I enjoyed getting out this morning in a village near Loanhead and putting out around 300 flyers. As I walked I listened to two messages by Pastor Anthony Slutz.  Praise the Lord for SermonAudio.com! :)

I had a great witnessing opportunity last night.  Please pray for Michelle.  The Lord's hand was very evident in our discussion. I talked to her for at least 20 minutes.

God gave us a special blessing today.  My driver's side mirror was hit by a car on Friday in Dundee.  The mirror was knocked out of the casing and I wasn't able to put it back in correctly.  A garage in Loanhead put it back in for me for no charge. (Isn't God good?)

Thanks for your prayers for us.  We are especially praying for this Sunday PM as Layton Kelly and his family will be with us.  This will be our first missions service.  We are also hoping that many lost will be present.  Please pray.  Thanks.

It was good to have the Hikins and Alec back with us.  We enjoyed a good Sunday School and morning service.  The spirit was excellent.

I preached this morning on "A Story of Regret" from Genesis 4, the story of Cain and Abel.

This has been a bit of an unusual week for us.  After church Thursday night we headed to Dundee to assist Katie's brother and his wife as they moved flats.  The Lord blessed with good weather and gave us a fun time helping them. Please pray for them as they assist the Edgar family in starting a church in Dundee.

This morning Kirk and I visited a book shop just down the road from their new home.  There was a pile of theological books on the floor that was recently acquired by the shop owner.  Another man came in and was digging through the stack and so I asked if he was a Christian.  He was not but enjoys collecting books.  He asked about me and I told him that I was a Baptist minister which led into how we ended up in Scotland. I told about the influx of liberalism in the late 1800's and the current moral decline to illustrate the need for missionaries to come to the UK.  I also told him that we preach the Bible and shared Roman's 1 position on "marriage." He got upset and soon left.  Afterwards I was able to witness to the owner Alan. He was thinking and asked one good question regarding Catholicism and something that he viewed as wrong. Please pray for future opportunities for us to follow up with him.

I had an interesting follow up appointment tonight with a young teenager.  He was with a large group of friends.  I greeted them and he said, "Hey aren't you that guy from Loanhead." It wasn't a great witnessing opportunity but it was good that he remembered talking to me over a year ago.  Please pray for God's power to shake these kids hearts with his truth.  Thanks for praying.

It is a beautiful day! I think we may have reached 70 degrees today.  It's a heat wave! (You may think I'm joking, but I'm not.)  We've had very few days in the 60's.  So, 70 is awesome.

The Lord gave some encouraging opportunities today.  I had a witnessing opportunity while walking this morning. Graeme (70') believes in God but does not attend church.  I shared some Gospel verses with him and he kindly took a tract.

We had lunch with the Vogelpohls in Dunfermline after which Dane and I put out flyers in their area.  God gave us one very unusual divine appointment.  Please pray for Rees and Scott. We witnessed to them for close to half an hour. Dane was talking with Rees while I was talking to Scott (19). Rees showed prior knowledge of the Gospel.  He gave Dane his contact information and said that he would definitely attend the Bible study. Please pray that he would.  The Vogelpohls are just getting started.  This appears to be the best contact thus far.

I was praying about what to do this morning and thinking about going into Edinburgh.  As I was praying about it, I opened my Bible and read Jonah 1:2   "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me."  That seemed pretty clear to me and so I spent the day giving out flyers in the great city of Edinburgh.

The Lord gave me several neat divine appointments.  The first was before I left.  I had witnessed to Jamie (girl) once before.  She remembered our chat and said that she had read the tract.  I talked to her again about the Lord.  Please pray that God will encourage her heart to faith in Him.  

Then, while I was waiting for my bus, I started a conversation with a man who had come to the bus stop.  As it turned out, he is a Baptist pastor in the city near where we live.  I had never met him before.  We sat together on the bus and enjoyed getting to know one another.

When I got off the bus, I Immediately witnessed to an Atheist for about 10 minutes, a catholic girl, Sarah, from Romania for about 10 minutes, a Catholic/atheist German young man (Marcus) and his girl friend for about 15 minutes.

The next young man, Marco, was from Portugal. He said that he only believes in what he can see but he talked with me for about 15 minutes.

The next conversation was with two atheists.  The interesting part of this conversation is that another man nearby was listening and I spoke with him next.  His name was also Marcus. We chatted for another 10 minutes.

Soon after that an American couple declined the flyer saying that they were leaving today.  I took about 10 steps and turned around because of their accent and asked where they were from.  They were a sweet Christian couple from Orlando.  It was refreshing to talk to believers.

