Month: August 2018

Whether You Listen Or Not

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Whether You Listen Or Not

I was a sneaky child when I was little. Yes, I was a rebellious child. My parents and teachers would tell me what to do, but many times I wouldn’t listen. So I received many spankings. I guess you could say that I wasn’t very smart because most times I still wouldn’t listen. I had a rebellious spirit. But the adults in my life still spoke truth to me, they told me what I needed to hear, whether I listened or not. Well, my friend and I are out here tonight sharing truth, God’s truth with you and we are doing so whether you listen or not.  [Read more…]

Need To Sugarcoat It

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Need To Sugarcoat It

Ministry Update August 26, 2018

Since classes started at Missouri State University this last week, I witnessed there during the lunch hour on Wednesday. Toward the end of the message a student came over to talk to me. He had listened to a good portion of the open-air preaching. He walked up and said, “I like what you do here, but you don’t want to scare off the new students. You need to sugarcoat it.” I didn’t address his concern, we just talked a little bit. Then all of he sudden he laughed and said, “I guess you really can’t sugarcoat it, can you?” Then I told him that I was going to ask him where Jesus sugarcoated it and that I’d be happy to do the same. The best part was he figured out that you really can’t sugarcoat the Gospel and he came to this conclusion without me even addressing it.  [Read more…]

Speedy Trial

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Speedy Trial

In the United States of America an accused person has the right to a speedy trial. The Sixth Amendment says in part: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed. So if you are accused of a crime in the United States of America, you have the right to a speedy trial.  [Read more…]

Deathbed Confession

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Deathbed Confession

Ministry Update August 19, 2018

Rich, Kelly, Steven and I witnessed downtown Friday night and it was a night with many mockers. Rich started us off. He had a few people revving their cars, scooters and motorcycles revving their engines as well as people yelling out of their cars. But he also had a guy that had an amplifier that was in one of the loft apartments across the parking lot in front of us. The guy kept repeating how he was gay (but he used a derogatory term for homosexuals) and kept mocking through probably the last half of Rich’s message. This guy said that he’s going to live his alternative lifestyle and then plans on a deathbed confession at the very end.  [Read more…]

Unhitch

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Unhitched

Unhitch

In May of this year, Andy Stanley suggested that Christians need to unhitch the Old Testament from their faith. Now recently in an interview, Andy Stanley tried to clarify what he meant by that statement. Unfortunately, his clarification is even worse than the original statement (and until I heard this, I didn’t think it was possible for Andy Stanley to make it worse).  [Read more…]

Great Lengths To Block The Gospel

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Great Lengths To Block The Gospel

Ministry Update August 12, 2018

Wednesday at Planned Parenthood was pretty quiet. One young man went inside and at another time a young woman went in, but that was about it except for the red car that was there for over 30 minutes with a bunch of kids inside. When my wife and I first got there, they had all the windows down. When I started open-air preaching, the driver rolled the windows up and cranked up the stereo as loud as it would go. The driver went to great lengths to block the Gospel.  [Read more…]

Glorify God

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Glorify God

The Bible says we are to give glory unto the Lord (1 Chronicles 16:28-29): Give unto the Lord, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.  [Read more…]

Do All Roads Lead To God?

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Do All Roads Lead To God?

Ministry Update August 5, 2018

As Pastor Joshua was finishing up the first message of the night, three Muslims came up and started talking to us. The young man that did most of the talking said at one point that all roads lead to God. We politely tried to tell him that all roads do not lead to God. Jesus said that He is the way, truth and life and no one comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6). Jesus is very exclusive and He is the only Savior.  [Read more…]