What was the truth? Early in the sixteenth century, Michael Sattler was a monk at the monastery of St. Peter's of the Black Forest. But he was a monk on a painful search for truth. The Reformation had begun. Disillusioned by the corruption he saw in church life, perplexed by his study of the Bible, Sattler left his monastery although he was next in authority to the Abbot.

For the Covenanters of Scotland, there could be no question: Christ, not the King of England, was head of the church. When seventy-year-old Margaret MacLachlan and eighteen-year-old Margaret Wilson refused to swear the an oath that declared the king to be head of the church, they were sentenced to die an unusually cruel death. This much of today's story everyone agrees on and documents confirm.

"Reason is God," said the leaders of the French Revolution. But people are so unreasonable that the revolutionary leader, Robespierre, soon realized that reason makes a weak God. He became afraid that without belief in some powerful being like the Judeo-Christian God, morals would collapse. Then where would the Republic be? Strong nations need strong virtues.

What will happen to our Christians? They are so few in numbers and know so little about Christ. It was April, 1937. Italian soldiers had come to take all Protestant missionaries out of the Wallamo region of Ethiopia. All the missionaries could do was lift their hearts in prayer as Italian soldiers forced them away from their Ethiopian converts. A year earlier, on this day, May 5, 1936, Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, had fallen to Mussolini's invading armies.

The English first attempted to settle the New World in Virginia. The first Anglican worship ceremony of the Jamestown party in the new world was held on this day, April 29, 1607. "The nine and twentieth day, we set up a Crosse at Chesupioc [Chesapeake] Bay, and named that place Cape Henry," wrote Captain John Smith. Reverend Robert Hunt led them in a service.

When Jerry Rose became the first missionary to trek into Baliem Valley in 1951 in what was then Netherlands New Guinea, the difficult expedition took him a month each way. Many people lived in the valley, however, and they had never heard the Gospel. Some means must be found to establish a permanent settlement to reach them with the good news of Christ. The obvious solution was to overcome the rugged terrain with a flying boat that could land nearby on a lake or river.

On April 26, 1806, Alexander Duff was born in Perthshire in Scotland. The boy, who would win such a name for patient and enthusiastic faith as a man, grew up on a small farm. His father farmed but also had a heart for the things of God. He was among those influenced by Charles Simeon, the evangelical chaplain of Cambridge.

Since your majesty and your lordships desire a simple reply, I will answer without horns and without teeth. Unless I am convicted by scripture and plain reason--I do not accept the authority of popes and councils for they have contradicted each other--my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise, God help me. Amen."

The whole Christian world honors Athanasius as its champion because of his battles against Arianism. But behind Athanasius was a great bishop--the man who set Athanasius' feet on the path to fame. Alexander not only selected Athanasius to be his successor, but took open action against the heresy of Arius, the priest who insisted Jesus was a created being rather than an eternal member of the Godhead. Alexander was born around 250. An upright man, he survived as a priest through the persecutions.

Your church library probably has a copy and you, too, may own one, because well over a million copies of Halley's Bible Handbook are in print. Henry H. Halley, the author of the handbook, was born on this day, April 10, 1874. He was ordained as a pastor in 1898, but had to leave the pulpit for a time because of ill health. During this enforced time off, he memorized large portions of Scripture.

Christmas Evans lived in terror of death from the time he was nine years old until he discovered he could have peace in Christ Jesus. Born into a poor Welsh family, he'd been sent to live with a uncle when his father died. The alcoholic uncle was cruel to the boy, worked him hard and completely neglected his education. In his heart, the boy knew there had to be something better and trembled for his soul.

Tyrants fear faith. Their greatest hatred is reserved for those forms of Christianity which teach people to obey conscience. With reason. Few world systems can stand the scrutiny of Biblical faith.

The Molokans were a Russian sect dating from the late 18th century. Molokans believed the Bible was the soul's guide for salvation and rejected the rituals, icons, fasts, ornate churches, and worship of relics that were common in the Orthodox Church. They were called Molokans or "milk people" because they drank milk during Orthodox fasts. The government sent many Molokans to the Caucasus.

When two such notable evangelistic workers as Billy Graham and Ravi Zecharias commend the writings of a man, he must have had things to say that were truly worthwhile. That man was F. W. Boreham, a Baptist pastor who once held the record as Australia's most prolific author. Many of Boreham's essays take small things as their starting point to display the goodness of God.

