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For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

Thank You… On October 23, 2013 we received this comment on the As You Go BLOG, “I just had an idea for a tract, one that I would certainly use a lot ….. what about putting “Thank you!” on the front, so that it could be handed to a cashier, or given out when responding to a kindness, or in a “thank you” card? On the back perhaps a connection for all that we have been given thru Christ’s sacrifice, or some such connection…..? Such a card would be very handy to give on many, many occasions. Just a thought…. “ Read the full story

Football Trivia – People love to show how much they know about the things they think they know about. Football is no exception. Even if you don’t know anything about football, you can confidently ask people these questions and tell them if they are right or wrong without looking at the back. How? The back of all our trivia cards is the same. In other words, they all have answers A, B, C, B in that order. Quiz people. Have fun. But be sure to ask the last question and then share the Gospel with them. I’ve done this while witnessing at football games. But I’ve also done it standing in line at the post office!

Created to Do — Hard to believe I am quoting from a BLOG post written 11 years ago when I say, “Several years ago, … I recorded Pastor Biggs speaking on what he calls “God Sized Questions” or GSQ’s.  … As you watch this video, you’ll hear Pastor Biggs mention asking someone a question “are you doing today what you were created to do?” I’ve used that question many times in witnessing to people. In fact, one day after I first heard Pastor reference this, I challenged my friends at lunch to use this question in witnessing to people that day at the mall.” Read the rest of the article and how it went asking this question at the mall all on our website.

Number of days — this tract is designed around an interesting question. Which of these two people have lived more of their life. The quick answer is to say the person who is older. But, if he 70 and lives 30 more years he has only lived 70% of his life. Meanwhile the young man could die tomorrow and hence has lived 100% of his life. Often when talking to young people they say something to the effect that they will think about eternity, death, religion someday. But what if that someday never comes. The Bible says that God has “numbered our days”. Hence we must be ready sooner, rather than later! 

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

John 8:36

Get out of Hell Free… On of the most popular tracts we have made. Many people will ask you for more to give to their family and friends. Based on the Monopoly card people often read it as “get out of jail” and some even comment “I might need that”. While only some people would need a get out of jail free card, everyone needs to get out of Hell, or escape it’s power. No card can do that. But Jesus can. So hand this out and encourage people to read the back! You can read more about this tract on our website.

Free Indeed – Freedom is in the news a lot.  Some would say we live in a free country. Some say we have the freedom to do this and that. The Bible says all mankind is in a bondage to sin. Sometimes that sin has earthly consequences that require freedom from handcuffs. Other times the consequences are  not legal in nature but lead to addictions, struggles in life and other consequences. There is a freedom from sin that comes only from Jesus. He paid the price for the sin of the world. All who repent and believe are given eternal life. In heaven we will even be free from death, sorrow, pain and illness. Offer that freedom to someone!

Bucket List — A lot of people think of things they would like to do one day before they die. They call it a “bucket list”, things to do before you kick the bucket.  There is even a movie with the same name. It’s a great way to get people dreaming and talking about their future. Ask them what is on their bucket list. I like to follow up with “do you think you’ll ever do any of them?” It’s hard to believe we made this tract more than 12 years ago. I have handed a lot of them out and asked these questions, I got to thinking about my own bucket list. I’d always wanted to run a marathon, and never had. In December 2010 I ran the Dallas Marathon. You can read about that on the BLOG.

Play by the Rules — August brings the end of summer. Kids getting back in to fall sports. Football season will start soon. One thing all sports have in common is that there is a set of rules to follow. If you play by the rules you might win. But if you break the rules there may be some penalty enforced. We wrote this tracts with kids in mind and had the help of a friend from Child Evangelism Fellowship. It’s great to hand out anywhere, but especially to kids, at little league games, etc. Read more about this tract on our website.

If you are not already a member of the Bezeugen Tract Club, you can enroll and receive 30 FREE Gospel tracts per month.

Thursday, July 7th, is the First Thursday of the month. We will meet for prayer at our Athens, Carrollton, Dallas, and Denison locations at noon. Suggested verses for prayer are:

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. 1 John 3:4

This month marks the 166th mailing of the Bezeugen Tract Club. This months tracts are:

Uncle Sam… The ten commandments serve as a mirror to show us our sin! I am amazed that James Montgomery Flagg drew the famous “I want you for U.S. Army” he did it by drawing himself in a mirror. In a similar way when anyone honestly looks into the mirror of God’s Law they see themselves as a sinner in need of the savior. I often tell people in one on one conversations that “all have sinned” the only question is “if they will admit it”. If they confess their sin, repent and believe the Gospel, then God will save them!

