Bridge of Grace

Most in the world felt that the threat of World Communism died with the fall of the Berlin Wall, but it did not.  Communism is very much alive in nations such as China, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, & Laos.  Communist FARC Rebels continue to terrorize the people of Columbia, and the Communist ideology continues to influence nations such as India, Nepal, & Eritrea.  Communism was upheld by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels as the answer to corruption & greed.  They believed it would eliminate conflict between classes and societal exploitation, it would essentially create a utopia on Earth.  The tragic truth though is this: Communism has only created Hell on Earth.   Communist and Communist-influenced countries around the world are rife with corruption, greed and gross social injustice. Communist Propaganda & Indoctrination is Powerful: but it cannot Hide the Scars that it inflicted on Richard Wurmbrand & so many others. Richard W...

My Father once told me that there are only two guarantees in life: Death & Taxes.  While he is right, Jesus taught that there is another guarantee in life: We're Guaranteed to be Offended.  Many times in our lives, we allow trivial matters to dictate our beliefs and feelings toward our fellow man.  Often we hold grudges for weeks, months, even years over something that somebody said or did that we viewed as offensive.  To many, the offense would seem trivial, but to us, it's a mountain.   To be easily offended means that we are resentful, annoyed, even insulted because of the words, actions, or beliefs of somebody else.  When somebody, even someone that we've known for years offends us in some way, we may dwell on it, obsess over it, even be willing to sever years of friendship over it.   I know this because I'm guilty of it.  I know from my own experience that when we allow ourselves to be easily offended, we are unhappy, often ...

The past few years I have learned that nobody is safe from sex trafficking.  Traffickers will target anybody if they can get money out of it, and transgender women are no exception.  In 2019, Brazilian police brought down a sex trafficking ring that hand been targeting transgender women for six years.  The police launched numerous raids and discovered 38 transgender women in Brazilian hostels.  These individuals were lured by traffickers with the promise that they would help them pay for their sex change surgeries, but once ensnared, they were forced to serve as sex slaves, obstinately to pay for their "surgeries," and were subjected to physical and psychological abuse if they failed to meet their quota. Under Brazilian Law, prostitution is legal, but sexual exploitation is not.  Brazil needs to change this and start making prostitution illegal as well.  I have learned that the line between prostitution and sexual exploitation is seldom clear, and all t...

When Asia Bibi was working in the fields, she stopped to take a drink of water from a local well.  A local Muslim woman who despised Christians witnessed this and grew angry, telling Asia that Christians were forbidden to drink from the same utensils as Muslims because they were unclean and proceeded to mock Asia's faith.  When Asia defended her faith, it landed her in prison for Blasphemy, where she spent nine years on death row.  Now, another Christian, 22-year-old Saleem Masih, has fallen victim to this as well.   Asia Bibi & Saleem Masih On Feb. 25, while working as a farm laborer in the Punjab district of Pakistan, Saleem stopped to bath in a tube well.  The Muslim landlord and four individuals accused Saleem of "contaminating the water" and proceeded to severely beat him with iron rods for two hours.  After leaving Saleem for dead, his broken body was found by other laborers and taken to a local hospital for treatment.  Sadly, Sal...

In the nation of Pakistan, it is not unusual for women, especially those of a minority faith, to be forcibly married against their will.  No woman in Pakistan is safe from this, not even underage children.  Although the nation passed the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act in 2014 to try and stop child marriage, Sharia Law, it is decreed that a woman can be legally married after their first menstrual cycle, which on averaged happens at the age of 12.  On Feb. 3rd, 2020, a High Court in Pakistan ruled in favor of Sharia Law and not the Child Marriage Restraint Act.  The ruling was made during the case of Huma Younus, a 14-year-old Catholic girl who was abducted by a Muslim man, forcibly converted, and pressured to marry him against her will.  In the court, Huma's parents produced her birth records and baptism certificate to prove that she was underage, but the court ruled in accordance to Sharia.   Huma's parents condemned this ungodly ruling, statin...

In the fall and winter of 2019, the Iranian people once again took to the streets, demanding their Liberty and Freedom from the repressive Iranian regime.  Their brave defiance of this evil regime has come with a heavy price.  The National Council of Resistance in Iran reported that during the recent uprising, over 450 Iranian protesters were slain by Iranian security forces.  One such victim was Nikta Esfandani, a 14-year-old girl who was shot in the head by security forces while she was demonstrating for the liberty of her people ( Link to Article ). Mary Mohammadi: Imprisoned Iranian Christian Convert Unfortunately, those protesters who courageously gave their lives for the cause of liberty are not the only ones who suffer for their courage.  Throughout the country thousands of protesters and dissidents were rounded up by Iranian security police and sent to prison.  Among the victims was 21-year-old Mary Mohammadi, an Iranian convert to Christia...

For many years the U.S. company "Shields of Strength" has made thousands of dog tags with Biblical verses on them for United States soldiers.  On many occasions, the company had made these tags free of charge for our fighting men and women.  Now however, the organization called the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has pressured the Pentagon to order the company to stop making these dog tags. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation claims that manufacturing this style of dog tag for the United States military is a a violation of the U.S. Constitution.  Apparently, this organization doesn't understand that "Freedom of Religion" is a fundamental part of the United States Constitution.  In fact, it's the cornerstone of our First Amendment Rights.  Throughout the course of history, people fled to our nation to escape religious persecution, now it's under threat right here in our own nation that has long championed for the cause of "Freedom ...