When Conrad Grebel arrived at St. Gall Switzerland on March 25, 1525, he began to speak on the need for repentance and baptism. Hundreds turned out to hear him preach and over the next few months, he baptized five hundred. What was significant about this was that most of them had already been baptized as infants.

Throughout 1898 and the early part of 1899 Robert Koldewey reconnoitered the ancient city of Babylon. A brilliant architect and archaeologist, he knew he was to be appointed to head the digging. The German Oriental Society was picking up the tab and outfitting the expedition in full. The real work began after he received the expected authorization. On March 23, 1899, he began excavation in earnest on the east side of the mound of Kasr.

Arthur Pink is often described as an eccentric. He didn't really fit in anywhere. Converted to Christ out of a theosophical background (the New Age movement of his day), he became a student of Puritan thought. But his efforts at pastoring churches and evangelization were not successful. Nor did his books sell.

When Simplicius became bishop of Rome on March 3, 468, it must have seemed to him that his troubles would come from the western half of the disintegrating Roman Empire. There Vandals, Visigoths, and Franks had replaced Roman power with their own. But it was the East that gave Simplicius his greatest headaches. At times, the doctrinal controversy was so fierce that rivals tortured and killed each other.

Anthony Rabe was just seventeen when Luther posted his 95 theses. The boy was born at Warburg castle on this day, February 27, 1501. Like many humanist scholars, he adopted a Latin form in place of his birth name, which meant Raven. And so we know him as Anthony Corvinus. Anthony became a monk. At first, he wanted nothing to do with Luther's new ideas. But reading the great Reformer's works and observing his bold stand at the Diet of Worms, changed his mind.

There are many turning points in church history. One of the most significant is little known by most Christians. After Constantine's conversion he legitimized Christianity. Soon thereafter, Theodosian became emperor. He issued laws that mark the first time the legal code coerced people to become Christians. They made Trinitarian doctrine the official dogma of the church and suppressed the Arian factions.

Barbarians menaced the Roman empire. Emperor Diocletian instituted a number of reforms aimed at saving the sprawling political entity. Recognizing that the empire was too large for a single man to rule, he divided it into four administrative units. In doing this he raised to power a man who did Christians much harm. This man, Galerius, instigated by his mother (a die-hard pagan) prodded the Emperor to persecute the Christians.

The efforts of the London Missionary Society to introduce Christianity into Madagascar began in 1818 and were met with a decade of modest success followed by a violent reaction. Queen Ranavalona I took the throne in 1828. She loathed and feared foreigners. As the mission society gained converts, she lashed back with edicts that forbade baptism, communion, Christian marriage rites and public worship.

The consciences of individual Christians have often placed them at odds with the behavior of their neighbors. The trail to civil rights was blazed by Christians, especially those who belonged to minority sects. In the Americas, Quakers frequently took the lead. That was true on this day, February 18, 1688, when four Quakers in Germantown, Pennsylvania wrote a protest against enslavement of blacks. This is known as the Germantown Protest.

I do not wonder that it is so hard for you to keep up an external appearance of Christianity. It is a hard task without any divine love or heavenly life to produce it. Why try any longer to cover your nakedness with fig leaves..." Henry Alline preached with this kind of fervor.

From his Boston pulpit, Jonathan Mayhew called for the repeal of the stamp act and riots followed. Whatever one thinks of Jonathan Mayhew's theology--it was so liberal that the Boston Association of Congregational Ministers would not admit him--no one can deny his influence on the American Revolution. Not only did he preach the sermon that led to the stamp riots, but he preached another which John Adams called "the spark that ignited the American Revolution."

Katherine von Bora viewed herself as a prisoner in the cloister of Marienthron. Luther's Reformation preaching had found its way behind the convent walls and she wanted out. It wasn't as if she had chosen this secluded life for herself. Far from it. Her dad had brought her here when she was just a wee mite of three when her mother died.

Under God's direction a man can accomplish immense things. John Gerhard Oncken demonstrated that. He was born in Varel, Germany on January 26, 1800. At fourteen, he sailed on a Scottish ship to England, where he was converted to Christianity. John joined a Congregational church. He thought of his homeland and its need for a more convincing religion.

