Fish With Trish

New and Improved Gospel Tract Bike

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:03:54 PST

I wonder how many gospel tracts I could fit in that basket.

Warning: Don't try this at home... :-)

hat tip: thereifixedit.com

A NEW Two Minute Tip that you can use THIS WEEKEND

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:59:37 PDT

Coming Soon...Homemade Tract Handbag Give Away!

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:02:27 PDT

Dog not included. :-)

Special Thanks to Cristal H. for sending this to me for my next give-away! I can hardly wait to open up the drawing. I brought the handbag to church yesterday to show it off and all the ladies loved it.

New Poster for the "Good Without God" Campaign

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:33:16 PDT

Hat Tip: Mike from wretchedsinner.blogspot.com for the design :-)

'Good Without God' Ad Campaign

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:28:18 PDT

An ad campaign has begun in New York City's subway system to promote a coalition of groups that advocate secularism and atheism - it will run for a month. My question to these folks... "What is good?"

What the "Doggit" is for...

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:03:23 PDT

If you guessed, "Gospel Tract".... you're right!

Here's the front of the tract.

I'll be sharing the text for the back of the tract soon.

A not so nice email...

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:28:07 PDT

Someone must have received one of my tracts recently. I had this two sentence email in my inbox on Wednesday night.

"Evangelicals are going to hell for being dishonest, opportunistic, greedy, fear mongers. You can take your I.Q. Test and stick it up your #%$. - Deren R."

Please pray for this person.

The name of the animal revealed....

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:03:36 PDT

I've decided on the name...drum roll, please...the name is... "Doggit"!

I'll tell you what it's for in shortly...

Cast YOUR vote. Can you name this animal?

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:04:23 PDT

Hat tip to Julio for designing this for me.

Once I decide on a name, I'll share with you what it's for.

So what would you call this animal?

Interesting comments

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:05:31 PDT

"I am a devoted Druid, a Celtic religion that predates christianity and is the support to many of Christianity's traditional practices (such as the christmas tree and easter eggs)- it is amazing as to how much paganism is incorporated in the Christian religion." --Tyler

How can anything predate Christianity (e.g. Druid religion)? This is a historical and a theological fallacy. Christianity is the fulfillment (fullest expression, expansion, and revelation) of the religion of Adam (the head of the human race) who had communion with the triune God of Scripture. Was there a religion before Adam and Eve?

"Instead of becoming irate and saying mean things I would simply encourage that comments that refer to condeming others to hell out-right in a zealot manner you take a more comforting approach and promote beauty and peace and allow others to come to you with questions about hell and the afterlife, and when you explain your beliefs to others explain approach it as what you believe to be true not as a law or mandatory path that they must conform to."

The problem with your approach Tyler is that in watering down the message of "hell" you are actually being hateful. As one atheist said, 'if hell is real I would crawl on broken glass to warn people to repent'. That is like having prior knowledge of 9-11 and trying to impress people with the park down the street in hopes that they would rather take a walk in the park (enjoying the beauty and smelling the flowers) rather than hear the truth about the doom that is to come. Of course if you do not believe in the Bible and what it speaks about, it makes perfect sense that you would try to advise me in some unbiblical way. I will stick to inspired Scripture. Please, Tyler, repent and turn from your sins today and cling to Christ...while there is still time to escape the wrath of God.

“Do Dogs go to Heaven?”

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:08:02 PDT

This is too funny.

These two churches face each other across a busy street.

Note: These signs are fictional

Why Do Atheists Have Funerals? – Emilio Ramos

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:56:41 PDT

If we are simply the product, of chance and matter, why cry at a funeral weeping as if we are any different from the ants we kill with our feet, the beautiful intricate insects we crush on our windshields when we drive, or rats we kill with our mouse traps from Wal-Mart? If man has no essential transcendent worth, than why do we weep and hurt as if we do? The Christian has an answer for that. Does the atheist?

Why don’t we weep every time we kill that which, in the atheist’s mind, is equal to human beings? For example: cows every time we have a burger, plants every time we have a salad, air every time we breath - as we kill millions of microbes every day?

If we show up at the atheist’s funeral having lost a loved one why should we not ask out loud, “Why are you weeping?? I thought man is no different from the grasshopper I killed on my windshield on the why over here?”

Funerals have a universal transcendent quality about them, they tend to speak loud and clear about the essential worth of human beings. To illustrate this consider the following tale, Joe the atheist has a funeral to attend - it is his mother’s. You see, Joe has been raised in a Christian home his whole life, having gone to college and heard some things about coming from primordial soup that developed over millions and millions of years resulting in the primates that are now called humans.

