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‘Heaven Is Real’: Woman Claims to Have Met Jesus during a Near-Death Experience

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‘Heaven Is Real’: Woman Claims to Have Met Jesus during a Near-Death Experience

An Arizona woman claims to have gone to heaven and met Jesus Christ face to face after suffering a near-death experience. An Arizona woman claims to have gone to heaven and met Jesus Christ face to face after suffering a near-death experience.

On February 12th, 2018, Tina Hines suffered a sudden heart attack, rendering her unconscious.

“I’ve never seen anybody with their eyes rolled back and-and literally starting to turn purple,” her husband Brian recalled while seeing his wife’s body on the ground.

At the time, the Hines’ neighbor Jeff Logas tried finding a pulse and performed CPR to no avail.

“I thought she was dead,” Brian lamented.

According to Faithwire, Tina, who took a hard fall during the cardiac arrest, was rushed to Deer Valley Medical Center. Along with the cardiac crisis, Tina had a gash on her forehead after the fall, a cracked sternum and several cracked ribs from the CPR.

Despite resuscitation attempts by paramedics while on the way to the hospital, Tina remained unresponsive for over 20 minutes.

Friends and family members gathered with Brian in the waiting room and prayed for Tina.

“It was a prayer of desperation. I said, ‘God, take everything from my life if you’ll give me back, Tina,'” Brian shared.

Meanwhile, Tina’s sister, Tammi, and her husband, Dave, rushed to Phoenix from Arizona. During their commute, Dave recalled Tammi suddenly feeling a sense of peace come over her and asserted that her sister would be okay. Moments later, Brian texted Dave, “Tina is alive!”

While doctors managed to bring Tina back using defibrillation, Brian was informed that his wife would have to be induced into a coma so her body could relax while they ran tests to discover what happened.

“Most people don’t survive after 5-10 minutes of being without oxygen to the brain,” one doctor told Brian.

If Tina survived, Brian was told, she would likely have brain injuries and be left with a major handicap. The next day, doctors removed Tina from the ventilator to determine if she could breathe on her own. At that point, her vitals had restabilized.

“The doctor needs to know that you can breathe on your own. And I told them that you are superwoman. Can you show him that you can breathe on your own?” Brian said he whispered in his wife’s ear.

In response, Tina managed to breathe through her chest, in which the doctor told Brian, “‘That’ll work.” As she became conscious, Brian handed Tina a notebook and a pen on which she wrote “I-T-S-R-E-A-L.”

While Brian did not understand what Tina was referring to, she nodded yes after their daughter asked if the message was about heaven.

Dave noted, “And as soon as someone said Jesus, a peace came across her.”

“I just looked at Dave and said, ‘She’s going to be just fine,'” Brian added.

Four days later, Tina was discharged from the hospital without any brain impairment. While the doctor believed that Tina would not be able to speak for a while, she immediately had much to say about what had happened during her near-death experience.

“I just wanted to share that I saw Jesus face to face and the unbelievable rest and peacefulness of what I was experiencing was Jesus standing there with His arms open wide, and right behind Jesus standing there was this incredible glow it was the most vibrant and beautiful yellow,” Tina said.
An Arizona woman claims to have gone to heaven and met Jesus Christ face to face after suffering a near-death experience.

Today, Tina is preparing to run a half marathon and enjoying life.

“God is real in my life. Jesus is real. Heaven is real. I know that God can use every situation to make us who we are in Christ,” she asserted. An Arizona woman claims to have gone to heaven and met Jesus Christ face to face after suffering a near-death experience.

Country Singer, Actress Jana Kramer Gets Baptized: ‘I Made My Faith Public’

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Country Singer, Actress Jana Kramer Gets Baptized: ‘I Made My Faith Public’

Country singer and actress Jana Kramer has gone public with her faith in God after getting baptized at a church on Sunday.

I don’t have the words yet… I will… But for now… In the name of Jesus, there is healing, ” she wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday. In addition to her words, Kramer shared an emotional video of her baptism.

Jana Kramer getting baptized


In a follow-up post, Kramer elaborated on the special moment, noting that God has always been there for her even when she wanted nothing to do with Him.

“This is my battle cry. This is the day I stopped walking alone. The beauty is … I was never alone. He was always walking with me,” she wrote. “I just didn’t think I deserved that. If I’m honest, I didn’t know how to trust it or if I could trust it at all.”

