Spiritual Health vs Physical Health

Now that my wife is recovering from her illness I have been back out street fishing again. Tonight was my first attempt alone. I have been out the last two Wednesdays with Donnie, Ronnie & Jeff. We got serenaded one evening by a guy with his friends who were on their way to play music in a bar. In the parking lot he played us a gospel song he had written, although I doubt that was the kind of music they were going to play in the bar. The next Wednesday we got rejected by a guy who told us "I'm good". Although to his frustration his friends stopped and talked with us. Another guy we met was wondering if he might be reincarnated when he died. After we brought the law of God to him and three of his friends one of them used his cell phone to act like his mother was calling so they could get away. It was worth it though when you saw the conviction on one of the young men's face when we were finished. "I am not ashamed of the Gospel for it is the power of God to those who believe". It is a good thing that the power is in the gospel & not me.
The problem was when I went by myself tonight. I went to the park, downtown, to Thunderworld, to Walmart & only talked (briefly) to two young men at the park. I noticed as I was walking around the park that I was seriously out of shape & became tired very easily. Three weeks of doing nothing much more going back & forth to the hospital every day & another couple of weeks of caring for my wife at home had taken a lot of my strength away. Don't get me wrong, I was thankful to be able to do it. Seeing God work in this situation is a privaledge to witness & be a part of. I was just taking note of how being inactive in a certain area can quickly make you weaker. It seemed the same with going out to sharing your faith. I saw plenty of people tonight, but for some reason I couldn't find the right oppotunity. Some of the situations did seem awkward but I think the biggest part of it was that I hadn't done it in a while. I know I have to keep working at it but the hardest part may be training myself to let God do it. Pray for me.

Ten Ways Not to Evangelize

This is pretty good although I'm not sure that slapping someone up side of the head with a Bible is a bad idea.

'ER' Television & Eternity

This about sums it up. Kudos to ER for having the guts to show that scene.

Prayer Update

My wife is doing much better now, in fact, the doctor who told a month ago that it would be a miracle if she survived, has more recently said, "It is a miracle, she is on her way to full recovery!" Praise God. Thanks to everyone who offered up their prayers. Please continue to remember us in them.

Change We Can Believe In?

It is interesting watching political campains to see what thoughts, ideas, ect., catch the public's attention. This year everyone seems to be caught up in the idea of "change", often without taking the time to study what kind of "change" they are talking about. Too often the church mimics the world in the same way. Christians, & especially, it seems, evangelicals, get caught up in the next "new thing" that is going to catch people's attention. New music, new entertainment, new buildings, big screens, home churches, cell groups, ways to build your self-esteem, new diets, how to be "blessed for success" ect. blah, blah, blah. Why is it we want to offer the lost anything but the gospel to try to draw them in? Is it because we have so little faith in the power of the gospel message? Or do our egos lead us to believe we have some special "gift" we can use to draw them in & then eventually we will get around to sharing the gospel with them? Mark Dever, in his book Building Your Ministry on the Gospel wrote,"What you win them with, is likely what you will win them to." What are we winning them to? Did Jesus say, "Try to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature and if you can't do that, keep them entertained."? It is time we got our priorities in order. Sharing the gospel must be first & formost in every ministry we do or we are nothing more than egotistical social workers storing up for ourselves treasures on earth rather than in heaven.

Global Warming?

What does global warming have to do with evangelism? On the surface it would appear, nothing, but lately science, for some people anyway, has become it's own religion which people are expected to believe with blind faith. But some things are not always what they seem. It is good to study as much of the evidence as possible. the enemy attacks from many angles. If they can make you believe a lie, they have another way to steal your freedoms. Check out these two stories:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,3333
http://www.citizensugar.com/109381228,00.html