Because of a baby, the church changed on January 21, 1525. The Protestant reformation in Europe had furthered the recovery of faithful Bible interpretation. When reformers gained control of governments, they replaced the Roman church with reformed churches. For the most part, all people-including newborn babies-were expected to belong to the newly reformed churches, just as they had belonged to the old. But many became convinced that the church wasn't intended to include everyone. Rather, it should include only those people who really know and follow Christ. "How could a baby join a church," they asked, "When it knows nothing but to cry and eat?"

What if you asked your pastor how you could be rescued from God's wrath and he said he didn't know? That is what happened to Isaac Backus. The Great Awakening was in full swing in America. Evangelists wakened Americans to realize they needed to repent of sin, and Isaac was afraid.

The five men on "Palm Beach," a strip of sand on the Curaray River, Ecuador, knew that there was danger. But they took the risk for a chance to make friendly contact with the Huaorani (Auca) Indians. Missionaries Ed McCulley, Nate Saint, Jim Elliot, Pete Fleming, and Roger Youderian, had landed on the makeshift airstrip in their "modern missionary mule" (a Piper Cruiser). Back at Shell Mera, on January 8, 1956, Marj Saint waited for word.

At four o'clock in the morning on this day, January 4, 1809, in Coupvray, France, a local midwife eased tiny Louis Braille into the world. Louis was the fourth child of his mother, Monique, and his father Simon, a leather worker. The pair formed a sturdy middle-class couple, devout and prosperous. But the boy appeared frail, so they arranged to have him baptized right away. Louis quickly showed himself to be a bright-eyed child, prying into everything.

When Luther's Reformation began in Germany, it was inevitable that his ideas would seep through border cracks into neighboring Scandinavia. The most vigilant efforts of Denmark's government and its established church could not stop German ideas, books, and preachers from slipping into the country. A shoemaker's son was the chief agent of reform in Denmark. Peder Palladius was still a student when Reformation ideas arrived.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, was not writing about a fictional event when he wrote about the Christmas Truce of 1914. In Europe, the nations of Britain and France with their allies were battling Germany. The fighting was savage. And yet at Christmas, all along the lines, something amazing happened.

The spacecraft, Apollo VIII, carrying James A. Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman became the first manned vehicle to circle the moon. About six weeks before launch, a NASA official had called Borman. Noting that the crew would be circling the earth on Christmas Eve, he said, "We figure more people will be listening to your voice than that of any man in history. So we want you to say something appropriate."

For centuries, Christmas was celebrated not as a single day, but as a whole season in parts of the world, beginning with December 24, Christmas Eve.

In 1787 a convention in Philadelphia drafted what is usually recognized as the most extraordinary political document of history. Despite its benefits, there was doubt it would be ratified by the individual states.

Students of history remember that in 1792, King Louis XVI of France went on trial for treason before the Revolutionary Convention that had replaced the French National Assembly. His head would roll the following January. But on December 11, 1792, the same day that the French king faced his cruel judges--a much quieter event took place.

"Education is useless without the Bible." The man who said that carried one of the most famous names in America. People don't know much about him these days, but any time they want to look up the meaning of a word, they are likely to turn to a dictionary that echoes his fame on its cover: Noah Webster.

Pope Pius IX declared the Immaculate Conception of Mary an article of faith on this day, December 8, 1854. According to his pronouncement in Ineffabilis Deus, Mary was given grace to be sinless at the instant of her conception. Sin was shut out of her. The teaching was controversial among Christians at large. Neither Protestant nor Orthodox accepts it. In general Christians insist that any major doctrine must be clearly backed up by some Scripture.

When John Wycliffe sent his barefoot preachers throughout England in the 14th-century, carrying the Scripture in English, and calling for real heart changes, his message crossed the border into Scotland. There Murdoch Nisbet heard and believed. He acquired one of the rare English-language manuscripts of the Bible. Murdoch's son, grandson and great grandson followed his footsteps of faith.

Paul White signed a decision card on this day, December 3, 1926, taking the Son of God as his Savior. Afterwards he didn't feel the least bit different. He could have chucked Christianity then and there, but something within him said that his faith rested not on a feeling but on God's promise. He decided to act on God's promise.

