i-Share Evangelism Video

The evangelism tool for our media generation. i-Share - The Gospel visualized on your screen or on your iPod and in multiple languages. i-Share is a new evangelism tool meant to help individuals, youth groups, mission trip participants and beyond share their faith in a new and relevant way. The i-Share video can be used in a public setting in your favorite presentation software or personally in your own video iPod or similar device. The i-Share also comes in more than one language!! By using the i-Share video mission trip participants are able to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ no matter the language barrier.

This version is on YouTube, however more information, full quality videos and versions in different languages can be found here.

The Peasant Man

It is extraordinary that a peasant man from a poky, backwater town in Galilee, who never wrote anything, who died the death of a petty criminal, should continue to intrigue and excite more people than ever.

Soul Survivor Magazine, Aug 97, p28, J John

Spiritual Fruits

God wants spiritual fruits, he dosen't want religious nuts.

J. John - in UK Focus, Aug 97 (HTB)

The Christian life is like an airplane

The Christian life is like an airplane -- when you stop you drop.

Coals, Church and Christianity

D. L. Moody was visiting a prominent Chicago citizen when the idea of church membership and involvement came up.

"I believe I can be just as good a Christian outside the church as I can be inside it," the man said.

Moody said nothing. Instead, he moved to the fireplace, blazing against the winter outside, removed one burning coal, and placed it on the hearth.

The two men sat together and watched the ember die out.

"I see," the other man said.

Keith Long, Room to Grow (Hendrickson, 1999), quoted in Men of Integrity (3.2)

A Struggling Student

There was once a college student who was struggling in many areas of his life. He spent a great deal of his time feeling angry and frustrated. When he could stand it no longer, he went to the dim and seldom-used chapel on campus. He paced up and down the aisles, slapping the back of the empty pews. He yelled, he cried, and he raged at God.

"God you created the world ... what could you possibly have been thinking? Look at the problems people face. Look at the pain, suffering, and hunger. Look at the neglect, the waste, the abuse. Everywhere I look, I see messed-up people, hurting people, lonely people!"' The young man ranted and raved on and on.

Finally, exhausted, he sat in the front pew and looked hopelessly at the cross. Its tarnished surface reflected the dusty sunlight filtering in through the stained glass windows. "It's all such a mess! This world you created is nothing but a terrible mess! Why even I could make a world better than this one!"

And then the young man heard a voice in the silence of that dusty chapel that made his eyes open wide and his jaw drop.

`And that is exactly what I want you to do."'

Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks - Wayne Rice

In His Steps

"It is the personal element that Christian discipleship needs to emphasize. ‘The gift without the giver is bare.' The Christianity that attempts to suffer by proxy is not the Christianity of Christ. Each individual Christian business man, citizen, needs to follow in His steps along the path of personal sacrifice to Him. There is not a different path to-day from that of Jesus' own times. It is the same path. The call of this dying century and of the new one soon to be, is a call for a new discipleship, a new following of Jesus, more like the early, simple, apostolic Christianity, when the disciples left all and literally followed the Master. Nothing but a discipleship of this kind can face the destructive selfishness of the age with any hope of overcoming it. There is a great quantity of nominal Christianity today. There is need of more of the real kind. We need revival of the Christianity of Christ. We have, unconsciously, lazily, selfishly, formally grown into a discipleship that Jesus himself would not acknowledge. He would say to many of us when we cry, ‘Lord, Lord,' ‘I never knew you!' Are we ready to take up the cross? Is it possible for this church to sing with exact truth,

‘Jesus, I my cross have taken,
All to leave and follow Thee?'

If we can sing that truly, then we may claim discipleship.

Charles M Sheldon in "In His Steps - What Would Jesus Do" p237

Everything I Need to Know, I Learned from Noah's Ark:

One -- Don't miss the boat.
Two -- Remember that we are all in the same boat.
Three -- Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
Four -- Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big.
Five -- Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
Six -- Build your future on high ground.
Seven -- For safety's sake, travel in pairs.
Eight -- Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
Nine -- When you're stressed, float a while.
Ten -- No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow waiting.

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