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Tract Tuesday- part 8

Wes —  November 30, 2010 — 5 Comments

If you’re like me, you’ve often thought to yourself :  ” Sure, Chick Tracts are great- but what about people who don’t speak KJV English?”  Jack Chick himself already though of that, and that’s why he makes his tracts available in several languages.

Still, you may be wondering, “But what about those poor education Injuns’ that don’t have no fancy book-learnin?”  Well,  Jack has thought of them too.  In honor of last week’s festivities, we proudly present ” The True Path.”

 

(As always, special thanks to the good people at Chick Publishing for all their hard work in putting this tract together.)

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Turn The Other Cheek…..

Zack —  November 30, 2010 — Leave a comment

…….so I can hit that one too.

Do you remember the kid street preacher we highlighted a while back? Well, apparently his posse of street preachers, known as the “Watchman of Christ”, got in an all out brawl with another posse of street preachers, known as “Church on the Move”, over how you get to heaven.

At least they all agree on something……….black eye for a black eye and missing tooth for a missing tooth.

 

Church scuffle involves pastors

ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KRQE) – Two pastors of opposing churches got into a knockdown, drag-out fight.

News 13 has new information on a religious group with strong opinions who protested three churches. One of those protests got out of hand. The group is known as Watchman for Christ. News 13 learned that they targeted the three churches because of disagreements on how to get to Heaven.

The group, seen in YouTube videos , brings its outspoken preaching to events and on street corners. The national leader of the group said their religion is based on a strict interpretation of the Bible.

More than 55 chapters of the Watchman are set up around the country, specializing in street preaching.

Jeremy de los Santos is one of those street preachers. He heads up the Roswell chapter, which took their boisterous opinions to the front of three different churches in town, including Church on the Move, where de los Santos used to be a member.

“A group came to our church and wanted to cause issues,” Pastor Troy Smothermon, with Church on the Move said.

Some members of the non-denominational church confronted the men and asked them to leave, that’s when it turned violent.

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Obama is the King of the South!!

Zack —  November 29, 2010 — 1 Comment

You’ve probably heard by now that President Obama busted his lip playing basketball over Thanksgiving. You probably thought to yourself: “I guess that’s mildly interesting, but how does this qualify as the lead story on the nightly news?”

Well, if like the rest of humanity you too thought this was a non-story, then it’s because you’re not the “Co-Prophet of the End Times”!!!

As it turns out, Obama’s busted lip was a sign that he is in fact the “King of the South”. I have no idea what means, but guess who does…..

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This is How We Do It

Zack —  November 29, 2010 — Leave a comment

Do you find yourself driving around in your ’96 Corolla, seat leaned back just a bit, nodding your head to “This is How We Do It” and thinking to yourself: “Man, this song if really touching my soul. I wish Montell Jordan would have the courage to put his Grammy-nominated rap career on hold and become a pastor.”

Well, hold on tight to your seat because your dreams are about to come true….

Montell Jordan Hangs Up Mic for Work as Pastor

ATLANTA — While people were stuffing themselves with turkey and dressing over Thanksgiving, Montell Jordan was coming to peace with a major career change.

For more than a decade he’s been known as the backwards-hat wearing hip hop artist behind the Grammy-nominated, mega-hit “This is How We Do It”.

All that will change after his final concert New Year’s Eve. After that, Jordan says he will only step foot on one stage, the dais of World Victory Church in Norcross.

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God Dropped the Ball?

Wes —  November 29, 2010 — 2 Comments

A personal pet peeve of mine is when athletes thank God for victories or stellar play. I mean, I’m down with thanking God for the ability to play the game- but when an athlete thanks God for a win, it just rubs me the wrong way. The idea that the Creator of the universe has his hand in pushing a field goal wide left at the end of a game just strikes me as silly. However, thanking God for victories is just as much a part of football as the halfback draw…

Which is why I have a hard time swallowing the public outcry over Buffalo Bills wide receiver Steve Johnson’s tweet after the game yesterday. After dropping a fairly routine ball in overtime that would have won the game for his team, Johnson had the following to tweet:

Johnson seems to blame God for his drop. Honestly though, if a player gives credit to God for catches… doesn’t it sort of make sense to blame him for drops as well?

Maybe we can just accept the fact that football games are generally won on the field, and by the players who have worked harder and are more prepared. If you need proof that God doesn’t play favorites, go look at Notre Dame scores from the past few years…

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Doing Much With Little

Zack —  November 25, 2010 — 1 Comment

On this first Thanksgiving for American Jesus, we thought we’d take a break from all the goofiness that is American Christianity and call attention to a moment when the American church actually gets it right. We’re sure there are countless stories like this out there today, but this is a good one that caught our eye.

Happy Thanksgiving from American Jesus!

Tiny Spring Hill church feeds hundreds for Thanksgiving

by Erin Sullivan

SPRING HILL — Last year for Thanksgiving, Pastor John Grossi’s church fed 25 families, which is a substantial amount; 25 turkeys and sides, 25 holidays made better, but Grossi wasn’t satisfied. People are hungry, people are hurting, he told his 100-member congregation at Springs of Life Family Church, which he and his wife founded seven years ago in their living room.

He and his parishioners started a food ministry nine months ago with leftover bread donated from the Publix across the street from the church on County Line Road, just west of the Suncoast Parkway. As word spread — free bread, 10 a.m. Fridays — more and more people showed up. It became bread and peanut butter and jelly. Then the church started buying food from Feeding America Tampa Bay, a food bank in Tampa, with change collected each Sunday in a bucket passed around the pews. It became a few hundred people. Then 500, some waiting in line hours beforehand. The church began with a pickup to get the food from Tampa. Then a pickup with a trailer. Then a donated 18-foot truck. Then the truck and a few trailers. Next is a semi.

