Evangelist Dennis Regling Preaches & Does Magic In Kentucky

I had the opportunity in November to preach and teach at Crosspoint Community Church in Maysville, KY. I did short messages in both morning services as well as several short devotions in all the children's classes.
What did they think of me? Here's a review:

Dennis Regling Releases Newest Gospel Magic Book

Amazing Gospel Magic: Bible Lessons With A Magical Appeal Paperback – Published: December 8, 2014  by Dennis Regling (Author)

Fourteen amazing magic tricks, each with a Bible lesson to accompany it. Chains of Sin, chain escape, an easy to make production box, defy gravity and more. Evangelist Dennis Regling has produced an incredible collection of lessons to enhance your Sunday School, Vacation Bible School and witnessing efforts. Also make great sermon illustrations. Includes a full color magic trick on the back cover.

Evangelist Dennis Regling has released his newest collection of Gospel Magic tricks.
Dennis is also available for church programs, revival meetings, Vacation Bible Schools and public outreach events. 

Amazing Gospel Magic: Bible Lessons With A Magical Appeal

Author & Evangelist, Denis Regling, is announcing his newest book for Christian teachers, Amazing Gospel Magic: Bible Lessons With A Magical Appeal

Studies have shown that we remember what we see, more than what we hear. 

Fourteen amazing magic tricks, each with a Bible lesson to accompany it. Chains of Sin, chain escape, an easy to make production box, defy gravity and more.
Evangelist Dennis Regling has produced an incredible collection of lessons to enhance your Sunday School, Vacation Bible School and witnessing efforts.
Also make great sermon illustrations.
Includes a full color magic trick on the back cover.
Although it will not be in bookstores for another 3 weeks, it is available here: CLICK
Or email Dennis for an autographed copy.

Gospel Magic Trick Using Science and Household Items

Here is a Gospel magic trick that teaches the truth that God is powerful!

I am always on the lookout for science experiments that can be turned into a Gospel magic trick. 

What you need:

• 3 plates/dishes
• 3 paper towels
• 1 bowl of water
• 3 pieces of paper
• 1 lighter/match
• 3 glass jars or glasses
• 3 pens or pencils

The trick: Completely wet one paper towel and press it flat down on the plate. Light the piece of paper and let it begin to burn. Place the paper inside the glass and immediately turn it over onto the paper towel. Let the flame burn out, then lift up the glass. The glass will adhere to the paper towel and plate.

Script:

Our Bible verse today says: “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 15:58 

There are so many wonderful things that we can do for God. We can pray that our friends and family members will come to know Him. We can help people out by giving them things that they might need like food or clothing or money. What are some other things we can do for God? (Wait for responses.)

Yes. Those are all great ideas of things we can do for God. And our Bible verse says that ANYTHING we do for God will NEVER be wasted. There is another Bible verse that says “…when we are weak, God is strong.” (2 Corinthians 12:10) So, even if we can only do little things for the Lord, God will still show Himself powerful to all who can see.

Let me show you what I mean…

I have here a plate, a paper towel, and a glass. Let’s let the plate remind you of you.  Now let’s let this paper towel remind us of Jesus whom the Bible calls “the Living Water”. (Immerse paper towel in the water.) I think this name of Jesus reminds us of a water fountain that just keeps giving water and never stops. God gave you His one and only Son, Jesus. (Flatten the paper towel onto the plate.)

Here is a a pretty glass. This glass will remind us of the good work we can do for God.

Here are 3 pieces of paper. (Hold up the piece of paper.) Can I have 3 of you each write an example of a good deed that can be done for God? (Wait for response and write it down on the piece of paper.) Excellent! I will write that good deed on this paper.

Here is a lighter. I am going to light this piece of paper, because another Bible verse says, “Let your light shine before men so they may see your good deeds and praise the Father in Heaven.” (Matthew 5:16)

I am now going to put the good deed in the pretty deed holder.

I am going to turn this work for God over onto the plate, because I want to give to God all that I do for Him.

The light is burning out, but don’t worry, God is still at work. He has taken the good deed that you or I did and can show the world around us that He is strong and powerful!

Now, what will happen if we don’t give our good deeds over to the Lord?  Instead our good works are just all about us. (Take a second plate and place the wet paper towel on it. Light a second piece of paper and place it in a second glass, but don’t turn it over and try and lift the plate. Of course, it won’t work.) Hmm. A Good work plus No connection to God and His Son Jesus equals no power. You see, when we don’t do our good deeds for the Lord, God’s power won’t be able to shine through us.

But if we give our good works to the Lord (Do the whole trick with the 3rd plate and so on…) then God’s power will be seen by those around us and nothing we do for Him will ever be wasted.

For more great Bible messages using the Magic of Science, get my book, "Sermons In Science."

Crazy TV Preachers Selling Their Lies

This video has some real wacko preachers. My question is how do Christians get fooled by these charlatans? Also, there is some Jewish dancing.

It is time for the church to humble itself and call upon the name of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 7:14If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

How can we influence the world and bring people to Christ when we do the very things they do, dress like them and act like them? Pastors keep calling for revival, but it seems they never call the church to humble themselves.

Here is a stickler for me - the Bible never says anything good about wearing make-up, ("renting the face with paint , ' as it is called), yet most" Christian" groups seem to accept it openly and never teach what the Bible clearly says about it. 100 years ago, preachers cried out against this graffiti on the temple of God. 

