“I beg you to take revenge . . . ”

When the boy in the hotel finally spotted the visiting “businessman,” he ran to him and grabbed his hand. The startled visitor tried to pull away but soon realized that the boy was making the sign of the cross on his palm silently with his finger. The man, a missionary who had prayed to make contact with the church, looked down into the face of the rail-thin boy and immediately understood the message: “The church is alive in North Korea!”

Brother Da was a faithful Communist Party member in northern Vietnam when he first heard the Christian programs on his shortwave radio. At first he rejected the ideas as stupid superstition, but after two months of listening, he could no longer resist Christ. He was excited about his love for God, and it seemed to overwhelm his heart. He soon won many of his neighbors to Christ.

The dog came forward, pulling on its leash, its wicked teeth bared. “Attack!” screamed its master, prison guard Captain Nudnii.

In A.D. 286, the 6,666 men of the Theban Legion were ordered by Emperor Maximus to march to Gaul and to assist him against the rebels of Burgundy. Every member of this division was a devout Christian.

The word “missionary” is not in the Bible—the word “witness” is.

The godless professor smiled at the photo of Lenin hanging next to the door and then stepped up to the pitcher of water sitting on a table. He pulled out a packet of powder, and as he slowly poured it in, the water turned red.

Zahid was a Pakistani Muslim priest who ambushed Christians and burned their Bibles. Once he kept one of the Bibles and started studying it to prove that Christianity was a lie.

Lately I have been really meditating on Matthew 10:32-33 which says, "Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven." So, as I read today's excerpt from the best selling book Extreme Devotion, I thought what amazing faith this woman had to endure such torture for Christ, and yet not deny Him. All I can say is WOW...