Joe came to his mother one day with the unsettling news that contrary to his parent’s constant tutelage, Joe has come to the conclusion that there is no God. Joe has learned many valuable lessons from his mother and her presupposed worldview that there is a God without which she would have been incapable of teaching Joe anything meaningful about the basic make up of life and experience. Joe’s mother suffers a terrible wreck and dies. Joe has to go to the funeral and face some very fundamental questions. Is my mother truly valuable? If not, than why am I crying? If so, where does she derive the type of worth that has me sobbing all over my suit? Did evolution give her such worth? Did the fact that she was a good mother? If that is indeed the fact, then I must admit that her biblical worldview shaped her into the type of mother that I now value.

What’s the answer to all these questions? I know the scientific answers: she is a primate, nothing more than a primate like an ape, or a lizard, or a toad. But if I was raised by a pack of wolves, and my mother wolf died, would I go on for hours and days of remorse such as I find myself in now? I know that I am not willing to agree to what my mother believed, that all human’s are created in the image of God and have great and intrinsic worth. I know that I will not except that there are such things as absolute laws of morality, logic, and meaning but then why can’t I explain the death of my mother other than meaningfully if there is no ultimate meaning or dignity or purpose to life?

Joe has a very basic choice to make. He must either operate within the principles of the biblical worldview in order to assign the type of meaning to the death of his mother that he knows and even at this point feels to be true, or he must suppress those notions in search of other explanations.

One thing is for sure: his evolutionary, materialist, chance universe is not providing the type of solace that funerals demand. In fact, when sharing your faith with an atheist, the Christian should go on to argue that Joe’s worldview has not and cannot provide him with the ‘preconditions for intelligibility’. In other words, Joe’s worldview cannot be lived out consistently because it does not make sense out of life, death, and experience.

Sadly, even though the unbeliever is incapable of providing rational argumentation to substantiate their own worldview, they do tend to think they know for sure that Christianity is not true. Interesting.

Emilio Ramos is a preaching pastor of Sovereign Joy Community Church. He and his wife Trisha live in Dallas/Fort Worth.

Hmmmm....Brian McLaren to Practice Fasting During Ramadan to Better Understand Muslims

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:01:13 PDT

What ever happened to just preaching the Gospel to Muslims??

Read the full article HERE.

World Champion Wrestler Converts to Christianity

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:05:45 PDT

This past weekend at the "Deeper Conference" Emilio and I were in the speakers greenroom enjoining a meal as Ray Comfort walks in with this rather large gentleman. "Robbie, I'd like you to meet the Living Waters staff." Ray said. Then he quickly stuck out his chest and held up his arms and pretended to flex his muscles and added, "Staff, meet my twin brother Robbie!"

I spent some time with Robbie around the dinner table as he shared his testimony. Little did I know that he was going to be featured on CBN this week - how cool, huh. Robbie's a great brother...and did I mention that he has solid doctrine, too - this is always breath of fresh air.

Enjoy this short clip of our brother...

Enter to WIN a TRACT handbag

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:06:32 PDT

What's inside the Mondani bag...

Several gospel tracts: Tombstone tracts (great to pass out

on Oct 31st) Curved Illusions, Celebrity Millions and more!

2 Ways to enter your name in the drawing:

1. For two entries, post the YouTube Video of this drawing (or a link to it) on your website, blog, or social networking site.

2. For one entry, simply enter your name below (in the comment section) and a way for me to contact you if you win.

Contest ends Monday, Oct. 12 2009 and the winner will be announced on Tuesday, Oct. 13 2009.

Blessings to you all and I can't wait to see who wins!

Todd Friel has grown since the last time I saw him...

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:28:45 PDT

Having a great time at Deeper 2009.

He's at least a few feet taller. :-)

Something to think about

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:58:40 PDT

Can you read what this says...

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:47:07 PDT

I think this would be a neat tract...

Can you tell what it says?

It took me almost a minute to finally see it - I must be slow. :-)

Hat tip: Kirk McConnell

I FINALLY found a handbag to fit all my gospel tracts...

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:37:54 PDT

Back on Wretched Radio and the words you DON'T want to hear...

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:32:25 PDT

This past Wednesday, if you tuned in, you may have heard my phone fishing segments on Wretched Radio. It was sort of like a big reunion. Ray Comfort was there, Tony was on air and of course Freakishly Tall Todd was there as usual -what a blessing to be on the program! It was a blast.

Tye was on hour 1

Tye listened to Todd and Ray intently... he ran off quickly before I was able to follow up with him but Todd and Ray said he sounded pretty impacted by hearing the good news of the gospel.

Rosalinda was happy to be on Hour 2 of Wretched...

But when Ray Comfort began talking about the 10 commandments...her face changed.

