Bubbling Over

Bubbling Over

“May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing [through the experience of your faith] that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing (bubbling over) with hope.” Romans 15:13 (AMP)  It was so hot—Sahara Desert,...
A Miracle, or Random Phenomenon?

A Miracle, or Random Phenomenon?

Do you believe God still performs miracles? If you worked where I work, there would be no doubt in your mind. In the 3ABN Pastoral Department we receive calls from apprehensive and fearful people. We pray together and give them a promise from God’s Word to which they...
Three Good Samaritans

Three Good Samaritans

It was just “one of those days” for Kaye. The so-called “Murphy’s Law” (if anything can go wrong, it will) seemed to be in full swing. Later, she contacted our Pastoral Department with a special praise for the way the Lord turned things around. “I hadn’t been feeling...
Effective, Fervent Prayer

Effective, Fervent Prayer

3:49 a.m.—the tone alert of an incoming text awoke Sharon*. It was a message no mother wants to receive. Her 15-year-old son Colton* had sent a video of himself, sitting forlorn on his bed. Animated writing in black font filled in atop his image, “WAS I a bad son?”...
In The Twinkling of an Eye

In The Twinkling of an Eye

My wife Shelley says, “Intercessory prayer is the highest calling there is to ministry, because it is the ministry of our risen and exalted Savior who sits at the right hand of God, and is ‘able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He...