Back in August I attended the funeral of a true Christian hero, BeatrÃz López. She was a brave evangelist who preached the gospel in her native Cuba in spite of opposition from the government. She became the first woman to serve as a bishop in her denomination, the...
Present world conditions show us that the stage is being set for a grand finale. It's clear to me that Islam is about to take some serious losses. It will be greatly weakened as we approach the day of the Lord.Here are six specific reasons I believe Islam will...
Whether it's watching from afar through a documentary or hearing about discoveries/escapes on the news, we've developed a fascination with cults."I'd never do that!" we might proclaim. Or "Who is crazy enough to join something so silly?"Or, we may even think a cult...
Today was one of the most amazing days in our congregation. An Arab woman from Iraq shared how she left Islam for Yeshua.Fatma was raised in a strict Islamic household. When she was 8 years old, her father took her to Mecca, where she saw a woman beheaded for...
Few people have so completely lost the world but gained their soul as Ali Husnain has (name changed for security reasons). The son of prominent Shia Muslim parents in Pakistan, Husnain decided at age 17 to convert to Christianity. His family thought he was kidding and...
Silas is a 25-year-old Iranian convert to Christianity now living in Berlin.Why did he come to Christ?After studying his Muslim faith, "what I concluded is that Islam was a big lie that a lot of people were falling for."Then a friend loaned him a copy of God's Word....
When most Muslims make their religiously required pilgrimages to Mecca, they're going in order to meet Allah—not Jesus. But Jesus isn't intimidated by the false God; rather, He's out to be victorious. That's exactly why He's been reaching out in...
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Mark 4:26-5:20 When we look at Jesus and the life He lived on earth, we see His mind was filled with faith. Worry and doubt were not part of His life. He was able to sleep through the storm because He trusted in the Father, whom He knew controls the storms of this life. Fear overcame the disciples in the boat because their focus was on the storm instead of their heavenly Father, who sits on and even rides upon the clouds. Faith comes when we learn to glance at the storms (the trials and testing in our lives) and gaze upon Jesus. The moment we encounter a difficulty on this earth we need to look at it briefly and then focus our eyes heavenward. Paul exhorts us to set our affections upon things above.
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases. —Psalms 103:3
Matthew 18:23-19:12 In this passage in Matthew, Jesus tells the story of the servant who had been forgiven all his debt by his master, but this servant was unwilling to forgive another the debt he was owed. The conclusion to this story is the following statement: “And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto ye, if you from ye hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses” (Matt. 18:34-35, KJV).
Psalm 22:1-18 Some of the most traumatic feelings a person can experience is being abandoned. Abandonment rocks our emotions with feelings of insecurity, fear, doubt, loneliness, failure, rejection, grief, sorrow and unworthiness, just to name a few. I’ve never experienced abandonment, but I know people who have. I know a fifty-year-old man who is still being healed emotionally of the abandonment he experienced as a young boy. Both his mother and father were alcoholics, and they would leave their two young boys on the beach alone at night while they partied at the bars. Later this man’s father killed his mother. Imagine the trauma of abandonment he felt.
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. —John 12:32
Proverbs 29:24-25 When I first married, I was so bound by the fear of what others thought of me. I wondered if my mother thought I was a good mother. Did my husband think I was a good wife? Did my neighbors think I was a good neighbor? I remember my next door neighbor coming to my home and telling me how she cleaned her oven and range every day. From that day forward I made sure my oven and range were spotless just in case “Mrs. Clean” dropped by uninvited. Before I was delivered from the fear of man, I never really listened to what people were saying. I was too busy thinking about what I would say to them when they finished talking.
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