Praying for Persecutors at Gunpoint

J. E. Modupe Taylor-Pearce writes in, "I Feel Like Executing You Now!"

On January 6, 1999, rebels terrorized Freetown, Sierra Leone, —murdering ...

"The Inn of the Sixth Happiness": Faith Against All Odds

The 1958 film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is the true story of Gladys Aylward (Ingrid Bergman), an English servant who became a faithful missionary ...

Ready to Hear the Gospel

New York Fire Department paramedic instructor Dave Gill has worked at New York's Ground Zero in the days following the September 11th terrorist attack. ...

Embarrassed to Witness

As a youth pastor, I'd just entered a convenience store with "Jeff" to pay for the gas I'd put in the church van. It was apparent that ...

Bono on Prayer

U2 singer Bono, in a private meeting in June 2001 on the Hill in Washington, D.C., said:

I do believe that the Kingdom of Heaven is taken by force. God ...

God Protects Prisoner

Aberra Wata worked with Christian youth in the southern part of Ethiopia during the time of Communist rule (1974-1991). He reported the following story ...

Fear Overwhelms the Overconfident

On July 21, 1861, raw Yankee recruits marched toward the Confederate Army camping at Bull Run, 30 miles southwest of Washington. The Union soldiers were ...

Can't Hide Great News

While I was attending seminary, our two older children (ages 9 and 7) seemed to attract every other child in the mobile home park for after-school games ...

Holy Spirit Amplifies Witness

The sound of the gavel opening the Republican National Convention on July 31, 2000 was not really the sound of the gavel. When doing sound tests, the ...

New Course in Sexuality

I held a notice from my 13-year-old daughter's school announcing a meeting to preview the new course in sexuality. Parents could examine the curriculum ...