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Is That The Weed Card Or The God Card?

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Is That The Weed Card Or The God Card?

Ministry Update September 3, 2017

On Monday August 28, 2017, I witnessed at the University of Missouri with Jeremy, his brother Joshua and his son Joseph. We handed out tracts and the three of us guys brought open-air messages. While I was handing out tracts, one student walked up to me and looked at the Gospel tract in my hand and asked “Is that the weed card or the God card?” I replied, “the God card” to which he said naw, he wasn’t interested. He walked over to the guy gathering marijuana signatures for a petition to get marijuana on the ballot in November. So, I yelled after the student that weed can’t save you. Only Jesus saves.  [Read more…]

Sudden Death

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Sudden Death

I used to be a real sports fanatic. Yes, I’m embarrassed to say that 20 to 25 years ago, I’d be the guy chewing out the referee at a basketball game. Red faced, veins popping out in my neck. Even though I’m nothing like I used to be, I do still like sports. Some sports have what is called sudden death, as in sudden death playoffs. In golf for example, if two or more golfers are tied at the end of a tournament, those players start playing again and the first person to score the lowest on a hole first, wins the tournament.  [Read more…]

The Lord Lives

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The Lord Lives

When several of us witnessed at the gay pride parade a couple of weeks ago, besides being told “Judge Not” the other phrase that kept being quoted to us was “Love thy neighbor.” In fact, one guy who wasn’t gay told me that the gays chanting love thy neighbor was more appealing to him than our call to “Repent and believe the Gospel.”  [Read more…]

What Is Your Life?

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What Is Your Life?

What is your life? If I ask this question tonight, how will you answer? What is your life? You might tell me about your work. Maybe you are a carpenter, mechanic, teacher, or insurance salesman. When I ask you what your life is, maybe your answer has to do with your work. I know other people who are really into sports. They might say baseball, soccer, basketball, hockey or football is their life. Others may say sailing, kayaking, boating or fishing is their life.  [Read more…]

Wickedness In The Bible Belt

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Wickedness

Wickedness In The Bible Belt

Ministry Update April 30, 2017

Friday night Aaron, Serenity and I knew it was going to be a wild night witnessing downtown Springfield, MO. Before we even started singing hymns, a woman in the front passenger seat of a car driving by stuck her head out the window and yelled something that was sexually inappropriate. The wickedness didn’t stop there, no it continued the whole time we were downtown. I have friends all around the country that just can’t believe the wickedness in the Bible Belt, right here in Springfield, MO.  [Read more…]

Everlasting Gospel

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The Everlasting Gospel

The Lord keeps impressing upon me the urgency and necessity of preaching the glorious Gospel. Why? Because Heaven is real and eternal punishment in the lake of fire and brimstone is real. Every single one of us will spend eternity in the presence of God, worshiping Him forever or we will suffer His righteous wrath over our sins for all eternity. It’s one or the other. Which will it be for you?  [Read more…]

Good Catholic Boys

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Good Catholic Boys

Ministry Update March 19, 2017

Friday night, Justin and his little brother Brayden joined me witnessing downtown. It was St. Patrick’s Day, so we weren’t too sure of what to expect. We started off singing a couple of hymns and then I brought a message We Are Not Used Car Salesmen. I wasn’t very far into the message when three young men stopped right in front of me. I asked them if they had a question and they all said no, they were just listening. But before long a couple of them said they felt like I was judging them and I shouldn’t judge them because they were good Catholics.  [Read more…]

Is Open-Air Preaching Radical?

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Is Open-Air Preaching Radical?

I’ve always heard that only 2% of Christians share their faith in Jesus with others. Now some of the old-time preachers also used to say that they believed only 5% to 10% of people in churches were actually saved. Their estimates don’t seem unrealistic to me. If you have truly received everlasting life, how can you keep that to yourself? But let’s just use the 2% number tonight. If only 2% of professing Christians share their faith, how low of percentage do you think it is for Christians who do open-air preaching? So I ask you tonight: Is open-air preaching radical?  [Read more…]

Stop Giving Christians A Bad Name

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Dennis At MSU Feb 15 2017

Stop Giving Christians A Bad Name

Last week a student at MSU yelled as he walked by me “Stop giving Christians a bad name.” I don’t know if the young man is a professing Christian or maybe an atheist that grew up in a Christian home, but I’ve been thinking about his comment. I wonder if he really knows what giving Christians a bad name really looks like?  [Read more…]

The Second Adam

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The Second Adam

The Second Adam

I want to talk about the second Adam in the Bible today, but I really should tell you a little about the first Adam, first. It begins with God. Genesis 1:1 says In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Then Genesis 1:26-28 states: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  [Read more…]