28. November 2009 by admin.

Well, a lot is going on. Let me list it for you:

#1 The New Mexico trip was a great success. The mission work was neat: a nice mix of everything from manual labor, to working at the nursing home, and working with kids. December Radio was awesome.

#2 I have finished my first two classes at Liberty Seminary, and am now on my 3rd 4th and 5th. I really like the classes: very challenging.

#3 I am still the Interim Youth pastor at BBT. I will let you know something when I hear it.

#4 The  Youth and I went out for our second annual Black Friday witnessing endeavor. They did great! Savannah has no problem walking right up to people (s0 proud of her) and Jacob even talked to a police officer or two. Eternity, my daughter, handed out tracts with us, though she is still a little shy about speaking to strangers. I am very proud of her, though: she has passed out more tracts than most Christians ever will.

I did some preaching from the Bed of my truck: the crowds were crazy. The line at Target had at least 500 people in it, and the Kohls and Best Buy lines probably had half of that, each. All told we handed out at least 800 Gospel tracts.

Till next time!

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11. July 2009 by admin.

Greetings to all in cyberspace! It has been a couple of months since I wrote a post. I have found that it is very difficult to get on here and write, with so many different things going on: school, ministry, kids, wife, etc. I will TRY to do better in the future: no promises though.

Let me just list out some things that have happened since my last post…

#1 The Youth Pastor at BBT resigned, and I was made the interim youth Pastor.

#2 Because of this, I am now taking the youth to “X Fuge on Mission” Bible camp in Glorieta New Mexico July 12-19. (I am REALLY looking forward to this!)

#3 I have been the Guest preacher at First Baptist Church Oyster Creek a couple of times. My latest sermon HERE. 

#4 Took the youth out to the annual “4th of July” fireworks show in Lake Jackson, and passed out about 400 tracts. Savannah, one of my youth (who I am very proud of) is becoming quite the evangelist. She showed no fear speaking to people and engaging them in conversation. My own daughter, Eternity, is also getting her courage up: her and another young lady, Emma, passed out quite a few tracts. Jacob, our resident ‘guitar playing heart throb’ did good as well. And my lovely wife watched all the little ones, and kept them out of the street for us while we were working: Thanks Sauncere’!

#5 I was accepted into Liberty Baptist Theological Seminaries ‘Master of Divinity’ program. I begin that in the fall. I am VERY excited!

That should bring us up to date: ta ta for now!

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14. April 2009 by admin.

O.K. Sunday morning…

All week long, before that sunday morning, I prepared a sermon. When Thursday came along, I got down on my face before God, and He said “Start over”.

“WHAT!? I already have a power point made and everything!” I said. But regardless, I took the sermon, and “put it in the trash”, so to speak, and started over.

“What about the Power Point?” I said. “You won’t need it”, was His reply to me. So I began  writing, like a man possessed.

Sunday Morning rolls in, and I am in the middle of a song (yes, I TRY to sing), and the electricity goes out at the Church. I finish my song acapella, and the Spirit of God takes over….I preached the entire sermon in the dark.

It was powerful. I know God was with me. And what I just realized was that had I spent the time making the power point, it would have been wasted. God KNEW we were going to lose power, you see. He saved me from hours of work…

One dear lady, whom I and my family adore, was upset with my sermon. I guess she thought I was addressing her in some way. Let me assure you I was not. I was confronting dangerous and pervasive doctrine (specifically a “No repentance” gospel, and church pluralism), and had no desire to offend anyone. But the truth is the truth. I cannot keep my mouth shut to keep peace.

You may judge for yourself though. Heres the link:

Guard Your Doctrine: Refuting the “Two Gospel” Heresy

Anyway, I have three more sermons to preach this week. Keep praying…

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11. April 2009 by admin.

I know. I just can’t seem to keep up with the blog. Oh well! It’s my blog, I’ll post when I want to.

Anyway, there hasn’t been a whole lot going on. I have been helping family members repair damages from hurricane Ike (just in time for hurricane season, LOL), and working on my classes.  Me and my wife have been passing out tracts when we go to town, but unfortunately we are stuck out in the boonies at the moment. That’s why I haven’t posted. No internet reception on my wireless card out here.

I am going to be filling in for my pastor for the next couple weeks, starting tomorrow.  I will be preaching a total of 5 sermons, the next two weeks, while my Pastor is taking a family vacation to Florida. Keep praying for me!

