Our dear friend Zhou is about to become a citizen of the United States of America! Zhou was one of the Chinese refugees who fled China’s forced abortions in the early 1990s. She was just a pregnant teenager when she escaped from China. Now she is a mother of three precious children!
Her citizenship ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 9 in Indianapolis. Terri and I would like to be there, Continue reading →
“I dreamed the other night that I was thrown into a vat of blood,” the elderly preacher announced from the pulpit.
Sitting in the well-padded pew, I had believed that God had sent me to that tiny church about two hours from home to bring a message to the pastor, whom I had witnessed bringing a woman into the abortion chamber in Bakersfield to have her child killed that week. But when I heard the preacher’s words it became clear to me that I was not God’s only messenger.
The preacher, named Marvin, continued. “I struggled to get out of the blood, but the more I struggled, the more difficult it became. Finally, the hand of Jesus came and lifted me out of the blood.”
Marvin interpreted the dream as a sign that God had taken away his consciousness of sin. Turning to Hebrews 9, he emphasized the scriptural teaching that the blood of Christ has, once and for all, freed us of our sins. “Ever since I had that dream,” Marvin said, “I am no longer aware of my sins.”
Obviously, I interpreted the dream differently than Marvin Continue reading →
Last week, we witnessed a pastor bringing a young woman from his church to the abortion chamber to have her child killed. Thanks to the Internet, I found the name, address, and phone number of the church, and I could even look at pictures of the outside of this small country church.
The church is located in an area I hadn’t visited for decades, a small farming community in Tulare County, about an hour’s drive from Bakersfield. Nevertheless, a series of circumstances provided the opportunity for me to take the time to locate this pastor. What would God want me to say when I had the opportunity to speak face to face with this man of God who had allowed himself to be used to facilitate the death of an innocent child?