This event is a training event for men who want to learn to preach the Gospel in the open air. Tommy Waltz of Gospel of God Ministries is the lead trainer for the three day outreach. If you have never open air preached before or want to learn specific methods of open air preaching then this event is forContinue reading “Coca-Cola 600 – Training”
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Open Air Preaching: Look for people
What is your ministry goal? To find people whom you can look in the eye and preach and minister to them directly. You are looking to engage people face to face. That’s why events are a destination in our day because that’s where lots of people are who you can preach and minister to faceContinue reading “Open Air Preaching: Look for people”
Open Air Preaching: Don’t wear sunglasses
Being an Ambassador for Christ and minister of reconciliation is perhaps the highest level personal interaction possible in life. This means you are encountering souls with the most intimate and penetrating message of their life. Therefore you are asking souls to trust you and listen to what you are saying. Thus you want your hearersContinue reading “Open Air Preaching: Don’t wear sunglasses”
Open Air Preaching: Truth through Personality
When you study classic books on preaching there is a phrase you find called: Truth through personality. What this means is that we all have the same Truth and that Truth is preached through our individual personality. This is why you see different styles and emphases of preaching. In other words preachers are not drones.Continue reading “Open Air Preaching: Truth through Personality”
Get in the Game: The Religion of Sport
What does the world think of it’s sporting events? The first 1:25 of this video gives a glimpse into their perspective.
Open Air Preaching: 2 preparation steps
Acts 6:4 during the establishment of deacons for the new church to administer aid to the Saints the disciples say their job will be, “But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the [ministry of the word.” As simple as this sounds this verse is telling us the 2 preparatory action items to takeContinue reading “Open Air Preaching: 2 preparation steps”
Get in the Game: George Whitefield Program Training
The Rev. George Whitefield (1714-1770) was preeminently a preacher. A believer in the Word of God and one who proclaimed in sermon form messages in and out of the pulpit. He crossed the Atlantic on a ship 13 times to preach the Word in the UK and the Colonies. At his death Rev. Whitefield wasContinue reading “Get in the Game: George Whitefield Program Training”
Kentucky Derby May 3 – 6
The annual Kentucky Derby weekend is scheduled for May 3 – 6. SFOI has been at the last eleven Derby’s and Lord willing plans to be in Louisville, KY in 2018. Here’s a link to Churchill Downs which holds 160,000 fans. Churchill Downs. Pictures from previous years: Derby ’15 & Derby ’16.SFOI is looking for men who believe they are called toContinue reading “Kentucky Derby May 3 – 6”
Geo. Whitefield: Directions How to Hear Sermons – Sermon 28
Directions How to Hear Sermons Luke 8:18 “Take heed, therefore, how ye hear.” Rev. Whitefield begins his sermon by explaining that the Lord knew His hearers were not receiving His teachings and becoming doers of the Word and so He explains primarily to His apostles that to grow in the wisdom of God they mustContinue reading “Geo. Whitefield: Directions How to Hear Sermons – Sermon 28”
George Whitefield Bio: A House of Mercy in the Woods of Georgia – Chapter 27
The chapter is about Rev. Whitefield’s arrival in Savannah in 1740 and the beginnings of his orphanage home there called Bethesda. He desired that the orphans would have a home; that they would be taught well; they would learn to work by engaging in the labors of the plantation and that perhaps this would leadContinue reading “George Whitefield Bio: A House of Mercy in the Woods of Georgia – Chapter 27”
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