Thursday, January 29, 2009

Tracts why they are so important..

Tracts why they are so important..

Spurgeon called gospel tracts “silent preachers.”

I want to tell you that Gospel tracts can be a door that opens up the gospel for the unbeliever.

Here are some, ways to hand out tracts, and where to leave them.

Tracts can provide an opening for us to share our faith.We can watch
people’s reaction as we give them a tract, and see if they are open to
listening to spiritual things.

They can do the witnessing for us. If we are too timid to speak to others
about the things of God, we can at least give them a tract, or leave
one lying around so that someone will pick it up.

They speak to the individuals when they are ready; people don’t read
it until they want to.

They can find their way into people’s homes when we can’t.

They don’t get into arguments; they just state their case.

Here are some individuals who were save through a gospel tract.
George Whitefield, a diver, and the great missionary Hudson Taylor were
all saved through a gospel tract.

Here are five advantages of using gospel tracts.
1.) Tracts can provide an opening for us to share our faith.
2.) They can do the witnessing for us.
3.) They speak to the individuals when they are ready.
4.) They can find their way into people’s homes when we can’t.
5.) They don’t get into arguments; they just state their case.

An effective way to get people to take a tract?
Greet people warmly then ask, “Did you get one of these?” It makes them
feel as though they are missing out on something—and they are.

Charles Spurgeon’s advice on gospel tracts?
Spurgeon’s advice is to always have a tract ready for when preaching and
private talk are not available, and to get good tracts and never go out without
them.

Charles Spurgeon on the use of tracts:
I well remember distributing them in a town in England where
tracts had never been distributed before, and going from house to
house, and telling in humble language the things of the kingdom of
God. I might have done nothing, if I had not been encouraged by
finding myself able to do something . . . [Tracts are] adapted to those
persons who have but little power and little ability, but nevertheless,
wish to do something for Christ. They may not have the tongue of
the eloquent, but they may have the hand of the diligent. They cannot
stand and preach, but they can stand and distribute here and there
these silent preachers . . . They may buy their thousand tracts, and
these they can distribute broadcast.
I look upon the giving away of a religious tract as only the first
step for action not to be compared with many another deed done for
Christ; but were it not for the first step we might never reach to the
second, but that first attained, we are encouraged to take another,
and so at the last . . . There is a real service of Christ in the distribution
of the gospel in its printed form, a service the result of which
heaven alone shall disclose, and the judgment day alone discover.
How many thousands have been carried to heaven instrumentally
upon the wings of these tracts, none can tell.

If you are wondering where you could leave tracts, here are several
suggestions:

At pay phones
In shopping carts
In clothes pockets in stores
In letters to loved ones
With a generous tip
On seats in restaurant lobbies
With fast-food employees, cashiers, and gas station workers
In restrooms
At rest areas
On ATM machines and bank counters
In envelopes with bill payments
In elevators
On hotel dressers for the maid
On ice machines
On newspaper racks
In waiting rooms of doctors’ offices and hospitals
On seats at airports, subways, and bus stations
With flight attendants and cab drivers
In plane seat pockets
Inside magazines
In cabs
In laundromats

Now I hope this will help you sow the seed of the Gospel and give someone
a Tract.

Go to livingwaters.com and get some tracts that preach the Law & the Gospel.

God Bless!

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Arminians/Semi-Pelagians Teach and Believe in Limited Atonement.



"Let there be no misunderstanding at this point. The Arminian limits the atonement as certainly as does the Calvinist. The Calvinist limits the extent of it in that he says it does not apply to all persons (although as has already been shown, he believes that it is efficacious for the salvation of the large proportion of the human race); while the Arminian limits the power of it, for he says that in itself it does not actually save anybody. The Calvinist limits it quantitatively, but not qualitatively; the Arminian limits it qualitatively, but not quantitatively. For the Calvinist it is like a narrow bridge which goes all the way across the stream; for the Arminian it is like a great wide bridge which goes only half-way across...."

- Loraine Boettner

Living Waters University: Anthony and friend



Ray Comfort witnesses to two young men. It seems God was doing a work in one of their hearts.

Emeal ("E.Z.") Zwayne is doing the chalk talk at the beginning.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Do You Value Other Christian's Discernment or Only Your Own?



"In order to love right, we must believe right, and in order to believe right, we must be taught the right things."

"I must say, it seems odd that certain men who talk so much of what the Holy Spirit reveals to themselves, should think so little of what he has revealed to others!"

