New Website Launched

I want to apologize that I have fallen behind on my journal. Several reasons contribute to the delay. The first is that I am putting time into a new website aimed at mainline Christianity to promote church growth, revival, and the training of young evangelists. The website is being promoted by Kingdom Company. For those who do not know of Kingdom Company, they are the largest distributor of audio/visual equipment and supplies to the church in the US. As such, they have a massive contact list.

The new website, Kingdom Insight, is a social networking site, similar to FaceBook, dedicated to the coming harvest of the US, and the subsequent difficult times we are facing. The goal is to help equip the saints, and to strengthen the church. What is new, in my estimation, is that this website is focusing on making the case to the mainline church for street preaching as the central method that the Lord ordained to reach the world. The street preaching has been the "bad boy" of ministries for a long time simply because no one in the church as a whole understand what it is and what it is supposed to do. Hopefully this will be an avenue for us preachers to plead our case to the church as a whole.

There is much more to the site than this little blurb. I invite you all to go online and take a look at Kingdom Insight. In particular, we are looking for street preacher friendly people to add content to the site. At the moment, while I am not alone, I am pretty much the torch bearer for our kind of ministry.

Please, feel free to join and to post in those areas that interest you. The website began being promoted nationally last week. Unlike Jed's website, BroJed.org or my website, BroCope.com, Kingdom Insight is set up to handle photos, videos, forums, events, focus groups, personal blogs, and miscellaneous notes. We have great hopes that the website will go a long ways to being able to have inroads to the mainline churches.

The atheist, oh those faithful atheists, were out to withstand the Gospel. The weather was clear but cold, but that did not stop a small crowd from forming. The main issue of the day was the mindlessness of atheism. I like to continually point out how the atheist's philosophy ultimately and logically ends up in nihilistic despair.

You see, atheists will tell you that they can not believe in anything that can't be sampled by the 5 senses. This is called materialism, and I have gone over this before in my journal. The reason that atheism results in nihilistic despair is because of their insistence that they can not believe in anything that does not have a material existence. But most of what we know, about 99.9999%, we have not acquired through sampling the material existence of anything. Almost the entirety of our knowledge we have learned from secondary sources, not primary sources.

A primary source is someone who does experiments, makes measurements, and determines empirically what he is trying to document or understand. A secondary source is from any other source other than the one doing the experiments. Almost all of our knowledge comes from second hand sources. To the atheist, or at least one who is true to his beliefs, they would have to reject everything that they have personally determined by their own research.

When the Christian refers to things that have happened in history from the Bible, the atheist simply rejects it out of hand because it is a secondary source. Yet when we question their beliefs system, they assert absolutes based upon knowledge that they did not personally determine. That means that all of their beliefs are based in faith. They have trusted the source as to the truth value of what is told them. That is faith.

It is a very fun thing to challenge the atheists using their own arguments. This day I was pointing out that they use logic, their minds, their memories, their thoughts to prove that God does not exist. They reject the existence of the supernatural, yet they use supernatural means to try to argue their beliefs.

By that I mean that logic has no material existence. Logic has no color, no taste, not texture, no odor, and makes not sound. If it has no material existence, then it must be immaterial. Two other words that can be used are "natural" and "supernatural". Logic exists, but not as a property of any matter. It exists outside the material or natural realm. Therefore it is supernatural. It's very existence is a proof that the material realm is not all that there is.

If an atheist were true to his philosophy, he could not know anything unless he did the original research. And even then it would require the use of something that can not be tested materially in order to make any conclusions from the research. Oh, those mindless atheists, trying to use a supernatural thing like logic to disprove the existence of the supernatural. That is like using water to prove wetness is a figment of our imagination.

The atheists set up to do their own evangelism table down by College Avenue. Gary and I thought about heckling them, but decided not to aid them in any way.

The fellow I am talking to here came out of the crowd to question my methodology. Since I had quieted down to assuage the professors anger, we had a quiet and very productive talk about my methods. His objection was that I was apparently driving people away from God. He was surprised when I said, "Yes, I know. I intend to do that."

