From Southwest Asia:
Dear brother,
I have been deployed as a Sheikh by the government in Egypt to Southeast Asia in order to teach Arabic and help convert people into Islam. While being there I came across your ministry online, heard you talk, read your publications in Arabic and it has started my thinking: Christ now has my heart and I believe everything that the Bible has to say about him. If I’m feeling low or in need of a boosting charge I watch the film of Christ and everything about Christ fills my heart with peace and reassurance. You are always ready to listen to me for hours as you alone know my secret of being won over by the love of Christ. I can be transparent with you while in Southeast Asia life is nothing short of acting and hypocrisy. I feel trapped. Yet I feel liberated to be found by the Savior who I’m fully convinced of His deity and majestic power to do what no other prophet could ever do. Thank you for always making yourself available and it impresses me how you still quote the Quran perfectly and you know both Islam and Christianity better than any learned Muslim scholar I know of, besides your being saturated with the Bible. This makes me trust you as an honest scholar who can continue to help answer questions I might have here and there. Thank you for allowing the love of Christ to flow through your ministry to Muslims who are still seeking as well those who need discipleship.
Your brother,
R. S- Southwest Asia
Dear brother,
I have been deployed as a Sheikh by the government in Egypt to Southeast Asia in order to teach Arabic and help convert people into Islam. While being there I came across your ministry online, heard you talk, read your publications in Arabic and it has started my thinking: Christ now has my heart and I believe everything that the Bible has to say about him. If I’m feeling low or in need of a boosting charge I watch the film of Christ and everything about Christ fills my heart with peace and reassurance. You are always ready to listen to me for hours as you alone know my secret of being won over by the love of Christ. I can be transparent with you while in Southeast Asia life is nothing short of acting and hypocrisy. I feel trapped. Yet I feel liberated to be found by the Savior who I’m fully convinced of His deity and majestic power to do what no other prophet could ever do. Thank you for always making yourself available and it impresses me how you still quote the Quran perfectly and you know both Islam and Christianity better than any learned Muslim scholar I know of, besides your being saturated with the Bible. This makes me trust you as an honest scholar who can continue to help answer questions I might have here and there. Thank you for allowing the love of Christ to flow through your ministry to Muslims who are still seeking as well those who need discipleship.
Your brother,
R. S- Southwest Asia
From Egypt:
Dear brother,
My wife and I have been blessed by your ministry, counseling both of us individually so we can have the right mindset about marriage and, while still at it, we can ask you any question we want that we may not necessarily be able to ask in my Coptic Orthodox Church. Freedom rooted in Christ is, indeed, a huge blessing. Just today our baby was delivered and I was in for a huge surprise: the baby only has one arm. When I saw this the first question that came to my mind was what I actually did wrong, and has God really forgiven my past sins or he’s holding something against me and is determined to punish me. It’s all too common in the whole Middle East, including Egypt and my church as well, to think a person must have done something in his past and now is the time of retribution. I need you to pray with me as you always have and point me to the reality of God as my Heavenly Father, and perhaps you could help my wife as well so we are strong enough to deal with the looks of people in my neighborhood as well as my church, these familiar looks of pity and try too hard to convince us that all is well and we should not feel bad, etc. My wife and I will always be thankful because we can come to you anytime in our time of pain as well when we need the solid meat of the Word of God. Pray for us during these pressing times as I have been crying since receiving the news, as we do sincerely appreciate your ministry and it has tremendously helped us.
Your brother,
S.S.M, Egypt
Dear brother,
My wife and I have been blessed by your ministry, counseling both of us individually so we can have the right mindset about marriage and, while still at it, we can ask you any question we want that we may not necessarily be able to ask in my Coptic Orthodox Church. Freedom rooted in Christ is, indeed, a huge blessing. Just today our baby was delivered and I was in for a huge surprise: the baby only has one arm. When I saw this the first question that came to my mind was what I actually did wrong, and has God really forgiven my past sins or he’s holding something against me and is determined to punish me. It’s all too common in the whole Middle East, including Egypt and my church as well, to think a person must have done something in his past and now is the time of retribution. I need you to pray with me as you always have and point me to the reality of God as my Heavenly Father, and perhaps you could help my wife as well so we are strong enough to deal with the looks of people in my neighborhood as well as my church, these familiar looks of pity and try too hard to convince us that all is well and we should not feel bad, etc. My wife and I will always be thankful because we can come to you anytime in our time of pain as well when we need the solid meat of the Word of God. Pray for us during these pressing times as I have been crying since receiving the news, as we do sincerely appreciate your ministry and it has tremendously helped us.
