The Greatest Revolutionary

Get the MP3 of "The God Solution" show #51 - "The Greatest Revolutionary" below! Get all of our interviews here and  get all our previous shows here. We are on the air Sunday mornings at 8:30 am MST. "The God Solution" is an interactive show that will discuss answers to humanity's questions about God and God's answers for humanity's questions. I really hope you'll tune in and listen and share the program with friends as well. If you live in the area listen to the show on 91.9 or 93.9 FM. If you don't live in the area, feel free to check out the show online at http://kdur.org/ and archived here. Get this week's notes here. If you like the show please e-mail KDUR at kdur_pd@fortlewis.edu. Thanks a ton and tune in every Sunday at 8:30 am!

Messianic Prophecies that can't be Ignored

Get the MP3 of "The God Solution" show #50 - "Messianic Prophecies that can't be Ignored" below! Get all of our interviews here and  get all our previous shows here. We are on the air Sunday mornings at 8:30 am MST. "The God Solution" is an interactive show that will discuss answers to humanity's questions about God and God's answers for humanity's questions. I really hope you'll tune in and listen and share the program with friends as well. If you live in the area listen to the show on 91.9 or 93.9 FM. If you don't live in the area, feel free to check out the show online at http://kdur.org/ and archived here. Get this week's notes here. If you like the show please e-mail KDUR at kdur_pd@fortlewis.edu. Thanks a ton and tune in every Sunday at 8:30 am!

The One Thing That is Needed

We read of Jesus' friends Mary and Martha, in Lk.10:38-42. Martha was distracted by all that needed to be done. Things really did need to get done. She wasn't just being frivolous. She was upset Mary wasn't helping get things done. Mary was committed to what Jesus called the one thing that was needed. Are you more of a “Mary” or a “Martha”? What do you let distract you from the one thing that is needed? I let far too much get between me and intimate fellowship with Jesus. Remember, one day with Him is greater than a thousand elsewhere (Ps.84:10). 

The greatest ministry activity you can do is to connect with Jesus. 19th century missionary Henry Martyn said, “The Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Christ, the more missionary we become.” Remember Jesus’ example (Mk.1:35). I hope evangelism and all you do for Jesus will flow from a heart passionately committed to Jesus (Mt.12:34). Get more on this here. 

Tebow Time!

This is a great AP picture of Tebow sharing the gospel with his eye black. Eph. 2:8-10 says, "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." What a performance last week! Coming from behind to win that game and then turning around to point at Jesus. Awesome. We prayed for him, down by 15 with 7 minutes to go that God would give him the opportunity to share the gospel and glorify God. Did He ever!!! Tebow's answer to how he won the game: "First and foremost I've gotta thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ..." What an example of making the most of every opportunity (Col.4:5)! I hope I can better follow this awesome example of sharing the gospel regardless of the criticism I face. It is interesting how furious some people are with Tebow for sharing his faith (this article discusses that, remember Jn.15:18-19). Check out the game video below. Check out his testimony below that. Finally, get a list of other Christian athletes and ideas for sharing the gospel in conversations about sports here. Also, get more than 135 other evangelism ideas here.  I hope this encourages you and I hope each of us will follow his evangelism example. 

The Greatest Performance in World Series History!!!

What a game last night!!! Pujols put on quite the show, setting and/or tying 3 World Series records in a single game. Historic for sure. After the game, Tony La Russa said, "There it is, the greatest night in World Series history. And we saw it." True to form, Pujols pointed back to God and took none of the glory, saying, "I just thank God that I was able to come out today and help our ballclub to win and hopefully I can do that tomorrow again." Read more on this epic performance here and see the home runs here. I've written before on Albert's commitment to Christ and posted his testimony as well (get that here and another video here). I've written about learning an important spiritual truth after listening to a game that Albert did great in (get that here). I've written about how I use Albert to get into spiritual conversations (get that here and get ideas on sharing Christ from all sorts of conversations about sports, including a list of Christian athletes here). Bottom line, it was great seeing Albert put on what was likely the greatest single performance by any payer in any World Series game ever. I hope you get a chance to talk about this great game and to transition to Christ from that conversation. Way to go Pujols. Check out this picture of our family of Cardinal fans at Busch stadium this summer and check out Albert's testimony below that (and learn how to put your testimony together here)! 

