Thank you for your prayers for our meetings. God gave us a great start to the week and we are thrilled to have the Webbs with us. Brother Barry and Cheryl did puppets in Sunday School. You'd have to see it to believe it. God has given them some special gifts. Tonight Brother Barry did a chalk drawing. (see below)

The attendance was good in all of our service. Please pray for visitors to come and enjoy what God is doing this week. The preaching was just what we needed. This morning Evangelist Webb preached on the leper that came to Christ for cleansing. Tonight he preached on backsliding from an OT text of backslidden Israel. A young boy came to Christ tonight. Please pray for him to grow in the Lord.

Every night this week we have services at 6:00PM. Tuesday morning we are also hosting a fellowship meeting. Please continue to pray for the power of God in all of these services. Thank you for your prayers.

Don Dillman and I were able to get out this morning. It was a very ordinary day of climbing stairs to put flyers through mailslots. The Webbs will be with us next week and then at Pastor Dillman's ministry the following week. They are currently in Manchester, England. Next Tuesday we are also hosting a fellowship meeting in the morning and have invited missionaries from all over Scotland. Your prayers for all of the Webb's ministry opportunities are much appreciated.

We printed some notices about our Gospel meetings today and I took those to local businesses. Some businesses have public notice boards and they were happy to put them up for us. If they did not, I asked if they would put them in their staff room and they were happy to do so. I also stopped by the military base by my house and gave them some notices. I would love to be able to get on the base to preach/teach a Bible study. I mentioned it to the soldiers and the chaplain is supposed to contact me. God gave me some divine appointments when I was out. Please pray for people to come to the meetings.

God gave us a refreshing morning in His Word. We enjoyed having Blake (student) here this morning. He's here in pursuit of a one year grad degree. Please pray for him as he settles into Scotland. His mom was also with him and it was a joy to meet them both.

We enjoyed focusing on one verse this morning as we, "Learned to Sword Fight" from 2 Timothy 2:15. Please pray that our church would know how to wield the sword of the Word of God.

This is our busy Sunday. We are home for a quick lunch with several of our church family. We are then heading to a 2:00 service at an assisted living facility.

We are one week and counting to our evangelistic meetings with Evangelist Barry Webb. Your prayers are much appreciated as we prepare for what God wants to do in our church. Thank you for praying. 

I had an interesting morning as I went into Edinburgh. I had three opportunities as I caught the bus into Edinburgh. These were all people I have witnessed to before. The first was at the bus stop. The second as I got on the bus and a man who works near our church was sitting in front. I spoke with him on my way to find a place to sit. God's been working in this young man's life and I hope to see him visit our church. 

The third was very interesting. I took my seat just at the top of the stairs and saw a young man boarding. I witnessed to him last week in Edinburgh and we share the same first name. We were 6 miles from where we had talked. I greeted him by name as he got to the top of the stairs.

Another interesting thing about today was the filming of a major film in Edinburgh. I walked by where the filming was taking place and saw all the equipment. I was able to witness to a young man from Glasgow who was part of their work crew. 

The best witnessing opportunity was with Paddy. Please pray that he will visit the church. God has prepared his heart and he gladly took a John and  Romans. He said was we parted, "I can't say when, but I'm going to visit your church." I hope he does. We spoke for about 20 minutes and God's leading was evident. His dad works about 6 blocks from our church location and he knows the property where we meet. Thanks for praying!

Yikes - my wife isn't getting old, but I must be.... Wow - deep breath as our kids are growing up very quickly. We're very thankful to God for His grace to our family.  Kay Lee was born in Port Huron, MI 5 days after Katie and I moved there from NYC. We are having fun reminiscing today.

I put out flyers this morning for a little while. God gave me three brief conversations. The first was with an older man who was hard of hearing. Sadly, he is a scoffer. I wish you could have seen his reaction to my telling him that despite his unbelief Jesus died for him. It was an incredulous haughty laugh. I didn't say it rudely and I'm not sure that he heard me as I said after he laughed, "You will know soon that He did." It's amazing that someone could be so close to eternity and mock the only One who would willingly save them from an eternity in Hell.

The second couple were older Church of Scotland members. They are trusting in their goodness. I preached on Sunday night, "An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor" from Proverbs 11. The religious hypocrite (false teacher) is the best example of this truth as Jesus outlined in Matthew 23. "Ye hypocrites....Making them twofold more the child of hell than yourself" "not entering yourself and keeping them from entering." (My paraphrase.) Please pray for God to awaken this couple's heart to the truth I tried to share with them.

The third man loves John 3:16 but hasn't taken that truth to his heart. He also attends a church of Scotland (parish church) near his home. I encouraged him to read John 3 and see what it says about being born again. 

Thank you for your prayers for our evangelism.

Aren't you thankful that God has scheduled times for the body for Christ to get together? It was a blessing this morning to  be in the house of God. God gave us good attendance and a good spirit in our services. We are enjoying studying walking in the Spirit in our adult/teen SS as we make our way through Romans 8. I preached this morning on Paul's admonition to the Thessalonians to "Stand Fast" in 2 Thessalonians 2:10-17. I'm thankful for a church with an appetite for the Word of God. Please continue to pray for God's enablement in our services.

Our visitor was faithfully back. Next week we anticipate another visitor as a young man arrives to do a year of grad school in Edinburgh. Please pray for Blake and his mom as they travel this way this next week. He's planning on being in church next Sunday.

Please pray for our evangelistic meetings coming on the 15-20 of September. The Webbs are currently in England. Please pray for God's grace and strength for them in each church they visit. We are praying for God to do a special work in our church through their ministry.

Yesterday Don Dillman and I were out about 2 miles from our church in Edinburgh. God helped us walk a lot of miles as we put out 4-500 flyers. We had one really good witnessing opportunity with a young muslim man. He understood what I meant when I shared that justice means crimes must be paid. He asked some good questions. I encouraged him to visit our church. He said he had a Christian friend from Poland who could perhaps come with him. One of these days, God is going to break through in our evangelism. Thank you for praying for us as we plow in hope.

I bumped into Andy (homeless man) again today in Edinburgh.  About a month ago Andy prayed to ask Jesus to save him. I've prayed for him since then and hope to see God sort out the many difficulties in his life. I tried to again encourage him to follow God. Andy can't read.... Praise God for those who have the ability to read God's Word for themselves. He says that he is attending church on Sundays.

Silas was probably the best divine appointment this morning. He had just arrived from Germany for a short stay in Edinburgh. He was very interested in our conversation though an agnostic. I gave him a John and Romans and wrote my email address on it. I hope to hear from Silas and get him the contact information for any good churches near him in Germany. (He didn't know that he had a Bible name.)

I also spoke with three teen boys for 10-15 minutes. I'm sure they will look at life a bit differently after our conversation. Please pray that the truth of God's Word will penetrate their hearts. They are in their last year of high school and are at a turning point in their life.

Thank you for praying for our outreach.

Last Sunday our visitor did not come. On Thursday the footballer didn't come. (Praise God, this young man did shoot me a text letting me know that he was unable to be there.) We had a woman contact us this week letting us know that she had recently been saved. She came and visited this morning. Praise the Lord! Thanks for praying for our attendance.

I enjoyed preaching a topical message this morning entitled, "Don't Stop Your Run!" I love the picture of the runner in the race found throughout the Bible. God blessed the service. Thank you for praying.