Faith

(From the mind of he)

Well, this ones not really from my mind, but I did read this and wanted to share it with you.

This story is about a minister in Iran.

A minister and his wife were driving through northern Iran. They came to a small village where he decided to buy water. As he stops his car he notices a man leaning against the wall of the shop with a beard and a machine gun. The wife sees the man's gun and face, takes a Bible in Farsi, and puts it in her husband's pocket. She says, "Give that man a Bible." Her husband looks at the beard, looks at the gun, and says, "No." She says, 'No, no, no. Seriously. Give it to him. Really. Please. Give it to him. Give him the Bible." So he says, "I'll pray about it." He goes into the shop, comes out with bottles of water, and they drive away. The wife looks at her husband. "You didn't give him the Bible, did you?" He said, "No, I prayed about it. It wasn't the right thing to do." She said, "You should have given him one." He disagrees and they go back and forth. So the wife bows her head and prays out loud fervently that her husband might listen to God. At that point, they have a friendly discussion that married couples have from time to time that ends with words, "Fine! If you want me to die, I will."

The husband turns the car around and goes back into the village. He gets out of the car, walks up to the man, and places a Bible in his hands. The man opens it and starts to cry. He said, "I don't live here. I live three days' walk from here. But three days ago an angel came and appeared to me and told me to walk to this village and wait until someone had given me the Book of Life. Thank you for giving me this book."

This comes from Ravi Zacharias' news letter. He also added this about the gospel. "We need to know that the gospel is simple enough to reach a little child and sophisticated enough to reach the finest minds..."

I Am Second

Hey Everyone,
Check out this website www.iamsecond.com
Brian Welch from the band KORN (remember them?) gives an amazing testimonial about how he came to Christ. Also some other 'famous' people and just 'regular' people with the same kinds of daily struggles and issues that we all face. It's a really powerful site- check it out!

What We Were Made For

(From the mind of he)


The wife and I went to visit the family in Chapel Hill this weekend. My nephew was in a way off Broadway musical entitled The Remarkable Ark.

We were headed west on I40 and at exit 113 something crazy happened. I noticed a silver car coming from behind me at an extreme rate of speed. Had to be at least a hundred. Well the driver decided to take the off ramp without slowing, and I thought to myself 'how are they going to slow in time'. Then about that time we heard a very loud screech and when we looked over the car was flipping into the trees that lined the off ramp. We called the police, pulled off the road, and went up the on ramp to determine if the person was OK. Well, miraculously enough , the lady was completely uninjured. I talked to some others who had stopped and some said she was suicidal, others said she was running from the police, while another said her tire had been flat for a couple of miles and she was still driving 90. Someone approached the car and the lady in the car told them to leave her alone. All and all it was a very strange situation.

The amazing thing to me in this situation, other than her being uninjured, was the amount of people who stopped to see if she was OK. This leads me to the title of this blog. We were made to love God and love people. We were made to worship God. What I saw out there amongst the crowd was love. There had to be about 20 to 30 people who stopped what they were doing to care for another human being. Unfortunately it seems to take extreme circumstances to bring people together for the common good. When I think about this from a Gospel perspective it makes me realize that everyone who doesn't know Christ is in a serious situation. I need to stop what I am doing and present love and truth to them. Someone did that for me when I was living in a serious situation. Their care changed my life forever and enabled me to stop running and searching. I pray in this situation that the lady who received a second chance will stop running and surrender to a loving Savior.

And on a side note, my nephew was an excellent lemur and sang beautifully.