“Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.”- Isaiah 40:1-2 (ESV) We are often reminded, at Salam Christian Fellowship, of God’s Grace and the comfort […]

Thomas, a convert from Islam who fled Yemen for his faith and joined Salam two weeks ago told me a touching story. “It took me six years to find a hard copy of the New Testament in Yemen. Before that, I used to read bits and pieces online, but I had not held a Bible […]

“90 percent of French citizens who have radical Islamist beliefs have French grandparents and 80 percent come from non-religious families. In fact, most Europeans who are drawn into jihad are “born again” into radical religion by their social peers. In France, and in Europe more generally, more than three of every four recruits join the […]

“…for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” 2 Tim 1: 7 Islam is anti- Western and anti-Christian, but Muslims may not be. We need to reach out to them with love, but insist on our right to expose the Medieval Islamic values that violate human rights. […]

Sharing Jesus, Shining Like Stars Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ It is always a pleasure to be at St. Mark. I was driving back from St. Louis, MO, when I received the news of the terrorist attacks in Paris. I was coming back after I did […]

What I am going to say may not be popular in the Church. A knee-jerk reaction to terrorist attacks is not Christian. We need a Spirit-filled reaction. Black lives matter… French lives matter… American lives matter… Muslim lives matter. Terrorists kill Muslims everyday more than all the French victims that were murdered on Friday. Muslims, […]

“See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?” And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. – Acts 8; 38 Throughout the nearly 1,400 year history of Islam, Muslims have resisted the Gospel. Many Christians tried to reach them […]

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but […]

For the 10th anniversary of my enrollment at CTSFW, I post an old article written in 2005, with some editing: The Jesus’ Touch “For me, the most thrilling ‘Jesus Touch’ of my life was when I was called to attend Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, IN,” said Hesham Shehab a missionary from Lebanon working […]

“Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut” Revelations 3: 8 Hundreds of hundreds of Syrian refugees are coming “to hear the Word of God, to be fed, to be treated by medical teams, and to be loved ,” Lebanese missionary Mohammad Yamout recently told a standing-room-only […]