Many free arcade game sites have many banners that most Christians struggle with. Especially if you are a man who has struggled with pornography. This weekend I purchased a large flash game back, I will go through them each day picking out the best games. I am working on creating two game sites. One that will be part of the First Cyber Church. This will host family friendly Flash games. The only ads I will place on that area of the Church will be ones supporting different ministries or Christian businesses. Send me info about your Ministry and a 125px by 125 pixel ad and I will place 4 up a month. If we get allot of responses I will rotate them.

We are also working on setting up another site, called FutureGaming. This site will not be just Christian material, but it will be a Family Friendly site. Christians need places they can unwind too, and I personally am tired of seeing singles ads, and scantily clad women. To pay for this site, the revenue stream will be geared to wards selling other games, books, items like that. If we can get the hits up enough on the site, I plan to also give large banners to sites that have an evangelistic on-line ministry. Let me now if you have any ideas what would be a great site to make a banner for the people who would want to play on this site.

Here is a link to a single Flash game I have chosen out of the pack. It is called Snow Storm, silly like game

Remember this is a sample game, not the new sites. LOL </p>

Here is the new online arcade site, it is still in process, and we are still picking out games. The ones in the system are just there for building purposes.

I am nearing the end of my reading plan, and this was on of the passages I read this morning.

Revelation 5:1 - 5 (NKJV) ¹And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals.  ²Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?”  ³And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it. ⁴So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open ^£and read the scroll, or to look at it.  ⁵But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and ^£to loose its seven seals.”

This verse just really cut me to the quick. Here we have a STRONG angel. Think about that, when I think of angel's I have never envisioned a weak one. John is surrounded by heavenly beings and this ONE angel appears strong to him in comparison to the others, There are seals that need to be opened, yet this angels strength can't help him in this task. The angel declares "Who is worthy to open the scroll and loose its seals.

The first thing that hit me was;

1) How often do we attempt to do God's work from our own strengths, talents. When instead maybe we should first seek God's GRACE and HOLINESS?

Then this verse was a little too much for me today.

⁴So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it and asked myself when was the last time I wept over an area of God's ministry not being accomplished. When I worked with troubled teens and youth, I frequently wept. As an Associate Pastor and visiting sick or dying people, I have wept. In worship  or watching a dramatic movie I frequently weep. How many of us cry when our favorite sports team loses the big game?

When have we wept hearing about Christians being murdered for their faith, or missionaries harassed for preaching God's Word. How many of us wept hearing that Gospel.com was closing its doors. Churches every day close, due to finances, pastor failure or childish bickering. I have never shed a tear over that, some of you may have. I have never wept hearing about some big name Minister being caught in a sin so serious it tarnishes God name to the lost.

Lord, I ask your forgiveness, open my heart. Let me have John's vision and weep. Thank you for being worthy, even when we are not!

Some of you may be wondering why the First Cyberchurch changed the name of its blog. Well your humble cyber pope found out that there was another established blog with the name "Daily Office". So with much thought and prayer, this blog was renamed "One Church, One Gospel". I pray that name supports our mission of promoting a united church in deed. That deed to be reaching the lost for Christ.

If you have name ideas, let me know. Have a great day everyone and may God Bless you and keep you this fine winters day.

I just recently read a book on the 24/7 movement. I picked it up while searching through the Christian books at my local Half Price Books. I picked it up, because in Colorado Springs I lived about two miles from New Life Church. They had a 24/7 ministry and I spent allot of time at the prayer center. In fact I was hiding in a corner most Friday nights for 2 years doing some on-line evangelism in the Word of Warcraft Game. So I had heard allot about 24/7, but didn't know allot about it. It was just a place that had a peace about it, with people praying there, and it had free wifi. LOL

So while reading the The 24-7 Prayer Manual: Anyone, Anywhere Can Learn to Pray Like Never Before I started thinking about my own prayer life. There are many times I have had these grandiose ideas about focused prayers. Then you at art a new program, or decide that you will just go ahead and turn over that new leaf. Then in 3-4 days, I am back to my quick get ur done prayers. Yes we have missionary Mondays at my house (I will post on that some time in the future), but it would be great to find one or two believers and once a week, just pray for 5-10 minutes for the whole church. Have you ever wanted to do something similar?

Here is my first Top Five Evangelism Tips Blog list. I know what you are thinking. Thank you CyberPope for this list of Blogs. I had no other way to find out such information ;-). You would really think someone would come up with a way to index all these websites so we can find them easier. Remember, we have no such thing as a free visit to the First Cyber Church; everyone must contribute to the offering plate, which is the comments section. If you have a better blog that focuses on evangelism, post it. Maybe it will drop someone off the list next time.

I am also going to make a call for a guest writer, give me your ideas for a top ten list and the best ones will get to write it.

 1) http://www.gospel.com/blog/index.php/category/evangelism/

        Gospel.com blog. They post about once a week. The focus seems to be more general evangelism. It is good to scope out once a week.

  2) http://cbcevangelism.blogspot.com/

       I like the overall look of this blog. They have cartoons, links to resources. It is maintained by a Calvary Bible Church in Burbank. It shows what one local church can do.

