It was a Monday night and my friend Tom came over with two teens to help me with some “Honey-Do” projects around the house. After the work was done we all sat down to chat because Ashley and Cameron (their real names, used with permission), had some questions that they wanted to ask a pastor.
It was getting late and I still needed to find someone to tell about Jesus. At the week-end service we were reminded to ask God to bring someone into our paths each day and watch what He will do. I prayed, yet no-one had crossed my path so I was forced to take matters into
“The Passion of the Christ” was scheduled to be shown at our Sunday evening service and I was excited to host this evening since I had seen the film four times before. The “Thirst Band” had prepared some great Christ-honoring songs to prepare the hearts of those who would come and I had prayed about
Sometimes the unremarkable can be incredibly significant and wonderful… My family and I had just enjoyed a great dinner at “The Spot” in Hermosa and then walked down to the beach under a brilliant moonlit evening. There had been no natural opportunity that day to share the Gospel and I wondered how I was going
There we were, the two kids and I, ready to get some pizza in the little outdoor place at Costco, when a big burly bearded dude wearing a long black robe approached the order window…around his neck was a huge wooden crucifix, the vampire-repellant kind. Obviously this guy was a faker or a too-hip-post-modern-hippie making