At the turn of the twentieth century, makeup was viewed as something only proud, even arrogant women wore. With the invention of movies and television, Hollywood injected into the limelight the image of a movie starlet’s face covered with cosmetics. Once this image was accepted by the masses, cosmetics became common place. The culture has changed, but the Bible has not.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;  But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

Vanity—the desire to look more beautiful—is what causes women to paint their faces, and is perhaps the most powerful of human drives. 

The Pull of Vanity  
Psalm 39:5-6 states, “…verily [truly] every man at his best state is altogether VANITY…Surely every man walks in a VAIN SHOW [an image].” Vanity is a powerful force in all human beings, and it is far stronger than most understand. Each person must have a healthy respect for the pull of vanity at work within him. Be honest with yourself, and admit that this tendency is within you. We will examine it more closely later. 

The women who used cosmetics in ancient Sparta were specifically known for being prostitutes: “Women wore brightly colored dresses…They used a lot of cosmetics…which…a woman could do only if she earned her living through prostitution.” (Magna Grecia—An Overview, Prof. Gino Gullace).

The first women to wear makeup were prostitutes! Changing one’s appearance by facial paint is a custom ancient PROSTITUTES have dictated to the modern age. Cosmetics were nothing more than a device used by harlots to, in effect, teach men to break the Seventh Commandment. This is the message of history—yet the whole world lies in ignorance of these facts!

Isaiah 1:4describes Isreal as "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." Does this not now describe not only America, but even many of those churches that call themselves "Christian?"

It is time for the Christians in this country to humble themselves. Wash their faces, dress in modesty, turn off the television filth that fills our homes, and forsake the riches of Babylon for the goodness of God. 

Remember: “There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Prov. 14:12; 16:25). This warning is for all who have “ears to hear” (Rev. 3:13).

My Biggest Fear For This Generation Of Youth

 

When I look at the youth of today, my heart hurts. And it's not for reasons that many of you will suspect. It's not because so many are getting into drugs, immorality, following the wrong crowd and throwing away their life. It's because very few young people today have a powerful voice speaking into their lives, blowing fresh wind from heaven onto their future. My stomach starts to hurt when I think of the creative genius youth of this generation who are turning to alternative things with their talent simply because no one cared enough to speak life and believe in them.

 

Inside juvenile homes and prisons sits some incredibly talented young people with the wrong product and lack of leadership. Do you have any idea the amount of courage it takes to sell drugs and break rules and push past everything they've been taught to get caught into a horrible legal mess? Think this through! The SAME amount of courage it takes to follow your dreams, break rules, break out of false boundaries and borders everyone has created for you to create the life of your dreams! It's the same- but some people choose the wrong product and end up in prison. If these youth had someone who believed in them and choose a product that was in demand in the marketplace they'd be on the cover of Forbes Magazine. 

 

When I see young people hanging out with the wrong crowd because they are afraid of being lonely and their home is not a safe place to be, I think of all the adults I've coached through the years in our classes who still hang out with negative, impoverished thinking people because they are afraid of being alone and to step out and speak up!

 

That girl walking the streets at night is chasing survival. Many have been kicked out of their homes, or worse yet, ran away because their home life wasn't safe and the attention of a pimp who claimed he loved her is easier than living alone in a bedroom with parents who really don't care. Many of the kids we see getting into trouble have given up on life because they're sick of hearing their adult parents scream and yell about money, long hours at work and the boss they hate.

 

Not every child is in trouble and not every young person has turned to drugs, immorality and other big problems. There are the quiet ones who sit in class everyday, getting straight A's, who are cutting their arms and back and belly, because the self hatred is so deep they don't know how to live without pain. Their central nervous system is so overtaxed with the pressure to perform, the expectation of incredible grades, being the star athlete or even the 'mini me' their parents want to created, that the pain of the razor helps to numb out the feelings for just a little while.

 

What is the difference between a young person who cuts and an adult who drinks into numbness? There is no difference. It's all rooted in pain.

My biggest fear for this generation of youth is that no one will rise up and call them up into their destiny! That the adults of this generation have given in, given up and live in such a weakened state of weariness everyday, that the next generation of adults will be even worse.

 

I'm looking for youth who are serious about business. This is not an online reform school. It's not a place where someone with a bad mouth attitude and a rebellious spirit will be welcome. But I am looking for the WILD ONES who dream at night of running a multi-million dollar business by the time they are 21!  I am searching for the dreamers, the ones who believe that miracles still happen and they believe in the bigger picture and the silver lining of hope deferred!

 

And behind the youth that we mentor, we are looking for parents who will STEP UP and chase their dreams too! This is not a class for parents who are hoping to accomplish something through their kids, it's a class for parents who BELIEVE in the dreams of their children and are willing to go the long haul with them.

It will require a firm commitment on the part of both the student and the parent. There will be a release contract to sign that states that you will allow your child to be mentored by us and you will not interfere, or interact in the classroom forum. You will support, cheer them on and believe in their dreams. 

 

If we don't lay aside our own stuff as adults and we aren't willing to get past our own fears, limitations and challenges, the youth that we see right now will be a shadow compared to the trouble that will await us. I believe in a BETTER generation, where Moms and Dads are working with their children and everyone in the family is believing in their dreams. Where challenges are handled TOGETHER and life is something everyone chases, daily, to the best of their ability. I believe in a brighter future and a better way