Jana Kramer gets baptized


Kramer explained that seeing God as a “father figure” was difficult to believe or take comfort in because of her past.

“I didn’t think he would stay. That he wouldn’t hurt me. So I pushed God away for years,” she added.

In the past year, however, Kramer came to realize she wasn’t truly alone in her brokenness because God was always there for her and that He never left.

“God was just waiting for me to come to him. And I have … and today I made my faith public, and it feels really good to know no matter what happens next on this journey of life, HE is next to me walking with me,” she declared.

Kramer also encouraged anyone reading her message to let God into their lives, noting that He is walking with them “through all the good and bad times.”

“I hope this encourages someone to take that next step because you aren’t alone … “In the name of Jesus there is healing.”

In closing, Kramer ended her post with Scripture from Lamentations 3:22-33, which reads, “The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. “Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.”

According to Faithwire, Kramer’s post was met with praise from her followers and other Christian celebrities.

“Praise the Lord. And all the angels sang in Heaven and rejoiced! Praise His holy name!! A step-in faith reaps eternal reward, ” actress Candace Cameron Bure commented.

“Amen,” Former Bachelor star Ben Higgins added.

Kramer, 38, is known for her role as Alex Dupre in the American drama television series One Tree Hill. She embarked on her music career in 2012 with her self-titled debut album and dropped her second album, Thirty One, in 2015.

Kramer is also one of the celebrities who competed in season 23 of Dancing with the Stars, where she finished in fourth place.

SOURCE: CHRISTIAN HEADLINES

Former Mosque Leader in Uganda Beaten for Faith in Christ

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Former Mosque Leader in Uganda Beaten for Faith in Christ

A former mosque leader in eastern Uganda who converted to Christianity is still hospitalized with serious head, back and hand injuries after Muslim relatives beat him on Jan. 13, he said.  A former mosque leader in eastern Uganda who converted to Christianity is still hospitalized with serious head, back and hand injuries after Muslim relatives beat him on Jan. 13, he said.

Bashir Sengendo had not returned home to visit his family in Namaato village, Kigalama Sub-County in Namutimba District since leaving Islam in 2016. Relatives had long sent him messages urging him to return to tend to a portion of land supposedly allocated to him, he said.

“This request continued for the last six years, but I had been reluctant to go back home,” Sengendo told Morning Star News.

He decided to return home from his base in western Uganda for a visit on Jan. 12, arriving at 9 p.m., he said.

“I was shocked to receive a cold reception and slept without food, only to be attacked and beaten badly in the morning by my brother and my uncle,” Sengendo said. “They cut me with an object in the head, back and hand.”

His screams brought police and neighbors who rescued him and took him Namutimba Hospital, he said.

“As the attackers were hitting me, my uncle said that the family spent a lot of money training me as a Muslim teacher, and that I have caused a lot of shame to the family and Muslims at large,” Sengendo said.

He lost a large amount of blood and was still critically ill when a Morning Star News contact visited him in the hospital.

After putting his faith in Christ on May 13, 2016, through the ministry of another former Muslim, a church helped arrange for Sengendo to attend Bible college for six months, and he became a pastor shortly thereafter, he said.

The assault in eastern Uganda was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in the country that Morning Star News has documented.

Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.

SOURCE: CHRISTIAN HEADLINES

Christian Organization Pointed More Than 190,000 Young People to Christ through Technology in 2021

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Christian Organization Pointed More Than 190,000 Young People to Christ through Technology in 2021

In 2021, more than 190,000 young people surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ as part of a Christian ministry’s efforts.

Groundwire, an organization seeking to draw Millennials and Generation Z youth to Christ, uses popular media channels as a way to reach them.

“We’re not going after the atheists. The media would want us to believe that everybody’s an atheist, but, truthfully, 71 percent of Millennials [and] Gen Z believe that God’s a real being,” Seth Dunn, Groundwire’s president, told Faithwire.

“What we’re really good at doing is interrupting them on their entertainment — on their small screen — and bringing to light their need, their purpose,” he explained. “We don’t need to convince them that [God’s] real. We need to remind them that he’s relevant, and he becomes relevant when he intersects [at] that point of need in their life.”

According to findings posted on Groundwire’s website, 68 percent of young people believe in heaven, 65 percent rarely or never attend church and 39 percent lack a religious affiliation. Additionally, 65 percent of youth profess to be Christian and less than 1 in 5 can tell you how to become one.

