Professor Grant Horner's Bible Reading System Completed!

I finished last night by reading the rest of Esther, Zechariah, and the book of Malachi. The start date was 8/22/2011. This is the first time that I have read the Bible all the way through! I recommend this system to anyone. I read Acts and Proverbs six times during the 250 days. There were some days I read more than 10 chapters. I read 20 and 30 on other days. This made up for days that I missed. I will continue to follow this awesome plan with the Bible Bookmarks app.
Here is a link if you want to check it out: http://www.wbfva.org/files/professor_grant_horners_bible_reading_system.pdf
Happy Bible reading!!!

More Tracting Ideas

I modified the tract holder to accommodate The Biggest Gamble? Tract. I have it in the laundry mat, also. Most tracts are taken. A few get destroyed by unwatched children! There are endless ideas for Gospel tracting! Tonight, I put tracts out on benches at a convenience store where I get water from a a dispenser. There will be some men sitting there in the morning. Hopefully, they will be discussing the Gospel! I also left one in the machine where the change comes out. Anywhere that people have to get change from purchasing anything is a good place for a tract if the tract fits without bending or wrinkling it. You always want the tract to be in excellent condition when it is picked up. The same is true when you are giving a tract to someone.
When I am in line at a convenience store and there are newspapers or other types of advertising material, I will slip a tract in a few of them while I am waiting. One time, I was putting tracts in free magazines that were in a stand outside of a nearby store. My Pastor caught me red handed! I was guilty of trying to get a Gospel tract into the hand of someone that might get saved!
I also like putting tracts on the counter when I am buying something. If possible, I'll give a tract to the person behind me.
The lottery ticket stands are always screaming "Tract me! Tract me!" How can a soul-winner resist that cry! The Biggest Gamble? tract is perfect for these stands!
Where do you leave tracts? Do you have a unique idea that you would like to share? Would you like to give out more tracts? You can do it! So many are without Jesus! So many are being driven by the sin that controls them! I saw a woman at a store today, buying beer and scratch-off lottery tickets. She put the beer in her bag before leaving the store. She was under a heavy load. I could see the burden of sin on her face. As I was leaving, she was on foot. I stopped to hand her a tract. She took it. I pray that she will give her burdens to the One who bore our burdens! What are you waiting for? Somebody is waiting for you!

Soul-Winning In North Louisiana Turns One!

It has been one year since Soul-Winning In North Louisiana began. We were wanting to start a website that would encourage other Christians in evangelism and inform about what we did in street ministry. I had heard about blogging, but had never been to a blog on the internet. Last April, Bro Davy Boggs and his family were in revival at our church. He told me about their blog, Mile Markers-Boggs Blogs. He gave me the instructions to start blogging with blogspot.com. The rest is a year of history! It has been an exciting one! I've been greatly encouraged by other blogs. Steve Sanchez introduced me to the Bezuegen Tract Club through his blog, Stone The Preacher. From there, I came in contact with Carl Kalbfleisch, who works with Bezeugen Ministries. He invited me to post on the As You Go blog where we encourage believers to distribute tracts as they go about every day life. Paul Latour, out of Ottawa, Canada, has a great evangelism blog called The Word Street Journal. His post has gave me encouragement and inspiration. I built a street cross after seeing a few of his YouTube videos. I also found His Feet On The Street, where Wayne Albrecht gives his influence on soul-winning. Tony Miano, from On The Box, got me interested in Professor Grant Horner's Bible Reading System when he talked about it on August the 22nd. I have just 13 more days to finish reading the Bible all the way through for the first time in the 19 years that I have been a Christian!
I have heard from several that have viewed the blog. One person from Russia has been in contact with me via email. I am thankful for every comment and everyone that has been to Soul-Winning in North Louisiana. I pray that we have encouraged many through these post on street preaching, witnessing, and Gospel tracting. I pray that we will continue to do so until our blessed Savior returns for His Bride! Happy Soul-winning!