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Do you value other Christian's discernment too or just your own? I wonder if the eunuch would have even been saved if he only valued his own discernment and did not ask Philip of his...

Does God Treat Men Differently? - Mark Kieler



Does God Treat Men Differently? Mark Kieler explains. For more info: www.crosstv.com

The Dangers Of Pragmatism Part 1-3



The Dangers Of Pragmatism (Part 1 of 3) - John MacArthur on the dangers of \'\'pragmatism\'\' in today\'s church.



The Dangers Of Pragmatism (Part 2 of 3) - John MacArthur on the dangers of \'\'pragmatism\'\' in today\'s church.



The Dangers Of Pragmatism (Part 3 of 3) - John MacArthur on the dangers of ''pragmatism'' in today's church.

America\\\'s Christianity???



Today something is terribly wrong in much of the Christian Community. Everybody is always looking for something fast (fast devotion, worship, sermons) Heresy, right-wing paranoia, and New Age religion have replaced Christian tradition while churches and clergy who should know better sit in silence and apathy. We must separate what is traditional Christianity away from the occult.

Judgement Is Coming!!! - Leonard Ravenhill

God Is Always Involved - Ravi Zacharias



A wonderful example of how God is always involved on the lives of those who love Him by Ravi Zacharias.

Heaven, Hell, Sin... This Is What The Bible Says - WOTM



From Way Of The Master Season Heaven Hell Sin This Is What The Bible Says with James White, James Kennedy, Ravi Zacharias

Your Best Life, Now Or Later (Original Video) - John MacArthur



Lately Ive had the occasion to fly a lot around the country, preaching here and there. Even though Im here on Sundays, it seems like my weeks have been spent in airports, sometimes for a long time, as Ive had mechanical delays and things like that. And Ive become very much aware of a book that I knew was out there but I see literally all over all the airports that Ive been in, in the last month or so, it has been labeled, at least, the best selling religious book of the time. The title of it is Your Best Life Now. I have seen stacks and stacks and stacks of those books everywhere Ive gone. www.gty.org

God And Good vs Evil - John MacArthur



Scripture says that when God finished His creation, He saw everything and declared it "very good" (Genesis 1:31). Many Scriptures affirm that God is not the author of evil: "God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone" (James 1:13). "God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all" (1 John 1:5). "God is not the author of confusion" (1 Corinthians 14:33)-and if that is true, He cannot in any way be the author of evil.

John Piper - Where are the Faithful Men And Women?



John Piper wonders where the passionate, Christ exulting young people are.

"How the Supremacy of Christ Creates Radical Christian Sacrifice"
April 17, 2008

For more resources, visit www.desiringGod.org.

How To Build A Church With False Converts (WOTM)



Does this look like the message coming out of today's pulpits?

Reality Check!!! Where Has The Passion Gone? (WOTM)



From the popular show "Way Of The Master" season 3

Are We Believers Just Too Soft?



Let's look at these two examples of how believers should stand up and let themselves be heard agaisnt that which is an abomination in the eyes of our Lord.

Todd Friel on The Prayer That Should Be Prayed At The Inauguration - Wretched



Todd Friel on The Prayer That Should Be Prayed At The Inauguration from the popular program Wretched

Friday, January 23, 2009

Dr. Bill Bright



“We cannot pick and choose which commands of our Lord we will follow. Jesus Christ’s
last command to the Christian community was, ‘You are to go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone, everywhere’ (Mark 16:15, TLB). This command, which the Church calls the Great Commission, was not intended merely for the eleven remaining disciples, or just for the apostles or for those in present times who may have the gift of evangelism. This command is the duty of every man and woman who confesses Christ as Lord.” Dr. Bill Bright

Less than two percent of believers in this country ever share their faith in Christ
with others. Dr. Bill Bright 1921-2003 Founder of Campus Crusade for Christ

Dr. Nelson Glueck



“It may be stated categorically that no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference. Scores of archaeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or exact detail historical statements in the Bible. And, by the same token, proper evaluation of Biblical descriptions has often led to amazing discoveries.” Dr. Nelson Glueck

R. A. Torrey



“Real praying is a costly exercise but it pays far more than it costs. It is not easy work but it is most profitable of all work. We can accomplish more by time and strength put into prayer than we can by putting the same amount of time and strength into anything else.” R. A. Torrey, The Power of Prayer

I would rather win souls that be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army... my one ambition in life is to win as many as possible. Oh, it is the only thing wort doing;
to save souls; and, men and women we can all do it.
R. A. Torrey
1856-1928
author, pastor and
Dean of the Bible Institute
of Los Angeles

