2014 - Stone The Preacher

Loneliness with God

Dec 23, 2014Steve SanchezABOUT ME, MY BLOG, MY CHURCH, Hope Chapel Hill Country

Since I’ve moved to Texas to plant Hope Chapel Hill Country, many people have asked how it’s going. The answer is best summed up by two devotionals I read on December 20 & December 21. Please read these and pray for me and my family accordingly. But understand, I am rejoicing in Christ my Savior

Scamming the Scammer

Dec 17, 2014Steve Sanchez7 CommentsAbnormal Evangelism Ideasemail, scam, spam, spammers, stranded, telemarketers, western union

“HELP! I’M STUCK IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY AND NEED MONEY!” I just received one those cheesy messages from a friend’s hacked email account. But, instead of deleting it, I redeemed it. This is how…. FIRST, HERE’S THE MESSAGE: “I Hope you get this on time, I made a trip to (Turkey) and had my bag

Louis Zamperini: “UNBROKEN” Needs Fixin’

Dec 10, 2014Steve Sanchez4 CommentsGreat Books/Movies/Videos, HIStoryangelina jolie, billy graham, brad pitt, laura hillenbrand, louis zamperini, torrance, unbroken, world war 2

I had the opportunity to attend a preview of director Angelina Jolie’s film “Unbroken.” I say Jolie’s film, because she made sure that Louis Zamperini’s faith, which was featured prominently in Laura Hillenbrand’s excellent book, was reduced to an inoffensive, feel-good type of belief. Though well-made and interesting as a Prisoner-of War film, it was

Lead Pearl Harbor Bomber Converts After Reading Tract

Dec 7, 2014Steve Sanchez12 CommentsSpecial Days, TRACTS

This is the incredible story of Mitsuo Fuchida, lead pilot of the December 7, 1941, raid on Pearl Harbor. Fuchida was the one who shouted the war cry, “Tora, Tora, Tora!”

Mitsuo Fuchida fought the United States throughout WWII and was intimately involved in the planning and leadership of the Japanese war effort as flight commander and later as a senior operations officer.

After the war, Fuchida was a defeated warrior in occupied Japan, farming to meet the needs of his family. He was also the only one to return to Japan after the bombing.

In 1950, Fuchida miraculously came to know Jesus Christ as Savior through a tract handed to him while exiting a train in Tokyo. The tract was entitled, “I Was a Prisoner of Japan,” written by Jacob DeShazer who was one of the famous Doolittle Raiders. DeShazer trusted Christ as his Savior while held captive by Japan for 40 months. DeShazer went to Japan in 1948 as a missionary and preached to the nation who held him captive.

Fuchida faithfully served Jesus Christ as an evangelist until his death in 1976. “From Pearl Harbor to Golgotha” is Fuchida’s testimony of salvation. Here it is in his own words:

I must admit I was more excited than usual as I awoke that morning at 3:00 a.m., Hawaii time, four days past my thirty-ninth birthday. Our six aircraft carriers were positioned 230 miles north of Oahu Island. As general commander of the air squadron, I made last-minute checks on the intelligence information reports in the operations room before going to warm up my single-engine, three-seater “97-type” plane used for level bombing and torpedo flying.

The sunrise in the east was magnificent above the white clouds as I led 360 planes towards Hawaii at an altitude of 3,000 meters. I knew my objective: to surprise and cripple the American naval force in the Pacific. But I fretted about being thwarted should some of the U.S. battleships not be there. I gave no thought of the possibility of this attack breaking open a mortal confrontation with the United States. I was only concerned about making a military success.

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My Life Changed This Day (24 years ago)

Dec 2, 2014Steve Sanchez2 CommentsSteve Sanchez' Testimony

On December 1, 1990, I was still dead in my sins, thinking I was a good person. I was right with the Man upstairs and I had no fears because I knew I was living my life the way I was supposed to: as a drug-abusing, womanizing, gambling thief. But everything changed the next day