Your brother,
S.S.M, Egypt
From Japan:
I found your testimony translated into Japanese for the benefit of missionaries reaching Muslims in Japan. Originally, I was interested in the Lord's Prayer in Arabic because in their culture I thought that they must write and express it in such an artistic way. Perhaps Arabic calligraphy. So I googled "Lord's Prayer in Arabic " by image search. So I reached this website. My search for the Lord’s Prayer in Arabic led me to your testimony in Japanese. For people like me, who are not good at English, it's a little hard. That is why I am thankful for your testimony in Japanese.
I found your testimony translated into Japanese for the benefit of missionaries reaching Muslims in Japan. Originally, I was interested in the Lord's Prayer in Arabic because in their culture I thought that they must write and express it in such an artistic way. Perhaps Arabic calligraphy. So I googled "Lord's Prayer in Arabic " by image search. So I reached this website. My search for the Lord’s Prayer in Arabic led me to your testimony in Japanese. For people like me, who are not good at English, it's a little hard. That is why I am thankful for your testimony in Japanese.
From Italy:
I am an Egyptian by roots, and a former Muslim who has been a Christian, converted, and have been blessed by your ministry. How do I grow in my new life in Christ? How do I overcome these pains caused by Islam? I appreciate your ministry of healing through God’s Word, the eternal Christ, and thank you for being there for many people in my circumstances.
I am an Egyptian by roots, and a former Muslim who has been a Christian, converted, and have been blessed by your ministry. How do I grow in my new life in Christ? How do I overcome these pains caused by Islam? I appreciate your ministry of healing through God’s Word, the eternal Christ, and thank you for being there for many people in my circumstances.
From Saudi Arabia:
I am a Saudi Arabian woman who had to come to the US in order to be discipled, and that is why I reach out to you. I appreciate your being available to teach, evangelize, counsel and support. In Saudi Arabia, I worked as an executive director in a company, but I had to start out small, which didn’t appeal to my father as he wanted me to start out big. My father was educated and provided well for us but he was always distant. My brother was a devout and strict Muslim but I was an average Saudi Muslim woman. Raised in a harsh atmosphere I soaked in that harshness and never was lenient with people working for me. I was so severe in the slightest of matters, but some of my employees from Lebanon were Christians and they reflected a different spirit, a different attitude. I noticed that those Christians loved their jobs. They were so conscientious and gentle spirited. They met my harshness with gentleness. When I brought up God they kept reminding me that God is love. I tried to understand what it meant that God was love and compared that with my former religion. Allah in Islam is so distant and I called out to him as much as I could but I never felt his closeness. My prayers to Allah were nothing but a form of duty, paying a lip service of worship, and the more I prayed the more empty I felt. Meanwhile, I was hearing and watching Christian sermons on the Internet and downloaded all that on my phone for privacy. I felt more and more drawn to Jesus and I didn’t see Him as just a Lord, but He felt like my Daddy since I always wanted to feel close to my father. I turned my life over to Christ, accepted Him as my Lord and Savior. I don’t want to just “practice” religious rituals, but I really long always to get deeper in knowing God my Father. In Saudi Arabia I had people working for me, but here in the US I am cared for by the generosity of a church and they are applying for my asylum and yet it is not easy for me to be receiving help from people. Please pray for me in this and that I continue to get closer and closer to Christ and be an instrument in helping many other Saudis be found by Him.
I am a Saudi Arabian woman who had to come to the US in order to be discipled, and that is why I reach out to you. I appreciate your being available to teach, evangelize, counsel and support. In Saudi Arabia, I worked as an executive director in a company, but I had to start out small, which didn’t appeal to my father as he wanted me to start out big. My father was educated and provided well for us but he was always distant. My brother was a devout and strict Muslim but I was an average Saudi Muslim woman. Raised in a harsh atmosphere I soaked in that harshness and never was lenient with people working for me. I was so severe in the slightest of matters, but some of my employees from Lebanon were Christians and they reflected a different spirit, a different attitude. I noticed that those Christians loved their jobs. They were so conscientious and gentle spirited. They met my harshness with gentleness. When I brought up God they kept reminding me that God is love. I tried to understand what it meant that God was love and compared that with my former religion. Allah in Islam is so distant and I called out to him as much as I could but I never felt his closeness. My prayers to Allah were nothing but a form of duty, paying a lip service of worship, and the more I prayed the more empty I felt. Meanwhile, I was hearing and watching Christian sermons on the Internet and downloaded all that on my phone for privacy. I felt more and more drawn to Jesus and I didn’t see Him as just a Lord, but He felt like my Daddy since I always wanted to feel close to my father. I turned my life over to Christ, accepted Him as my Lord and Savior. I don’t want to just “practice” religious rituals, but I really long always to get deeper in knowing God my Father. In Saudi Arabia I had people working for me, but here in the US I am cared for by the generosity of a church and they are applying for my asylum and yet it is not easy for me to be receiving help from people. Please pray for me in this and that I continue to get closer and closer to Christ and be an instrument in helping many other Saudis be found by Him.
