Real Life Experiences


Everybody needs encouragement now and then, and we offer these stories and poems to you in the hopes that you'll find something that will touch your heart, something that will help you to face a new day, a new situation, a new problem.  In some of our future articles the names and places will have been changed. 

God wants us to lead rich, full lives, and sometimes we need to be encouraged towards the fulfillment of our potential.  It is our prayer that these
stories and poems will bring a blessing and comfort to those who are going through the storms and sorrows of life.

We would like to thank those who have given us permission to share what they have gone through, in so doing, they have followed the example of
Paul the Apostle who used his afflictions to encourage and comfort others.  (2 Cor. 1:3-6)
 

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From New Age Deception To Christ   

 

God wanted me when the Foster Care system didn't.   

 

They fled Ukraine and Ukraine followed.   

 

I Plant Secret House Churches   

 

I laid down my Islamic privilege to preach Jesus around the world.   

 

David and Svea Flood - Sowing in Tears   

 

Dr. Helen Roseveare   

 

Baby Box Saves Over 1500 Lives   

 

Reuben's Story   

 

Was It Chance?   

 

Very Soon I Will Be In Heaven   

 

Silent Night - The True Story   

 

John G. Paton - Missionary to The South Sea Islands   

 

Biography of Hymn Writer Phillip Bliss   

 

I'm A Shooting Survivor   

 

Charlotte Elliot Who Penned The Hymn "Just As I Am"   

 

Missionary Pilot Dies Transporting Corona Virus Supplies   

 

God Is In Control   

 

In My Seat   

 

She Sought The Doctor, But Found Christ   

 

Strength In The Struggle   

 

An Inconvenient Obedience   

 

Professor John Lennox   

 

Scottish Missionary Who Paid The Ultimate Price   

 

Victim of Columbine High School Shootings   

 

Unable To Finish School For Becoming A Christian   

 

Raised In a Doomsday Cult   

 

Those Who Fought For Freedom Until Death   

 

True Life Story of John Harper   

 

WW II Superhero - He Saved Hundreds of Jewish POWs   

 

Gratitude To Paramedics Who Saved His Life   

 

Apologist Norman Geisler Who Didn't Have "Enough Faith To Be An Atheist"   

 

Why I Forgave The Man I Once Plotted To Kill   

 

Former Abortionist: "Abortion is Barbaric"   

 

I Found The Gospel in Communist Romania   

 

The Little White Envelope   

 

Benny Hinn Is My Uncle, But Prosperity Preaching Isn't For Me   

 

Christian Missionary Details His Time in Sudanese Prison   

 

The High Cost of Peer Pressure   

 

"Just One Year" of Missions   

 

Harry Moorehouse, The English Evangelist   

 

Visit In The Hospital . . . Not Me   

 

Ira D. Sankey - Gospel Singer and Composer   

 

Dwight L. Moody   

 

William Leslie - Missionary To The Congo   

 

Written by a Doctor who worked in Africa   

 

Viewpoint From A Once "Troubled Kid"   

 

Senior's Coffee Please   

 

The Power Of Forgiveness   

 

Saved - A Nightmare Walk On The Beach   

 

Kristi's Story   

 

The Slave Girl Called Blandina   

 

Einstein and Billy Graham   

 

A Tribute For Father's Day by Matt Cotton   

 

Charles E. Fuller   

 

Queen Victoria's Conversion - Being Sure Of Eternal Life   

 

The Gospel Tract   

 

Samuel Morris, Missionary To America   

 

How A Holiday Turned Into A Mission   

 

I Heard The Bells   

 

The Battle Of My Life by Joni Eareckson Tada   

 

Neesima Shimeta - Japan's Home Grown Gospel Hero   

 

Burke The Burglar   

 

The Old Colonel   

 

The Life and Ministry of Jerry McAuley   

 

Jane Haining - Scottish Missionary Who Died In Auschwitz   

 

Darlene Deibler Rose - Prisoner Of War   

 

Ike Miller's Conversion   

 

The Stroke Which Was My Due, Fell Upon Him   

 

Life In A Concentration Camp In Russia   

 

The Brown-Bag Christmas   

 

When Sankey Sang The Shepherd's Song On Christmas Eve   

 

Geoffrey T. Bull (1921-1999)   

 

Sir James Simpson - Discoverer of Chloroform   

 

William Carey's Amazing Mission   

 

George W. Truett   

 

James Nicolson's Commendation   

 

The Conversion of Millionaire Henry Goodyear   

 

The Saloon Keeper's Children   

 

February 29, 1948 - Prisoner Number One   

 

00:22 Minutes   

 

A Gift In Prison   

 

A Soldier's Tale of Grace   

 

A Witness From 60 Years Ago - Lieutenant General Sir William Dobbie   

 

Amy Carmichael's First Act of Kidnapping   

 

Ann Hasseltine Judson - First American Woman Missionary   

 

Anthony - A Beggar Made Fit For a King   

 

Billy Bray - The Conversion of A Drunkard   

 

Chinese Underground Church Leader - Samuel Lamb   

 

Gladys Aylward - Missionary to China   

 

Grandpa Dyke's Conversion To God   

 

Harold Wildish   

 

Hatred Preserves Pain   

 

Henry Martyn   

 

His Mother's Bible - Dr. W.P. MacKay   

 

Hudson Taylor and China Inland Mission   

 

Irene Sendler (Rescuer of Jewish Children)   

 

James Milton Black   

 

Jenner of George Street   

 

John Bradford   

 

John and Betty Stam   

 

Jungle Decision   

 

Mary Slessor Among The Cannibals of Calabar   

 

Missionaries Who Died In The Ecuador Jungle   

 

Nurse Edith Cavell   

 

Out of The Mouths of Babes   

 

Paul Chaubey - A Murderer Saved   

 

Paul Neilly - From Surgeon to Patient   

 

Helen Roseveare - The Faith of A Little Child   

 

Solitary Confinement - By Robert Vogeler   

 

She Dared To Save The Bibles   

 

Sir Nicolas Winton - Saved the lives of 669 children from death in Nazi Germany   

 

Charles Thomas (C.T.) Studd   

 

Teenager Mary Jones Took a Walk and Paved The Way   

 

The Miraculous Survival of Missionaries - Typhoon Haiyan - Philippines   

 

The Valley Of The Shadow   

 

Waziri Kagoma - He Forgave Them   

 

William Cowper - There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood   

 


 

Why?

In the advancement of years, it is so easy to lose sight of the apparently simple but profound questions of a little child.  Their minds are filled with curiosity and questionings.  For many adults the amazing becomes ordinary, but for a child, the world can be full of excitement and wonder.  I can understand the words of the ancient prophet when he wrote: "A little child shall lead them".  Our Lord said:  "I thank Thee Father . . . that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes" (Matt. 11:25).  This poem was written by a little girl of 10 years of age, and is an example of the teachings of the ancient prophet and our Lord.  Her testimony and photo can be found in the "Personal Testimonies" category - "A Little Child shall Lead Them". (Isa. 11:6)


  

 

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