Dunn explained that Groundwire utilizes social media to reach youth since most of them spend their day online.

“We can’t get them to go to church, but we can’t get them to put down their phones,” he said. “So, what we do is we use Hollywood-produced content.”

The ministry seeks to pique young people’s interest with short videos and then connect them with their team of mentors. Groundwire then points them to Christ with sites such as JesusCares.com.

Groundwire says its approach has been extremely successful. In 2020, more than 116,000 young people made professions of faith, and in 2021, 192,000 came to Christ.

Dunn found it “humbling” that God would use his ministry to draw so many young people to Christ.

“[We’re] humbled because you recognize this isn’t happening because of us. It’s happening in spite of us,” he said. “Our job is to stay focused on Him and to follow and say, ‘God, I need you to give us wisdom every step, every day, whether we’re creating new content, whether we’re figuring out how to market … we need Your wisdom.'”

Studies conducted last year show where Millennials and Gen Zers stand on matters of faith. For instance, a study released by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University revealed that most Millennials were indifferent to Christianity despite having a favorable view of Christ.

Meanwhile, an American Bible Society survey found that only 9 percent of Gen Z youth were “Scripture engaged,” meaning they often read the Bible.

SOURCE: CHRISTIAN HEADLINES

Former Virginia Teacher Launches Bible Distribution Ministry, Brings Bibles to School Libraries in 6 Countries

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Former Virginia Teacher Launches Bible Distribution Ministry, Brings Bibles to School Libraries in 6 Countries

What began as a prayer walk outside a Virginia school has grown into a global ministry that distributes Bibles to school libraries.
What began as a prayer walk outside a Virginia school has grown into a global ministry that distributes Bibles to school libraries.

Hannah Sailsbury, a former elementary school teacher, founded the nonprofit organization Bibles in Schools after God put it in her heart to donate Bibles to school libraries.

The idea for the initiative came to Sailsbury in 2018. At the time, she would regularly pray for her co-workers, students and families while walking around the school.

Months later, one of Sailsbury’s second-grade students approached her with a Bible from the school library, expressing interest in learning more about it.

“And God really opened my eyes to realize if we have this old Bible in our school, how come we don’t have a more engaging Bible that’s fun, that has pictures in it?” she asks in a promotional video on her YouTube channel.

That day would lead Sailsbury’s to launch Bibles in Schools in 2019, which has provided over 1,500 Bibles to school libraries in 43 states. The organization would also reach six countries across the globe.

In light of the great need for God’s Word, Sailsbury told CBN News that she resigned from teaching to devote herself to Bibles in Schools full-time.

“I never pictured going full-time with this. I was doing this because I saw God moving; I saw Him working,” she noted. “And I knew I had to be obedient to what He had called on my life, and this is what He wanted me to do. And I could see the need!”

Sailsbury’s obedience paid off, and soon, the ministry would become international.

Abijah, a mother from Kenya, needed Bibles for students in her after-school program, but as a stay at home with no source of income, she was unable to afford them.
What began as a prayer walk outside a Virginia school has grown into a global ministry that distributes Bibles to school libraries.

“Actually, almost all of them did not have a Bible, and I used to cry to God and wonder, ‘How can I get Bibles to these children?'” Abijah to CBN News in an interview.

That’s when Abijah heard of Bibles in Schools through CBN’s The 700 Club and contacted the organization.

“She reached out to us, and of course, my thought was, ‘Well, how are we going to get Bibles to Kenya?'” Sailsbury told CBN. “But we were able to partner with Bible Society, and her brother drove three hours to get the Bibles.”

Abijah and her students thanked Sailsbury for delivering the Bibles in a video message.

“Thank you for the Bibles. God Bless You,” the children said in the video, repeating Abijah.

SOURCE: CHRISTIAN HEADLINES

Evangelist Dag Heward-Mills visits Suhum, Kyebi and Odumase on Healing Jesus Campaign Ghana 2021

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Evangelist Dag Heward-Mills visits Suhum, Kyebi and Odumase on Healing Jesus Campaign Ghana 2021

The people of Suhum, Kyebi, and Odumase have experienced God in a mighty way.

What a night of miracles! Christmas came early for them, with such amazing miracles from God. In Suhum, a father and his daughter could not walk because of a stroke and kidney disease. His daughter had been in bed and could not stand because of severe kidney disease, but she received healing that night.