From Pakistan:
A Pakistani man who wrote us is a Caretaker in a Mosque. He told us that the entire village wanted to become Christians, but they were afraid. He asked us for our help and if it was possible for them to get out of Pakistan. We’ve been supplying them with Bibles and material to help them on their journey to Christ.
A Pakistani man who wrote us is a Caretaker in a Mosque. He told us that the entire village wanted to become Christians, but they were afraid. He asked us for our help and if it was possible for them to get out of Pakistan. We’ve been supplying them with Bibles and material to help them on their journey to Christ.
From Tunisia:
I have been listening to your program faithfully. Before I heard it, I did not know anything about Christianity. Would you please send me a Bible? I want to compare Islam and Christianity
I have been listening to your program faithfully. Before I heard it, I did not know anything about Christianity. Would you please send me a Bible? I want to compare Islam and Christianity
From Pakistan:
Your radio program is a blessing to so many people. We accepted Jesus as our personal Savior. My job provides me the opportunity to meet many people. I introduce them to Christ and ask them to listen to your program for further guidance
Your radio program is a blessing to so many people. We accepted Jesus as our personal Savior. My job provides me the opportunity to meet many people. I introduce them to Christ and ask them to listen to your program for further guidance
From Egypt:
I am a Muslim, but I believe in the power of Christian prayer. I have been going through a period of huge grief that is intensely beyond me and I wish to be freed of it. I have tried everything and I am still plagued by grief of an unknown cause. I feel alone and left my job and it seems that death is closer to me than life. How can I be saved? I really need freedom. Please help me.
I am a Muslim, but I believe in the power of Christian prayer. I have been going through a period of huge grief that is intensely beyond me and I wish to be freed of it. I have tried everything and I am still plagued by grief of an unknown cause. I feel alone and left my job and it seems that death is closer to me than life. How can I be saved? I really need freedom. Please help me.
From Egypt:
Dear brother, It was in a time of insomnia, where I had been using sleeping pills close to 10 years, that I came to you seeking help and the Lord used you to bring me total relief and I could finally be able to sleep again and know that the blood of Jesus washes away my sins, past, present and future. In my Orthodox Church, even though they talk about grace, the message instilled into us is that we have to be perfect like the saints who are presented with their halos and don’t make mistakes. It is a message of perfectionism that is constantly hammered into our heads, which is the total opposite of grace. Through your ministry I have come to trust God as my Father who loves me unconditionally and it’s not about how good I am but it is His own righteousness that I’m seeking. You are so real in your ministry and you don’t sugarcoat things but depend on the gospel to present itself and do its own work in the heart. You never speak from above but you are always on equal footing with the hurting soul that needs help. You see yourself in every suffering soul and are so receptive; you don’t just talk but you hear and care. You don’t see making mistakes a crime as you don’t see yourself above making mistakes, as we are all human. How you care about hurting souls is beyond description. I also appreciate your amazing simplicity even though you are highly intellectual. I’m so thankful that the Lord has led me to your ministry. I was dying slowly but the Lord has used you to give me my life back, so that I can be a truly living Christian, living by His grace this time and raise my three daughters in His ways and for His glory.
Dear brother, It was in a time of insomnia, where I had been using sleeping pills close to 10 years, that I came to you seeking help and the Lord used you to bring me total relief and I could finally be able to sleep again and know that the blood of Jesus washes away my sins, past, present and future. In my Orthodox Church, even though they talk about grace, the message instilled into us is that we have to be perfect like the saints who are presented with their halos and don’t make mistakes. It is a message of perfectionism that is constantly hammered into our heads, which is the total opposite of grace. Through your ministry I have come to trust God as my Father who loves me unconditionally and it’s not about how good I am but it is His own righteousness that I’m seeking. You are so real in your ministry and you don’t sugarcoat things but depend on the gospel to present itself and do its own work in the heart. You never speak from above but you are always on equal footing with the hurting soul that needs help. You see yourself in every suffering soul and are so receptive; you don’t just talk but you hear and care. You don’t see making mistakes a crime as you don’t see yourself above making mistakes, as we are all human. How you care about hurting souls is beyond description. I also appreciate your amazing simplicity even though you are highly intellectual. I’m so thankful that the Lord has led me to your ministry. I was dying slowly but the Lord has used you to give me my life back, so that I can be a truly living Christian, living by His grace this time and raise my three daughters in His ways and for His glory.