Are you a good person? Many will say yes. Follow that up by asking “are you good enough to go to Heaven?” I like to point out to people that if they want to go to God’s Heaven, then they have to get there by God’s standard. Goodness therefore is by keeping his standard. See 1 John 3:4 printed above. Sin is lawlessness. And even one sin prevents someone from going to Hell on their own goodness. That’s why people need the Lord and his righteousness. None of us is good enough to go to Heaven. But Jesus is. That is the good news!

Fear Not — is it hard to believe that it’s been over two years since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the whole world? Will any of us ever forget where we were when we first heard of COVID-19? Or what we thought when the government declared some employees essential and others non-essential? During that time we created this tract because while we realized that people were fearful of COVID-19, they also are fearful of many other things. Some are fearful of who will be elected in the next election. Some are afraid of the dark. Or of heights. This tract shares hope that with God we need not fear. For those who believe God is with them. Share that hope with people as you hand out this tract!

Thank You — this is one of our most popular tracts. It is so easy to hand out. Just give it to thank someone for anything they do. Mail it with a thank you note or card. Hand it to someone in a store that provides you help to find an item. Leave it with a generous tip when you pay your bill at a restaurant. I emphasize generous tip, because please keep in mind, waiters and waitresses work hard. And to receive something instead of a tip is offensive to them. The word of God may offend them, but please don’t let your actions do that.  Got other ideas on how to share the tract? Follow us on social media and share them with us. Feel free to take a picture of leaving a tract, post it on social media and tag us!

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Thursday, June 2nd, is the first Thursday of the month. We will have prayer for our nation, leaders and revival at the following locations:

Suggested A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) verses for prayer are:

Thursday, May 5th, is the First Thursday of the month. We will be having our First Thursday Prayer. This is also the date of the National Day of Prayer. Since May 2010 Bezeugen Ministries has been hosting monthly prayer meetings at a number of locations. Please join us in praying for our nation, leaders, and revival! Our locations are:

The theme verse for the National Day of Prayer is Colossians 2:6-7 “Exalt the Lord who has established us.” We will leverage this verse in our A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) verses for prayer as follows:

If you are unable to join one of our locations, please consider praying on your own or with friends at home or at your place of business.

Thursday, April 7th, is the First Thursday of the month. We will meet to pray for our nation, leaders, and revival at the following locations:

The suggested A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) verses for prayer are:

You may like to register for the 2022 National Day of Prayer. This prayer guide is also helpful in your monthly prayer meetings.

It’s been said that “April Showers bring May flowers”. Well in the case of the Bezeugen Tract Club, May brings tracts for May the Fourth, Mothers Day, Prayer and a new design to address a popular misconception about the Bible! I can’t remember the number of times I’ve heard something to the effect that “we are all children of God.” While we are all created by God in his image, the Bible clearly teaches than unless you receive Him, Jesus, as your Lord and Savior, then your father is the devil. This month we are introducing a new tract that teaches this basic Biblical fact!

May 4th is considered “Star Wars Day” because it is a play on words of “May the Fourth” with the popular phrase from the movie “May the Force be with you”. The original Star Wars movie, episode IV called A New Hope, was originally released in May (25th) 1977. Amazingly this will be the 45th anniversary of the movie release. A few years ago we released the enclosed “May the Lord be with you” tract. These are popular with Star Wars fans and non fans alike. Like the concept that we are all God’s children, many believe God will be with them no matter what. Again, there is a Biblical truth we can cling to and share from Matthew 28 that Jesus is with His believers always!

May 5th is the National Day of Prayer. Since May 2010 Bezeugen Ministries has been hosting events on the First Thursday of each month in the style of National Day of Prayer. Each month we send an email with suggested A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) verses for prayer. Typically local groups meet at noon at their respective city hall. If you’d like to host a group, or simply receive these notifications to pray please contact us. We also will hold a 7AM (Central time) prayer conference call on May 5th as well as each First Thursday of the month. The information will be provided in the monthly email. 

All of that to say, prayer is important! It’s an often untapped resource. The Bible says to pray for all people, especially those in authority. In March we released the Pray for America and Pray for Canada tracts. This month Texas members of the Bezeugen Tract Club are receiving “Pray for Texas” tracts. For the background on these tracts please see the information from the March mailing (https://www.bezeugen.org/blog/?p=2166). If you are interested in a tract to pray for your state let us know. If you’d like monthly email reminders with ACTS verses to pray, would like to host a local prayer meeting, or be reminded of local prayer meetings please contact us. If you would like to participate in a National Day of Prayer event near you at you can find local events at www.nationaldayofprayer.org.