George Smith engraved bank notes by day. At night he studied newly discovered cuneiform tablets--clay writings dug up in the Middle East. After publishing several keen observations, George was appointed as an assistant at the British Museum. That is how he stumbled across a fascinating find from the past. In a paper read before the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London on this day, December 3, 1872, George Smith announced the discovery of a flood story.

John Ray and his friend Francis Willughby made an amazing pact together: they would make a systematic description of all the plants and animals of the world. The more John studied nature, the more he became in awe of the God who had created it.

"This is the one who preaches everywhere that our temples must be torn down and who dares to call our gods devils. It is his presence that imposes silence on our oracles." A man in the crowd outside the pagan temple pointed to Saturninus, the missionary-bishop.

"God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea and rides upon the storm..." William Cowper, who wrote that hymn, was born in England on November 26, l73l. His life was full of personal anguish. At five, his mother died, and Cowper, a timid and sensitive child, was treated with great cruelty by an older boy. Other school experiences were also painful.

Blaise Pascal of France was a Renaissance man. He was a prominent mathematician, physicist, and inventor. He made important contributions to geometry, calculus, and helped develop the theory of probability. But on November 23, 1654, he experienced a Christian conversion that would cause his outstanding scientific work to take second place in his pursuits.

November 22, l963 is the date that is remembered around the world and annually recalled on the evening news as the date President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Far less noticed is the fact that another famous twentieth century figure also died on this date. C.S. Lewis (who preferred to be called "Jack") went to be with the Lion named Aslan.

There are more than 160 independent nations in the world. Whether dictatorships or democracies, nearly all have written constitutions, but that of the United States is by far the oldest. This is something we can too easily take for granted, but it really marked a pivotal turning point in history and the way nations came to govern themselves.

Nothing like the National Women's Christian Temperance Union can be found in earlier history. On this day, November 18, 1874, godly women gathered in Cleveland, Ohio for the purpose of creating a national organization to outlaw liquor. They elected Annie Wittenmeyer their president, Frances E. Willard their corresponding secretary and other officers. 45 years later the United States ratified the eighteenth amendment to its constitution, prohibiting liquor.

Pope Boniface VIII published a bull on November 18, 1302, titled Unam sanctam. It still generates deep controversy. The bull denies salvation to any human being who does not submit to the Roman Catholic Church and its head, the pope. "...There is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins."

In the mid nineteenth century, archaeologists unearthed ancient civilizations of the Middle East which had long lain buried. Among them was a young Englishman named Austen Henry Layard. The significance of Layard's findings was in the light they shone on the Bible and the confirmation they granted it. He unearthed the palaces of several despots mentioned in the Bible.

James (Jacob) Arminius was uneasy with some of the teachings that had come to be identified with Calvinism. Did God really choose some men to be damned before he created them? Was Christ's death only intended for those who would finally be saved? As the professor of theology at Leyden, James promised to teach only those things which conformed to the confessions of faith. In his public teaching, Arminius kept his word, but he laid out Scripture readings in such a way as to cast doubt on Calvin's theology.

Thompson was running, running. He was running from his father, from his failure as a medical student, from God himself. Thousands have read "The Hound of Heaven" with tears, for it is the story of God's pursuit of all, who, like Thompson, reject Him, and try to flee from Him. "I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years."

The famous Russian novelist and Christian, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born on November 11, 1821. From earliest childhood Dostoyevsky knew the gospels and learned Bible stories from the deacon at the hospital where his father was a doctor. As he looked back in later years, he rejoiced that as a child he was brought up in a home that knew Christ, and that his mother and father had given him something holy and precious to carry him through the rest of his life.

In the mid nineteenth century, archaeologists unearthed ancient civilizations of the Middle East which had long lain buried. Among them was a young Englishman named Austen Henry Layard. The significance of Layard's findings was in the light they shone on the Bible and the confirmation they granted it.

When Elijah Lovejoy was born in Maine on November 9, 1802, none of his family could have imagined the violent death he met almost exactly 35 years later. Elijah was murdered on November 7, 1837. The murder was a big mistake by the pro-slavery mob. John Quincy Adams wrote that Elijah's death was like an earthquake shock that would be felt not only across America, but in the most distant regions of the earth.

