At a recent Street Fair in Palos Verdes two young ladies took our Intelligence Test. After answering the majority of the questions incorrectly, they were sad. After hearing that they had broken God’s Law they were bummed; and when they found out that they were headed for Hell they were downright depressed. Hopefully, the Good
I know that a lot of people think that the Million Dollar bill Gospel tract does nothing; they don’t have enough faith to see how God can use those silly little evangelism tools. But God does indeed use them… A woman told me that she tried to hand this tract to a man in the
What’s it like to preach the most famous American sermon, written nearly 300 years ago, to a contemporary congregation of about 1200 people? What would the reaction be? How many would walk out? Would anyone repent and trust in the Savior or would they fall asleep in their chairs? Might they even stone the preacher?
Oooooo… I can’t stand it. Ooooo… how frustrating… Three—count ’em, three—missed opportunities for preaching to organic congregations in the last week or so: First, there was the iPhone that went on sale here locally at just one outlet. One outlet! I heard that people were lining up hundreds deep for hours on end. Think of
Preaching Jonathan Edwards, Part 2
(Read part 1 here.) The irony was delicious. Over the weekend “Bam Bam” Bentley was preaching “another Gospel” to the snookered minions believing that they were attending an actual real revival, while 20 miles to the south, the sermon that actually brought about a true revival, The Great Awakening 267 years ago, was being read.
Read More