Author: davebunnell

Dave Bunnell, American pastor serving in Romania. Walk of Faith: free grace devotionals, Bible teaching, sermon vids, & evangelism

Cluj and the Jewish holocaust

a building in our church's neighborhood
a building in our church's neighborhood

The building pictured above is in the neighborhood where our church meets. We stand in front of it while waiting for the bus to take us home after each service. The plaque on the front of it, pictured below (with English translation on the right), speaks for itself and shows why I have so often been in a very somber mood standing there.
The plague on its wall, right above our bus stop
The plague on its wall, right above our bus stop

It is financially the poorest area of the city. The Lord will bless those who bless His chosen people, and curse those who curse them.

Preaching to those in chains

We’ve returned from the men’s penitentiary in Aiud, after holding meetings for two sets of prisoners there today. Ajay did Christian worship music about a relationship with the Lord and seeking His presence, and the men were very happy he was there and listening to him with smiles. Between songs, at each meeting I preached a gospel message, one from Luke 23 for the first group and one from John 4 for the second group. All of the men were at the very least respectful and listening to the word being proclaimed, and some had a very favorable response to the invitation to trust Christ as their Savior. An ongoing open door for ministry remains open for our church there, and Liviu will continue to minister there at least once per week, as he did in the past and has been doing again for the past month, while I will also go on occasions when my schedule allows to teach God’s word there. Several also signed up for a mail correspondence course in basic Bible study.
Another possible door may be opening for outreach to a maximum security facility elsewhere.
Please pray for God’s blessing, guidance, and provision for our church’s work to make disciples of Christ among those in prison.

Tomorrow I’m going to prison

Lord-willing, first thing tomorrow morning, my friend and visiting worship minister/musician Ajay Torres will join me and colaborer Liviu on a trip to the men’s penitentiary, where Ajay will minister to the two groups of prisoners in song, followed by my sharing of God’s word. Christ died for all of our sins, including those whose sins also offend man’s conscience enough to land them in prison. And I pray that tomorrow God will be present there in a special way, speaking to their hearts, and letting them know His love and receive His forgiveness, cleansing, and life.

Not another gospel

Tonight at the home fellowship we had a full room to begin our new book study of Galatians. The first passage of the book was taught and discussed and the recording of the message is available for your listening here.

Mary Worship Quite Contrary to True Christian Faith

Pictured here is the view out our window of some of the crowd gathering to worship Mary today at the Orthodox Church. Today is one of several annual holidays in her honor. If they were to set aside a day to honor Jesus (they don’t), unfortunately there would be no such crowd to gather.

crowd gathers to worship Mary at the Orthodox church in our neighborhood
crowd gathers to worship Mary at the Orthodox church in our neighborhood

Like bananas? You’re an ape–university logic

A youtube video that I’m not linking to because some language in it is offensive, had a situation where a Creation Science writer had offered a quarter million dollars for verifiable evidence that evolution was true. Also on the show with him was an evolutionary scientist, who ranted and complained that the reason the host of the program had failed to win the money was because the creation scientists set the standard of proof unreasonably high.
The evidence that the host had just provided in order to demand payment of the money was this (you be the judge):
Host: Do you ever eat bananas?
Creation Scientist: Yes, of course.
Host: Pay up.
The host was a comedian who was playing a character and was joking.
The university professor who responded immediately by complaining that the Creation Scientist hadn’t ever given the money to anyone because he set the standard of proof unreasonably high was serious. As the interview continued, he didn’t even make any attempt to provide a piece of evidence for evolution, though.