Help build churches & orphanages for persecuted / poor Christians

One of our favorite organizations is International Cooperating Ministries, a:
non-profit, trans-denominational Christian organization that works toward the mission of nurturing believers and assisting church growth worldwide. With our partners, we leverage simple church growth principles to see our vision of growth in the faith of individual believers, the number of people within each church, and [...]

Remember, it is called the Good News for a reason

It is bad enough that Christians aren’t more intentional about sharing the Gospel. But in a twist that Screwtape would be proud of, countless people who profess to follow Christ are actually proud about not sharing the Good News.  Michael Moore gave a good example of this when he said:
I have always believed that one’s [...]

Here’s some encouragement to keep sharing the Gospel

Listen to the audio at Eternal Perspectives (Randy Alcorn’s blog): The Story of One Man’s Faithful Service to Christ.  An Australian man got saved then spent 40 years passing out Gospel tracts to roughly ten people per day.  He never knew of a single conversion despite asking over 100,000 people if they would go to [...]

Witnessing to the Witnesses

I was working from home today and took a break to talk with a sweet old lady from the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Please pray that a seed was planted and that she rethinks her beliefs.
My strategy was to stay focused on the JW’s mistranslation of John 1:1, where their Bible says the Word (Jesus) “was a [...]

Just the same?

Many people insist that all (or at least most) religions lead to the same God.  But the facts do not bear that out.  They each have mutually exclusive truth claims — that is, they can’t all be right.  And if Christianity is right then all the others are false.
This passage in the Koran explicitly denies [...]

Catch ‘em then clean ‘em

Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason (my favorite apologetics ministry and Podcast - check ‘em out!) has a great saying about how God deals with us in the same order that we handle fish: He catches us and then He cleans us.
In fancy church word terms, He justifies us (makes us right with him through Jesus’ payment for [...]

More on “good people”

When sharing the Gospel in general or speaking with Muslims in particular (who believe our good and bad deeds are weighed in the balance to determine our salvation), I like to point out that if that is the criteria then I’m in big, big trouble. 
When estimating my good and bad thoughts, words, actions and inactions [...]

A little diagnosis

Stan had a post that reminded me of the importance of understanding why people are raising objections to God and Christianity before answering their questions.  
Much of the time objections are just smokescreens meant to avoid the reality of God (basic Romans 1 stuff).  I get sucked into time wasting conversations sometimes but have found that [...]

World religions & evangelism videos

I did a one hour presentation on world religions for a church group and decided to video tape it as an experiment.  I was pleased with the content of the presentation but learned some things about lighting, sound and pace.  That will make the next one much better. I was hoping it would be shorter but it [...]

Who are you talking to?

We have a mixed audience here, so I try to cover a variety of things.  But I mainly just write about what I want to write about.  This is just one facet of my life and the posts here don’t reflect the same ratio of where I spend most of my time and energy. 
I’m not [...]

Why aren’t more people evangelical?

Pastor Timothy had a good piece on a Penn Jillette video (see the YouTube at the bottom of the post).
Apparently, a man gave Penn Jillette, of Penn & Teller fame, a Bible and it really moved Penn. No, he is not a believer. He is an atheist. But the kindness which the man showed towards [...]

How would you respond?

I just love this clip, an excerpt from the TV show ER.  I posted on it early this year but was thinking of it again as I I’ll be sharing it with the high school youth at church this Sunday.  I thought I’d come at it from another angle. 

The money quotes:
All I’m [...]

Where is Gandhi?

I don’t mean that title in the “Where’s Waldo?” sense, rather in the “What are the criteria for the location of Gandhi’s eternal soul?” sense. 
Another blogger asked Christians, “Did Gandhi go to Hell because he did not believe in Jesus?“  I think the question was slightly misworded.  It isn’t the sin of not believing in [...]

Evangelism experiences 8

As noted in the overview, this is part of a series of experiences I want to share about evangelism. Please feel free to add your own.
On my first mission trip to Kenya in 2004, while we were painting some windows at the hospital, a woman who worked there stopped by to visit with us (The woman [...]

Evangelism experiences 7

As noted in the overview, this is part of a series of experiences I want to share about evangelism.  Please feel free to add your own.
One of the important things to do when discussing spiritual matters is to diagnose where people are.  There is a saying that you don’t want to bruise the fruit.  If [...]

Evangelism experiences 6

As noted in the overview, this is part of a series of experiences I want to share about evangelism. Please feel free to add your own.
I was sharing the Gospel with a Buddhist gentleman and everything was going really well.  We established a rapport and had a nice back and forth conversation.  I was using [...]