"What?" he exclaimed. Then I went on to explain that the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, and men can not know the state of their own heart. The place where most people are at is where they think themselves basically good people that God loves and won't send to Hell. This is the most dangerous of any place to be. Not only is that person headed for Hell, but they are deceived into thinking they are not in danger.

Jesus said to the Church of Laodicea in Re 3:15-16 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

God can deal with hot, obviously, and He can deal with cold. But He can not deal with all those in the middle - those who believe they are good enough for God, those with no sense of danger. As a preacher my job is to move people. Hot or cold is not in my power to determine. The Bible says that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. My preaching does not establish where a man's heart is at.

All it can do is to force the man to make the choice that is already in his heart. Free will. Even God normally does not override a man's free will. If God does not do it, how can my preaching do what God does not do? The preaching does not turn people off, as he suggested. All the preaching can do is to expose where a person's heart is at, and then move that person further along the path that was already in their heart.

With that explanation, he shook my hand, and thanked me for my preaching.

Sel stood with us today. He is from Kenya. Several weeks ago, he told me that he feels called to preach. While he hasn't preached yet, he is faithful to work the crowd and to defend his faith. In the picture to the left, he is witnessing to the main antagonists from the atheist club. And then on the right, he is praying for one of the main atheists. Imagine that!!!

Gary told me that he prayed for all of them today, Could a break through be near if the atheists allow us to pray for them. Further on down in this journal, I am seen praying for another atheist, Pat.

The top story of the day was that I was able to overcome with the atheists! I began to lay out from physical evidence what we do know that agrees with the Biblical story. I started with the fact that there are millions of mammoth and mastodon fossils above the Arctic circle. There actually is an entire island made up of bones from these great animals.

How much grass does an elephant require per day? Three hundred pounds each day.

What did all those millions of mammoths and mastodon eat above the arctic circle, where the only thing that grows is lichen? This is about where they quieted down. What about the 10 foot ferns found under the ice in Antarctica? Or the coal deposits?

I brought up the mammoths that have been found flash frozen in Alaska and Siberia, standing on all four feet. And the rock ice that covers large areas in Alaska and Siberia. Rock Ice is an interesting phenomenon that can only be explained by jets of clear pure water being ejected into the stratosphere, freezing, and then falling back to earth like hail, only with very little dissolved air in the ice. I also talked about the fact that before all the oil, coal, and natural gas was trapped underground (by a catastrophic flood), the carbon now locked up was in the ecosystem. That points to the fact that the earth was once very very lush. This is also born out by fossils of gigantic trees and plants. There is one petrified tree that has been found that is a half mile in diameter and could have been several miles high.

I had started to tape that session, but the rain made me turn off the camera. I could have kicked myself when I was able to bring the entire atheist clan to silence. I wish I had it on tape.

I preached once but was not able to draw a crowd. I left early and drove 2 hours to Mansfield, PA to speak at a Kingdom Builders meeting. The message was given as an addition to a message I gave last month that the Judgment of the church has already begun. The links to that message are:

The Judgment of the Church has begun, Part 1
The Judgment of the Church has begun, Part 2
The Judgment of the Church has begun, Part 3
The Judgment of the Church has begun, Part 4
The Judgment of the Church has begun, Part 5
The Judgment of the Church has begun, Part 6

The follow-up message I gave was entitled "What the church needs to know"

What the church needs to know, Part 1
What the church needs to know, Part 2
What the church needs to know, Part 3

My burden is for the church. If they knew what is coming down the pike, they would be trembling. Many people in the church are saying the same things as I have concerning our times. I heard a prophecy from the Orthodox church warning those in the Orthodox church to lay aside a month's worth of food because something catastrophic was soon to happen. A couple of weeks later I received this warning from David Wilkerson:

Famed Pastor predicts imminent catastrophe

And yesterday I received this warning:

Coming Evangelical Collapse

It is time to draw together and strengthen ourselves in the Lord. All those who put their trust in the Lord will not be ashamed. All who trust in the world will be abandoned. The Lord is shaking the earth:

Heb 12:25-27 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

Remember above when Sel was praying for the atheists? In these shots, Pat, one of the atheists, asked me to pray for him. The first shot is when he asked me, and the second was the prayer. His request was for a test he was going into. No, not a spiritual test, a classroom test. When he asked me he reminded me of a testimony that I had related to them many months ago.

