A Lay Preacher but God's Work?: (A Collection of Illustrations, Modern Parables, Life Changing Experiences and a Few Poems from 1993 to 2013)

By A. Sinner

In A Sinners second book he again states he has to keep to his pen name and again changes all names of churches, friends and family because of, as he puts it, historical freedoms long ago fought and died for in my country, but now lost to dangerous forces, that are not only unchallenged but appeased and encouraged.
He gives a chapter on his own English roots and background where he says his Saviour showed him the first signs of sin of which he needed to take to His cross.
He mentions first hand experience of Jesuit and Christian Brother school teachers, who not surprisingly, he is no fan of. Yet his criticisms again are not left to Roman Catholicism alone.
As in his first book, often humorous, often tragic words, but now not just in sermon notes but observations, experiences, speaking notes, modern parables, one or two poems and also in his own mostly pen and ink illustrations.
He gives a little more detail than in his first book of his working for his Saviour in missionary organisations such as Prison Fellowship, SASRA and local church work.
Through it all, he leaves the same message for all: look to the Bible for inspiration but especially to unbelievers for salvation only in the Bibles Author ,The Holy Spirit and the Word of God Jesus Christ! John

Then they asked Him, What must we do to do the works God requires? Jesus answered The work of God is this: to believe in the one He has sent! John 6;28&29.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Oct 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491877159

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A LAY PREACHER

BUT GOD’S WORK?

(A collection of illustrations, modern parables,

life changing experiences and a few poems

from 1993 to 2013)

Also by this Author

A Lay Preacher but God’s Word?

A. Sinner

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Contents

INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

SCHOOL AND SIN

CONVERSION to CHRIST!

LIKE A CHILD! Mark10;15

Sunday School Saints of Yesteryear

The Good News Club!

‘Open’ Youth Club Ideas

FROM SUNDAY SCHOOL, YOUTH GROUP TO SALVATION!

RELIGION CAUSES WARS! YES BUT NOT CHRIST!

TWO HARVEST FESTIVAL GIFTS

THE STORY OF PREACHER ‘BILL the BAPTIST’.

Believers Baptism, but a Sprinkling!

SOME MORE BAPTISM YARNS!

SOME OLD NOTES TUCKED IN MY BIBLE TO SHARE AND THE STORY OF WELSH MARY.

Prison Fellowship? For He breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of Iron. Palms107;16.

Life to death, to life, death again to life and true life to come! A little of the story of MY BIG BROTHER!

Life to death to true life?

Angels?

God in The Territorial Army?

SASRA a few yarns. The Big Wig!

The gig, with me and the Bish! Our duo but really a trio!

Women Priestesses? No Priests, male or female!

A Day at the Market

MY SONG OF SONGS?

God forsaken us? It happened to Jesus.

Our Father Who Art in Heaven!

BETRAYAL!

Catholic Protestants!

A GODLY VISIT ?

UNEXPECTED?

Scientists verses God!

C S LEWIS: a little of his lesser known writings.

Beer and the Bible. Should it be the Bible, without the beer?

An unbelievers shared thoughts with me.

The Fall Out

A Christian (un-politically correct) Parable!

THE STRANGE (?) STORY OF KEN’S BIBLE!

A JOKE?

OUESTION AND QUERY YOUR RELIGION/FAITH with the brain God has given you! It is by their fruits you will recognise them! Matthew7;16.

Poets corner: I Was a poet and didn’t know it! Or was I?

I AM the Alpha and the Omega.

The Only True Bride and Groom

Liberation from a prisoner of war camp! Liberation from sin?

ONE HAS NEVER!

PRISONERS OF WAR!

Dedicated to Jesus Christ the greatest ‘worker’ of God’s of all time.

INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I t’s been a little while since I put my first book together, A Lay preacher but Gods word? That book came with so many problems and complications from deciphering my own old hand written sermon notes and putting them into at least a readable (sometimes I think not always the case) English and tackling the dreaded modern technology of computer, emails, word processing etc. (where I relied far too much on my spelling checker, which didn’t always check!). I’m not happy with the original price of these books either which I think is far too high but this is out of my control.

However, if you read my first book, I hope, like this one, it is a help to you in finding out more of The Lord Jesus Christ, and points you to His word, the Bible.

Hopefully, I have ironed out the problems I had with my first book for this second one. I should have, as this is nowhere near as complicated and detailed. This is a simple collection of my Christian and also some of my un-Christian life. I have also since decided it important to add a little of my school life. To some that might be, at times, a difficult read. I have also put in some short ‘speaking’ (not quite sermons) notes and newsletter publications of which I include my hand drawn illustrations, which were also printed. Some ‘testimonies’ of sorts and, oh yes, one or two poems. To be honest, this second book came about because I had an offer from the publishers and as I had again kept all these ‘odds and ends’, I took their offer up.

Sadly due, to enforced multi-faith and the problems that this has created with an aggressive religion and the politically correct climate established by governments in my country, England, I’ve again kept to my pen name only and changed any personal or place names.

What has been happening in my life since my previous book? I wrote of worries regarding my youngest son. Well praise the Lord! His life seems more stable now. However, in this country that governments have complicated and I believe is under Gods judgement, just like any other, I still have my concerns for all my family, especially the unsaved, so keeping worry at bay is difficult.

