May I exhort you to continue to share your faith in the face of discouragement, nay saying, attacks and negativity because eternity is at stake? When it comes to attacks from unbelievers at my YouTube account, posted to this blog, or sent via email, I take it with a grain of salt and continue to
January 8, 2012 (WELLINGTON, New Zealand) — A hot air balloon carrying 11 people turned into a tower of “sheer flame” Saturday after hitting power lines in a rural area of New Zealand, killing everyone aboard and horrifying residents. “It’s a tragedy as bad as tragedies get,” local police commander Brent Register said. It was
I received a private comment from a concerned reader of this blog who supports street preaching. Here it is: Steve, I found a comment on latimes.com about the street evangelism during the Rose Parade. (Read article here.) Just wanted to make you aware of it. Not sure if the poster is talking about your group.
More parades are in store for this month. These are the best occasions for evangelism. My report on what happened at the Rose Parade will be tomorrow. (Believe it or not some new techniques and a possible World Record was established.
Here’s what we are doing this month. Please join us if you are in the area! We are starting something new on Thursdays. See the schedule to find out what it is.
January 7: Redondo Beach Pier. Meet at Hope Chapel at noon to carpool.
January 14: Long Beach Martin Luther King Jr. Parade. Meet at Hope Chapel at 8am to carpool.
Monday, January 16: MLK JR. Parade in L.A. Meet at Hope Chapel at 7:30am to carpool.
Atheist Tuesday: Atheist Numbers Declining Daily
The American Spectator reported on some wonderful news: According to the International Bulletin of Missionary Research there are 80,000 new Christians every day! But there’s even better news. Keep reading.
Because of God’s Spirit working in the lives of unbelievers as they hear the Gospel preached, Christianity is still thriving, with “one third of the world professing
Christianity, virtually unchanged as a global percentage since 100 years ago. Christians today are estimated to number about 2.3 billion. About 1.5 billion are estimated to attend church regularly at over 5 million congregations, up from 400,000 100 years ago.”
But the best news of all? According to this report there are 300 less atheists in the world every day! At this rate, in a few thousand years (or more) there will be no more atheists! Hallelujah!!!
Maybe a lot of these “backslidden” atheists were a lot like prominent existentialist thinker
Albert Camus. He, too, wrestled with many of the issues that unbelievers today struggle with: the meaning of life, a foundation for morality, and the problem of suffering and evil. We wrote about his convictions that God does not exist and that the world is without meaning in such major novels as The Stranger (1942), The Plague (1947), and The Fall (1956).
His main frustrations, as written about in The One Year Book of Christian History, “came from the issues of suffering and evil. Seeing pain and suffering all around him, he could not believe that a God who was good and all-powerful would watch such events and do nothing to alleviate them. Such a God, he felt was not worth believing.”
Hmmm. Sounds like some of the atheists I’ve encountered.
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