Tag Archives: evangelism

• “Why Me, Lord?”

  Posted on September 30, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    “Why me, Lord?” tends to be a rhetorical question.  Or maybe it’s no real question at all, just a lament, like “how are you” is just a form of greeting. But when “Why me, Lord?” becomes a real question, it often carries an edge to it.  It’s spoken with an attitude.  It comes with […]

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• Mobilizing Ambassadors of Hope

  Posted on September 2, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Introduction to Community Houses of Prayer Ministry Manual Our Lord Jesus Christ has called us to Himself to belong to Him and to follow Him. He has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness that imprisoned us in sin’s mastery, misery and condemnation.  He has brought us into His kingdom of light and life, […]

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• John 3:16 – the Bible’s Message in a Nutshell

  Posted on August 12, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    I picked up a tee-shirt at a denominational meeting a few years ago.  It’s the best conversation-starter for the gospel I have ever seen. Spread across the chest of the black shirt in large, red letters are the English words: “For,” “so,” and “the.”  Underneath, to the right, is the reference in English and […]

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• Is “accepting Jesus” acceptable?

  Posted on July 15, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    I have no problem with people saying they have “accepted Jesus as Savior or Lord” or praying that others might do the same. True, Jesus is Lord whether acknowledged by us or not. The only significant acknowledgement is that of the Father, and Jesus does carry that imprimatur.  Peter makes this clear in his […]

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• Born That Way – Reborn Another

  Posted on July 9, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    A COMMON CONDITION God tells us we are sinners—each and every one of us.  We are all born that way.  Each descendant of Adam belongs to a race characterized as the walking dead.  The Bible identifies our lineage and describes that walk: And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you […]

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• The Hypothesis of Prayer

  Posted on June 24, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    I always cringe a bit when I see secular media touting evidence for prayer.  The validity of prayer does not stand or fall on scientific verification.  Rather, prayer gains its validity from the mouth of God in the pages of His Word. That said, I did put prayer to the test. My approach didn’t […]

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• The Question of Holiness

  Posted on June 10, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Among the articles on my USA Today iPad app, one took me aback.  It posed the question, “Can a Christian watch ‘Game of Thrones’?” Not having read the books or seen the show, I’m not in a position to answer the question one way or the other.  But what struck me was that the […]

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• Discovering the Fountain of Life: the gospel for the ages (5)

  Posted on May 6, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Adapted from Chapter Nine, “The Vanity of Strength and Beauty” from Making Sanity Out of Vanity: Christian realism in the book of Ecclesiastes by Stanley D. Gale (EP Books, 2011) We can note another way God presents this contrast of sources of life.  Most of us are familiar with the shepherd of the twenty-third […]

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• Discovering the Fountain of Life: the gospel for the ages (4)

  Posted on May 3, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Adapted from Chapter Nine, “The Vanity of Strength and Beauty” from Making Sanity Out of Vanity: Christian realism in the book of Ecclesiastes by Stanley D. Gale (EP Books, 2011) A passage I often share with those whose bodies are failing and racked with infirmity carries this same perspective. “So we do not lose […]

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• Discovering the Fountain of Life: the gospel for the ages (3)

  Posted on April 29, 2013 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.

    Adapted from Chapter Nine, “The Vanity of Strength and Beauty” from Making Sanity Out of Vanity: Christian realism in the book of Ecclesiastes by Stanley D. Gale (EP Books, 2011) Pursuing the Fountain of Life Finding our pursuit of the fountain of youth a dead end, we now turn our attention to another fountain.  […]

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