Dr. D. James Kennedy



“The vast majority of people who are members of churches in America today are not Christians. I say that without the slightest fear of contradiction. I base it on empirical evidence of twenty-four years of examining thousands of people.” Dr. D. James Kennedy

Os Guinness



“Genuine outrage is not just a permissible reaction to the hard-pressed Christian; God himself feels it, and so should the Christian in the presence of pain, cruelty, violence, and injustice. God, who is the Father of Jesus Christ, is neither impersonal nor beyond good and evil. By the absolute immutability of His character, He is implacably opposed to evil and outraged by it.” Os Guinness

G. K. Chesterton



“Tolerance is a virtue for those who have no convictions.” G. K. Chesterton

The effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936
English Author

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Bible Statistics

Bible Statistics
Number of books in the Bible: 66
Chapters: 1,189
Verses: 31,101
Words: 783,137
Letters: 3,566,480
Longest word (and name):
Mahershalalhashbaz (Isaiah 8:1)
Longest verse: Esther 8:9 (78 words)
Shortest verse: John 11:35 (2 words:
“Jesus wept”)
Middle books: Micah and Nahum
Middle chapter: Psalm 118
Middle verse: Psalm 118:8
Shortest book (number of words): 3 John
Shortest chapter (number of words):
Psalm 117
Longest book: Psalms (150 chapters)
Longest chapter: Psalm 119 (176 verses)
Number of times the word “God”
appears: 3,358
Number of times the word “Lord”
appears: 7,736
Number of different authors:
Approximately 40
Number of languages the Bible has been
translated into: more than 1,200
Number of new Bibles distributed (sold
or given away) in the U.S.: about 168,000
per day.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

New Tract!



Living Waters put out a new tract....

Where to Leave gospel tracts

Where to Leave gospel tracts

 At pay phones
 In shopping carts
 In clothes pockets in stores
 In letters to loved ones
 With a generous tip
 On seats in restaurant lobbies
 With fast-food employees, cashiers,
flight attendants, cab drivers, and gas
station workers
 In restrooms
 At rest areas
 On ATM machines and bank counters
 In envelopes with bill payments
 In elevators
 On hotel dressers for the maid
 On ice machines
 On newspaper racks
 In waiting rooms of doctors’ offices and
hospitals
 On seats at airports, subways, and bus
stations
 In plane seat pockets
 Inside magazines
 In cabs
 In laundromats

Evangelistic discouragement

Evangelistic discouragement. “One night when [Dwight L.] Moody was going home, it suddenly occurred to him that he had not spoken to a single person that day about accepting Christ. A day lost, he thought to himself. But as he walked up the street he saw a man by a lamppost. He promptly walked up to the man and asked, ‘Are you a Christian?’ “Nor did Moody find soul-winning easy. In fact, even Christians often criticized him for having ‘zeal without knowledge.’ Others called him ‘Crazy Moody.’ Once when he spoke to a perfect stranger about Christ, the man said, ‘That is none of your business . . . If you were not a sort of a preacher I would knock you into the gutter for your impertinence.’ “The next day, a businessman friend sent for Moody. The businessman told Moody that the stranger he had spoken to was a friend of his. ‘Moody, you’ve got zeal without knowledge: you insulted a friend of mine on the street last night. You went up to him, a perfect stranger, and asked him if he were a Christian.’ “Moody went out of his friend’s office almost brokenhearted. For some time he worried about this. Then late one night a man pounded on the door of his home. It was the stranger he had supposedly insulted. The stranger said, ‘Mr. Moody, I have not had a good night’s sleep since that night you spoke to me under the lamppost, and I have come around at this unearthly hour of the night for you to tell me what I have to do to be saved.’” Harry Albus

Great Leaders Speak About the Bible

Great Leaders Speak About the Bible
“Here is a Book worth more than all the other
books which were ever printed.” Patrick Henry
“That book, Sir, is the Rock upon which our
republic rests.” Andrew Jackson
“The more profoundly we study this wonderful
Book, and the more closely we observe its
divine precepts, the better citizens
we will become and the higher will
be our destiny as a nation.” William
McKinley

“The best religion the world has
ever known is the religion of the
Bible. It builds up all that is good.”
Rutherford B. Hayes

“There are a good many problems before the
American people today, and before me as
President, but I expect to find the solution of
those problems just in the proportion that I
am faithful in the study of the Word of God.”
Woodrow Wilson

