I went to the Comcast Arena this evening and spent about an hour preaching the Gospel this evening.
I took my Bible and my stool and my PA and went about an hour before the game was to begin. I prayed extra hard before I began, since being alone is extra scary. The instant I began to preach I could see the arena ushers begin calling someone. Sure enough, within a couple of minutes, a manager came out and told me city ordinances forbade amplification.
So I began almost an hour's worth of lifting my voice like a trumpet. God was very gracious. There were a couple times I thought I was losing my voice, but God kept me going.
Once the game began, I took a walk around downtown Everett and handed out Gospel tracts.
God is so good to me. I don't deserve it at all.
God bless...
Friday, August 30, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
HempFest: Repent and Trust Jesus Christ
Oh, by the way, I was very scared to open up. There were so many of them, and only one of me. The cops were between me and them, but it was still scary.
The HempFesters were overall a pretty good group of people to preach to. They were interactive. They were negative. But I strove to keep a positive tone, and preach the Gospel. I didn't shy away from sin one bit. I publicly read a bunch of scripture. Spoke one-to-one to very many people. And generally, received a pretty good response. By 'good', I mean they weren't agreeing with what I was saying, and they told me so; in so many ways. I preached to the folks as they were lining up to go in. It was a prime time and location for the Gospel of Jesus to be presented.
God is very good though. He has prepared me for this time.
Even with a PA system, I still lost my voice after about 3 hours of preaching.
There was a group of open air evangelists from Los Angeles there.
Videos to come...
Here is what I had planned to say, by way of an intro:
When I found out that the Seattle Police Department was going to be handing out bags of chips today, I was reminded about this week. I bought a bag of chips in the breakroom at work. I started eating, and they were stale. Although they hadn't reached the expiration date printed on the bag, they were stale. And I threw them away.
Think about this; we all have an expiration date. Death is a sure thing. Ten out of ten die. Death is the only 100% statistic. Some avoid taxes, but no one avoids death. The Bible says, "Life is but a vapor... here today and gone tomorrow". We don't know how or when, but we will die. We don't plan on it. No one puts it on their daily planner, but someday, death will come for each and every one of us.
You were not created to die though. Death is not your friend, and it was never your intended destiny. The funeral is not the finish and the grave is not the goal.
You have two choices; two paths you could take. If this is all there is and there is nothing after life, then go for the gusto. Live life to the fullest. Party hard.
Or, you could seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
If this is all you get, then "eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." But this isn't all there is. It is appointed unto man once to die and then comes the judgement. God had appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness....
The Law goes here...
The Gospel goes here...
The New Birth goes here...
God bless...
The HempFesters were overall a pretty good group of people to preach to. They were interactive. They were negative. But I strove to keep a positive tone, and preach the Gospel. I didn't shy away from sin one bit. I publicly read a bunch of scripture. Spoke one-to-one to very many people. And generally, received a pretty good response. By 'good', I mean they weren't agreeing with what I was saying, and they told me so; in so many ways. I preached to the folks as they were lining up to go in. It was a prime time and location for the Gospel of Jesus to be presented.
God is very good though. He has prepared me for this time.
Even with a PA system, I still lost my voice after about 3 hours of preaching.
There was a group of open air evangelists from Los Angeles there.
Videos to come...
Here is what I had planned to say, by way of an intro:
When I found out that the Seattle Police Department was going to be handing out bags of chips today, I was reminded about this week. I bought a bag of chips in the breakroom at work. I started eating, and they were stale. Although they hadn't reached the expiration date printed on the bag, they were stale. And I threw them away.
Think about this; we all have an expiration date. Death is a sure thing. Ten out of ten die. Death is the only 100% statistic. Some avoid taxes, but no one avoids death. The Bible says, "Life is but a vapor... here today and gone tomorrow". We don't know how or when, but we will die. We don't plan on it. No one puts it on their daily planner, but someday, death will come for each and every one of us.
You were not created to die though. Death is not your friend, and it was never your intended destiny. The funeral is not the finish and the grave is not the goal.
You have two choices; two paths you could take. If this is all there is and there is nothing after life, then go for the gusto. Live life to the fullest. Party hard.