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Father has been healed from stroke.

In Kyebi, the first night of the Healing Jesus Campaign was incredible. The Adontendomehene of Kyebi and Osagyefo Amoatia, Ofori Panin’s wife, were present. What Will You Do If You Ignore Such Great Salvation? proclaimed evangelist Dag Heward-Mills. And God’s Word was backed up by signs and wonders.

May be an image of 4 people, people standing and text that says 'HEALING JESUS CAMPAIGN KYEBI #HJCGHANA2021 福'

Evangelist Dag Heward-Mills and his Healing Jesus team blessed the people of Krobo Odumase, Somanya, Atua, Agomeda, Akosombo and their surroundings with their ministry.

A woman who had been bent double and unable to raise herself for several years danced the night away. She threatened to dance even more on Friday, the penultimate day.

It was all about soul winning. The Healing Jesus Campaign Ghana 2021 resulted in the salvation of countless souls and the transformation of many lives through God’s healing power and grace.

Methodist Church Women’s Fellowship marks 90th anniversary in Accra

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Methodist Church Women’s Fellowship marks 90th anniversary in Accra

The Women’s Fellowship of the Methodist Church on Saturday launched and celebrated its 90thanniversary in Accra.

The anniversary celebration, which was launched by Rt Rev. Dr Paul KwabenaBoafo, the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, was on the theme “Teaching everyone to live like Jesus Christ: Women’s Fellowship@90, embracing today’s young woman”.

The theme was a call to all women to venture into the unknown territories, to cross new paths, to evangelise for Christ, especially, the young woman of today.

It was also to urge women to continue to tell their gospel fellowship stories and embrace today’s young women to bring them closer to God.

The occasion was graced by lots of dignitaries including the GaMantse, NiiTackieTeikoTsuru, National Prayer Director for Women’s Aglow Fellowship International, MrsGiftyAfenyiDadzie, Lay President, Mr William Orleans Oduro, and the Administrative Bishop, Rev. Michael Bossman.

The event offered members of the fellowship the opportunity to express appreciation to everyone that had supported them in the past years as well as hold a memorial for the late FrancesGreen, the first woman who started the fellowship.

Rev. Dr Boafo, congratulated the women for working to develop the capacities of today’s women in line with the theme saying it was “timely and appropriate one for the youth.”

He said that “the youth in our world today are all in distress so the women’s fellowship should continue to take it upon themselves to help all these youth come closer to God through their good trainings and the word of God.”

He added that the women have to see the needs of the youth to help them since they were mostly influenced by what they see on social media

Rev.DrBoafo further advised the Women’s Fellowship to fully observe all COVID-19 protocol and take the vaccines to help curb spread of the virus in order to save their lives.

In an interview, the Connexional Secretary, Mrs GraceAmonoo, lauded the late Frances Green, describing her as “an assiduous worker who came determined to make women know God.”

In her memory, she stated that the fellowship would establish retreat centres to serve women in Elmina, Mankessim, Cape Coast and Sekondi.

“Though she is not with us today we want to appreciate her for the good work she started,” she added.

Awards and donations were given to some women for their efforts, and to encourage all women to continue with their good works.

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Christians Must Learn to Be Grateful to God in All Circumstances

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Christians Must Learn to Be Grateful to God in All Circumstances

NBA Hall of Fame player Magic Johnson contracted HIV thirty years ago. He recently marked the anniversary of his diagnosis by stating, “I thank the Lord for keeping me, giving me strength, and guiding me for sixty-two years but especially the last thirty.” Now an outspoken Christian, Johnson stepped down as president of basketball operations for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2019 so he and his wife could devote more time to their church.

“It’s truly a blessing when you know what direction you’re going in,” he said.

I wanted to begin today’s Daily Article with this good news in order to frame the tragic story everyone is following: an SUV plowed through a Christmas parade in Wisconsin on Sunday. As of this writing, five have died and forty-eight were injured. Authorities have charged Darrell Brooks, a Milwaukee man with a criminal history dating back to 1999, with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide.

One father told reporters, “There were pom-poms and shoes and spilled hot chocolate everywhere. I had to go from one crumpled body to the other to find my daughter.” He added, “My wife and two daughters were almost hit. Please pray for everybody. Please pray.”