“The whole inspiration of our civilization
springs from the teachings of Christ and the
lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for
these fundamentals is a necessity of American
life.” Herbert Hoover

“I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The Bible
is the book of all others, to be read at all ages,
and in all conditions of human life; not to be
read once or twice or thrice through, and then
laid aside, but to be read in small portions of
one or two chapters every day, and never to
be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.”
John Quincy Adams

“We cannot read the history of our
rise and development as a nation,
without reckoning the place the
Bible has occupied in shaping the
advances of the Republic.” Franklin
D. Roosevelt
“Within the covers of the Bible are
all the answers for all the problems
men face. The Bible can touch hearts, order
minds and refresh souls.” Ronald Reagan
“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible
has never failed to give me light and strength.”
Robert E. Lee

“I have read the Bible through many times,
and now make it a practice to read it through
once every year. It is a book of all others for
lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man
who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought
and of rules for conduct. It fits a man for life
—it prepares him for death.” Daniel Webster

John Newton



John Newton “My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart and to heal the broken one.”

"Behold, I am vile!" Job 40:4
O Lord, how vile am I,
Unholy and unclean!
How can I dare to venture nigh,
With such a load of sin?
Is this polluted heart
A dwelling fit for Thee?
Swarming, alas! in every part,
What evils do I see!
~ John Newton

Malcolm Muggeridge



“I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has.” Malcolm Muggeridge, British journalist and philosopher

Hudson Taylor



“The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity. If we want to see mighty works of Divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God’s standing challenge, ‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know’ [Jeremiah 33:3].” Hudson Taylor

William Booth



“God loves with a great love the man
whose heart is bursting with a passion for
the impossible.” William Booth

“‘Not called!” did you say? “Not heard the call,” I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.
- William Booth

Some men's passion is for gold.
Some men's passion is for art.
Some men's passion is for fame.
My passion is for souls.
William Booth
1829-1912
Founded the Salvation Army
to minister to the poor
of Victorian London

While woman weep, as they do now,
I'll fight;
while children go hungry
as they do now,
I'll fight;
while men go to prison,
in and out, in and out,
as they do now,
I'll fight
while there is a drunkard left,
while there is a poor lost girl
upon the streets,
while there remains one dark soul
without the light of God,
I'll fight;
I'll fight to the very end!
William Booth
1829-1912
Founded the Salvation Army
to minister to the poor
of Victorian London

Mike Smalley



“The disciples watched miraculous healings for hours and then approached the Master and told Him three things: 1) the hour was late; 2) they were in a ‘deserted place’; and 3) the multitude needed to eat. Jesus told His disciples that they should be the source of the multitude being fed. The boy’s lunch (John 6:9) was the best they could bring, and Jesus did a miracle when they brought the best they had. Then He had them pick up what remained. There were twelve baskets, for twelve disciples. I believe Jesus was saying: ‘Now that I showed you how, go feed your own
multitude.’” Mike Smalley

Emeal Zwayne



“People, who need people to walk with God, don’t walk with God. They walk with people.” Emeal Zwayne

Martin Luther



“Sinners that think they need
no physician will not endure the
healer’s hand. The Law is therefore
necessary to give knowledge of sin, so
that proud man, who thought he was
whole, may be humbled by the discovery of
his own great wickedness, and sigh and pant
after the grace that is set forth in Christ.”
Martin Luther

We would not see nor realize it (what a distressing and horrible fall in which we lie), if it were not for the Law, and we would have to remain forever lost, if we were not again helped out of it through Christ. Therefore the Law and the gospel are given to the end that we may learn to know both how guilty we are and to what we should again return.” Martin Luther

“I have so much to do [today] that I should spend the first three hours in prayer.” Martin Luther

The true function of the Law
is to accuse and to kill;
but the function of the gospel
is to make alive.
Martin Luther
1483-1546
German Priest
Who founded the Lutheran Church

"Whatever we make the most of is our God."
Martin Luther

Martin Luther As long as a person is not a murderer, adulterer, thief, he would
swear that he is righteous. How is God going to humble such a person
except by the Law? The Law is the hammer of death, the thunder
of hell and the thunder of God’s wrath to bring down the proud and
shameless hypocrites. When the Law was instituted on Mount Sinai
it was accompanied by lightning, by storms, by the sounds of trumpets,
to tear to pieces that monster called self-righteousness. As long
as a person thinks he is right he is going to be incomprehensibly
proud and presumptuous. He is going to hate God, despise His grace
and mercy, and ignore the promises in Christ. The gospel of free forgiveness
of sins though Christ will never appeal to the self-righteous.
This monster of self-righteousness, this stiff-necked beast, needs an
axe. And that is what the Law is, a big axe. Accordingly the proper use
and function of the Law is to threaten until the conscience is scared
stiff.