One interesting thing happened. Me and my wife went out together to have along overdue date night (even though we couldn’t really afford it). We went to a rather expensive restaurant, and lo and behold, before we had finished eating, the waitress informed us that an anonymous guest had paid for our meal. We were so grateful to God! Isn’t He wonderful?

And of course, my wife and I leafletted the parking lot and customers with gospel tracts on the way out…

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24. December 2008 by admin.

We are back in Angleton Texas: probably for 2-3 weeks. We are currently waiting on direction from God.

BUT WE WONT BE SITTING AROUND! In addition to some “tent making” that we must do, we are going to be doing some local evangelism in Brazoria County.

Please be in prayer for us, that God gives us some direction. We so dearly loved all the people at Immanuel Baptist Church, and wanted to accept their offer to stay on as staff, but Godmade it abundantly clear that our call was “outside the camp”. This is from the scripture used to call me into the ministry: I wish to post it for you here now…

Heb 13:13  Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.
Heb 13:14  For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

Thanks to all of those who have given their time in prayer, for the donations, and for your love. We will continue to spread the Good News of Jesus Christ. Now lets go outside the camp, and proclaim the word: Jesus is out there, waiting…

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7. December 2008 by admin.

I know, I know. It’s been a month since I have posted: sorry.

I have been working like crazy trying to edit together the witnessing clips from election day: as many of you know, we were out all day at a local polling location, witnessing and handing out tracts all day. Me and Sauncere handed out between 300 and 400 gospel tracts, and witnessed to around 50 people. It was a very nice day> watch the video here…

Then of course, we went back to Texas for thanksgiving. I want to thank Brazosport Baptist Temple, in Angleton and Immanuel Baptist Church in Pine Bluff, for helping us get home. We love you more than you can ever know, and your care for us and God’s work is appreciated.

Lastly, while in Brazoria County, we made a early morning trip to all of the “Black friday” stores in the area, and witnessed to the lines outside. Myself, Pastor Steve Jensen, his daughters Savannah and Emma, and Jacob Henson, woke up at just after 3:00 in the morning, to get to the stores before 5:00. We handed out just under 400 gospel tracts, and I did some quick street preaching. I even got my first heckler!

I praise God for the zeal of pastors and churches who believe in the importance of evangelism, and especially for the zeal of these teenagers and youth. It is quite refreshing!

Till next time….

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27. October 2008 by admin.

Yes, yes, I know> I haven’t posted in two weeks.

Sorry.

We have been very busy with everything going on; let me bring you up to date.

First, it appears we will be staying here a bit longer. How long? Not too sure on that, but I am betting it will probably be until Christmas, or so.

Second, the evangelism continues. Unfortunately, other than a couple of members who have not been coming, whom I visited, starting to come again, there has been no visible fruits seen in the main service (We have seen significant growth in the Wednesday night youth service. Many of the young people I have witnessed to have began attending, praise God!) Though I have talked to many people about Christ, and I feel that the Holy Spirit was working on several of them, none have come to Sunday service. And although my prime motivation has always been, and WILL always be seeing people saved, it does get frustrating after the fiftieth person says “I’m coming Sunday”, and turns out to be the fiftieth fibber on an ever growing list.

*Sigh*

In any event, I have had a few funny encounters. One elderly man ran out of his garage door yelling “Out!Out!” while waving his arms in a rough imitation of one of those guys with the glowing sticks that guide the airplanes at the airport.

I also had an encounter with a 150 pound Husky/Wolf dog, with very sharp looking teeth, a very angry looking Great Dane, and a handful of excessively large unchained Rottweilers and Pit bulls. Apparently, big mean dogs get offended by the Gospel, too.

I have had some positive encounters. Lots of people that were in desperate need of the Biblical definition of repentance. A group of kids getting drunk in their front yard at 11:00 o’clock in the morning. Jehovah’s witnesses and mormons, too. Lot’s of those.

O.k. Now for the yucky part. I have a couple of needs and wonder if anyone out there would be willing to meet them. Number 1, I need gospel tracts. I had a couple thousand when I first came here, and I am getting low. I use different tracts for different occasions/people, and what I really need right now is million dollar bills and/or Giant Money . I believe these tracts stress repentance and right doctrine regarding salvation, without which, one cannot be saved.

Second, my family really wants to go home for Thanksgiving. This is going to cost some money. I thank God that He has seen fit to let diesel prices drop nearly 1.50 in the last few weeks, but even with that, the round trip is going to cost about 400 bucks, which we really do not have. If anyone can spare any amount, it would be greatly appreciated.

