In God we still trust.

Let us prove this song true by our actions.

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Evangelism Quotes

One of England’s greatest preachers, W. E. Sangster, in Let Me Command, said, “The easiest way to embarrass a congregation of twentieth century Christians is to ask them two simple questions. ‘When is the last time you personally led another person to Jesus Christ?’ and ‘When is the last time you tried?’”

"Lord grant that the FIRE of my heart may melt the lead in my feet." - Unknown

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Evangelism Quotes

"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." - William Booth

We can’t all witness the same way, but we can all witness some way.

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What if? An article by Kim Josephson

What if it's true? What if there really is a hell? (Matt 10:28) What if that place is a place of eternal torment? (Rev are not figurative but are literal flames (Luke 16:24) that actually burn and torture everyone in them? (Matt 13:41,42) What if the smoke of those torments goes up eternally? (Rev 14:10,11) What if it's a place of eternal darkness? (Matt 25:30) What if you fall forever and ever in a bottomless pit? (Rev 9:2) What if as you are totally cut off from God (Matt 7:23) you are totally cut off from every other human form? What if you are lost forever, burning in physical torment but also burning in lust that will never ever be satisfied? (Luke 16:24,25)

What if the day comes when the Son of God takes His place on a great white throne and sits in judgment on every individual that has ever lived? (Rev 20:11, Eccl 12:14) What if He separates the sheep from the goats? (Matt 25:32) His friends on the right and the hypocrites on the left? (Matt 25:33) What if He actually condemns all those on His left to the Hell fire prepared for the devil and the fallen angels who dared to defy God? (Matt 25:41) What if this place is a place where the only sound you hear is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth? (Matt 13:50) What if there is nothing that can stop the eternal roar of the screams? What if it really is everlasting fire? (Mark 9:45) What if that fact alone is the greatest torment of all?

What if it's true that your memory will be keener than at any time on this earth? (Luke 16:25) What if for time and eternity you remember every time the Holy Spirit begged you to repent (Rev 3:20) and you loathe yourself for rejecting Him?

What if in this place you realize that you were ashamed to say yes to God because you were afraid of what your friends would think? (Matt 10:33) What do you think you will think of those friends then? While you grieved away the Spirit of God (Gen 6:3) to appease your pride, how will you stop the hellish ringing in your ears that cries "You Fool - you fool - you fool." You won't be remembering the good times you had in sin. No sir, part of your hell will be remembering how you couldn't be bothered with Jesus, how you had no time for God on earth (Prov 1:24) - but now you have time. You have eternity and now when God won't hear - (Prov 1:26) all you do is pray - Oh God - Oh God - Oh God have mercy. But He doesn't hear and he won't have mercy? (Prov 1:28) Your every thought will be on how you rejected the mercy of God. (Rom 2:4-6) Your every remembrance will be of those who wept over your soul (Ps 126:6) - that mother who prayed for you (Prov 10:1) - that friend, that son, that daughter who begged you to repent and surrender to Christ but you would not! You'll remember every detour that God put up on your road to hell and how you kept on running through the road- blocks to your own destruction. You'll remember laughing with your friends at the things of God (Prov 14:9) and then you'll curse yourself and them because of what has happened to you.

You'll remember how you drank what you pleased - when you pleased but now you'll beg for just one drop of water to quench your burning tongue (Luke 16:24) but you'll never know a moments reprieve. Every blasphemous utterance that ever came out of your mouth will haunt you now - those jokes about seeing all your friends in hell and having a big party will make you loathe yourself and your friends for the sheer stupidity of it. (Prov 14:9) There will be no music - no rock and roll - no friends - no party - only weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.

What if it's true? What if now you are in a place that God has ordained for the refuse of His universe? (Matt 13:41) What if you're there and you thought you'd be in heaven? (Matt 7:21) What if you allowed some preacher to soft pedal God's truths (Jer 6:14) and somehow you didn't take care of your own salvation? (Phil 2:12) What if some denomination taught you that if you just went to church and took communion you'd be OK? (Luke 13:25-28) What if you bought into the humanistic lie that said "I'm OK and you're OK" when really neither one of us was OK (Ps 14:3) and what we both desperately needed was a Savior? (Rom 3:23) What if you simply didn't believe what Jesus said (Matt 7:21) and you actually thought that you could get to heaven by being "good" or just some other way than what He said? Do you think it will make the flames cooler?

