We just sang the song The First Noel. The first line says:
The First Noel, the angels did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay
Noel is French for Christmas. So what was the first Noel that the angels did say? The answer is found in Luke 2. And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) [Read more…]
Friday night Brian, Aaron and I preached downtown and it was a night full of people mocking Jesus. I brought a message from Luke 2 about the birth of Jesus, Brian preached on victory in Jesus and Aaron preached on Matthew 1, where the angel foretells the birth of Jesus and that He will save His people from their sins. We weren’t preaching Hell fire and brimstone messages, but many people still mocked Jesus. [Read more…]
More times than not when we are street witnessing, someone will yell out “God loves everybody.” They say this to justify their sin. In other words, it doesn’t matter if you continue living a sinful lifestyle, God loves you anyway. But is this biblical? Does God punish sinners? [Read more…]
Friday night was a cold windy night, but that didn’t keep the mockers from coming out in full force. Aaron was preaching about how long suffering God is toward sinners and he pretty much had one mocker right after the other, the whole time he preached. But a motorcycle rider sat there revving his engine trying to drown out the preaching and just like we’ve seen before, he pealed out and lost control and wrecked the motorcycle. Pieces of his bike broke off. I was witnessing to a vendor across the street, but Aaron went over and preached to the rider, reminding him that God will not be mocked. Just like every other unrepentant sinner, the man needs to repent and trust Jesus. [Read more…]
Why do we plead with you to repent? Because each and every one of us need to repent. God commands it. Acts 17:30-31 says: And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. [Read more…]
Friday night Diana, Elise and I witnessed downtown. I was bringing a message and like countless times in the past, God sent a mocker by at the exact moment to emphasize a point. I was preaching about why we call people to repent and I was quoting where Jesus was telling the religious leaders that they didn’t listen to John the Baptist, but the tax collectors and harlots did. I was making the point that these sinners repented and didn’t continue in their wicked ways; that Jesus never condoned sins and two lesbians walk up at that exact moment saying “we’re lesbians.” So I reminded them again that Jesus never condoned sin; not homosexuality and not lesbianism. [Read more…]
Sometimes my friends and I get accused of trying to shove our religion down people’s throats. We get accused of this because we do stand on the street corner and call people to repent and to trust Jesus as their Lord and Savior. We believe the Bible. We believe Jesus. We are doing as Jesus commanded us to do – to preach the Gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15). [Read more…]
We heard four people yell hail Satan, had a flasher, a stool kicker and a reprobate mind on Friday night. Kelly started us off and he preached from Romans 1 when four different people yelled “Hail Satan” while he was preaching. He also received the typical calls “judge not lest ye be judged.” The funniest part about that was he actually addressed this right at the beginning of his message. One of the first things he said was if you feel judged tonight, we are not the ones judging you. If you feel like you are being judged it will be because of God’s word. It didn’t stop several of them from getting upset. [Read more…]