A few weeks ago I decided to go witnessing during a University of Utah tailgate party across the street from the Rice-Eccles stadium. It was actually my first experience with tailgating. Walking into the massive party by myself, with tracts and materials in hand, I struck up several conversations with various people and groups. I must say the heavy drinking threw me back to my college days. Not only had I forgotten what that atmosphere was like, I was seeing [...]
A few months ago I ran into one of my ex-witnessing partners at Costco. We talked for over an hour. At one point the topic of the lost and Calvinism came up… because I brought up the subject of course. I asked him if he was still a Calvinist, and he said he was. The last time I spoke with him his father was not a believer. I asked him, “Is your dad still an unbeliever?” He said “Yes.” I [...]
I was handing out gospel tracts at the Santa-Cali-Gon festival last Friday evening when a 16 year old girl named Kelsey handed me a tract about the Book of Mormon. The tract said the Book of Mormon was God’s word, more reliable than the bible itself. I asked her “Why do you believe in the book of Mormon?” She said, “I’ve been told the Book of Mormon is true.” “Who told you that?” I asked. She said, “My parents told [...]
I haven’t used my garage keypad code for a while because I forgot the code and didn’t have time to figure out how to reset it. Finally I decided to call the “garage door people” so they could come out and work their magic. Since its 2011 I should at least be caught up technologically with the neighbors by getting this working again. When he arrived I thought he looked familiar. “Have you been here before?” I asked. He said, [...]
Recently I was witnessing to someone involved in new age practices who also claims to believe in Jesus. She commented that intention will sanctify her prayers. In other words, it doesn’t matter what new age technique I use or who I pray to or how I do it as long as my intentions are pure, God will be honored by it. She can pray to the universe or the universal one or God or Jesus, it doesn’t matter since she [...]
My elderly mom has Fibromyalgia and receiving massages is a good way for her to have some pain relief. About a month ago I arranged to have someone come to the house and do this for her. Her name is Donna. She has been coming for about three weeks. She came over today and what started out as a normal conversation ended up as an opportunity to share the truth with her about the Lord. We were talking about science [...]
Saturday night, a few of us from the Save the Perishing group were outside the Sprint Center handing out Million Dollar Bill gospel tracts to those entering the Miley Cyrus concert. Lots of moms and dads with daughters were entering the arena. Most were happy to take a tract. As we were passing out tracts, I noticed a boy on a bike. He was out of place in this crowd. What was a boy doing riding his bike at night in downtown Kansas City? Anyway, he [...]
I met Ed at the bus stop in Kansas City when the Save the Perishing group was witnessing one Saturday in July. He was obviously homeless, probably about 40 years old. I gave him a million dollar bill gospel tract and walked him through the good person test. After sharing the Gospel with him, he seemed pretty downhearted, even angry. He had convinced himself that he didn’t need God. He didn’t want God to pay his punishment for him. Ed said that he would [...]