He didn’t know, week to week, if there would be enough money or donations to feed everyone, but Grossi, 52, had faith.

And added another challenge:

He wanted to give Thanksgiving dinner to 1,000 people.

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World War III Begins!!!

Zack —  November 24, 2010 — 3 Comments

You may not have realized it, but the secret formula for the beginning of World War III is:

Korea + Condoms = Armageddon

Looking back, doesn’t it seem so obvious?

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A Simple Way To Change Your World

Zack —  November 23, 2010 — Leave a comment

Please forgive the shameless self promotion, but I wrote an article recently for Youth Worker Journal about how we can or should go about changing the world. It’s clearly not up for a Pulitzer, but if do take the time and like what you read please feel free to share it with someone else.

A Simple Way to Change Your World: Love and Serve Your Neighbor

For Derrick, every day at school is torture.

He walks in and heads straight to his locker without so much as a glance from anyone. As he’s getting everything he needs for his first class, no one says a word to him. Even though he is surrounded by countless students in the hallway, he doesn’t get so much as a “Hello.” The bell rings and he finds his spot in the back of the classroom where he knows he can fade away and not be forced into that awkward conversation with somebody who doesn’t know his name. He repeats this process of locker visits and hiding in his classrooms until lunch, which is for him the most glaring daily reminder of his non-existence. He doesn’t have to worry about finding a seat for lunch every day. He knows it is always going to be at the empty table. After lunch, he repeats the whole painful process until it’s finally time to escape to the sanctity of his own home.

As you know, Derrick is not the only one. The same story plays out every day in every corner of the world. This exclusion phenomenon isn’t relegated to our schools. It permeates our churches, as well.

We’ve all had the one kid who just didn’t seem to fit in with the rest of the group. Every Wednesday night, he or she is the one sitting on the otherwise empty row alone. If he or she is brave enough to go on trips with us, this student is always the one left without a roommate at the hotel or a partner for kitchen duty. If we’re honest, it’s the youth with whom we most struggle to talk or interact. We all see it; and to some extent, we all have participated in the exclusion. Some of us have even been that non-existent kid ourselves.

People talk about changing the world, but I have a simple and radical question. What if in the simple act of saying “Hello,” a miracle is taking place?

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**UPDATE** – The link is now working. Sorry about that.

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God Dropped the Ball?

Wes —  November 22, 2010 — Leave a comment

WHERE YOU TAKIN MY MONEY?

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A WOULD-BE thief who attempted to steal a church donation box in Munich suffered divine retribution in the form of a falling statue of a saint that gashed his head, the German website The Local reported yesterday.

The Local said the nearly life-size statue of Saint Antonius tumbled from its wooden base as the thief was trying to break open the donation box attached to the same structure.

“He (the saint) obviously did not want to let it go,” it quoted the church’s priest, Ludwig Sperrer, as saying with a grin.

But the thief didn’t undergo a miraculous conversion despite the statue’s apparent intervention.

He went to a nearby house to ask for help for his bleeding head and while there, his female accomplice stole a wallet left lying on the counter.

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Give This Guy the “Medal of Talking Too Much”

Wes —  November 19, 2010 — 1 Comment

 

"Let's go kill some folks!"

 

See that guy up there?  His name is Bryan Fischer.  He’s the “Director of Issues Analysis” for the conservative Christian group the American Family Association… and he’s not happy.  Why?  Because President Obama awarded Army Sgt. Salvatore Giunta with the Medal of Honor.

Giunta’s resume?  While chasing down a group of Taliban insurgents that had just ambushed his unit, Giunta noticed that they had captured a fellow soldier and were dragging him by his legs into the night.  Giunta ran them down, and rescued his colleague.

So what’s angering the old white guy in the picture up there?  He’s upset that we are rewarding the saving of life, as opposed to rewarding the taking of life.  No, seriously.  From his blog:

“But I have noticed a disturbing trend in the awarding of these medals, which few others seem to have recognized.

We have feminized the Medal of Honor.

According to Bill McGurn of the Wall Street Journal, every Medal of Honor awarded during these two conflicts has been awarded for saving life. Not one has been awarded for inflicting casualties on the enemy. Not one.

So the question is this: when are we going to start awarding the Medal of Honor once again for soldiers who kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely at night?”

Understandably, Fischer took some heat for those comments and clarified in a subsequent post:

“Christianity is not a religion of pacifism. Remember that John the Baptist did not tell the soldiers who came to him to lay down their arms, even when they asked him directly, “what shall we do?” (Luke 3:14).

War is certainly a terrible thing, and should only be waged for the highest and most just of causes. But if the cause is just, then there is great honor in achieving military success, success which should be celebrated and rewarded.

The bottom line here is that the God of the Bible clearly honors those who show valor and gallantry in waging aggressive war in a just cause against the enemies of freedom, even while inflicting massive casualties in the process. What I’m saying is that it’s time we started imitating God’s example again.”

To be honest, I don’t think “imitating God’s example” is the problem here.  Theoretically, the wars and violence recounted in the Old Testament were kosher because they were commanded by God.  It seems that plenty of people imitate God’s example and declare our own bloodshed to be ordained as well.  Bryan Fischer seems to be one of those people.

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