract adventure. To read Part 1, click here.)
We had 50,000 of The Golden Compass Gospel tracts to hand out before that awful bomb of a movie disappeared completely. What could I do? I had no choice but to bring out the secret weapons: my 6 and 8-year-old daughters. “I’ll give you each [...]

The “Will your good outweigh your bad?“ tract is the greatest free tract download ever and they are available from Living Waters Publications!
Click here to get them. (This link will download a zipped copy of both sides. Just save it onto your computer, unzip, and you’ll end up with the pdf version.) 
People love them! [...]

This is an excellent article from about 150 years ago written by the Prince of Preachers. Every would-be street preacher needs to keep a copy of this with them and to read it thoroughly.
Please copy and print this. Things have not changed that much since Spurgeon’s time. You will laugh and shake your head [...]

“Hey honey! Look! There’s money on that bulletin board!”

“Wait a minute… that’s not real money.”
“It’s those stupid million dollar bills that we see all over the place! I think they say something about Hell.”
“Man. How brave do you have to be to pin one of those on a board?”

“Christians are so chicken!”
“I [...]

Charles Spurgeon, the Prince of Preachers, said this about 150 years ago: “Speak a word for the Master whenever it is possible, and offer a short prayer at every convenient opportunity.”

“I think we should make it a rule, whenever we hear a foul or blasphemous word in the street – (and, alas! We constantly [...]

Never be ashamed of distributing tracts. Many people hand out tracts to others as if they were ashamed of what they were doing.
People are not likely to read tracts if you hand them to them as if you were ashamed to do it; but if you act as though you were conferring a favor [...]

Spurgeon talks of the perseverence of one open air preacher, John Furz, who encountered a bit of opposition when he preached.
“Once recommenced, the fruitful agency of field-preaching was not allowed to cease… The preachers needed to have faces set like flints, and so indeed they had. John Furz says: ‘As soon as I began to [...]

“It is a good thing to get a man on his knees, but don’t get him there before he is ready. You may have to talk with him two hours before you can get him that far, but when you think he is about ready, say, ‘Shall we not ask God to give us light [...]

The naysayer says it’s a waste of time to preach to people on street corners because no one is listening. The store owner says he’s bad for business. The timid Christian is embarrassed by what he says… Listen to what the Prince of Preachers, Charles Spurgeon (1834 – 1892), had to say about all this [...]

“I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death, still to be a soul winner, still to be a true herald of the cross, and testify the name of Jesus to the last hour.

It is only [...]

Catherine Booth was the wife of William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army.
REVELATION 6:17: For the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?
 THERE have been some terrible days of wrath in the past history of this world. That was a day of wrath when, wearied by the cry [...]

This is an excerpt from R.C. Sproul’s preface to his commentary on the book of Romans.
We can think too of a young Anglican clergyman in England during the 18th century who, though he had been trained in the seminary and had been ordained by the church, was cold of heart and not even a believer.
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“Sin against God in God’s idea is infinite, and the punishment is infinite.”

“…as sure as God is true there will absolutely be no end to the misery of Hell.”
—From “Jonathan Edwards on Heaven and Hell”, by John H. Gerstner

“Some talk of it as an unreasonable thing to fright persons to Heaven, but I think it is a reasonable thing to endeavor to fright persons away from Hell. They stand at its brink, and are ready to fall into it, and are senseless of their danger. Is it not a reasonable thing to fright [...]

“If a man does not do the will of God, as God requires it of him,
step by step, and day by day, his belief is only thrown away.”
Click here for brief bio.

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 [...]

“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

“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.”

“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!

“Unless we see our shortcomings in the light of the Law and holiness of God, we do not see them as sin at all.”
Professor Packer is one of the most respected theologians of our time. Read about him here and here!
(This concludes 10 Commandments week. To see the full series, scroll down to Monday’s [...]

“I do not believe that any man can preach the Gospel who does not preach the Law.”
“Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I [...]

“First, then, before you can speak peace to your hearts, you must be made to see, made to feel, made to weep over, made to bewail, your actual transgressions against the Law of God.”

Whitefield helped to bring about The Great Awakening in the 18th century. Read about him here!

“The first duty of the Gospel preacher is to declare God’s Law and show the nature of sin.”
“Satan, the god of dissension stirs up daily new sects. And last of all which of all others I should never have forseen or once suspected, he has raised up a sect such as teach that men [...]

“The highest service to which man may obtain on earth is to preach the Law of God.”
“If you do not use the Law in Gospel proclamation, you will fill the church with false converts.”
Wycliffe translated the Bible into English in 1382. Read about him here!