Magnet Evangelism Follow-up

Good times at the Wednesday night Magnet Evangelism. Please come and join Dean & Mike if you haven't already.

We Have The Gospel - Art Azurdia

"I don't want my children to grow up in a defensive posture. I want my children to grow up in an offensive posture." AMEN!!

"Like arrows in the hands of the warrior so are the children of one's youth." Psalm 127:4

Parents are you teaching your children how to share the gospel? Are YOU sharing the gospel?

Spurgeon quote for the day! 6/8

"There is a story told by Toplady of a Doctor Guyse, a very learned man. He was in the habit of preparing his sermons very carefully, and he used to read them very accurately. He did so for years, but there was never known to be a sinner saved under him—never such a wonder! The poor good man—for he was an earnest man and wished to do good—was one day at prayer in the pulpit, praying to God that he would make him a useful minister. When he had finished his prayer he was stone blind. He had sufficient self-possession to preach the sermon extemporaneously, which he had prepared with notes. People did not notice his blindness, but they never heard the doctor preach such a sermon as that before! There was deep attention, there were souls saved. He found his way from the pulpit and began to express his deep sorrow that he had lost his eyesight, when some good old woman who was present, said, perhaps a little unkindly, but still very truthfully—“Doctor, we have never heard you preach like this before and if that is the result of your being blind, it is a pity you were not blind twenty years ago, for you have done more good today than you have done in twenty years.”

So I do not know whether it would not be a good thing if some of our fine sermon readers were struck blind—if they were compelled to be less elaborate in the preparation of their sermons. Then they might loose some half-dozen hard words, which they always write down as soon as they meet with them and use them as stones in the middle of the sermon. And then, perhaps, when they came up into the pulpit, though condemned by critics as speaking vulgar language, they might talk of commonplace things such as poor people could appreciate. If they would only do this, God being with them, the absence of their mental power would be the means of more spiritual power and they would have reason to thank God—that the man had become less—and that God did shine out with greater resplendence. For what are many learned men, after all, but stained glass windows to keep out the light? Oh that we had more men who were as the plain glass of the poor man’s cottage, to let the light of God shine through them! Let the Church feel that her power is not mental power, but spiritual power. “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord.” She might then use all her learning, all her education and all her eloquence. She would use them well, too, if she did but feel that these were but her weapons in the hand of God for the pulling down of strongholds.

May God add His blessing for Jesus Christ’s sake."

C.H. Spurgeon- "Self Sufficiency Slain"

Pershing Square Follow-Up 6-6-10

Last night we had two teams out. One at Noho headed up by Mike S. and one by myself to Pershing Square. It was great! I went with three BOLD sisters; Sharon, Kay and Rebecca fearlessly shared Christ with whoever the Lord put in their path. I expected it to be a little "rough around the edges" but people need the Lord. There were many homeless people. It felt like those we spoke with were open to talk and more open to spiritual things given their lives were bearing the consequences of sin. The Lord blessed me with the grace to open air preach twice and at one point 5 people took bibles. One girl came up to take one told me she has just prayed for God to give her a bible! We plan to go back there again soon, Lord willing.

John Piper - What made it OK for God to kill women and children in the Old Testament?

Matt Chandler update

Praise the Lord... he even has hair!! You can watch his latest update HERE.

Make It Your Aim To Fear God

God Loves to Save Bad People - Art Azurdia

Spurgeon quote for the day! 6/2

"It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man. They have always had for their covert, if not for their open aim, the exaltation of human nature and the casting down of the sovereignty of Divine Grace. Robbing God of the glory which is due unto His name, these false Prophets would shed a counterfeit luster upon the head of the rebellious and depraved creature. On the other hand, the doctrines of the Gospel, commonly known as the Doctrines of Grace, are distinguished for this peculiarity above every other, namely, that they sink the creature very low and present the Lord Jehovah before us as sitting upon a Throne, high and lifted up. So true is this, that the most uneducated Christian may, even if he is incapable of refuting an erroneous discourse, always be able to discover its untruthfulness, if it glorifies man at the expense of God. The merest babe in grace may carry this test with him—in the midst of the diversities of opinion with which he is surrounded, he may always judge and judge infallibly too, of the truth or falsehood of a doctrine by testing it thus— “Does it glorify God?” If it is so it is true. “Does it exalt man?” Then it must be false. On the other hand, does it lay man very low and speak of him in terms which tend to make him feel his degradation? Then doubtless it is full of the Truth of God. And does it put the crown upon the head of God and not upon the head of man’s free will, or free agency, or good works? Then assuredly it is a doctrine according to godliness for it is the very Truth of the Lord our God. "

C.H. Spurgeon- "Self Sufficiency Slain"

Milk Jug

“If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents–the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts–i.e. of materialism and astronomy–are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It’s like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milkjug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.”

C.S. Lewis

This was "boosted" from Truth Matters