In many ways, I had an idyllic childhood. My memories of growing up with my two brothers and a sister are happy ones. Even though my dad was a busy pastor, he always prioritized time with his family. After high school, while studying nursing at a Christian college, I met Kevin Powell, a young theology […]
An Angel in Uniform
During the communist regime in Bulgaria, a Christian, Mr. Dimitrov, worked secretly to produce as many Christian books as possible. Pastor Marinov did the translations and Dimitrov set the print. The work was slow and risky. Although they played loud communist music to muffle the noise of their typewriters, the state […]
A Roman citizen by birth, Saul was nevertheless a Jew by descent and had been educated in Jerusalem by the most eminent of the rabbis. “Of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin,” Saul was “a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church, touching the […]
The Bible is the most widely published book of all times, but even in this Christian nation the Bible is still unread and inaccessible to many. My story illustrates how important it is to make the Bible available to everyone. I grew up in a devout Polish Catholic family. My parents taught my brothers and […]
I believe we are living in Earth’s last days. The prophet Joel wrote of the last days, quoting these words from the Lord: “And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on My […]
The story of my journey from homosexuality to holiness begins with my family. My mom was a quiet girl who had grown up in a home with an abusive father. My dad was a good-looking, hotheaded Italian. He was a jazz musician in the military and was gone for three to six months at a […]
EDITOR’S PROLOGUE: In his quest for fulfillment, acceptance, and love, Doug Batchelor attended 14 schools in nine years. Finally, at age 16, he rejected society altogether and moved into a cave alone in the San Jacinto Mountains near Palm Springs, California. There, he discovered a dusty Bible lying on a rock shelf in the cave. […]
The night before His death, Jesus told His small band of bewildered disciples, “I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” John 14:2, 3, NKJV. The clear […]
“Your mother’s going to hell, where she’ll be tormented forever!” my religion teacher threatened. Right then, at eight years old, I decided, If there is a God, I hate Him. How can a loving God punish my faithful mother? When my father married my mother, they belonged to different faiths. But they had decided to […]
“Farana, can you hear the rattling sound?” I whispered as I hid my head under my blanket in our dark bedroom, afraid to encounter whatever was causing the sudden terrifying noise. I was eight years old and expected comfort from my sister, Farana, who was ten years older. “Yes! What is it? Switch the light […]