She was quite upset when she got of the phone. She felt that Ray and Todd were "judging" her. So Emilio and I followed up with her. We explained the gospel to her and that Ray and Todd don't judge anyone but they encourage you to look into God's mirror to judge yourself and see how you measure up before a Holy God. After a while she seemed to understand.

Her last words before we walked away where the words that I didn't want to hear...she said, "You know what...I'm not ready to walk with God and live for Him...I'm living for myself right now!" My heart just broke when I heard those words roll off her tounge. So Emilio and I pleaded with her that she may not have tomorrow and urged her to "repent today and consider all we said".

I gave her a big hug right before we left.

One of the most memorable parts of my wedding

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:34:55 PDT

Emeal (“E.Z.”) Zwayne (Vice President / General Manager of Living Waters) officiated my wedding almost 6 years ago. Emilio and I were beyond honored to have him marry us. I can remember it like it was yesterday. What I'm about to share with you was one of the most memorable moments of the whole night.

Right before the vows, Emilio and I stood off to the side of the stage while E.Z. moved forward and began to preach a mini sermon to all the attendees - there were about 400 guests.

I thought you'd be encouraged by this small snippet that he shared with our family and friends. Here's what they heard:

"The powerful Roman emperor Charlemagne made an unusual request with regard to his burial. He asked to be buried... sitting upright on his throne... with his crown on his head... his scepter in his hand... his royal cape draped around his shoulders and with an open book placed on his lap.

That was in 814 A.D. Nearly 200 years later, Emperor Othello wanted to see if Charlemagne’s burial request had indeed been carried out. He ordered that the tomb be opened. They found the body just as Charlemagne had requested. Only now, nearly two centuries later, the scene was gruesome.

The crown was tilted on the skeletal head. The scepter was tarnished. The mantle was moth-eaten. The body disfigured. But, there, open on his lap was the book Charlemagne had requested - the Bible!!!... and one, bony finger pointed to Matthew 16:26: “What does it profit... to gain the whole world and lose your own soul?” "

Then E.Z. proceeded to share the full gospel message with everyone. It was wonderful, truly wonderful.

If you're getting married anytime soon, what a perfect opportunity you have to incorporate a solid gospel message into your ceremony so that all the hearers can listen to the words of eternal life and possibly get saved. How special would that be!

A Visit to Kenneth Copeland's Compound

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:10:20 PDT

Justin Peters emailed me recently after attending Faith Preacher Kenneth Copeland's ministry. Justin sent me the following. I thought you might find it interesting:

"Here are a few pics of the other night at the Southwest Believers Convention. It was titled "The Eden Blessing." There was a woman there - 50 years old - has probably the worst case of Cerebral Palsy I've ever seen (her mother told me she had CP)...I do not know how much mental capacity she has but you just hope for her sake that it is not much. All she can do is moan and cry. Copeland said (to the crowd at the convention), "If you don't have the blessing, whose fault do you think it is? You're the one that screwed it up." Unbelievable.

I have also attached a few pics of my visit out to his compound. No minister is complete without a biplane and 1953 fighter plane trainer, huh?"

Justin Peters at Copeland's Ministry

Coming Soon! "Ray Comfort, Live!"

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:18:52 PDT

Beginning Monday, September 14, "Ambassadors Alliance Radio" that was hosted by Tony Miano and Bart McCurdy will become "Ray Comfort, Live!" and Ray Comfort will host the show! Tony Miano will produce the program and join Ray in studio. The show will air Monday through Friday, 2-3 PM (PST).

Here's a word from Tony Miano about "Ray Comfort, Live!":

"Join Ray as he shares his 30+ years of biblical evangelism and open-air preaching experience. The show will include daily, live witnessing encounters (that's where Trish comes in - we've given her the opportunity to hit the streets to phone fish once each week), you'll hear from interesting guests, plus news about the persecuted church, and the passion, wisdom, and humor of Ray Comfort."

Visit "Ray Comfort, Live!" for more details!

Snoop Dogg Takes One of Ray Comfort's Gospel Tracts

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:25:38 PDT

Snoop Dogg was in concert the other day and listen to what was emailed to me a couple day's after his concert:

"I waited around until the concert was over. An entourage personal went up to me and asked me what I was waiting for, I told him I wanted to talk to Snopp. So he said, "let's see what I can do". A few min. later he brought me into the Green Room. I gave him a million dollar bill with Michael Jackson's face on it, and he signed it. I gave him another one and told him it was for him, he signed it and gave it back. I gave him another one and told him to keep it, he signed it and put it in his pocket..." -John

Snopp Dogg takes a gospel tract!

Look what happens when you go with the flow...

email@fishwithtrish.com (Fish with Trish) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:44:10 PDT