Tract Ideas

Here is a couple ideas for Gospel tract distribution. I make it a point to keep tracts on me at all times when I'm out and about. This cell phone is perfect for holding the business card size tracts from the Bezuegen tract club and onemilliontracts.com. I keep mine on my belt beside my phone. The case holds about 40-45 tracts. I always keep a variety in mine. Sometimes I keep a few in my hand while I'm in a store.

I wanted to make a tract holder for the Are You A Good Person tract. I'm hoping that this one will get some attention. I took an old sign and covered it with a sheet with the front of this tract. I taped a piece of cardboard that I customized to hold the tracts. It was real easy to make. I placed this in the laundry mat beside the Are You Ready holder that I made several months ago.

I plan on making a few more like this.

I also have one at another laundry mat that I help out with in Monroe. I am praying for lives to be touched through Gospel tracts. I found this from MWTB.org:

Soul-winning Sole

A shoemaker received a tract from a customer one day, and did not care to read it so he used it as part of the lining of a shoe he was making. The shoe with the hidden message was purchased, and used for a long time until it was well-worn and in need of repair.

It was taken to another shoemaker, who removed the worn-out sole and discovered the hidden messenger. He was immediately struck by the title, and read the whole message. It was the Word of God delivered to him in a most unusual way, and it awakened him to a sense of his sin and need of salvation. He turned his eyes in faith to Christ, and found salvation for his soul.

So go on with your work, tract distributor—"in the morning sow thy Seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good" (Ecclesiastes 11:6).

—Inglis Fleming

Happy Easter! / He Wouldn't Stay Dead!

He is alive! He is risen indeed! Because he lives, we lives! What a Savior! I pray that you have a great day as we think His Resurrection!

This is a poem that I am reposting from Bro. Davy Bogg's blog, The Mile Markers-Boggs Blogs. The blog is listed under our Soul-Winning Friends. He preaches and sings across the country along with his wife,Sis. Kelly and daughter, Sis. Odie. This family is an inspiration to all that hear them. This poem was written a Baptist minister named Willard G. Thomas from Georgia. Be blessed by it!

He Wouldn't Stay Dead

by:Willard G. Thomas

They laid His body in Joseph's new tomb

And filled His disciples with sorrow and gloom

They did not remember what He had said

That He would die, but He wouldn't stay dead

Mary came at the break of day

And found the stone was rolled away

She saw an angel and in terror fled

And told His disciples that He didn't stay dead

In that cold dark tomb He would not stay

He conquered death and walked away

And now that old grave has lost it's fear and dread

He lives again! He wouldn't stay dead

Full atonement and pardon were made

And forever the sin debt was marked fully paid

The price was His blood as it flowed crimson red

And I'm thankful today that He didn't stay dead!

Let's go to our churches and cry aloud

Let's go to the marketplace and talk to the crowd

Let's go to the mission fields that lie up ahead

And tell the whole world that He didn't stay dead!

Because if Jesus Christ had only died

Then the gulf between us and God would still be wide

But thank God He did what He said

He got up out of the ground, He couldn't stay dead!

Last Stanza by Davy Boggs

He that winneth souls is wise . Proverbs 11:30

A Reflection On The Resurrection

Evangelism On Tuesday And Thursday

I held the cross twice more this week on the corner of Louisville Ave. and Lamy Lane in Monroe. On Tuesday, I was hoping to give out a few tracts while I was there. Two men walked toward me, but both went around me.
There wasn't anyone walking by on Thursday. On Thursday morning at Grandy's, I gave a Mancard to a Monroe police officer that I had met several weeks ago. I gave him another one to give to the policeman that was with him. The woman that took my order received a Hoppy Easter tract.
When I went to Walmart after work, I gave a tract to James and a woman that was behind me in line. It is so easy to give out tracts. People will take them most of the time when you are polite and smiling as you talk with them. Have you gave any tracts out today? Someone is waiting!