From Iraq:
I am Ak. from Nineveh, Iraq, and we used to correspond regarding studying Syriac language. ISIS took over our lands, pushed us out of our homes and now we have no home of our own. Our houses got burned down by the seekers of the Islamic State and we don’t think of ever going back after all we have seen. Our homes and property were burnt down by ISIS. Now I am in Erbil with the Kurds, and yet we feel like we have overstayed our welcome with them: they are Kurdish Muslims and we are Chaldean Christians, and people cluster typically with their own kind. When Sunnis and Shias fight, it is we, Christians, who get slaughtered and pray the price. When Sunnis and Kurds fight, Christians pay the price. And when Shias and Kurds fight, it is we, Christians, who hear the brunt of it and are always the victims of their wars. My hometown now is completely destitute and ruins are all you can see here and there. Please pray for me and if you have any tips for help me please do.
I am Ak. from Nineveh, Iraq, and we used to correspond regarding studying Syriac language. ISIS took over our lands, pushed us out of our homes and now we have no home of our own. Our houses got burned down by the seekers of the Islamic State and we don’t think of ever going back after all we have seen. Our homes and property were burnt down by ISIS. Now I am in Erbil with the Kurds, and yet we feel like we have overstayed our welcome with them: they are Kurdish Muslims and we are Chaldean Christians, and people cluster typically with their own kind. When Sunnis and Shias fight, it is we, Christians, who get slaughtered and pray the price. When Sunnis and Kurds fight, Christians pay the price. And when Shias and Kurds fight, it is we, Christians, who hear the brunt of it and are always the victims of their wars. My hometown now is completely destitute and ruins are all you can see here and there. Please pray for me and if you have any tips for help me please do.
From Egypt:
I was in a state of emotional disarray when I got in touch with you. As a complete stranger to me, I was so afraid to pour out my heart to you. When I told my closest friend that I talked to you she rebuked me as she feared for my safety. Yet after talking to you I am now a completely different person from what I was before. I am a doctor and so is my husband, me a ENT and he a pediatrician. My husband is so caring and sensitive to me; he never fails to check on me no matter how busy he is with patients. I was being trained by a Muslim doctor and thanks to him I have now my own medical health center. As my boss, he was so gentle and never bossy or demanding. In fact, he went overseas and trusted me with his practice to run for him while he doing more work abroad. When he came back he was so impressed and complimented me on how much I mean to him and that I complete him in such a way that no other woman does. I have become emotionally attached to him and don’t know how to backtrack. I keep sending him these romantic messages and he is not as passionately in love with me as I am. Still we exchange messages here and there on whatsapp, and that is where the emotional affair takes place. As a pious Muslim, he never misses a prayer, but alway stops work in the practice as needed, spreads out his prayer rug and faithfully keeps his praying five times a day. I am confused with such a muddlehead: why should not God accept him in the same way as he does me as a Christian? Why should being a Muslim get in the way? Are you saying he can’t get to heaven because he is a Muslim? I like what you told me that a relationship with God founded on love and no fear is not in the least on equal footing with a relationship with Allah founded on fear and oppression. But why did God put this supervisor doctor in my way and make me so attached to him? I have been so restless, so disturbed, in tears day and night and can’t think straight for a second. Please keep being there for me to counsel, pray and may be God can use you in the lives of Muslims I know. God must hate me for what I have been doing lately behind my husbands back; guilt is killing me. Please help me find some relief.
I was in a state of emotional disarray when I got in touch with you. As a complete stranger to me, I was so afraid to pour out my heart to you. When I told my closest friend that I talked to you she rebuked me as she feared for my safety. Yet after talking to you I am now a completely different person from what I was before. I am a doctor and so is my husband, me a ENT and he a pediatrician. My husband is so caring and sensitive to me; he never fails to check on me no matter how busy he is with patients. I was being trained by a Muslim doctor and thanks to him I have now my own medical health center. As my boss, he was so gentle and never bossy or demanding. In fact, he went overseas and trusted me with his practice to run for him while he doing more work abroad. When he came back he was so impressed and complimented me on how much I mean to him and that I complete him in such a way that no other woman does. I have become emotionally attached to him and don’t know how to backtrack. I keep sending him these romantic messages and he is not as passionately in love with me as I am. Still we exchange messages here and there on whatsapp, and that is where the emotional affair takes place. As a pious Muslim, he never misses a prayer, but alway stops work in the practice as needed, spreads out his prayer rug and faithfully keeps his praying five times a day. I am confused with such a muddlehead: why should not God accept him in the same way as he does me as a Christian? Why should being a Muslim get in the way? Are you saying he can’t get to heaven because he is a Muslim? I like what you told me that a relationship with God founded on love and no fear is not in the least on equal footing with a relationship with Allah founded on fear and oppression. But why did God put this supervisor doctor in my way and make me so attached to him? I have been so restless, so disturbed, in tears day and night and can’t think straight for a second. Please keep being there for me to counsel, pray and may be God can use you in the lives of Muslims I know. God must hate me for what I have been doing lately behind my husbands back; guilt is killing me. Please help me find some relief.