Years ago I was witnessing to my brother about the fact that God can aid us in school. I told Lyle about how the Lord aided me in my work. Many times I would get to a point in a problem that I could not solve, and the Lord would give me the answer. The most dramatic was one time that the teleprocessing network for Fidelity Bank in Philadelphia would crash about tree times a day. When it did, all banking stopped in all 240 branches. The computer would have to be rebooted to get every thing up and running.

Needless to say that when the system crashed, my bosses would become very interested in my work. You see, I was the system programmer responsible for the teleprocessing network. For weeks my feet were in the fire. I would sit all day researching the problem without success. My bosses were getting more and more agitated for the solution. But the solution was not readily forthcoming.

After several weeks of failure, I was concerned for my job. The natives were restless. I finally got to a place where every avenue had been tried, and there were no more to try. I gave up. I crossed my arms, leaned back in my chair, and prayed, "Okay Lord, I can't find it. You're going to have to show me". I quieted my mind, and began to think on other more pleasant things.

About 4-5 minutes went by, when suddenly the Lord, through the Spirit, said "Look at this listing". I looked at where the Spirit had indicated. Then He said, "Look over here". Again I looked. Then He said, "Look at this place in the core dump" (The actual contents of memory at the instant of the crash.) Like a flash bulb, the answer became more than clear. There is was in the core dump.

The first listing was a listing of a main program that called a subroutine. The second listing was the subroutine. The main program had defined one of the fields being passed to the subroutine as 64 characters long. The subroutine had defined that same field as 32 characters. What was happening was that when the main program called the subroutine, it passed it 64 characters, but when the subroutine passed the information back, it had been truncated to only 32 characters. What the Lord showed me in the core dump was the 32 characters I was expecting to see followed by 32 spaces. The chopped off data then caused the main program to fail.

All of that to tell you about my brother.

My brother was attending a very prestigious Ivy league school. He had a test in a subject that had run out of books before he was able to get one. The test was on the book, which he did not own. He was very worried. I related the story I just wrote and told him that the Lord could help him in the test. I explained how the Holy Spirit is able to bring back anything we have heard, read, or thought.

Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and <b>bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you</b>.

I continued to explain that by trusting Him, we enable this principle to work in our lives. I instructed Lyle to not get anxious while taking the test. If there is a question he does not know, skip it, and say a prayer for the answer. I told him emphatically to not start to worry or to fear, but just to let his request to be know, then to quiet his brain and trust. Anxiety and fear blocks our ability to discern the answer. I told him just to skip the question, relax, and move on. Within a couple of minutes the answer would "pop" into his mind, when he wasn't "listening" for it. He agreed to try it. He really didn't have much choice since he could not buy the book.

Several days later, Lyle came into my room, lit up like a Christmas tree. He said, "It worked!! And guess what".

I said "What?".

Lyle said, "I passed the test!! And guess what else".

I said "What?".

Lyle said, "I got the highest score in the class!! I got a 100%"

It had worked exactly as I told him it would. He got a 100 in a test on a book he did not won. Not bad!

And all that to tell you about Pat. He remembered the testimony and asked me for prayer for his test. I instructed Pat in how to take the test, and prayed for him. Since the test was on Thursday, and on Friday Spring Break began, I won't know the outcome till the week of March 16th. Pat is very near to salvation. I believe he will be the first atheist to be converted. A couple of weeks ago he commented that we Christians are so much nicer than his atheist "friends". His name is Pat when you pray.