3) http://www.livingwaters.com/

 Not really a blog, but their webpage has a portal format. Even if you disagree with the approach that Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron use, I believe every Christian should at least try their method. It does a few things. It forces you to become bold. Their tapes are well done and the method does work in some situations. Even if you prefer relationship evangelism, at some point you may need to demonstrate to the person you are witnessing to their need for redemption. If you can go out to the streets, share the Gospel as boldly as they do, you can share the Gospel with anyone.

4) http://unfinishedchristian.wordpress.com/tag/evangelism/

It has not been updated for awhile, but the content is good. Maybe if we start visiting, the author will tag more evangelism topics.

5) http://easytoevangelize.com/2007/05/24/hello-world/

This site is not a blog, but has a great list of evangelism ideas. I had originally meant to due a top ten evangelism blog list, but finding 5 sites was a real job! LOL HELP, please post me some GREAT evangelism blogs! I know you know of some.

Today I want to have a little fun. What is the oddest or most bizarre prayer you have ever made? I think the oddest one for me was 16 plus years ago. I was a poor Bible College student. I worked at a ministry for troubled teens. We had just gotten a bunch of cheerio’s in. I was sitting at a table with a couple of the residents and we were saying how much we would love some bananas. So we deiced to prayer for some. Before the week was over, we got a call from the police in Richmond, Indiana, that a Chiquita banana truck jackknifed. That the company heard there was a boarding school for troubled teens and said we could have the bananas if we could clean them off the highway. So we grabbed the church vans and started bringing them in. Hundreds of boxes of banana’s, we ended up calling the other churches nearby, and shared them with their members.

That is about the oddest thing I have prayed for, and actually got a positive answer on that prayer. Shares your stories of the odd things you ask the Father for. Also let us know the result.

Right before the big Y2K brouhahas I was employed part-time at a medium sized church as their evangelist. I had always seemed to fall into a role dealing with out-reach and things evangelistic in manner. Many of the people in this church were a little older. It was also a suburban church so many initially had some concern with evangelism and out-reach. After much sole searching and prayer I started coming up with different ways to get people more comfortable with sharing their faith. Going outside there comfort zone and reaching out to people who at a superficial level appear to be different.

It became my 714 plan, which I am in the process of updating. Now this transition may sound odd, but I was encouraged to read an odd book by some other managers in IT is called “The Game”. I had also noticed that this book showed up many times when you would be looking at a magic book on Amazon. I it was a book on picking up woman! LOL enjoy doing clown stuff and use close up magic as a way to get my hands working the way they once did due to issue with neuropathy. Many people said the book was a must read for those who are into self improvement. I would somewhat disagree with their review LOL. Reading the beginning of the book though, I noticed that they were guiding the people wanting to become PUA’s(pick up artists) to do many baby steps to overcome their anxiety in approaching people.

Reviewing my old 714 training materials, I am now posting my Christchievement challenges. As a stepping stone in trusting God, over coming your own insecurities I will start posting one Christchievement a week. Once you complete it, add yourself to the comments. I will make a badge for each one that you can get from Café Press. Overtime the plan is to get yourself to where you can share your faith with anyone. If you come up with a good one post it, maybe we will make it an official one.

You may be asking where the name comes from though. If you are familiar with PC or Xbox games, most games have little Meta games. A type of game within the game. When you do these little things you get a little badge called an achievement. It keeps you on track to finish the game, makes the game more enjoyable and gives you some bragging rights. I am not normally one to endorse bragging rights in the spiritual realm, but I am up for any thing that gets the sheep out of the pen looking for more sheep for our Sheppard.

The first one is what I call the Praise Him, Praise Him award. In the next 7 days you have to make the statement “Praise God to X number of people. If you have any note worthy experiences post them here. Also post your name when you get the award,

Bronze award X = 25 people in day(head to the mall)

Silver award X = 50 people in one week

Gold award x = 100 people in one week

Platinum award x = 1000 people in 30 days.

Thank you for dropping by. I have had many blogs over the last few years. I have started this one on at least two occasions. I think I am now in a place where the Lord can make this blog grow. I have pretty lofty goals. Since it is the start of a new year, I have decided to share them to you in the form of New Years resolutions. My hope is that you will keep me accountable.

1) Post weekly at least.

      It is sometimes difficult with running a ministry, working full-time, and taking care of a small family. I believe with your prayers, encouragement, and God's help, I can meet this goal.

2) Further the ministry of the First Cyber Church.

    I have always seen the First Cyber church as a place Christians can gather in order to equip the church for the 21st century. Now is the time for this ministry to mature into its calling. We have done some pretty cool things over the years. We have helped churches build their first web site. We have helped large ministries in getting their unique message, given by Christ out where those who have need can hear it. We have had fun with some experimental forms of worship (moos, muds, online evangelism, and video game evangelism). This year we will be working on our monthly podcast.

3) Enter into a closer, deeper, more spiritual walk with God.

   It has been 24 years since I have asked Jesus into my heart as my personal Lord and Savior. His Holy Spirit has shown me many things. I miss the passion I had when I first became a Christian. His love was new to me, and I was consumed in my relationship with Him. Over the years, life has happened. I would like to see more of that baby Christian in the walk of a more mature Christian.