A Long Knife and a Sword

Almost concurrently with the weather warming up, kids begin pulling up and parking at the entrance to the green-belt trail, and going on to the trail at all hours of the evening, doing all sorts of things.

Earlier, a BMW was parked there and four guys went onto the trail to do their 'thing'.   Their car doors closing woke me up, and I was hesitant to go down there and talk with them, so I waited and watched, until they returned to their car and left.

Then again a few minutes later, I heard doors slam and looked out and saw an early 80's  El Camino parked down by the trail head, so I slipped on my tennis shoes and walked down there.   Two guys and a girl were walking onto the trail as I walked up.   I called to them and they stopped the play-acting sword fight they were having.   I spoke with them for a while until they finally said we have to go.   I had the chance to talk to them about eternity and the solution to their sin, although they said they didn't believe in God.

God bless...

Multicultural Night at Highland Christian School

I spent the evening with the Indian Christian Fellowship folks, who had a table set up at the multicultural night at Highland Christian school.

I engaged the kids in coloring, while Richard shared the Gospel with parent after parent.   I learned much tonight on how to communicate the Gospel.




I got to share the Gospel with some of the kids and one adult Indian woman.   I was so pleased to offer and have her accept a Bible.   It's all about Jesus, from cover to cover.

God bless...

A Gray Day For the Gospel

I heard car doors slam outside my back fence. I looked out the back window and peered through the fence slats and saw a silver Ford Ranger and a couple of guys heading onto the green-belt trail.   I went and put on my jacket, grabbed a couple tracts and put on a warm beanie.   I walked out the door, and down to the trail, after having asked the LORD for protection and guidance, and more protection.

I walked onto the trail, and the two guys saw me and started walking the other direction.   They stopped halfway onto the trail, and I walked up to them and gave them the Gospel tracts.   They asked what they were, and I had the opportunity to explain what the word 'Gospel' meant.   Neither of them had much of a Christian upbringing.   I asked them their names, but had a hard time really understanding what they said.

They patiently listened to me as I shared the Gospel with them.   I chattered along and they smirked and rolled their eyes, and I warned them of the seriousness of life, and death and judgement.   I explained repentance and faith, and that God had become a man in Jesus Christ, who died for their sins and rose again from the dead.   As I was speaking with them, another young man, dressed similarly to these two walked by on the trail, which made me think maybe I had interrupted a liaison.

I asked them if they had any questions or objections but they just said, "its a lot to think about".   I asked for their names again, and they said, Carson and Nate.

Then I asked them if I could pray for them, which they consented.

After I prayed, I thanked them for letting me preach at them, and shook their hands and left.

God bless...

The Gospel Goes to Maroon 5 Goers

This evening we had the privilege of sharing the Gospel with (maybe) several hundred Maroon 5 concert goers at the Key Arena.

[I was reminded today (3/24/2013) of another funny thing that happened while we were walking toward the Key Arena.   We were walking along and I smelled marijuana smoke.   I said to Thomas, "someone around here is smoking some hoochijuana."  And the guy right in front of us turned around and said yeah, you guys want some.   No, we responded, but here's a Gospel tract. And he accepted a Gospel tract, and we explained very quickly what it meant.]

God overcame our fear with compassion for the lost.   We stood up and spoke as people lined up and went into the concert.

We gave out hundreds of Gospel tracts, and our presentation of the Gospel became very short and concise as the night wore on.

Praise God for His mercy, compassion and love for the lost, and praise God that he would use a foolish method such as preaching, to share the Gospel with people.

God bless...

God's Favor

Yesterday was a fun day in the LORD.   I went with the Calvary Everett Street Team, and we evangelized on the streets of Everett.   We had some really wonderful encounters.

I spoke with a Catholic Apologist... yes, that's what I said, a Catholic Apologist.   He was a young (college aged) man, who although he commended us for our work, definitely differed from us on some doctrines, like "Salvation by grace through faith".   It was a good conversation, reasoning with Andrew.

Second, I spoke with Zach, who was a soccer playing, high school aged young man.   He said he had no Christian upbringing or background.   He listened to everything I shared with him.

We found a new fishing hole.   The Village Theater in Everett WA.   We handed out tracts to the busloads of people as they were entering into the theater.   Then we called and found out when intermission would be, so we could preach the Gospel to those show-goers who would come outside during intermission.  As we waited for intermission, an Everett Police Officer came by on his bicycle.   We asked him where we would be permitted to preach the Gospel, and he explained we were on public property, so we could preach anywhere.  We just needed to be careful not to offend anyone (that's hard to do, since the Gospel message is offensive, in and of itself).   Well, when the time for intermission came, a few people came outside (the hard-core smokers), but the clouds got blacker and blacker and just as we began to preach the Gospel, it started pouring.   It was kind of humorous as we preached, we got soaking wet.   It was a sweet time preaching the Gospel in the rain though.

Then today, we repeated, and Whitney and the kids got involved in handing out tracts.  Wow, what sweet children!

Lastly, we went over to the Comcast Arena where a professional Lacrosse game was going on.   We preached the message of  'The Cross'.

God bless...