Mother’s Day is May 8th. Mother’s are great gifts to us. If you are able, go see your mom on Mother’s Day. If not, if she is still alive, call her. No matter if the relationship is strained or great, reach out to her. A day will come when you can’t make that call or visit. So cherish every moment you can with the woman who brought you into this world. This tract came from a conversation with Phil, a good friend and long time tract club member. I remember sitting with him over coffee one afternoon when he was visiting Dallas and I asked him to describe sharing the gospel. He talked about seeing mom’s with their babies and complementing them on how the child is such a great gift. But then transitioned to “that’s great, but what’s the greatest gift?” Instantly we knew there was a tract in that. We have a Christmas and a more generic themed version of this tract. We also now have this tract translated into Spanish (see the front side of this letter).

The “Greatest Gift” tract has been a favorite since it was introduced a few years ago. Recently we had this translated into Spanish. They are now available by donation. Submit a request online or by sending a donation ($5 for 100, $10 for 200, $20 for 500) in the envelope enclosed with your monthly mailing.

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General Housekeeping

Before closing this letter, I’d like to spend a little time on some general housekeeping. While the tracts are mailed free to you, please keep in mind we use God’s resources to purchase and ship them. We use the USPS Bulk mail service to keep our costs as low as possible. However, unlike first class mail, when mail is returned as undeliverable or forwarded due to change of address we receive a charge (up to $2.50 per envelope) from the post office. Please review the following and help us all be good stewards of the resources God has entrusted to us.

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April brings the start of Major League Baseball.  Enclosed is a new baseball trivia tract that you can use to share the Gospel with baseball fans. The image was created by Cedric Hohnstadt. We acquired rights to print it. You may be familiar with some of Cedric’s other work. He illustrated the Living Waters “Are You a Good Person” cartoon tract based on Ray Comfort’s book “Hell’s Best Kept Secret” (shorter audio version here). Since the Are You a Good Person tract is in the public domain, we were also able to use those images on our own Are you a Good Person tracts. Cedric later made an animated video of the tract where Kirk Cameron voiced Mr. Nice Guy .  You can read more about Cedric on his website, especially this article about making the Are You a Good Person video.

Perhaps you are nervous about handing out a trivia tract because you might not know the subject matter yourself. Well, let me let you in on a little secret. The back of our trivia tracts are all the same. That’s right. The back is the same. The questions on the front are multiple choice and whether it’s a football, basketball, hockey, rock n roll, or this baseball tract, the back is the same, which means the answers are the same. The answers are A, B, C, B, and death. Therefore you can confidently quiz people on this trivia, even if you don’t know anything about it, and then when they answer you can tell them if it is right or wrong without having to look at the back of the tract. While quizzing someone on a trivia tract one day in downtown Dallas the guy questioned the correct answer because he had not heard of that person. I pulled out my phone and showed him that the card was correct. Trivia tracts are fun because people love to show how much they know. But, do they know the most important thing, what happens when someone dies.

Easter is April 17th. As a kid Easter was putting on your Sunday best, going to church, easter egg hunts, and big family gatherings. Over the years the world has seemingly made it more commercial with opportunities to take pictures with the Easter Bunny. A number of years ago while doing a lot of witnessing at the shopping malls we would notice the lines of people waiting to take such pictures. We jokingly got to saying “Hoppy Easter” to refer to this. That lead to making this tract which has been popular at Easter ever since.  While many may just be looking for a hand out from the Easter Bunny, the true meaning of Easter is found in Matthew 28:6 “He is not here, for he has risen, as he said.”

All through out the Old Testament there are prophesies of Jesus. The resurrection is the fulfillment of these promises. The bookmark that is included with each months mailings has ten Bible verses and ten questions to ask people. Question 7 “What has God done for you?” asks the person to read 1 Corinthians 15:3-5 which is essentially the Gospel in a verse: “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.” (1 Corinthians 15:3-5)

The answer from reads:

So what has Christ done for you? According to these verses there are three things. He died, was buried and was raised (from the dead)! You’ll also notice that he appeared to people after he was raised from the dead. Now it also says that this was done in “accordance with the Scriptures”. What this means is that there is prophecy (events predicted before they happened) that pointed to Jesus doing these things and proving that he is who he claimed to be: namely God. This is an area for future study to show that the Bible is true and that Jesus is who he claimed to be. Click next to see how much God loves you!

After Life Catalog dot com bookmark page.

As you hand out the bookmark you can point people to the website to get more details on each question like above.

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Thursday, March 3rd, is the First Thursday of the month. We will have prayer for our nation, leaders and revival. We have the following locations:

Please note that the Denison meeting is moved to Friday due to a schedule conflict on Thursday.

The following are suggest A.C.T.S. (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication) verses to guide your prayer time.