Not Another Drop! Keeping Kids Away From Gun Violence Is One Of Teen Scene’s And Walk The Cross’s Main Goals.
Just like adults, young people “pack,” or carry, guns or other weapons for four primary reasons: PROTECTION, REVENGE, NOTORIETY, or CRIMINALITY. It can be very scary when a bully threatens to harm you. Getting even may seem to be the only way to save face. Carrying a gun to make others respect you might seem sensible to a youth who isn’t popular. Using a gun to commit a crime and obtain what you do not have might seem to be the only solution. But, are these really good reasons to carry a gun or other weapon? Is this what your parents really want you to do?
What about your future? Should jail or prison be part of your legacy? If you carry a gun it will be way to easy to shoot someone who gets you angry or upset. In the heat of the moment, it’s just way to easy to not think out or consider the consequences of using a gun if you are already “packing.”
Here are ten life-building, life-keeping alternative things to carry instead of a gun or other weapon. Read the rest of this entry »
Coming soon: daily “Good News” sermonettes on Jesus Christ.
Check out the Dodge Dakota Sport truck recently donated to Cross Walk Bakersfield and Cross Walk California ministries. Because of this donation, Street Evangelist Tom Alexander will be able to take the large 10-foot, 60-pound cross to many California cities in 2009.
Praise the Lord for a new go-ye-mobile and the opportunity to present the cross of Jesus Christ as God’s Plus Sign to men, women and children living in California cities and towns.
Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed out of the hand of the enemy.
(Psalm 107:2).
I am a born-again Christian, a third day believer. This wasn’t always the case for me. Like the majority of religious and nonreligious people, I had no clue whatsoever that I was completely selfish and self-absorbed, The purpose of my life was to be the purpose of everyone else’s life. I was totally caught up in the “me, myself and I” syndrome.
Then came prison.
At age 22 and as I sat in a crowded jail cell, I felt no remorse at all that I had gone on a state-to-state rampage, first robbing a bank in my hometown of Texas City, Texas and escaping by the skin of my teeth, and then robbing people at gunpoint in their homes throughout California cities and towns, until finally being busted in the northern coastal city of Monterey. Read the rest of this entry »
A Person Is A Person No Matter How Small: An Eight-Week Unborn Baby.
In Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who (both the 1954 book and 2008 movie adaptation) and on the 15th of May in the Nool Jungle, Horton the elephant hears a small speck of dust talking to him. Turns out the speck is actually a tiny world and home to a city called Who-ville, which is inhabited by microscopic-sized inhabitants known as Whos.
The Whos ask Horton to protect them from harm. Though he can’t see them, the goodhearted pachyderm is able to hear the tiny people quite well and agrees to protect them, proclaiming throughout the book and the movie that “even though you can’t hear them at all, a person’s a person, no matter how small.” Read the rest of this entry »
This Is The Type Of The Greening Of California And America We Don’t Want To See Take Place In Our State Or Nation.
Tetrahydrocannabinol. THC for short. The truth is, if marijuana didn’t contain THC, nobody would be smoking it, much less trying to legalize or medicalize it. After all, the real purpose in smoking pot is not to treat the symptoms of a serious illness, but to get high.
The overwhelming majority of young people don’t have terminally-advanced AIDS or cancer. There is not one medically sound reason for a normal and healthy individual to smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes. Again, the real reason for smoking pot is to get high because the individual simply doesn’t want to cope with or experience the mental and psychological discomfort of what are really normal and everyday problems and situations. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by admin on February 19th, 2008
Cross Walk California got off to a wintry start in the mountain town of Tehachapi on Tuesday, January 22. The very moment I parked the van and stepped out, snow began to fall. And for the next six hours of cross-walking and praying for this city of 13,000 inhabitants, the warmth of the Son filled my heart as I hoisted the 60-pound, ten-foot cross upright at various downtown and residential locations and prayed for great revival to break out in this mountain community.
The response of the people at the sight of a street evangelist carrying a large cross throughout both commercial and residential streets as snow fell was, to say the least, very upbeat and positive. At City Hall I prayed for the mayor, council members and all city employees, that they give their lives to Jesus and allow Him to lead them in all governing decisions for the safety and welfare of the people of Tehachapi. At the headquarters of the city’s newly incorporated police department I hoisted the large cross upright and prayed for the safety of these law enforcement officers as they carry out their sworn duties to protect and serve and for crime to decrease throughout all of Tehachapi. No policemen in sight as I prayed.
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Posted by admin on February 11th, 2008
Posted by admin on February 2nd, 2008
In August, 2006 several brothers and sisters from Christ Cathedral went out to walk the cross with Street Evangelist Tom Alexander around greater Bakersfield. One of them took some pictures and then made this great slide show which was played at their church. The music is “The Wonderful Cross” by Michael W. Smith. Many thanks to the men and women at Christ Cathedral for their continued support and prayers.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwlE-PRCVao
Posted by admin on December 4th, 2007
Tom will being doing an interview on Thursday at 7:30am on KAXL 88.3fm. He will be talking about the upcoming Crosswalk California and so be sure to tune in if you are in the Bakersfield area.
