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Herod Commits Eternal Suicide

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  In the 1930s thousands of Koreans fled what is now North Korea when the Japanese invaded. Many of them settled in the USSR around Vlapostok. Many of them were Christians and so by the suffering of the Koreans the gospel of Jesus was being carried into central USSR.   Joseph Stalin saw the Koreans around Vlapostok as a security risk to the weapons manufacturing centre. So he relocated them to five areas around the Soviet Union, spreading the Christians even farther into the Muslim areas of the USSR. One of the places they were sent was to Tashkent the center of the 20,000,000 Muslim Uzbek people who had violently resisted western efforts to bring Christianity. Over the next decades these Koreans became an accepted part of Uzbek society. Then, on June 2 1990 the first open air Christian meeting in the history of Soviet Central Asia was held, marking a major shift in religious freedom. This event represented a major departure from the long-standing, intense religious pers...
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God the Absolute Lord of Every Situation

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     One day John Wesley was returning to England from the failure of his missionary work in Georgia. The little ship on which he sailed encountered a terrible storm and Wesley was, as we might put it, “scared to death.” Wesley recorded in his journal that a storm broke the main sail and flooded the decks with water, making it seem "as if the great deep had already swallowed us up". While the English passengers, including Wesley, panicked and screamed in fear of drowning, a group of 26 Moravian Christians (a Protestant group from Germany) onboard remained calm and continued singing hymns. Ashamed of his own paralyzing fear, Wesley asked a Moravian afterward if they were afraid. The leader replied, "I thank God, no," and added that they were not afraid to die. This incident caused Wesley to realize that he did not have the true, saving faith that he was attempting to preach. Later he stated, "I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall co...
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The First Apostle Goes Home

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  Kenneth O Gangel wrote “ I have been forced to grapple with the issue of premature death numerous times during the long years of my life. While serving on the faculty at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in the early 1970s, Paul Little died in a severe car crash in Ontario. Perhaps you have read some of his books: Know What You Believe, Know Why You Believe, and How to Give Away Your Faith. He died at age 48 leaving a lasting legacy in evangelism training. Paul was one of the greatest personal evangelists I ever knew and a fireball for Christ. Why did he go home so early? How could God need this man in heaven when we so desperately needed them here on earth? The answer of course is that we have no idea and we either give in or cave in to the sovereignty of God”. In the book of Acts we read “Agabus...predicted that a severe famine would spread over the entire Roman world.   The disciples... decided to provide help for the brothers and sisters living in Judea. This th...
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