Praise to the King!

With all the hoopla surrounding the royal wedding today I thought it might be more fruitful to post a sermon I did a few months ago (mostly non-evangelistic) that deals solely with the King of Kings from Psalm 145. If you want to watch or listen click here, then scroll down to February 4, 2011.

Lost Liberties/USA: DMV Bible Reader Arrested

Mark and Brett are friends of mine. I’ve served with them at a few Ambassadors’ Academies as leaders of various evangelism teams. They were arrested for reading the Bible at the Department of Motor Vehicles in California. (Read the account here.)

What do you think? (By the way, what the police call “Captive Audiences,” we call “Organic Congregations.”)

But there’s some good news to report. Last year, a man was arrested in a Sacramento mall for sharing his faith with patrons. A lawsuit was brought to bear. Here is the ruling from that affair from the Pacific Justice Institute:

Weekend Adventures: Doo Dah Parade, Lawndale Youth Parade, Festival of Books

Want to go to a parade where you can pelt participants and side-liners alike with corn tortillas and marshmallows, carry a cross next to the Cannabis Peace Corps, preach to transvestites, people in little motorized cupcakes and Elvis on a Vespa? If this is your cup of tea, then you’ll enjoy the counter-cultural, anti-Rose Parade, Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena. (Read what happened last year by clicking here.) Watch the action with this two minute video:

Meet at Hope Chapel at 8am to carpool.

Want a safer alternative? Then the Lawndale Youth Parade is for you….

Martyrs: Muslims Target Christians

Muslim protesters went on a murdering rampage throughout northern Nigeria following the presidential elections on Apr. 16. Though the crisis started as a political protest, it rapidly escalated into anti-Christian violence. Numerous churches, Christian businesses, homes and cars were burned and destroyed. Thousands of Christians are now trapped and spread throughout military and security barracks.