Author: Abigail Aguilar

By Abigail Sanchez Aguilar Before he was killed by an angry mob of the Chinese Cultural Revolution for being a follower of Jesus, his grandfather bequeathed a sacred and illegal treasure to Zhang Rongliang: his Bible. “My boy, I believe the lord will greatly use you for his purpose,” Grandfather said. “I’m going home now, remember this with all your might. Continue to preach the good news of Jesus Christ whether the time is right or not.” Zhang Rongliang read the Bible every night secretly in his mountain. When he stumbled across Heb. 10:24-25 “Let us consider one another in…

By Abigail Sanchez-Aguilar — The only problem for Rashmi Adhikari was the idols of Sanatani Hinduism didn’t hear, respond or care. “They don’t see my tears, hear my prayers, nor do they feel my pain,” said the young lady from Tareythang village in Sikkim province of India. “Despite all these attempts to know God, I never had inner peace in my heart. No matter how hard I tried to please those Hindu gods and goddesses, I always felt as though they have forsaken me.” Through a business partner, Rashmi was introduced to the true and loving God. He wrote John…

By Abigail Sanchez-Aguilar — As he sat across his girlfriend’s father, a 6’6″ body-builder pastor who weighed 270 lbs, Nathan Penny broke him the news: “You’re daughter is pregnant.” “He just went gray,” Nathan recalls. “He wanted to reach across and separate my head from my body.” But future father-in-law restrained himself, choked back his rage and protective paternal instinct and remembered he was a pastor. Instead of putting his massive muscles to use tearing his future son-in-law limb from limb, he tersely smiled and tried to be presentable, polite, humane. Nathan Penny didn’t quickly come to Christ. He had…

By Abigail Sanchez Aguilar – The Gospel did NOT arrive in India via European Colonialism. It arrived earlier in India than it did in the North of Europe. Its first beachhead was established by the Apostle Thomas in 52 AD on the Malabar Coast of Kerala. So why did it not become a more dominant fixture? By contrast, Islam which got its start 700 years later, grew and possessed large populations and swaths of land. Today, Muslims represent 14.2% while Christians are a mere 2.3%. Why did the Gospel sputter in the Great Subcontinent, the most populous nation in the…

By Abigail Sanchez Aguilar — In a case that legal defense says gives evidence that the U.K. is criminalizing Christianity, a 66-year-old U.K. pastor was arrested while street preaching in London and faces hate speech-related charges for speaking out against Islam. “A peaceful, Christian preacher was treated like a serious criminal for expressing his Christian beliefs and that Islam is a false religion in a public place,” said Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre. “The footage raises fundamental questions about whether policing in this country is now criminalizing Christianity while failing to apply the law equally and…

By Abigail Sanchez Aguilar — Sarma Velamuri proposed to do exegesis to the Bible, comparing it to Hindu scriptures, just to prove that Christianity is no better than Hinduism. “I wasn’t ambivalent about Christians like most Hindus are,” the Houston doctor says. “I thought they were morons. I had this idea: I’m going to read the Bible and prove to you that it says the exact same thing as every other religion on the planet. In fact, I’m going to write a book. I started reading the Bible because I was angry.” Unusually, he picked Ecclesiastes, in the middle of…

By Abigail Sanchez Aguilar – After being addicted to porn for 15 years, Annabelle needed a brain purge to shake the shackles of addiction. “I realized that my mind wasn’t clean and I had to do a true and real purge of my thoughts,” Annabelle says. And this requires a lot of sacrifice of my desires and truly dying to my flesh.” Today she’s living free from porn online and porn in the mind. She grew up in a Christian home with boundaries, protections, restrictions. Everything was fine until she got an iPod for Christmas when she was 10 and…

By Abigail Sanchez Aguilar – Has won four Grammys, 10 nominations and the title twice Best Christian Music Performer. He grew up without a father, got sexually abused as a young child, dealt with drugs at 16, and pointed a gun at a woman on the streets to feel some sort of spark. Most people don’t know his story. When he was succeeding in his career, he was really close to give it all up. The man who brought Christian rap from the margin to the mainstream, Lecrae Devon Moore was born on Oct. 9, 1979 in Houston, Texas. To…

By Abigail Sanchez-Aguilar — A woman in the front row shouted “Sing it, baby!” and that caused Lionel Richie to give up his dreams to become a priest with the Episcopal Church. “I couldn’t figure out what the heck to do with my life, couldn’t figure it out. I’m as shy as I can be. And then I realized, maybe the priesthood might be the best way to go,” Richie recalls. But he found out “sons were my real sermons.” King crooner Lionel Richie incorporated Christianity into his music all the way back to his breakout days as vocalist for…

By Abigail Sanchez Aguilar – Aylin Souder’s deep dark secret was the images she had seen as a child that she would act out on whenever she got angry. “No matter what our addiction, there’s freedom in Christ,” she now says. Aylin grew up in Miami, FL part of an immigrant family from Cuba. When she was only 6 years old, she stumbled on a stash of hard core porn of someone in the family. The images confused but also drew her in; they brought guilt and pleasure. “I remember feeling very guilty and just dirty about finding those things,”…