Or, you could seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
If this is all you get, then "eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die." But this isn't all there is. It is appointed unto man once to die and then comes the judgement. God had appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness....
The Law goes here...
The Gospel goes here...
The New Birth goes here...
God bless...
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Highlights from Friday Night
Thomas and I rode together from my house over to Edmonds, where the "Taste of Edmonds" festival was going on.
The Lord did place a sense of urgency on us as we prayed. We walked down to the traffic circle in Edmonds and began preaching and handing out Gospel tracts.
Then we walked over to the entrance to the festival, across from the Edmonds city hall. Thomas was preaching, and Loyd-the-Buddhist came up and engaged me in a conversation. I urged him to understand the good news of what God had done for him in Jesus Christ, but he was a typical relativist. The Bible was just words, he said. At that same time, a couple of cops came up with a festival official. There had been complaints, but the cop rather addressed our doctrinal/theological perspective. The cop was way off base. Anyways, they reprimanded Thomas, and instructed us to turn off the personal amplifier if we wanted to preach. We complied, and actually moved on.
I went back to the traffic circle and read Isaiah 53, and preached the Gospel. Then I saw my friends Tim and Dorothy. They came by after I finished preaching, and we had a good time of fellowship and encouragement. At that same time, a lady parked her car, and came up to encourage us and thank us for speaking the name of Jesus.
Later on, we went to another entrance and preached the Gospel, and had several good conversations with people. The main one that stands out was when a man named Andrew stopped. He was probably in his mid-twenties, and he stopped right in front of me while I was preaching. I stopped and greeted him, and he said he was a believer in Jesus Christ and he was saved. We talked for a while and I asked him if he was living for God every day and following the Lord. He was very honest and replied, "no, that it was hard to do." Thomas and I had a chance to encourage him to trust whole-heartedly in the Lord, and rest in Jesus. We encouraged him to read his Bible every day and find a Bible-teaching church where he could fellowship. We asked him if we could pray for him and he said he would gladly receive prayer. We prayed for him to be strengthened in his walk with the Lord, by the Holy Spirit. After we prayed he was very thankful and expressed that he had gotten very emotional while I was praying for him. I pray Lord that you would make this a turning point for Andrew, that he would get on fire for you Lord.
God bless...
The Lord did place a sense of urgency on us as we prayed. We walked down to the traffic circle in Edmonds and began preaching and handing out Gospel tracts.
Then we walked over to the entrance to the festival, across from the Edmonds city hall. Thomas was preaching, and Loyd-the-Buddhist came up and engaged me in a conversation. I urged him to understand the good news of what God had done for him in Jesus Christ, but he was a typical relativist. The Bible was just words, he said. At that same time, a couple of cops came up with a festival official. There had been complaints, but the cop rather addressed our doctrinal/theological perspective. The cop was way off base. Anyways, they reprimanded Thomas, and instructed us to turn off the personal amplifier if we wanted to preach. We complied, and actually moved on.
I went back to the traffic circle and read Isaiah 53, and preached the Gospel. Then I saw my friends Tim and Dorothy. They came by after I finished preaching, and we had a good time of fellowship and encouragement. At that same time, a lady parked her car, and came up to encourage us and thank us for speaking the name of Jesus.
Later on, we went to another entrance and preached the Gospel, and had several good conversations with people. The main one that stands out was when a man named Andrew stopped. He was probably in his mid-twenties, and he stopped right in front of me while I was preaching. I stopped and greeted him, and he said he was a believer in Jesus Christ and he was saved. We talked for a while and I asked him if he was living for God every day and following the Lord. He was very honest and replied, "no, that it was hard to do." Thomas and I had a chance to encourage him to trust whole-heartedly in the Lord, and rest in Jesus. We encouraged him to read his Bible every day and find a Bible-teaching church where he could fellowship. We asked him if we could pray for him and he said he would gladly receive prayer. We prayed for him to be strengthened in his walk with the Lord, by the Holy Spirit. After we prayed he was very thankful and expressed that he had gotten very emotional while I was praying for him. I pray Lord that you would make this a turning point for Andrew, that he would get on fire for you Lord.
God bless...
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
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