I won't share all the opportunities because they are similar.  Most of those I spoke to today were atheists.  There were however two more interesting opportunities today.

Several months ago Ben and I chatted for an hour at the museum in Edinburgh. The Lord put us together again today as I was handing out flyers.  He looked at me and said, "We've met before" and it all came back. Please pray that God will work in his heart.  

I also gave a flyer to a tall athletic looking man in a professional looking team USA jacket. As I handed it to him I asked if he was on team USA and he said yes.  Unfortunately he kept going.  So, I have no clue who he was.  Thanks for praying for these opportunities.  Edinburgh is packed with people right now as it is the festival season.  (There are 7 international festivals taking place in the city this month.)

The Lord gave us a good day.  However, our attendance was low.  Thankfully one other person was there with us.  So, this morning instead of our normal morning service, we had a prayer service.  Tonight we did a topical study of God's guidance.  Thanks for your prayers.  God's good.

We are enjoying a nice warm day.  I was able to do door to door this morning and had 4 good chats.  I was going through a very nice area and was pleased to find the people friendly. I know the Lord was working even though the doors weren't very open.

This afternoon we joined a sister church for a barbecue.  This church is close to an hour from us and their pastor is getting ready to return to the States.  The Searcy's don't want to leave the field but have made the tough choice to return to care for his mother.  Please pray for God's provision for the church in Tweedbank. Please also pray for the Searcy's as they travel back the beginning of next month.

The Hikins left on holiday on Friday.  Please pray that God will bless this time for their family.  Their last attempt at a holiday was pretty disastrous.  (They can laugh about it - but it was pretty bad.) I know they'd appreciate your prayers.

Here are updated and new prayer requests.

1.) Although we liked the home which we viewed very much, we felt like the Lord wanted us to wait.  So, we are still praying and waiting on God's provision for housing. We are content to stay where we are as long as the Lord desires.

2.)  Parker has a Dr.'s appointment on the 6th.  (Parker is 5 and Nelson is 2.  But, Nelson weighs more than Parker.) Parker has had some stomache issues that we are concerned about.  Please pray for God's direction.

3.)  Logan had major surgery 6 years ago when he was 6 months old.  He had craniosynostosis *(a premature fusion of the soft spot in the back of his head).  They basically took out a large section of his skull and reshaped his head with multiple soft spots.  Those spots should have filled in with bone.  However, there are two large open areas on either side of his head and many small areas yet unfilled. He had a CT Scan last January that confirmed these openings.  We are consulting with a plastic surgeon on the 17th. The bone should continue to fill in until he turns 7.  (That would give him one more year from the time of the scan last January.)  Please pray that God would develop Logan's skull and that we will have wisdom about the Lord's will if medical intervention appears necessary.

Thank you for taking these needs to the Lord.

It was a lovely day to get down into the city.  We've had very few warm days like this.  Believe it or not, our temperature currently is 63 degrees. Until now most of our days have been in the 50's.  We've had more sunshine in the past week than we've had in the previous month and a half. We are loving the change in weather. (May it continue....amen and amen.)

The Lord directed me today.  I was going to get off the bus in a different place than where I did. However, I felt like He wanted me to get out at another stop.  30 seconds after getting off, I was witnessing to Matt.  He is an atheist.  (Most of my time today was spent with atheists.) We talked for about 20 minutes and then he had to head to work.

Ewan is working on a law degree. He said that he had started to read the Bible but stopped. He had started at the beginning. I encouraged him to start again in the Gospels.  I was able to share the Gospel with him.

Emma was the most interesting opportunity. She is an atheist who is working on a master's degree in "Biblical (something...I can't remember exactly what.)" She had just finished a paper on Revelation.  Unfortunately after 15 minutes she had to get back to work. Please pray that she will visit our church and that God would bring her to faith in Him. She had a sincere question that I hope was partially answered before her departure.

Although it was a beautiful day and I enjoy getting out, it can be disheartening to see the spiritual darkness.  Please pray for God's power to awaken men's hearts.  

The Lord gave us a good Sunday.  We had good attendance in all of our services. (17 this morning and this evening.  18 in total.)  This morning I preached on "Being a Good Evangelist" from Philip's trip to the desert. Our topical study tonight was on, "Growing in Grace."  We also observed the Lord's Supper in the evening service.  Praise the Lord for a good day.

Please keep praying for Michael.  The Lord allowed me to bump into him yesterday.  He's doing well but has been very busy.