By Zaine Abd Al-Qays, in the March 16, 2020 issue of Christianity Today ( www.christianitytoday.com ) I Was Warned to Keep My Distance from ‘Infidels.’ Then One Prayed for My…
By Gene McGuire, Christianity Today, June 2017, pages 79-80. Gene McGuire is the author of Unshackled: From Ruin to Redemption (Emerge Publishing). He lives in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, where he serves…
From The Testament, by John Grisham, pages 244-246, Doubleday, 1999. --------------------------- This novel begins with the death of Troy Phelan, the tenth richest man in America. Phelan despises…
By Joshua Rogers at www.joshuarogers.com, April 13, 2017 I was five years old when I walked into my mother’s bedroom and told her I wanted to give my…
Phil Robertson talks about duck calls and Jesus -------- By Phil Robertson in NKJV Duck Commander Faith and Family Bible. ---------------------------- Years ago I was invited to give…
Voice of the Martyrs magazine, April 2017, page 11, (www.persecution.com) --------------------------- As Roberto Santo Gomez looked back on his life, he felt like he hadn't amounted to much.…
Several years ago I went to Mexico to visit some Lutheran churches and mission projects. I traveled with an American missionary working just south of the border, and…
By Fred Craddock (1928-2015), Craddock Stories, ed. by Mike Graves and Richard F. Ward, 2001, Chalice Press, pages 23-24. ------------------------ When I was pastoring in Tennessee, there was a…
(...continued) I once knew a lady who, right at the end of her life, ‘saw the light.’ Doris left the little town where I was a pastor fifty…
The Light of the World, 1854, William Holman Hunt, English painter (1827-1910) Jesus, bringing light, preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door (Revelation 3:20). ---------------- (…continued) …