Along with some high blood pressure (I reckon putting the first book together caused that to go up!) I, like my father, have been diagnosed with prostrate cancer, which he did not survive. At the moment it is causing me a few complications in my routine life and will do so a little more when I receive treatment and after. It is more than possible anybody reading or seeing my first book may well be pleased with this news. But as I prayed to the Lord, Lord I could do without all this then added Yet why not me Lord? As I mentioned in my last book, I am still as convinced as ever of the need for a Personal Saviour for all sinful mankind, for me!

My acknowledgements are again for my loving wife, for CS Lewis, John Sherrill, Teilard de Chardin, the Rev Andy Kelso, William P Young, Dr Stephen Olford, William Tyndale, The Soldiers and Airman’s Scripture Readers Association, The Scripture Union, the missionary organisation The Pocket Testament League and any author or publisher, secular or Christian whose work I may have touched on or quoted, consciously or subconsciously, in the mind or the Holy Spirit.

I also give acknowledgement to my mother, who though we differ often greatly on views of her ‘religion’ we both share the same redeemer, in fact her witness to me as a young boy of her personal faith in Christ as her saviour has stayed with me to this day.

Most of all I acknowledge the greatest worker of God’s of all time, our Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ!

Then they asked Him, What must we do to do the works God requires? Jesus answered "The work of God is this: to believe in the one He has sent! John 6;28&29.

SCHOOL AND SIN

I repented after I came to understand, I beat my breast, I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth. Jeremiah31;19.

I was brought up in a close, good, loving and hard working class Catholic family. Both my dad and my mum showed a personal faith in Christ as saviour that stayed with me. Our family was born and bred in North London. Our history comes from Palmers Green, Wood Green, Tottenham and Hornsey. Like many families we lived in a two up two down terraced house that actually was my granddads. He had struggled through bankruptcy with his own two grocery shops as he was fleeced by an employee, a manager he had trusted, but eventually finding work, accounting in the fruit and veg trade, in Covent Garden, mum tells me in was the first time she saw her father cry, but of joy and relief. Not only did he find work for his son, my uncle at Convent Garden, but also my father to be. My dad always was a great one for figures so his first job after the war was sorting out the wages. My granddad eventually done well for himself, he even managed to buy a few houses for his family. We got to live in one of them, a two room up, two room down terraced, seven of us, with no hot water, until my dad fixed a small plug in electric water heater on the kitchen wall, much to my mum’s delight. There was no bathroom and of course no indoor toilet.

Baths for us kids were once a week in the old tin bath or sitting on the kitchen draining board getting scrubbed down. Later we went down to the Public Baths or nan and granddad’s, a couple of roads away, to their 3 bed terrace as they had a very old ‘plumbed in’ deep Victorian bath. Once it was all enamelled but now not so much, so a bit rough on the backside!

My granddad had lodgers who lived in two rooms upstairs. A family of 3 and the wife expecting triplets, they emigrated to Australia. So we swapped houses, us having the 3 bedroom house, nan and granddad having the two, but getting hot water plumbed in proper and a bath and of course, luxury, an inside toilet installed.

Life in the 60’s was great, us kids enjoying our local area, exploring any still left over air raid shelters and machine gun pill boxes that hadn’t yet been blocked up or demolished by the local council. Later getting a little extra pocket money doing paper rounds and helping milkmen with their deliveries. We heard stories from family, such as the Blitz, Doodlebugs, the time a lone raiding German aircraft machine gunned shoppers in our busy high road and of local V2 and Parachute Mine explosions. We heard of family that had survived near misses and friends and neighbours that didn’t. Yet all my families’ young men returned from military service, including my dad, though some only just. Yet a generation before in that other war, that luck was not there and the male side of our families was reduced. I can recall my grandmother telling me of her watching in horror as a Zeppelin was shot down in flames above and her feeling terrible as she saw burning crew falling. She even told me she could remember as a small child being terrified by stories of Jack the Ripper which were still coming out from the East End of London.

Mum and dad always made sure we all went every year for a least a week on holiday to the seaside. Once, I can remember, they pushed it to a second week then ran very low on money. We all can laugh now, but my brother decided that with mums little money she gave him to buy a loaf of bread with, he could treble it, gambling on the one arm bandits down in the arcade… . he lost.

My mum’s old local RC Infant /Junior school at Wood Green was also our early place of education. She told me she can remember when occasionally some poor kids couldn’t attend school because they had no shoes.

I loved home and playing much more than schooling and found some learning hard work and difficult. It was a good local school, but the only thing I could criticize involving ‘bad teaching’ was to do with ‘Crusaded of Rescue week’, a then Catholic charity asking for donations. A large chart was put up in the class, which showed those children’s names who gave most cash at the top with many stars and the least at the bottom with less. I was middle bottom, but other kids? And to be at the very bottom, with no stars?

All us kids had to put up with the cold pre-war built school, until it was gradually rebuilt, and the even colder outdoor PE days. I can remember after school and at weekends, risking life and limb, climbing all over the school roofs, the old and then the new buildings as a daring adventure with my mates.

I wasn’t as good at football as other lads, so I wasn’t encouraged and didn’t bother to play my best, although I joined in the kick about in the playground and could hold my own.

I remember feeling proud of my brother. He made the school football team. He was always much more ‘sociable’ than me and had done well in the cubs and scouts. Being school ‘troops’ they reminded me of school too much so I only lasted two weeks!

My older brother and sister and then two younger sisters each kept to their own friends for the very little time we were together at school, so I didn’t