I hear a lot of sad stories on the streets while sharing my faith; this is one of them: I met Mike on a recent excursion to the Redondo Beach Pier. He’s currently homeless, but a few years ago he wasn’t. In fact, he was a pastor of a church until his wife suddenly left
I’m ready to be demoted. The lady who schedules the invocations for the City of Torrance told my administrative assistant that I would not be able to pray in the name of Jesus, and that if I did, I would not be asked back again. She scheduled my invocation slot for this evening. I thought
Not since the hanging chad incident at the 2000 Presidential election has there been such tragic confusion…. Last Thursday I reported that the “Top of the Class” winner of our latest evangelism training was Timothy Johnson, the fraternal twin brother of Peter Johnson, who won a brutal sharing-of-the-faith competition over Peter by two points. Their
The Illegal Name of Jesus, Part 3: My “Legal” City Council Prayer
THUMPA-THUMPA! THUMPA-THUMPA! That was the sound of my heart beating in my throat before last night’s City Council meeting where I was scheduled to give my “non-sectarian invocation” before the city fathers and all those gathered to do government business in the City of Torrance. My dilemma? Getting the message out to all those assembled that
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