A Good Moral Teacher?

Listen to the the MP3 of "The God Solution" show #30 - "A Good Moral Teacher?" below!  Get all our previous shows here. We are on the air Sunday mornings at 8:30 am MST. "The God Solution" is an interactive show that will discuss answers to humanity's questions about God and God's answers for humanity's questions. I really hope you'll tune in and listen and share the program with friends as well. If you live in the area listen to the show on 91.9 or 93.9 FM. If you don't live in the area, feel free to check out the show online at http://kdur.org/ and archived here.If you like the show please let the wonderful folks at KDUR know. You can contact them by clicking here. Thanks a ton and tune in every Sunday at 8:30 am!

Jesus gets a 7.5 (read more to find out what that means)

What a week it has been!!! We've had an initial conversation about Jesus with somewhere between 400 and 500 freshmen! It has been exhausting but exhilarating as well. The preliminary stats are in. After reviewing about 25% of the surveys, this years freshmen give Jesus a 7.6 out of 10. Not bad, considering very few of them would consider themselves Christians. That being said, people are interested in Jesus and this generation is no exception. Now it's up to us to share with them!

Jesus the Revolutionary!

You students led the talk at Connect on Tuesday with no notice! I am so proud of you. For all of you that don't know what I'm talking about, check out the video below. It was great hanging out with all of you last night! We'll miss you. Have a great break. Feel free to show this to friends and family back home and don't forget to be a revolutionary over break!

532 words Jesus Died to Tell You!

This is a summary of the gospel straight from Jesus' mouth. "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty; streams of living water will flow from within him. I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won't be stumbling through the darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life. All who put their trust in me will no longer remain in the darkness. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength; love your neighbor as yourself. Anyone who listens to my teaching and obeys me is wise. Anyone who hears my teaching and ignores it is foolish. If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. If any of you wants to be my follower, you must put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross, and follow me. How do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul in the process? Sin is unbelief in me. Everyone who sins is a slave of sin; they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life. The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news! If you try to keep your life for yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for me, you will find true life. Those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. All who love the truth recognize that what I say is true. I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me. No one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. Everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. My purpose is to give life in all its fullness. I stand at the door and knock. If you hear me calling and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal as friends. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete; so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. Be sure of this: I am with you always; I will never fail you. I will never forsake you."

I hope you've opened the door to Him. If not, you can do that today! The Bible says, if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved and it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast. If you have questions about Jesus, let's chat! You can e-mail me at neherbst@hotmail.com or check here for more info. You can get a printable version of this to share with friends by clicking here.

Finally, check out the video below for an awesome description of Jesus!

References: Jesus' words: Jn.3:16 (NLT), Jn.15:9 (NIV), Mt.11:28 (NLT), Jn.6:35 (NIV), Jn.7:38 (NIV), Jn.8:12 (NLT), Jn.12:46 (NLT), Mk.12:30 (NIV), Mk.12:31 (NIV), Mt.7:24 (NLT), Mt.7:26 (NLT), Jn.8:31-32 (NIV), Mt.16:24 (NLT), Mk.8:36 (NLT), Jn.16:9 (NLT), Jn.8:34 (NLT), Mt.25:46 (NIV), Mk.1:15 (NIV), Mt.16:25 (NLT), Jn.5:24 (NLT), Jn.15:13 (NIV), Jn.18:37 (NLT), Jn.14:6 (NLT), Jn.3:3 (NIV), Jn.6:40 (NIV), Jn.10:10 (NLT), Rev.3:20 (NLT), Jn.15:11 (NIV), Jn.16:33 (NIV), Mt.28:20 (NLT), Heb.13:5 (NLT). After that, Rom.10:9 (NIV) and Eph.2:8-9 (NIV).