Author: Riley Gonzalez

By Riley Gonzalez – The pounding on the door came just after dawn. On the other side, a voice said “If you don’t open the door, they are going to kill you and they are going to kill me.” Moments later, the sound of gunfire and screams filled the air. “It’s very hard to believe what happened,” one survivor said. “Even though I was there, seeing it with my own eyes, seeing them laughing, killing, and having fun with it.” For many in Israel, the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel was, as one person said, “the devil’s holiday.”…

By Riley Gonzalez – After winning the Heisman Trophy as a college team walk-on, after being first overall NFL draft, Baker Mayfield bottomed out. He wasn’t winning, his finances were bad and his marriage was struggling. A newspaper headlined: “Heisman has-been.” “I had to hit rock bottom,” he said. A fellow football player invited him to a Christian Pro Athletes Outreach retreat, and he realized what was missing from his life. “This is what we’ve been looking for,” Baker said. “There was a lot of emptiness. I had been searching through ups and downs. I had thought I could fulfill…

By Riley Gonzalez- After dropping to the ground outside her Phoenix home, Tina Hines had her eyes roll back and her skin start turning purple. “I thought she was dead,” her husband, Brian Hines, said. “Man, I’ve never seen anybody with their eyes rolled back and literally starting to turn purple.” That February morning in 2018 started like a normal day. But within minutes, Brian was on the phone with 911 and then pressing his wife’s chest with everything he had, trying to bring her back. One of their neighbors, Jeff Logus, attempted CPR first but broke down sobbing, “I…

By Riley Gonzalez – After dreaming the devil held his heart, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson turned on the radio, after dropping his son off for school in the morning, and heard: “Your soul is mine!” “I turned the radio off for six weeks,” the UFC fighter said. “That sh-t scared me straight.” Today, Jackson is a born-again Christian. The nightmare and subsequent random hearing a segment of a commercial for Six Flags’ new Revenge of the Mummy ride helped him come to the same faith his father adopted two years earlier. When Rampage Jackson was only 10 years old in his…