The dam above Toccoa Falls, Georgia, gave some cause for concern. Fifty-five acres of lake pressed against an old earthen embankment built in 1887. Below the dam, Toccoa Creek plunged 186 feet in an uninterrupted drop, to emerge from a canyon beside a Christian and Missionary Alliance College that sprawled across 100 beautiful acres.

The masterful sermons of what American preacher profoundly influenced Patrick Henry to become a great orator and patriot? What American minister succeeded Jonathan Edwards as President of Princeton University? The answer to both questions is Samuel Davies. Samuel was born November 3, l723.

When the apostle Paul escaped Damascus by being lowered over the wall in a basket it was not the last time a Christian evangelist would dramatically flee from persecution. On November 2, in 1533, John Calvin made a similar thrilling escape from Paris. A devout Catholic, Calvin studied law at the Universities of Orleans and Paris. He was a brilliant student, and with the Protestant Reformation in the air, he began reading Martin Luther.

Dressed as Dracula or as devils, neighborhood children were happily "trick or treating" last night in the United States and some other countries. But would it surprise you to know that "Halloween" (by that name) started out as a holy Christian celebration? Hallow, in Old English, means "holy" or "sacred." Therefore, "Hallows' Eve," or "Halloween" simply means "the evening of holy persons" and refers to the evening before All Saints Day, which is November 1.

Robert Moffat sailed for South Africa on October 31, 1816. Mission leaders saw him off reluctantly, believing he was unqualified for the task. Little did they know their man. Born in Scotland in 1795, Moffat hated school as a child. His one textbook was the Shorter Catechism. The schoolmaster saw he did not like to study and coaxed him on with a rod. Unhappy with that state of affairs, Moffat ran away to sea.

It is shocking that nations that call themselves Christian should fight each other. But it happens, and although the obvious causes may be religious, contributing causes are economic and political. The Thirty Years' War was a struggle to control Europe, and the whole continent was involved. In it Catholics fought Protestants and Protestants fought Catholics with terrible ferocity. Its results were devastating.

The crowd was sympathetic. Elizabeth Gaunt was not only an old woman, but known to many of the onlookers as a kindly Christian who helped the poor and exiles. But in the England of 1685, as in all of the world, cruel deaths were all too often dished out to people who angered the authorities with independent religious views. Elizabeth arranged straw around herself to speed the flame so that her misery would be as short as possible. When the people saw this, many burst into tears.

Richard Oastler was outraged. Born into a Wesleyan Methodist family and educated by Moravians, he was a man of conscience who believed words should be matched with deeds. That is why he took up his pen to write a letter. The letter, blasting "Yorkshire Slavery" was published on this day, September 29, 1830 in the Leeds Mercury. "It is the pride of Britain that a slave cannot exist on her soil," he began.

Historians have argued whether or not Abraham Lincoln, one of America's best-known presidents, ever became a committed Christian. As a youth Lincoln mocked the scriptures. After the death of his favorite son, Willie, he groped for some hope which could give him solace. His wife Mary and he attended seances, but eventually renounced them as fraudulent. The cares and trials of the war drove Lincoln increasingly to his Bible. His lifelong friend Joshua Speed remembered...

Around the year 580, when Colman was about 27 years old, he stood before an assembly in the Irish province of Meath. His uncle Columba--famous as a founder of monasteries and as a missionary to Scotland--said, "Give a portion of good land to our brother Colman that he may found a monastery." Aidus Slaine, heir to the throne, offered him a parcel of land known as "the wood of Ela."

When Peter Cartwright died on this day, September 25, 1872, the frontier lost a colorful preacher. Born in Virginia in 1785, just two years after treaty ended the American Revolution, he was taken west to Kentucky. There he became a tough guy in rough Logan County known as "Rogue's Harbor" because of its swarms of badmen. His Methodist mother pleaded and prayed for him. Her prayers won.

"The best of them were as good as anything I shall live to see." John Wain was speaking of the Thursday Night meetings of the Inklings in Oxford. C. S. Lewis was not only an intellectual giant, but a man with a gift for friendship. In the 1930s, a number of his friends began to meet informally in his rather shabby college rooms to read their writings and argue over every sort of literary and moral topic. One of the most famous members of the group was J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The men met for sixteen years to critique each other's work and draw inspiration from one another. But over the years, stress changed their relationship.