Gospel Tract Spotlight

You will be able to get The Biggest Gamble? FREE in the May mailing of the Bezeugen tract club. These are great to give to anyone that is a gambler or those that are gambling with their souls. I have placed a few on lottery displays. People are taking chances all the time. They need to put their trust in Jesus!

He that winneth souls is wise . Proverbs 11:30

Monday Evangelism

I finally got around to putting "Are You Ready" on the cross that we have been using for street ministry. I held it at a corner in West Monroe for about 20 minutes on my lunch. This is a very busy intersection. A lot of people waved. One man yelled "I'm ready!" Another said "That is a great question."
After work, I gave out three million dollar pesos to Jorge (at the UPS store), Harvey, and Alfredo (at Walmart). I gave a tract to a man that had paid a visit to my pastor on a sales call about a copy machine. We started talking after I gave him the tract. He said that he wasn't a Christian. As we talked, he told me about meeting my pastor. I believe that the Lord had me there at the right time! Time is short! We need to reach out to the lost as much as we can!

Friday Night Evangelism

While waiting for Bro. JJ and Bro. Day, I was in Walmart with my family. I gave
a million dollar peso to Raul and another man who was at the money center. Ronnie was glad to get a Mancard. He wanted another one to give to a friend. Roy got one,too. My friend,who works at Walmart,asked me about a baby swing battery that a customer was looking at. I gave a trillion dollar bill to her customer and the man that was with him.They were Muslims!
Bro. Day, Bro. JJ, and I started out in front Walmart tonight around 9:30. Bro. JJ preached while we held up a sign and the cross. Before we left, Bro. JJ talked with two women at a bus-stop.
We arrived at the bars about 10:30. One bar wasn't open. We heard them talking as soon as we got there. One woman yelled "Jesus changed me, but I still drink."( Our sign says "Jesus will change your life.) Then she said "We're devil worshippers!" We get the most heckling from this rock bar. Allen was the first one to come talk to us. Bro. JJ took him through the law and explained the gospel to him. He left after Bro. JJ gave him a Are You A Good Person Tract. Drew came over to talk to us next. He didn't have a church background.I talked to him about the law and how one can be saved. He said that he was 18. While we were talking with him, two young women came to talk with us. One seemed upset that that we were there. She said that she was Catholic. She calmed down as we talked with her. I recognized her friend from getting glasses from where I work. They both got a Are You A Good Person tract. Bro Day gave a tract to their friend. Grant came to talk to us before he went in to the Hookin' Bull. He was in the military.I thanked him for his service. He asked why we were there. He told me that we needed to be downtown where the drug dealers were. I told him that God had told us to be there for the night. He said that his grandfather was a great preacher, so he has been around church. He opposed a little at first, but he said that
he wasn't against us. He slipped the Mancard tract in his pocket when I gave it to him. The singer for one of the bands (Electric Sermon) that was playing at the Tsunami came over to talk with us.We talked to him for a while before it was time for his band to play. He asked if we believed that one can sell their soul. He talked about his experiences. He had Alex film us with a digital camera. He also told us that he had talked with the devil; that the devil was inside of him. When his band got up to play, they announced that there was '"Christian protesters" across the street. He proudly said that their first song was about the devil. Please pray for Craig and his band. The last person we talked to was Donnie, who works at the Tsunami. The first time we preached there, he snatched the Bible out of JJ's hands. He offered us water last night! He talked to us about the Torah and judging. Bro. JJ tried to explain Matthew 7 to him. He admitted that we weren't like the Westboro Baptist people from Kansas. We want them to see that we have a good spirit in witnessing and preaching. We want them to see our concern for their souls. Street preachers don't have to be harsh and hard. We need to kind and compassionate toward them that are without. As C. Sumner Wemp said, " We need to knock on the door of every sinner's heart; not shove it down!"

One more thing: As we were leaving the bar parking lot last night, I heard music playing. It was coming from my phone. My phone was locked! It was on the Solid Gospel radio station app. The song that was playing was "Palms of Victory"!