In regards to these two needs, you can either make a donation here
, you can mail it here OR in regards to the tracts, you can order them yourself from www.livingwaters.com and have them shipped to

Damon Rambo c/o Immanuel Baptist Church
1801 W. 17th St.
Pine Bluff, AR 71603

Any way that you can help would be appreciated. Until Next time..

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13. October 2008 by admin.

Sorry for waiting so long to post: we have had a LOT going on.

Real quick, let me get you up to date. We have a total of close to 100 children, youths, and young adults who have come to our our after school program and Wednesday night services over the last couple weeks, although thankfully not all at once. We are averaging approximately 30 per day.  So far in the Wednesday night services, we have had three youths give their lives to Christ. Praise God!

In addition to this, we took an outing in the church van to “Judgement House”, a room to room drama put on by the people at Watson Chapel Baptist Church, that traces the lives, deaths, and afterlives of 4 different people. We had three MORE make decisions for Christ last night. Praise God again!

Of course, I do have to caution that we can never really know for sure if someones confession of faith is legitimate or not: but regardless, the impact made on ALL TEN of the Children we took was noticeable.

Besides all of that, the door to door and street evangelism is in full swing. The most notable encounters I had, was a two hour discussion with a Churches of Christ elder about Baptism and Music in Church, and a fifteen minute debate with a UPC pastor over the Trinity.

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19. September 2008 by admin.

I will be preaching at Immanuel Baptist Church, in Pine Bluff, this Sunday. Please Keep me in your prayers.

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14. September 2008 by admin.

While many were fleeing from Hurricane Ike, and others were going about there normal work week, we have been doing what we always do> proclaiming the Gospel.

I witnessed to countless numbers of people this week (over 300 homes, almost assuredly, though I didn’t keep an exact count). Catholics, atheists, and everyone in between, heard the saving gospel of Christ. Among the best encounters, was a young man who admitted he was lost, and was seeking the truth. I left Him with a Bible (he did not have one), a Gospel tract, and a card with church services and times. He seemed truly convicted, and I pray the Holy Spirit will come on him, and bring Him to salvation.

The culmination to the week, was a run in with the Mormons. I was walking up the street, after a day of door to door, when I saw the two young men walking out of a ladies house. I saw one of them pray (I think) over the ladies house, spit, and then get into His car.

Not wanting anyone to be led astray, I walked right up into the middle of the Ladies lawn, and dropped to my knees in prayer, while cars drove by on the busy street. I prayed that God would deliver this woman from deception, and that He would protect this home from false teaching.

Well, apparently the Mormons saw me as they were driving off in their car (yeah, no bikes). They got out and walked up to me, and a brief discussion ensued. I invited them to my house, on Saturday (today). They agreed to come.

True to form, the two clean cut missionaries were right on time. We spent a lot of time discussing and defining Biblical terms, so that everyone  understood where the other was coming from. I pointed out that their idea of “repentance” was flawed, and explained Biblical salvation, and the Gospel. They quoted to me from the “Book of Mormon”, at which point I explained to them, why I did not accept the authority of the “Book of Mormon”. I then pointed them to 1 Corinthians 13, and why I believe their “Prophet” lacked authority as well.

All together we talked about an hour and a half. At this point, the missionaries informed me they had another appointment, and stated that they need to go. I stood up, and stood between them and the door. At this point, I began explaining to them, the true Gospel, and explained to them that by their own admission of “works salvation”, they were unsaved, in accord with the book of Galatians. I told them in no uncertain terms, that they would be cast into “outer darkness” and spend an eternity in Hell. That NONE of their good works would aid in their salvation, and that unless they put their faith in Christ and His finished work alone, they WOULD NOT escape the judgment of God.

They began trying to explain that this was what they believed. I said they added works, and they did not deny it. They asked to sing a song> I stated that I could not participate in fellowship with them, but it was not because I did not like them. They asked if they could say a prayer, and after refusing, they asked if I would say a prayer. I did, praying that their eyes would be opened to the true Gospel of Christ.

I have to say, that one of them appeared to possibly be receptive. I could see contrition on his face, and tears welling in his eyes. I will be praying for them, and I hope you are, too: that God will release them from the grip of Satan, unto true life.

Beyond that, all goes well. The youth/ young adult group in the evening is growing, and I and my  family have been able to bond with several of them. Be praying for them, too.

Until next week,

In Christ,

Damon

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