In other news, a school bus carrying members of a high school band collided last Friday with a pickup truck traveling the wrong way on Interstate 20 in Big Spring, a town in West Texas. The band director was killed, as were the drivers of the bus and the pickup truck. Two of the twenty-five students on the bus were taken to a Lubbock hospital in critical condition.

I have never been to Milwaukee, but I have traveled that stretch of I-20 dozens of times over the years, the last just a few days ago. I played in the high school band, as did both of our sons.

As a result, the bus collision in Texas feels more real to me than the SUV tragedy in Wisconsin. But those in Wisconsin feel just the opposite. And what happened in either place could happen where you live today.

During this Thanksgiving week, can we emulate Magic Johnson’s gratitude to God in the midst of suffering? Should we?

A THANKSGIVING SPECTRUM WITH FOUR OPTIONS

If we cannot learn to give thanks in hard times, we will never learn to give thanks. An elderly seminary professor once advised me, “Son, be kind to everyone, because everyone’s having a hard time.”

What makes Thanksgiving difficult for you this year? Are you dealing with grief over the loss of a loved one? Challenges in your health, family, or finances? Guilt over the past or fear of the future?

In collating gratitude with suffering, we have four logical options we can view as a Thanksgiving spectrum.

1: We can choose gratitude as a generic attitude, a feeling we choose to feel. As I noted yesterday, this is a common approach in our secularized culture. However, it is an illogical and impractical choice. Feeling grateful without being grateful to someone in particular is like feeling love without loving someone in particular.

2: We can be grateful to God for the good things in our lives. For example, the psalmist declared, “This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24). This is obviously a step beyond secularism’s self-reliant denial of the supernatural and is where most Christians end up on the Thanksgiving spectrum.

3: We can “give thanks in all circumstances” (1 Thessalonians 5:18, my emphasis). This is a step beyond gratitude only for good things, a decision to find reasons for thanks in difficult times as well as good.

4: We can “give thanks for everything to God the Father” (Ephesians 5:20 NLT, my emphasis). This is the most challenging step of all, a decision to find cause for thanks even for the hard times we experience.

IS FAITH PRETENDING?

I want to recommend the fourth option today. Not because it is easy, but because it is transformative. If we can learn an attitude of gratitude to God for every moment we experience, we will “enter his gates with thanksgiving” (Psalm 100:4) and experience continually the transformative power of his Spirit in response to our worship.

Does this mean that we have to pretend that hard times are not hard? When asked to define “faith,” a small boy replied, “It’s believing what you know ain’t so.” Is this what God asks of us?

Not at all.

Jesus wept at the grave of Lazarus (John 11:35), pleaded with his Father in the Garden of Gethsemane with such stress and intensity that “his sweat became like great drops of blood falling to the ground” (Luke 22:44), and cried from the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). And yet he was “without sin” (Hebrews 4:15), proving that doubts, pain, and grief are a normal part of life in this fallen world.

To “give thanks for everything to God the Father” means to thank him for the good that we experience and for the ways he will redeem the bad.

It is to experience his presence as we suffer (Psalm 23:4), knowing that because we are in his hand (John 10:29), he feels all that we feel and grieves as we grieve. It is to walk with him through the waters and the fire (Isaiah 43:2) and find in his Spirit our hope (Romans 5:3-5), help (Psalm 34:19), and peace (Philippians 4:6-7). And it is to believe that “the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us” (Romans 8:18).

MY FAVORITE PRAYER IN THE BIBLE

When we lack the faith to trust God in hard places, we can ask God for the faith to trust him in hard places. We can offer my favorite prayer in Scripture: “I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24). Our gracious Father will answer our prayer, and our grateful faith will position us to experience his strength and grace in transforming ways.

In Beyond Words, Frederick Buechner writes: “A cancer inexplicably cured. A voice in a dream. A statue that weeps. A miracle is an event that strengthens faith. It is possible to look at most miracles and find a rational explanation in terms of natural cause and effect. It is possible to look at Rembrandt’s Supper at Emmaus and find a rational explanation in terms of paint and canvas.

“Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.”

SOURCE: CHRISTIAN HEADLINES

New priests bring fresh hope for China Church

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New priests bring fresh hope for China Church

Catholic community in the communist country welcomes several new priests in a host of dioceses.

The Catholic Church in China has welcomed several new priests in recent weeks in a sign of new hope for the community in the communist country.

