October 18th, 2007 at 9:09 pm (Home)
This was during our “Bible Time” when we sang a number of hymns. There was a glitch in the middle because we were singing from two different hymnals.
Gracie Jesus Loves Me Part1: Downloads 245 Gracie Jesus Loves Me Part2: Downloads 170October 16th, 2007 at 9:58 pm (Home)
During our time on the Cincinnati waterfront, while we were sharing the gospel with folks, Grace and Stephen tried their first time at roller skating. It was a really neat outdoor roller rink (only problem was the ungodly music). Here’s a short video of them enjoying the beautiful day the Lord had made. Later Gracie was able to skate around the entire rink (while holding the outside wall, with the help of the Lord). Stephen couldn’t make it all the way around, but probably will in a few years.
Roller Skating: Downloads 472October 14th, 2007 at 10:37 pm (Preaching)
This was great. We met with Roger Patterson to share the gospel with folks at downtown Cincinnati. Here are some pictures.
This was a tag team between Roger and Faith. Roger stopped the Mom and child with the pink and blue illusion, then Faith went over and gave them some big money. She was so cute! Please pray for this Mother and daughter.
This guy was a security officer for the park. I figured if we were gonna get busted, might as well be quick. Stephen and Grace really wanted me to give it to him. It turned out he was a Christian, was encouraged we were sharing the gospel and said he’d post the “big money” on the board back at the station. Pray for the other officers who may see and read it.
Roger had been wanting to talk with this fellow for a few weeks now. Today was the first day he wasn’t with customers so Roger shared the whole gospel with him. Pray for him.
Roger talking with a young couple. Please pray for them, that God would open their eyes to the glorious gospel of His Son.
This gentleman named Danny turned out to be a believer. The Lord did a really neat thing. Before we left, Danny asked me to pray for him and I told him I would. He then asked if I had prayer requests. I thought he meant with my church, so I told him yes. But then he asked me what my prayer requests were. So he actually wanted to pray for me! I told him to please pray that I would be consistent in my bringing up my children in the nurture and admonition in the Lord. To my great surprise, he took off his hat and prayed right then and there. Praise the Lord! That was really encouraging to me.
Roger with some teenagers. The girl in the middle was laughling a lot in the beginning. Since my family was close by on a bench, we were praying for them. My wife specifically prayed that the girl would sober up and sure enough her laughing died down. Please pray for these kids.
October 11th, 2007 at 8:55 pm (Preaching, Home)
Now this was really special. A few weeks ago a nurse came by our home to drop off some medical equipment. In the process, she had me sign a bunch of papers and even fill out a survey. One of the questions was something like, “Have you ever had heart problems?” This made me laugh because it sounded like, “Have you ever told a lie?” and I thought, “Ok, somehow I’ve got to turn this around and have her take a spiritual survey.” But the great thing was that Grace and Stephen were drawing in the room with us and since they saw the questionnaire I was filling out they also started making some questionnaires complete with little yes and no check boxes. God totally set that up, it was too easy!! So at the end of the nurse’s presentation, I grabbed Grace’s “survey” and asked the nurse if I could have her take a spiritual survey, to which she happily agreed. So using the pretend survey which just had scribbling for words, but really did have two check boxes per question, I walked her through the law and the gospel. She was pretty surprised because I was reading scribbles, but she played along, though at times she was visibly uncomfortable (while admitting she was a liar, thief and adulterer at heart). Listen to the below MP3 to hear Grace give the story. Please pray for this nurse, that the Lord would be pricking her conscience with the Word of Truth she heard. Thanks.
Grace on Dr. House Call: Downloads 187October 4th, 2007 at 6:03 pm (Home, Bible)
Recently we gave Grace her own nice, pink “Girl’s Bible” that was in NASB. 
Since the Lord had used Christy to teach Grace to read, we thought it was time for her to start reading the Bible every day on her own. We even bought a blue Boy’s NASB for Stephen for later. We figured that it would be good since it was a real word for word translation (the main one we as parents use) and just had a girly pink cover. However, once we opened it up we noticed that there were ‘devotions’ for young girls. Well that usually means trouble (since it’s basically adding man’s word to God’s word). Sure enough, the ‘devotions’ were worldly and tainted the meaning of Scripture. It seems they were written with a worldly-wise young ‘tweener’ in mind. In other words, they were assuming girls already had bad attitudes, independent spirits, despised parents and siblings, etc. So even though we had already given the Bible to Grace (bad decision before reviewing it thoroughly), and she was so excited about it, we had to tell her that we’d take it away and get her a better Bible.
Praise the Lord, someone GAVE us this new Bible called “Day by Day Kid’s Bible“.
Christy received it through “Paperback Swap“. This time we thoroughly read through it and checked it out. There are NO “devotions”, worldly or otherwise. Now, interestingly it’s not NASB, it’s its own translation made especially for readers on a 2nd grade reading level. So praise the Lord, Grace can read it all by her self (with the help of the Lord!). Another great thing about it is that it’s a daily Bible, in other words, it breaks up the entire Bible into portions with dates on it. So today she’s reading the portion for October 4th. Another neat feature of the Bible is that it is chronological, so David’s psalms are placed within the different accounts of his life, etc. Of course we’ve had other children’s Bibles, but they’re either in an adult translation which she would need help with reading many of the big words or they are simply story books that don’t give the entire Bible accounts of all the priestly duties, prophets, etc. Anyways, all this to tell you that Grace just LOVES her Bible. She reads so much that many days she is ahead of the ‘date’ she should be on, so we gave her a bookmark and she’s reading in two places now. Since we gave her the Bible in August, she just started right on that date, but now with her ‘extra’ reading she’s also reading in ‘January’ as well. Grace is learning so much from reading her Bible, it’s really exciting to watch. And now Christy is reading along with her in Christy’s daily, chronological Bible as well. So it’s a real joy. You can click on this picture to read more on the author’s website, it even has sample pages from the Bible. Highly recommended for 1st and 2nd graders. Please continue to pray for Grace “that the eyes of her heart may be enlightened, so that she will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.” Eph 1:18
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paul rams said,
October 17, 2007 at 5:10 pm
vid plays larger in windows media player (open source)
That looks fun!!!