"Whatever we make the most of is our God." Martin Luther

The proper effect of the Law
is to lead us out of our tents
and tabernacles,
that is to say,
from the quietness and security
wherein we dwell,
and from trusting in ourselves,
and to bring us before
the presence of God,
to reveal His wrath to us
and to set us before our sins.
Martin Luther
1483-1546
German Priest
Whose Objections
To Roman Catholicism
Sparked the Reformation

The on saving faith is that which casts itself on God for life of death.
Martin Luther
1483-1546
German Priest
Founded the Lutheran Church

The ultimate proof of the sinner is that he doesn't know his own sin. Our job is to make him see it.
Martin Luther
1483-1546
German Priest
Founded the Lutheran Church

Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all, which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected, he hath raised up a sect as such as teach . . . that men should not be terrified by the Law, but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.
Martin Luther
1483-1546
German Priest
Founded the Lutheran Church

A. W. Tozer



A. W. Tozer “It is my opinion that tens of thousands of people, if not
millions, have been brought into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.”

Shortly before A.W. Tozer's "eighteenth birthday he was converted by the preaching of an elderly man on a busy street corner, who inspired him to seek his attic and wrestle with God....Aiden, the first of his family to be converted, began street preaching himself and also holding neighborhood prayer meetings. But he would also frequently withdraw from others for bible study and prayer, finding the basement a quiet space. Often he would lie prostrate on the floor, using a piece of paper to keep his face clean." --The Mystic Sprituality of A.W. Toxer, A Twentieth-Century Protestant, by E. Lynn Harris (pg 19)

"Some of my friends good-humoredly - and some a little bit severely - have called me a 'mystic.' Well I'd like to say this about any mysticism I may suppose to have. If an archangel from heaven were to come, and were to start giving me, telling me, teaching me, and giving me instruction, I'd ask him for the text. I'd say, 'Where's it say that in the Bible? I want to know.' And I would insist that it was according to the scriptures, because I do not believe in any extra-scriptural teachings, nor any anti-scriptural teachings, or any sub-scriptural teachings. I think we ought to put the emphasis where God puts it, and continue to put it there, and to expound the scriptures, and stay by the scriptures. I wouldn't - no matter if I saw a light above the light of the sun, I'd keep my mouth shut about it 'til I'd checked with Daniel and Revelation and the rest of the scriptures to see if it had any basis in truth. And if it didn't, I'd think I'd just eaten something I shouldn't, and I wouldn't say anything about it. Because I don't believe in anything that is unscriptural or that is anti-scripture."
- What Difference Does the Holy Spirit Make?, A. W. Tozer


In the moral conflict
now raging around us,
whoever is on God's side
is on the winning side
and cannot lose;
whoever is on the other side
is on the losing side and cannot win.
Here there is no chane, no gamble.
There is freedom to choose
which side we shall be on,
but no freedom
to negotiate the results
of the choice once it is made.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
1897-1963
20th Century Preacher

MARK CAHILL



The number one reason people don’t
share their faith is that their walk doesn’t
match their talk.
MARK CAHILL

Mark Cahill “if there is no desire to walk away from
sin, the person is not really making a true heart commitment to the Savior.
In John 6:44 Jesus says, ‘No one can come to Me unless the Father
who sent Me draws him.’ If God is drawing someone to Him, He would
also be drawing the person away from his sin.”

“When we share our faith, it is a win/win situation. If people accept
what we say, we win. If we plant the seed of God’s Word, we win; and
even if we are rejected, we win. The Bible says that when that happens,
the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon us (see 1 Peter 4:14). When we
contend for the faith and are rejected, we are to rejoice and leap for joy,
for great is our reward in heaven (see Luke 6:22,23). It is a winning
situation every single time that we share our faith!”
MARK CAHILL

William Penn



“The false notion that they may be children of God while in a state of disobedience to his holy commandments, and disciples of Jesus though they revolt from his cross, and members of his true church, which is without spot or wrinkle, notwithstanding their lives are full of spots and wrinkles, is of all other deceptions upon themselves the most pernicious to their eternal condition for they are at peace in sin and under a security in their transgression.” William Penn

ALAN REDPATH



Before we can pray “Thy Kingdom
come,” we must be willing to pray
“my kingdom go.”
ALAN REDPATH