Best of God Reports Interviews

As a senior at Asbury University in Kentucky, Joshua Curry, 22, felt a sense of disquiet about his spiritual condition and the religious atmosphere at the college.

“I was actually feeling very poor spiritually, like a sinking ship. I wrote down in my journal that I’m tired of milquetoast Protestantism. I want liberty from slavery. I want forgiveness of sins. I want a zealous spirit,” but he felt the world and its current cultural milieu was luring him away from what he desired most.

Attendance at chapel is required three days a week at the private Christian university, formally aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement. Many students seemed unenthusiastic, apathetic about the mandatory obligation. “There were a lot of people who were just tired of having to come to chapel, people would always groan about having to show up for an hour a day, three days a week.”

The revival that hit the school in the 1970s was fading from memory.

On Wednesday, February 8th, Curry attended what appeared to be an unexceptional chapel service. A visiting speaker, Zach Meerkreebs, with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, gave a talk about sacrificial love in Hughes Auditorium. “It was a message preached on Romans 12, what love looks like in action,” Curry recalls. “After the message, about 20 or so students stayed in the chapel.”

Curry went back to his dorm room. A few hours went by and then he heard a surprising report. There was still worship going on in the chapel, more students were being drawn, and no one was leaving!

After Zach’s talk, God sovereignly brought a move of the Holy Spirit – revival fire that has not subsided in the last week. Now students and visitors are packing the chapel at all hours of the day and night, even overflowing into other buildings on the campus.

For over 88 nights in a row, a small country church in Kentucky has been the site of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, as many are being saved, baptized and set free from addictions and bondages. The North Main Community Church in Heidrick has been packed with roughly 300 hungry people every night, which […]

He was a Palestinian fighter trained to kill Jews.  His hatred was so strong he dreamed of poisoning Jews who frequented the restaurant where he worked. “I hated the Jewish people,” says Taysir Abu Saada (“Tass”), founder of Seeds of Hope, a humanitarian organization operating in the Middle East. His objective is to bring long-term […]

By age 14 he was reading Shakespeare and searching for heroes, when he stumbled across the name ‘Isa,’ the Arabic name for Jesus in the Koran.  “I read the name of Jesus and became curious,” he says.  “The Lord reached me right in the mosque.” When he asked the priest about Jesus, he was told that Moses and Jesus were brothers.  When he asked how to find out more, they told him to find ‘The Book of Isa.’  “Nobody had ever heard of a Bible.” Taimoor searched for a ‘Book of Isa’ for two years.

Shane is currently the president of Christ’s Sons Motorcycle Club. “Ninety-eight percent of us have all walked the prison yards in Southern California, have been addicted, homeless, violent — we even have a former bomb maker.

“But we all did one thing different in our lives that changed our lives, and that was submit to God. That’s the only thing different we did that changed our entire lives.”

The 9/11 Commission credits Stanley Praimnath as the only known survivor from the impact zone at the World Trade Center towers on September 11.

“The Lord saw fit for me to live,” says Praimnath, who works in the banking industry in New York. His riveting tale of survival is chronicled in “Plucked from the Fire” (Rosedog Books), coauthored with William Hennessey.

Louie Cortese started racing motocross when he was only three-years-old. After a season of great financial blessing for his family, it was all wiped away in the Great Recession, and they were forced to re-examine the things they held dear.

She was depressed, living with Mom, and thought about giving up on acting when she read the script for Mary Magdalene’s part on The Chosen. “I had been depressed I think for a number of years without really admitting it,” Elizabeth Tabish told God Reports. “I had chronic back pain and had a hard time […]

Cornerstone Ministries International has been delivering Bibles into restricted nations since 1985, comforting the suffering Church, building disciples, and walking alongside them as they evangelize their nation. In particular, CMI began by delivering Bibles to the Korean Chinese people of Northeast China. Before its division in 1953, Korea was one of the most evangelized nations in Asia. Intense persecution after the institution of Communism, however, virtually wiped out all traces of the Church in North Korea. Yet, word began to leak of the strong movement of the Holy Spirit in North Korea. As we looked for a way into the country, God led us to the Korean Chinese. Their close relations, proximity and access to the people living in North Korea yielded an open door into the country. CMI grabbed hold of the opportunity to deliver the Word of God (“word delivery”) to North Korea as has been doing so ever since.

As the Korean Chinese people delivered bibles into North Korea, Chinese Christians asked CMI to deliver Bibles to them as well; not only so, but as more and more Bibles have been delivered, Chinese Christians began to ask CMI to go to China to teach them how to study the word of God as well. Thus, the ministry followed the Holy Spirit’s work and added “seminary delivery” to the agenda, teaching leaders of the Church to teach themselves and others. We send qualified missionaries to them with the goal of raising missionaries among them who will evangelize their own country and people, “missionary delivery.” God has connected CMI with the house church network through the delivery of Bibles, enabling the ministry to provide continual support and guidance to the leaders of the churches in terms of church administration and biblical education. We are currently teaching in four house church seminaries.

In 2013, when it became apparent the Boy Scouts were headed into uncharted waters to accommodate a gender-confused society, leaders from 44 states came together in Nashville to form a Christ-centered alternative to the scouting movement. As the father of two Eagle Scout sons, it has been painful to watch the demise of a great […]