Christians, going for gold! (I Corinthians 3:12)

A Pharaoh engraved his name at Mount Gharib, which I believe is Mount Sinai. And recorded, he found two things at the desert of "Siani", the same two things the Bible said Israel took from the Egyptians and left at Mount Sinai.

Under Communism, for years she prayed without hope for a church. In Romanian language and songs.  

A Marine with two purple hearts. He was wounded twice in two separate engagements in Vietnam. The second one almost cost him his life, and God looked down from heaven and said, "I want to use you." 

      “Burlington Tent Revival” It began in May with a revival service led by evangelist C.T. Townsend at New Hope Baptist Church, pastored by Randy Hobbs and ended on July 29 after 11 weeks of services in Burlington, North Carolina. The meetings were extended and eventually moved into a large tent where there were two services a day, Monday through Friday. Many thousands attended.

The Church That Was Started in a Welding Shop. At first a few men met for prayer after work, and it grew from there.

As a baby they threw him against the wall, broke 17 bones, tried to drown him, and as a small boy he endured aftereffects, but God used him.“For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.” (I Corinthians 1:26-29) 

A sailor right out of boot camp starts a Bible study on an aircraft carrier and even some of the officers came.  

I knocked on the door of a man who had literally lost all hope. He had been a naval officer in the Vietnamese navy and his boat patrolled the Mekong Delta. When Saigon fell (Ho Chi Minh City) he fled to the USA awaiting his wife and two sons to join him. It took much longer than he thought...

The Red Sea crossing by Israel was in front of the Sphinx and Great Pyramid. Yes, it was “Yam Suf” and yes it was deep water, Isaiah 51:10 “[T]he waters of the great deep...”The Bible says Israel’s Exodus from Egypt was from the west side of the Nile. (Isaiah 11:15-16). As does Flavius Josephus (1st century Jewish historian) Antiquities, II, 15, 1. And Artapanus (Jewish historian, 3rd–2nd century BC) also has Israel leaving from the west side of the Nile, Praeparatio Evangelica (IX, 27).The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Genesis Apocryphon (2nd–1st century BC): “I proceeded by the Red Sea until I reached the extension of the Reed Sea which goes out from the Red Sea, and then I turned southward, until I reached the Gihon River….” (“Nile”, “Pyramid”, and “Sphinx”, are not Egyptian but Greek names. Ancient Jewish writers call the Nile, “Gihon”.) The person in this account was already on the “Red Sea” and goes to the “extension” of it, which he calls the “Reed Sea,” and then to the Nile, or “Gihon.” He is telling us that in his day the Red Sea was connected to the Nile by the Reed Sea. Modern Egyptians commonly call the Nile River “El-Bahr” = The Sea.Legends of the Jews, when speaking of the ark of baby Moses that Miriam put in the Nile, said it was the Red Sea. “And then she abandoned the ark on the shores of the Red Sea” (vol. II, Moses Rescued from the Water). Babylonian Talmud (3rd century AD) also believed the placement of Moses’s ark was in the “Yam Suf” (Sotah 12a). The ancient Targums, Jonathan and Jerusalem (Aramaic translations of the Pentateuch), both connect the Nile to the Red Sea/Yam Suph: “and the Gihon had carried into the sea of Suph….” The book, THE QUEST FOR THE RED SEA CROSSING, is free, this video has the website. If you like this info text someone with the link and ask them what they think. Thanks!

CHURCHES IN TRAIN CARS

God, get us to Romana. A family of eight take trains across Europe with one calamity after another and a surprise ending. True Story.

God & Spies. Firsthand account of Operation Ivy Bells, the tapping of an underwater cable in Soviet Territorial Waters.

Piedmont Rescue Mission. Offering a hand up, not a handout.

From Communist Belarus to America, she serves God with her family.

Gospel Singer Mark Gray, in 185 churches in a year.

He stuttered and was bullied but God used. And later a successful businessman. 

You have to put your line in the water if you want to catch fish.

Something funny. Scrooge buys his wife a ring!

US Navy Divers tapping a Soviet military cable in Siberia. Known as "Operation Ivy Bells." Four hundred feet deep saturation dives and breathing Heliox. Considered the most dangerous of the Cold War and the Mount Everest of spy missions. 

“The first American we saw in our town was a missionary.” 

Dr. Tom Wallace, he is 94 and in high demand as a preacher 

#5. He was an atheist, but he had a friend. Now he loves Christ and serves others. Video on YouTube.  

#4 Christians, going for gold! I Corinthians 3:12. Video on YouTube. Some have heavier cross to bear. 

#3 Christians, going for gold! Video on YouTube. A farmer in a Methodist church starts a Baptist Church. 

He was a functioning addict but now he helps churches. Video on YouTube. 

Challenge at Baptist College.

Rewards in Heaven        "For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I say unto you, he shall not lose his reward." (Mark 9:41)          "Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."  (I Corinthians 3:12-15) 

"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise." (Proverbs 11:30)

When I was a child my mom would go to a big store that had a special sale, "Buy one and get one free! And that is what God wants, a two for one special!

“Aliens” in Revelation, Part 2. Are UFOs and Aliens real? Animals with the genes of evil spirits. Worldwide worship of Antichrist. The great puzzle. During the Tribulation, how will the Antichrist explain God’s angles who will be flying through the atmosphere? UFOs and the Devil’s flying machines.  FREE eBook "Aliens" in Revelatioin,  https://www.truechristianshortstoriesfreebygmmatheny.com/aliens-in-revelation.html

                                                                           Are UFOs and Aliens real? Part I covers the angels of God and the angels of the Devil, the tribulation will be a time of great deception, unparalleled demonic activity on Earth, mixing of man and angelic genes, and could devils live on other planets?                                                                   FREE eBook "Aliens" in Revelatioin, https://www.truechristianshortstoriesfreebygmmatheny.com/aliens-in-revelation.html

Moses gave God five reasons why he could not serve him. 

God knew we all would have problems and he tells us how to overcome them.

What did Jesus Christ say about Hell. 

A true fish story. 

Worry says that God will not help us. 

Ask, and it shall be given you; (Luke 11:8) There are things we could have received already but we have not asked God. https://www.thelaymansbiblicalhandbook.com/prayer.html 

Can the Bible be trusted? Did Jesus trust the Bible? Is it really inspired by God? https://www.thelaymansbiblicalhandbook.com/ 

 "Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." (Psalms 127:1) A weak home makes a weak nation. The average length of a marriage in the US is 8.2 years. One of the greatest problems in the home, is a dad who runs away. There needs to be someone else in the home, God.

A true and funny story about buying my wife a ring I did not want to buy.  https://www.truechristianshortstoriesfreebygmmatheny.com/ 

Firsthand account of a US Navy Saturation Diver on the nuclear submarine USS Halibut, involved in Operation Ivy Bells. The Mount Everest of spy missions, and the most dangerous of the Cold War. (We were not told the name of the other nuclear sub we rendezvoused with, so I have name it USS Stingray.) The feature-length film can be viewed on ChristianCinema, https://www.christiancinema.com/digital/movie/god-and