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When perfect strangers start asking you to pray and speak into their lives you know you are doing something right. It is so humbling to be asked to pray for someone, but when someone you have never met, asks for your help, your advice, your prayers, what is your response?  For me it is to pray immediately. Why not? We serve an awesome God, who is looking to and fro on the earth for His children and ready to reward our faithfulness with His favor. We are supposed to share the gospel...Read Full Story

The first thing I remember was pain unlike anything I had ever felt.  Every part of my body seemed to be throbbing but the intensity in my midsection was indescribable.  I could hear a voice that seemed very far away but the sense of emergency in her tone was unmistakable.  “We’re trying to stabilize him now!”  “Can you hear me?  We are trying to manage the pain.” I soon realized that the nurses were both talking about me and to me.  I was cold and shaking.  I felt sick.  Something was...Read Full Story

Christian cross (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I recently heard the story of a man that I believe is a wonderful testimony to the grace and love of God. The man has now gone to be with the Lord. Therefore, I am going to tell his story for him. Marvin was a man of 6’4”. He was addicted to cocaine and alcohol. His wife, Annabel, was a Christian. She went to Pastor Roy’s Church. Pastor Roy suggested that she leave her husband because he was abusive to her and the children. She said, “God is...Read Full Story

Have you ever considered how our “supermarket ” society has shaped our faith?  Sounds strange doesn’t it?  But many Christians have more in common with supermarket shoppers that they do with the disciples we read of in the Bible. In Jesus day, almost everyone was much more closely connected with the land.  Lifestyles, labor and even menus were governed by growing seasons.  People handled products in their primary form not in the processed and prepackaged form we are accustomed to.  As a...Read Full Story

Bible (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee) The most popular sold in America is the Bible. However, it is also the least read book. Those two statements seem contradictory. Normally one would think that the most popular book would also be the most read book. Why is it that nearly everyone has several Bibles, but most people never think to actually read the Bible? Most places now has a Bible. Bibles are in hospitals, waiting rooms, nursing homes,and  hotels. Many people proudly display a large family...Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia When I was about 5 or 6 years old, I begin to learn about Jesus, heaven, and hell. I was told that Jesus loves me so much that he came and died on the cross for my sins. I learned that 3 days later he came back to life. Later he went to heaven to create a home for everyone who believes in him. In heaven, there is no sickness, pain, or suffering. Someone said that hell is 10 times hotter than Georgia is in the summer time. I had been to Atlanta, Georgia in December and it...Read Full Story

Wood burning stove Image via Wikipedia Three years ago, I came face to face with how ungrateful many people really are including me. Even now when I think about it, tears come to my eyes. I came to know a fourteen-year-old boy. His dad is in jail. The boy lives with his mother in Mexico. The boy is given a choice every weekday. He can go to school or he can go to work. The boy, who I am going to call Sam, knows that if he goes to school his mother will only be able to eat one bowl of beans...Read Full Story

Were they scanning the night sky in search of an expected sign or did they search their charts after observing an unusual star?  Whatever the circumstances, what they saw in the heavens was big enough to change their lives. Preparations began immediately, a long journey was at hand.  Comfortable portable shelters, clothes, bedding, astronomical instruments, food, water and provender for the animals all needed to be packed.  Knowing that they would meet a king, the men choose suitable gifts to...Read Full Story

A cold blast of air met me as I exited the Old City of Jerusalem through Herod’s Gate.  I was making my way up to the Post Office in East Jerusalem where I knew there was an outside telephone I could use to call home to America.  I had been in Israel for only two months, but this would be my first Thanksgiving away from my family.  After some difficulty connecting, I heard the familiar sound of my mothers voice as the sound of a large family dinner filled the background. The dinner was just...Read Full Story

So many Biblical holidays are centered around  the harvest.  Passover commemorates the barley harvest, Pentecost falls at the wheat harvest, and Tabernacles occurs in the time of the fruit harvest.  As a Judeo-Christian nation, America continues the tradition with Thanksgiving. The USA is one of a very few countries that set aside a national day to give thanks to God.  Great pressure has been applied to change the focus to things like turkey and sports, but if not God, who exactly are we...Read Full Story