Poindexter, Comic Nerd!

Poindexter is available for your event! Children's ministry, Church event, Schools, fundraisers, etc. This is a clean comedy act that can be geared toward whatever theme you might have. For booking email gbrook63@comcast.net or call 717-556-8055 and leave a message.

Poindexter is the lovable nerd who mixes humor with love, fun, music, and a little goofiness and laughter! Most importantly, this "act" is not about Poindexter. It is about the love of the Lord Jesus Christ! It is about God's acceptance of all of us, now matter how we look, act, or even dress. Poindexter loves to share the gospel and point others toward the unfailing, unconditional, healing and restorative grace and love of God.

Poindexter is also great at presenting acts that touch on social topics for school children, such as bullying, achieving goals, drug and alcohol prevention, self-esteem issues, and really most any topic relevant to today's elementary, middle school, or high school kids. And he's safe for young ears to listen to!


Gary Brookens Ministries
306 Rolling Terrace
Leola PA 17540

Poindexter....

Meet Poindexter! He just might be a nerd...or something! Do you ever wonder why there are so many "odd" people? Most us can probably think of one or two we wish we didn’t know! The truth is that most of us are "different" in one way or another because we all have hurts on the inside of us. These are the wounds that no one can see. You may have been wounded when you were a child, which left invisible scars causing you to develop certain behavioral and thought patterns. Ever wonder why you can’t seem to change a behavior or attitude in your life? Likely it’s caused by something from your past which you have never really confronted.
The most difficult thing for many of us to do is this: to face the truth about ourselves. No one wants to admit they have a problem (like our fashion challenged friend!), or that they may need help to overcome a difficulty. Instead of facing our deep-seated hurts we try to drown them out with substitutes for real healing like alcohol, drugs, sex, money, pride, power, lust, food, work or fame, to name a few. We merely try to put band-aids on our festering wounds. The band-aid lasts only so long, and we find ourselves still in pain and misery. What we need is surgery to clean the wound and expose it, then remove the infection in order to begin a true healing process. The surgery is painful, but necessary, and healing takes time. The question is, Are you willing to undergo the surgical "knife" in order to become whole?
You see, doctors and surgeons can help us to heal physically, but there is only one "Great Physician" who can truly heal us from the inside. If you can, please stop right now and ask God to reveal to you the source(s) of your hurt. Try to see God as a loving Heavenly Father who dotes on you. God is actually madly in love with you and He is actively pursuing a relationship with you! He created you Himself and you were born for a specific purpose. You are not a mistake, you are not an accident! God has known since eternity began that you would be alive right now, so He began planning for your life ages ago.
Now, try going back to a scene in your mind where someone did or said something to you that really hurt you. Something you have never forgotten, or that has been hidden in your heart until God just now revealed it to you. It will be painful, but try to remember each and every detail for a moment or two. Next, go back to the scene again, but this time imagine Jesus being right there with you. Imagine what your loving Heavenly Father would be doing or saying to help and comfort you. Invite the Lord Jesus to come into your heart and life and begin a process of healing your wounded, broken heart. God’s Word says, "This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in His presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For GOD is GREATER than our hearts and He knows everything". (1 John 3:19&20). Also, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31). You can be saved from the power and penalty of sin by accepting Christ’s sacrifice for you on the cross! His resurrection "sealed the deal" to bring peace and comfort into your life and to save you from the very presence of sin one day when you will spend eternity with Christ in Heaven. Accept God’s free gift today! Today is the day of salvation! Tomorrow is never guaranteed.
Please see my web page at http://gpbmin.blogspot.com/. There you can read my story of healing. I also encourage you to speak to a pastor or Christian friend. You may email me at gpbmin@yahoo.com if you have questions or would like to talk about what God has in store for you. The most important thing in life is to know that you are right with God and to be spared from the eternal penalty of sin, then to tell others the good news of God’s deliverance.

We're all Nerds...on the inside.

We're all different. We come from different backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, families, religions, and lifestyles. We may look cool to the rest of the world on the outside, but we're all just nerds on the inside. We're nerds because we don't fit in. We are outsiders, outcasts; we cannot reach the standard set for us by the one who created us.

God's standards are not the same standards by which we measure ourselves, or each other. We don't exactly fit the same mold as Him even though we were created in His image. The reason is because of sin. God says that "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). That means that no matter how hard we try, we simply have no chance of becoming sinless like God is sinless. The Bible tells us that sin is not allowed in God's presence in Heaven. How then, can we possibly make it to Heaven if we carry the cargo of sin in our hearts?

Jesus claimed to be the sinless Son of God. He said, ""I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6) In other words, Jesus was saying that the only way to the Father in Heaven was through His son, Jesus Christ. The reason Jesus could say that was because He ended up paying the penalty for all our sins, past present and future, on the cross at Calvary. God placed upon Jesus the sin of the world and allowed Christ to bear that punishment upon himself. Jesus became the sacrifice that the whole world needed in order to become free from the power and penalty of sin (eternal death). Because of Christ's death and His victorious resurrection over death and the grave, we too can receive His power to become the children of God! "Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God." (John 1:12)

Now, either Jesus was a liar, or completely crazy, or he truly was who he claimed to be. Who is Jesus to you? Will you accept God's free gift of eternal life because of the price that Jesus paid for you? It is as simple as believing and speaking in a simple prayer to the Lord. "...if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." The Bible also says that "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." (I John 1:9) Just a simple prayer of confession and belief in God will change your life from this moment forward.

If you say that prayer, please tell someone right away! Find some other believers in Christ, or a pastor or a church that will help you to learn more about your new life in Jesus Christ. If you need help, or more information, just email gpbmin@yahoo.com and you will be contacted with help and prayer. God bless you in the name of Jesus!