For twenty years my brother and his wife were missionaries in Papua New Guinea where he founded Papua New Guinea Bible Institute at Pabrabuk Station. One evening he called saying he had received exciting news in a phone call the previous night.

One morning I thought, If only I had responded to God's prompting to speak for Him. How can I expect Him to have mercy on me again? Isn't God tired of my asking His forgiveness?

Dr. John Church said a man asked him if he would come to his church to speak. Dr. Church prayed about it, and the Lord told him that He definitely wanted him to go to the church. The date for his visit was set.

On Easter I awakened early and opened my Bible, eager to reread the account of Christ's resurrection. Before I reached the story of the empty tomb my Bible fell open to Daniel 7. As I read, I wondered, Could this have been the scene in heaven on that first Easter morning?

Casey Diaz* grew up in Los Angeles with an alcoholic father and a mother who worked two jobs and was seldom at home. Soon Casey began roaming the streets where the Rockwood Street Locos welcomed him to their gang. To prove he was tough enough to belong, he had to kill, so he shot his first victim at age 11. Soon he discovered it was easy for him to kill.

I heard a Jewish girl share the story of her parents' conversion. Her father, a chiropractor, had a technician named Mary whose witness, love, and prayers convinced him that Jesus is the Messiah.

Today is the first day of Passover. In Jesus' day, Jews observed the Passover by singing or chanting six Psalms: 113 through 118. So when Matthew mentions that after the Last Supper they sang a hymn, we can be sure they were singing these psalms.

Dr. Chen developed a cancer on the side of his face that grew so enormous that from a distance it looked as if he had two heads.* People frequently turned away in horror when he walked down the street in their town of Nanyang in China. Dr. Chen suffered much pain and was unable to sleep.