In autumn, the traditional harvest season in China and many parts of Asia, the country’s Catholic community harvested much-awaited spiritual fruits in several dioceses where priestly ordinations took place, reports the Vatican’s Fides news agency.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, ordination ceremonies were held with restrictions in the presence of a limited number of faithful, but the events had no lack of celebrations or enthusiasm.

Bishop Paul Pei Junmin  of the Archdiocese of Shenyang ordained Paul Li Hongdong as a priest at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral Church in Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning, the northernmost coastal province of China. The ordination took place on the feast of Saints Simon and Jude on Oct. 28.

The prelate encouraged Father Li to “come down from the altar to set out on the journey towards the mission, towards the people of God, to proclaim the Gospel.”

Bishop Pei shared his life story and priestly journey under difficult circumstances with the faithful and urged the new priest “not to be afraid to choose and follow Jesus.”

Bishop Shen congratulated Father Liu on his ordination as he comes from a devout Catholic family and followed two other siblings who entered religious life

At the end of the ordination ceremony, he requested the newly ordained priest to bless him and all the priests present.

Bishop Joseph Shen Bin of Haimen Diocese in east-central China ordained Joseph Liu Xingfeng as a new priest on the feast of St. Teresa of the Child Jesus, the patroness of the missions, on Oct. 1.   

Bishop Shen congratulated Father Liu on his ordination as he comes from a devout Catholic family and followed two other siblings who entered religious life. His parents have four children.

Father Liu requested the faithful to pray for him so that he could become a “worthy priest.”

SOURCE: UCA NEWS

Colts’ Coach Recites ‘In Christ Alone’ to Encourage Others: Find the ‘Power that You Need in Jesus’

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Colts’ Coach Recites ‘In Christ Alone’ to Encourage Others: Find the ‘Power that You Need in Jesus’

Three decades after quoting the popular Christian song In Christ Alone during a postgame press conference, Indianapolis head coach Frank Reich stood at the podium Sunday and recited it again, saying he wanted to encourage those who are struggling in life.

Reich referenced the song after his team’s 41-15 upset victory at Buffalo – a win that improved the Colts to 6-5 and boosted their playoff hopes with six games remaining.

Reich, a devout Christian, also quoted the song during the postgame press conference in 1993 when he played quarterback for Buffalo and led the Bills to a historic 41-38 comeback victory over Houston after trailing 35-3. It remains the largest comeback win in NFL history.

On Sunday, Reich said he rarely discusses his faith during press conferences but “wanted to offer a word of encouragement” to “anyone out there who is in the midst of a struggle.” He said he had a “few friends in mind.”

He also noted that the Colts’ team is embracing the metaphor of “climbing Mt. Everest to parallel our quest to make it to the top.”

“And I want to give a personal account to where I found my strength for the journey,” he said. “The reason I’m doing that here and now is because almost 30 years ago, after a really big game, right down the hall in a press conference, I shared the lyrics to a song that meant a lot to me – that really spoke to where I get my strength from.

“The song’s In Christ Alone, and it was written by Shawn Craig,” Reich said, referencing the version co-written by the singer from Phillips, Craig and Dean. (It is not to be confused with the song of the same name by Keith Getty and Stuart Townsend.)

“I’m not going to recite the whole song like I did in the locker room back in 1993. But I do want to just share a very small snippet of it. It might encourage someone who’s climbing their own mountain right now,” Reich said. “… The chorus says, ‘In Christ alone, I place my trust. And I find my glory in the power of the cross. In every victory, let it be said of me that my source of strength and my source of hope is Christ alone.'”

Reich’s favorite lyric in the song, he said, is from the second verse: “I seek no greater honor than just to know Him more,” he said.

“So even though it was almost 30 years ago, when I read those words here in this stadium, this week, I was reminded Hebrews 13:8 says, ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.’

“It’s crazy that we’re here, but we’re here some 30 years later, not living in the past, but rather attempting to press on to what is ahead. So my encouragement is to keep climbing and to find the strength and power that you need in Jesus Christ.”

Reich is in his fourth season as head coach of the Colts, having led them to the playoffs twice. He served as president of Reformed Theological Seminary’s Charlotte campus from 2003 to 2006. He then pastored a church before becoming an NFL assistant coach in 2008.

SOURCE: CHRISTIAN HEADLINES

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