What if its true? What if Jesus really meant it when He said "Not everyone who sayeth unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father"? (Matt 7:21) What if it's not a matter of a prayer that accepts "Jesus Christ as your personal savior" but it actually requires a bowing of your knee to Jesus Christ as your Lord? What if you really have to take up your cross and follow Him? (Luke 14:27) What if you have to repent of your sins (Luke 13:3) and follow Jesus (Mark 8:34) with your whole heart, mind, soul and strength? (Mark 12:30) What if you must be born again by the Spirit of God? (John 3:7) What if you actually have to abdicate the throne of your heart and give the kingship of your life to Jesus? (Luke 6:46) What if you couldn't be ashamed of Jesus and make heaven your eternal home? (Matt 10:33)

Well, the fact is that's the way it is. Many are deceived because in our generation preachers have twisted the scriptures to accommodate their denominational doctrines. Today preachers preach what people want to hear. (2 Tim 4:3) But that's not what Jesus did. He is the one who told us about an eternal fiery hell and He also told us how to avoid it. It would seem to me that nothing would be more important than missing such a place and taking as many as we can out of it too! In fact such truth should rally the church into action as never before. We should herald the truth unceasingly and pray for a mighty move of the Spirit to turn men's hearts from sin and to the Savior. But instead, I'm afraid these truths have been so long neglected and so watered down that many have been deceived and will be eternally damned because they believed not what Jesus actually said but what somebody said He said. (Jer 23:22)

Is Jesus Christ your Lord? Have you surrendered your life to Him? Do you consistently say no to your will when it conflicts with the Word of God? Are you saying yes to God and no to your lusts, not only with your mouth but with your actions? Have you turned from sin? Are you following Jesus? If not then in Jesus' name don't pretend to think you're saved. (1 Cor 6:9,10) If you are your own Lord - your own King - your own Boss, then Jesus is not your Lord nor your Savior and you will be damned. (Luke 6:46) Let no man deceive you. If you do not repent and surrender to Jesus you will split hell wide open. In Jesus' name repent and surrender now. Put down this letter and beg for the mercy of God this instant.

Now, you say you've made Jesus your Master - then act like it. (1 John 2:6) You know that everything I've written in this letter is the truth, so stop messing around and begin to do the job Christ gave us to do. Reach the unreached. Tell the untold. Don't send money to get the job done. Do your job!!! Warn the wicked of the wrath to come. (Matt 3:7) Jesus said go and tell every creature. (Mark 16:15) So you go and you tell. Simple isn't it - no excuses - Just do it!


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Captain's meditation on Speaking UP verses

Proverbs 14:25 A truthful witness saves lives, ...

Leviticus 5:1 " 'If a person sins because he does not speak up when he hears a public charge to testify regarding something he has seen or learned about, he will be held responsible.

1 Thessalonians 2:2... with the help of our God we dared to tell you his gospel in spite of strong opposition

Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes

Let's be honest, speak up, dare to tell His gospel, and don't be ashamed.

Without a relationship with Jesus people will be eternally separated from God in eternal torment. With a personal relationship with Jesus people will spend eternity with our Savior in His presence, which is Paradise.

What are you waiting for - SOLDIER UP - SHARE YOUR FAITH - SPREAD THE GOSPEL.

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Sunday's Sermon - Balaam 1 - God can use anyone and anything

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A day for prayer and rest

A blessed Sunday to you.

In between "doing ministry" and "doing ministry" Mark 1:35-36 tells us...Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Simon and his companions went to look for him, and when they found him, they exclaimed: "Everyone is looking for you!"

Maybe you are tired from being busy about the Lord's work, or maybe you are just tired of everyone on the planet needing your attention, phone, cell phone, instant message, text, email, on, and on... everyone is looking for you.

Jesus knew that the only way to stay properly connected to The Father, and empowered by His Spirit, was to intentionally be alone with God in prayer.

The world can survive without you for a while, get yourself to a solitary place and spend some time in prayer today.

By the way, after you have allowed God to recharge you, remember that there is a world that needs you, go to tell them of the Savior. Recharge in private, then be spent doing the work of telling the world about Jesus.

Note: As always if you don't have a personal relationship with Jesus, who lived, sacrificially died in your place, and rose from the dead, then repent of your sins (confess and turn from them), have faith in Jesus alone (faith is simply placing your full trust solely in Him), and receive Him by faith today.

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Personal Work (personal one to one evangelism) 4.22 minutes

3 SPURGEON quotes on evangelism

The most terrible warning to impenitent men in all the world is the death of Christ. For if God spared not His only Son, on whom was only laid imputed sin, will He spare sinners whose sins are their own?


I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unpick all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.


If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.

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3 Salvation Army Evangelism Quotes...

The Army’s objective has not altered. Its call is to save. Its tactics and maneuvers may change, but they must always aim without compromise directly at undermining the Devil’s kingdom by aggressive means. — Florence Booth

If you cannot go to the rescue one way, go another. — William Booth

How many compassionate tears does this perishing world get from you? — William Booth

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A simple but powerful prayer request

I don't normally do this, but check out this prayer request left behind at the corps (church) on Sunday by one of our young people.