London was all astir with talk of the young preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon. He lacked the flowery, elaborate sentences of most preachers, but his simple directness spoke to the hearts of his audience. His passion for truth was as strong as the older Puritans he loved and studied, yet there was nothing stale and musty about his preaching. Almost as soon as the nineteen year old began his ministry at New Park Street Chapel on London's south side, the Chapel became too small for the congregation.

In the year 1009, al-Hakim, the Caliph of Egypt, ordered the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem destroyed. Workmen obeyed; and Yahia ibn Sa`id, an Islamic historian, wrote: "...the holy deed commenced on Tuesday, the fifth day before the end of the month of Safar of the year 400 of the Egira." Converting from the Muslim calendar would place the destruction on or about this day, October 17, 1009.* The demolition of this site, so holy to Christians, began with the empty tomb where Jesus had allegedly been buried.

Queen Mary ascended the throne of England in 1553. In subsequent years, she had at least two hundred people put to death (often by fire) for their religious convictions. To history she became known as "Bloody Mary," although, in truth, she killed far fewer people per year than her brutal father. It was the godliness of many of her victims made them stand out.

The savage Teutonic people of Northern Europe were brought to Christ by missionaries in the eighth century. The most famous of these gospel-bearers was Boniface. Among his helpers were women. The importance of mature Christian women as examples for new converts and as educators of children was not lost on Boniface. He asked Tetta, the abbess of Wimborne, Dorset, to send him assistants. Tetta sent Lioba and Thecla to his aid...

Benjamin Keach appeared before Lord Chief Justice Hyde on October 9, 1664. A Baptist minister, Benjamin's crime was to publish a book of instruction for children; its doctrine did not conform to the teachings of the Church of England.

The Bible translation that William Tyndale had begun when he was arrested in May, 1535 only included the New Testament, the Pentateuch and a few historical books of the Old Testament. England was still without a complete Bible in the English language. Who would finish the work? Using Tyndale's work as his starting point, Miles Coverdale stepped in.

Psalm 46 declares, "God is my refuge, an ever present help in time of trouble." There was once a young Swedish woman who, like the Psalmist, learned early in life to trust in the Lord's strength each day to help her overcome her troubles and trials. Her name was Carolina Sandell Berg, and she was born on October 3, l832. She grew up to become Sweden's most celebrated author of Gospel hymns.

The gathering of young men who met in Mrs. Beeby Wallis' parlor on this day, October 2, 1792 was not a likely group to begin major world-wide missionary work. The twelve ministers were all from small churches in the district of Kettering, England. Two had churches with congregations of less than 25 each. But they had become increasingly convinced that their churches should send the gospel message to the far-flung corners of the globe.

War is a lot like a gang fight. And woe to the rival who steps on his enemy's turf! In the twelfth century, the gang fight was between Christian Crusaders and Muslim Saracens. Chatillon, a cruel Crusader, massacred several dozen Muslim pilgrims in cold blood just because they stepped onto his turf. This so maddened Sultan Saladin of the Saracens that he vowed revenge.

On September 23, churches of the western world remember St. Adamnan. Across Scotland are many sites dedicated to him. An Irish monk, he would be worthy of remembrance, if it was only for Adamnan's Law. Adamnan was born of royal blood in County Donegal sometime around 624. His name means "Little Adam." Educated by local monks, he became a novice at the monastery of Iona. Eventually, when he was about 55, he rose to become the ninth abbot of the abbey at Iona. 

Individuals have surrendered their lives to Christ in all sorts of places. The revivalist Charles G. Finney converted in a woods; John Newton, author of the hymn "Amazing Grace," repented while lashed to a ship's wheel in a storm; Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Ministries, asked God into his life while crying in a car on a roadside. C. S. Lewis converted while riding to a zoo in his brother's motorcycle side car. "When we set out I did not believe that Jesus is the Son of God and when we reached the zoo I did." 

When the phone rang at radio station DXAS, a worker answered it. "Stop broadcasting your message in the Tausug language," ordered an unidentified voice. For the workers of the Far East Broadcasting Company, the threat was real. DXAS, located in Zamboanga, Philippines, was reaching out to Muslims. Similar calls had come before. Muslim extremists did not want the message of Christ aired to their people.