Real Stories

Repaying Evil With Good

A true life story. Fictitious names assigned for obvious reasons. Ernie was an officer in the U. S. Army, stationed at a large base in the U. S. Elise was content to forego an outside career; she felt that her calling...

Has Messiah Already Come?

I was born in 1862 at Berezna, a little town in eastern Hungary, where I was brought up in orthodox Judaism. The Jews there looked on Christianity as a phase of heathenism, for the Catholics openly exhibited their idolatrous habits,...

Foster Parenting

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world" (Jas. 1:27). Have you ever been challenged, as a believer, to become actively...

Free At Last

I have seen the power of God in changing my life. I was known as an habitual criminal, a career criminal. Between 1979 and 1993, I was charged with the following: first degree arson, aggravated motor vehicle theft, criminal mischief,...

Rescued from the Devil’s Lair

I turned 40 on January 19th of this year. It was a Lord's Day morning. My thoughts were everywhere except my birthday. Actually, 40 is a lot younger than you think once you arrive there. Over breakfast I talked to...

Grace at Rest

One of her sisters said, "She taught me how to love." A co-worker at Rest Haven Homes said, "She demonstrated what true faith in God really was." But as far as I was concerned, Grace taught me, well, grace. Grace J....

Cobbling for Christ

When I was a boy, I felt it was both a duty and a privilege to help my widowed mother make ends meet by finding employment in vacation time, on Saturdays and other times when I did not have to...

Lifting Sixteen Years of Heavy Baggage

The Compassion of Christ

Some time ago, I began to read the Bible carefully to study Bible characters. I read through the four Gospels, and my heart was moved. When I look over an audience and think of the wretchedness and misery that you...