An August coup and a promise of breakthrough: My story

Tanks rolled through Moscow’s streets – the very place we were supposed to distribute thousands of Bibles in two weeks. “I don’t plan to beat down any doors,” I wrote. “Or even to push hard against those I find closed. But what God opens, I will walk through.”

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Look ahead with hope

“You may come more than once to the place where you despair of life, where it looks as though everything has come to an end and there is no more. But – believe it – God does not mean it as an end; God means that there shall be more life than ever.” – T. Austin Sparks

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Two large, antique globes stand side by side, each upheld by a heavy, walnut, four-footed frame. One globe depicts the earth. The other depicts a heavenly world.
Two globes in the Musee Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France, depict two worlds – the earth and the heavens.

Living in two worlds

How often do we Western Christians inhabit the natural, and remain oblivious to the spiritual? Seeing only the “seen,” we deeply fear what lies ahead. But Jesus died, rose and ascended so we can live in two worlds at the same time - the natural world we can see with our eyes, and the supernatural one we can see only by the Spirit.

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