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Fyli, a municipality in Greece, northwest of Athens has a debt of $500 million. They have been granted generous terms for repayment. In 2016, authorities awarded the city 25,546 months to pay meaning the debt will finally be paid in 4144. Our debt of sin could not be paid, even if we had 25,000 months…

Rosaria Butterfield, author of The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert is a former lesbian whose book talks of her conversion. She says this about what happened to her. “I wasn’t converted out of homosexuality. I was converted out of unbelief.” The Bible holds out hope to all. There are no sinners…

Russell Moore and his wife adopted two sons from Russia and when the legal process was finally over and they went to pick them up from the orphanage the transition proved to be harder than they had expected. Their new sons had never been outside. They had never even ridden in a car. As they pulled away…

Superbugs that are resisting even the most powerful antibiotics, are infecting people and livestock in China. Some Microbiologists warn that it may only be a matter of time before universal drug resistance is widespread and existing antibiotics will become obsolete. “This isn’t going to happen overnight,…

Ana Marie Cox was a political writer taking hard left positions. She describes herself as a “progressive, feminist, tattooed, pro-choice, graduate-educated believer.” She wrote left wing commentary for several magazines, and appeared on left-wing talk shows. Several years ago she seemingly disappeared.…

In his book “Out of a Far Country,” Christopher Yuan tells his story of a Gay man’s journey to God. In the book he tells of his mother who after 30 years of marriage was going to leave his father. She bought a one-way Amtrak ticket to Louisville to say goodbye to Christopher and then she planned to end…

A month and a half after Election Day in 2016, Joe Chandler, from Georgia, is refusing to find out who won the presidential election. He says that on the day after the vote he woke up feeling happy and relaxed and decided not to ruin the mood by seeing the election result. So, for 6 weeks he has avoided…

Danny Duchene had been in prison for twenty years serving a double life sentence when he first read Rick Warren’s book, The Purpose Driven Life. The book changed Duchene’s life and led to the beginning of a “Purpose Driven Church” group in the prison, and the introduction of the Celebrate Recovery program,…

Michel Flamant, a French baker, and Isaac Wenrich, a youth league baseball coach have something in common. Both of them had their lives saved in the same week by non-professional and unlikely people. Flamant had collapsed on the floor of his bakery when the room filled with carbon monoxide gas from a…

In 2015, the medical headlines read ‘Flu vaccine not working well; only 23 percent effective.’ Each year research have to predict which strains will dominate the flu season as they develop their vaccine for the flu seasons. In the best of years, they rise above 50% effective; in 2015 it was less than…

Joel Sweeney of River Falls, Wisconsin had a drinking problem. He has eight drunk-driving infractions. He was in near death accidents three times. After spending three years in jail he decided to get sober. Since 2013 he has been the town’s designated driver. He gives free rides to people as they leave…

In Toughest people to love, Chuck DeGroat wrote, “In the upside-down economy of Jesus, those closest to the bottom are nearest to grace. Polished and put together, many of us live our lives without a real, palpable need for God.”—Jim L. Wilson Toughest people to love: how to understand, lead, and love…

Thomas Artiaga was passing a home in Fresno, California when he saw a house engulfed in flames. He ran into the house, threw 73-year-old Robert Wells over his shoulder and carried him to safety. Wells says he is lucky to be alive and is thankful for the man who saved him. Every day we run into people…

In “Approved Life,” Joshua Saefkow writes, “In the 1951 children's classic, Alice in Wonderland, Alice asks Cheshire cat for advice when she comes to an intersection on the road. She said, ‘Cheshire, can you please tell me, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want…

In their book, Simple Church: Returning to God’s process for making disciples Thom Rainer & Eric Geiger write, “According to the Scripture, a believer’s life is to be transformed more and more. People are not supposed to be the same. There is to be progression, movement.” —Jim L. Wilson Simple Church:…

Alan Sinclair does not want his death to be permanent. After he dies, his blood will be flushed from his body and replaced with antifreeze. Technicians will then cool the body with dry ice and fly it to a cryonics center in Michigan. The center will keep it at minus 320 degrees. When a solution is found…

In 2014, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline received reports of 5,042 potential human trafficking cases. Almost one-third of the cases involved minors. The department of justice believes about 300,000 children in the United States are trafficking victims. Shannon Forsythe is the founder…

In Ministering to Problem People in Your Church: What to Do With Well-Intentioned Dragons, Marshall Shelley writes, “According to the National Institute of Mental Health, more than 25 percent of Americans ages 18 and older suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.” --Jim L. Wilson Ministering…

In 1984, Stephen Owens and his mother Gaile found his father beaten to death in their home. Stephen was surprised; Gaile was not. She was not surprised because she hired Sidney Porterfield to kill her husband, a task that he did with a tire iron. Forgiveness did not come easy. Owens had no contact with…

The Jascon 4 was helping to stabilize an oil tanker as it refueled at a Chevron platform 20 miles offshore in the Atlantic, when it capsized and eventually rested upside down on the ocean floor in 100 feet of water. Sixty hours later a team of divers began retrieving the bodies of the 12 crewmen aboard.…

In the NFL offseason two men in the Denver Broncos front office were convicted of DUI. Team president, John Elway suspended both of them, but he did not fire them. When asked why Tom Heckert and Matt Russell were not fired Elway replied, “Heck, I’ve made a lot of poor decisions too. I believe in second…

In his autobiography, Pat Summerall the former player and broadcaster tells of becoming a born again Christian during his treatment for alcoholism at the Betty Ford rehab clinic. The message of the Gospel is changed lives in the grace God gives in Jesus Christ. --Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell World,…

Like the prodigal son, KC decided to take what was his and go to the far country. The 14-year-old dog got loose from his owner while on a walk outside their suburban Detroit home. When he came to his senses he was far from home on out on the ice of Lake St. Clair, 4 miles from shore. Discovered and rescued…

Joshua Venuthurapalli says he was a young man headed for trouble, but his life changed because Jesus answered his prayer and sent angels to protect him. Joshua’s father died when he was only a child. Though he was born into the Hindu high-caste Brahmin, without a father figure he soon became involved…

Eva Lenfest made a wrong turn and drove down an unfamiliar rode covered in leaves, what she did not know is that it was not a road, it was a boat ramp. And since the surface of the water was also covered in leaves, she didn’t discover her mistake until the car was sinking. When Bryden Burlseon and Howard…