"Help me do what God asks me - the first time - and without hesitation."

Sounds like a prayer that God wants to answer for all of us. Lord make that all of our prayers today.

How about this scripture to back it up...

James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Now check it out in the amplified translation: Confess to one another therefore your faults - your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins - and pray also for one another, that you may be healed and restored to a spiritual tone of mind and heart. The earnest, heartfelt, continued prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available -dynamic in its working.

Do what God asks, the first time, without hesitation today!

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Captain's meditation on "the look of Jesus"

This thought is not complete in my heart and mind yet, but I have had the thought of "being watched by Christ" on my mind while pondering these scriptures.

As soon as the disciple Andrew met Jesus he took his brother Simon to meet Jesus also and we read... John 1:42 And he (Andrew) brought him (Simon) to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which, when translated, is Peter).

After Jesus arrest Peter followed at a distance and we read these words in Luke 22:54-62 Then seizing him, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance. But when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together, Peter sat down with them. A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight. She looked closely at him and said, "This man was with him." But he denied it. "Woman, I don't know him," he said. A little later someone else saw him and said, "You also are one of them." "Man, I am not!" Peter replied. About an hour later another asserted, "Certainly this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean." Peter replied, "Man, I don't know what you're talking about!" Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: "Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly.

Jesus loves us so much that He constantly has His eye on us, not as a mean and condemning God, but as one who loves us so much that whether we are accepting a call to follow, or denying Him in public, He is watching over us. Of course our actions will invite a blessing or a curse, and we will choose life and death, by our conduct - no matter what Jesus is watching and with love wants to see us choose to Honor Him.

Today you will choose to follow closely after Him and proclaim His message, or you will follow at a distance, as one of the crowd, and deny Him with your words or actions.

Choose this day if you will bring Glory to Him or grieve His heart. Either way He is watching.

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Sunday's sermon- Relationship NOT religion

Captain Tim Carr brings today's message....

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Special prayer request

I just had a Corps member (church member) call and specifically ask that we add someone she knows to the blog as a prayer request. This woman has had a back problem for some time, and it causes her terrible pain. She can have surgery, but they have told her there would be a 98% chance that she would be paralyzed from the waist down. Our Corps member said it broke her heart so she would begin praying for this woman she met, she then called right back to say she wanted to rephrase her comment, "not that it broke her heart, but that it broke God's heart" to see this woman in such pain.

God does care about each of our every hurt and needs, so agree with me in prayer that God would not only touch this woman physically and provide by any means He would choose, from surgery to a supernatural healing right this very second, but even more that He would use this opportunity to show His love to a woman in need that their relationship would become all God wants it to be.

Lord we pray for a touch of you in this woman's life, and further opportunities to see her come to know you in a new and more full way.

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Marching Orders & Mother's Day

Hello Soldiers, followers of Jesus, friends, and family,

3 notes today....

1. "Marching Orders" came out Friday and we have been given orders to remain in charge of the Homer Corps another year. God is Good! We are believing God that this will be a year of growth like none this corps has seen before.

2. Today is "Mother's Day" so honor those who birthed you, raised you, or were a "spiritual mother" to you in some way. Call, write, or email them a letter of thank you and encouragement today. Ladies, if you have children of your own - train them up to love and serve the Lord and to lead others to Jesus. If you don't have any kids of your own - adopt a corps (church) kid, or a neighbor, or some young one you can influence for Jesus today.

3. A scripture thought for today. We read in scripture that Jesus was teaching and the following occured in Luke 11:27-28 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." He (Jesus) replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."

Not to take anything away from the blessed position of Mary who was chosen to be an instrument for God to use in bringing God's Son to physical life on earth, but Jesus reminds us that it is just as blessed to be one who hears God's Word and who obeys it, for they too become an equally important vessel for God to use, and to show Himself to the world even still today.

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How do you know that you believe? Paul Washer 4min

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A week of quotes - Quote of the day

“The way to stimulate and provoke others unto good works is to strive to outrun them in the race. The way to rebuke the cold and indifferent is to be always full of zeal and ‘abounding in the work of the Lord’ yourself. Men will be much more ready to answer a call to come up to your level, than a command to advance beyond you.”

- Record of Christian Work, May 1909

"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness."

- A. W. Pink

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A week of quotes - Quote of the day

“The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came...Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.”

- R. A. Torrey

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A week of quotes - Quote of the day

“The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!”

-A. B. Simpson

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A week of quotes - Quote of the day

"As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear; or that I had a frame like iron, that I might visit every one and say, 'Escape for thy life! Ah sinner! You little know how I fear that you will lay the blame of your damnation at my door."

- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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