I quit drinking 14 years ago, even though I wasn’t saved at the time. My oldest daughter was 12 years old back then and I knew that I didn’t want her to drink. So I thought how can I tell her not to drink when I always have alcohol around the house? So I quit drinking because I didn’t want to be bad influence on my children. [Read more…]
Do you ever read the end of a book first? I know some people who do this, but I’m not one of them. I like to start with the introduction and read a book straight through. If it turns out to be boring or if I lose interest, I just stop reading it. [Read more…]
Judge not lest… I say again judge not lest… Most of us know the rest of that sentence – ye be judged. Judge not lest ye be judged. You have probably heard this before. Maybe you’ve even said it to a street evangelist before or perhaps you have said it to someone witnessing outside an abortion clinic. Frankly, we hear this quite often out on the streets. But is it biblical? Should professing Christians and non-Christians alike tell Christians who openly share their faith that they shouldn’t judge others? [Read more…]
Afghan Atrocities
On Halloween, some people and kids dressed up in really scary costumes. During the last month or so, a lot of people paid good money to go to a haunted house and have people scare them. What scares you? What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of dying? Are you afraid of spiders or snakes? Does public speaking scare you? Are you afraid of heights? Do you have a fear of failure? What about gangs? What scares you the most? Have you ever thought about where the scariest place on earth is to live? [Read more…]
I love the Gospel according to John, especially chapter 10. It is such a rich chapter. Jesus starts off telling the scribes and the Pharisees that they are thieves and robbers in verse 1. They were supposed to be the religious leaders of the people; but they weren’t leading the Jewish people at all. They merely burdened them with all of their man-made rules. (Don’t worry; I will get to the monkey bars later on). [Read more…]
Matt Chandler is correct. Humanity’s problem is not materialistic or physical needs; it is a sin problem. We sin against a Holy God (Genesis 39:9; 2 Samuel 12:13). Unbelievers, love their sins. They do what they want to do because they are living for themselves (Jeremiah 18:12). The Bible says that there is none righteous, no not one. There is none that does good. There is none that seeks after God. Are you saved? Have you turned away from your sins – repented (Luke 5:32) and put your trust in Jesus Christ alone to save you? (Ephesians 2:8-9). [Read more…]
N.Y. police officer DePrimo gives homeless man a pair of boots
Recently while street witnessing on a Friday night, two different people told me similar things. One said that she believed Jesus was a good person and the other (an agnostic) said that he thought the Bible had some good things in it for us to live our lives by, but he didn’t believe in God. Bill O’Reilly (the writer of the blasphemous book – Killing Jesus) told an interviewer that Jesus’ last words on the cross were not “It is finished.” The interviewer asked Mr. O’Reilly if he picks and chooses what he believes in the Bible. Mr. O’Reilly said yes. She wisely asked him if that didn’t make what he believed the gospel of Bill O’Reilly? [Read more…]
Recently four different professing Christians came up to us after open-air preaching on the square in downtown Springfield, MO and told us that we were doing it wrong. They all said that we weren’t loving people to Jesus. They all said that we were pushing people farther away from God. A week before that an agnostic at Missouri State University told me the same thing. He said that what I was doing was wrong. (Does anyone else see the irony of a non-believer telling a believer that he’s witnessing for Jesus incorrectly?) [Read more…]
3 Christians handcuffed and arrested by police. Yes, it happened again. Springfield Police Officers arrest street preacher and this time two other Christians as well. This is the second time they’ve confiscated this preacher’s amplifier and equipment. They still haven’t returned his first set of equipment, even though the city attorney admitted the first time around that the police violated his first and fourth amendments as well as the fact that they broke state law too. [Read more…]
There are many false religions in the world today. You can quickly tell the counterfeits from the one true Gospel and there is only one true Gospel. All world religions focus on man working his way to Heaven or man trying to become God. Everyone following a cult is busy trying to earn their way to Heaven, which is impossible (Ephesians 2:8-9) or they are trying to become God or they have put themselves in the place of God – such as atheists. By saying there is no God, atheists are foolishly deeming themselves in the place of almighty God. [Read more…]