Couple Sees Muslims Come to Christ

Sweat rolls down Todd Riddle’s* bald head as he thumbs through the mountain of cash heaped on his dining room table. Wrapped in cheap, plastic bags, the money is being prepped for a transfer at a crumbling airstrip in the middle of nowhere in North Africa.

Sound like a scene from an action movie? Not quite.

Todd doesn’t deal drugs, run arms or launder money for the mafia. He’s a Southern Baptist worker who supplies a medical team with anything from syringes and tongue depressors to Bibles, toilet paper and cash because there are no banks in town.

The 39-year-old Virginia man came to North Africa in 2008 with his wife, Kathryn,* and their two teenage sons. The Riddles are serving a two-year term as logistics coordinators for a team of Southern Baptist medical workers that go by the acronym TRUTH — Trailblazers Reaching the Unreached Through Healthcare.

The TRUTH team operates out of a remote town more than 100 miles from the capital city. The area has few stores and almost no infrastructure, which means it’s up to the Riddles to supply the team with nearly everything they need for medical work, ministry and day-to-day life.

The latest supply shipment for the TRUTH team also includes fresh fruit, furniture and propane cylinders for cooking. It must be transported via a chartered flight because the road linking the town with the country’s capital is too dangerous to drive.

Much of the shopping for the TRUTH team falls to Kathryn, who’s an expert at haggling over prices at the capital’s massive open-air market. The experience isn’t pleasant.

Baked by the Saharan sun, the market is hot, noisy and crowded, teeming with life like an oversized Petri dish. There are at least twice as many flies — lured by a sickening bouquet of spoiled fruit, raw fish and sweat — as there are people. Ratty beach umbrellas mark each vendor’s stand; looming over them are the minarets of the capital’s largest mosque, a reminder of just how badly this country needs Jesus.

“The spiritual darkness they’re under is so frustrating,” Todd said. “It crushes your heart because you come to love these people and you want them to see the Light, but their eyes are veiled by Islam.”

Jesus Loves Porn Stars

Craig Gross shows us that no matter who you are or what you have done, Jesus does and always will love you.

I met Ron Jeremy at a porn show. A few years later we were sleeping on top of each other in a bunk bed on a tour bus. My family was with me, at times there were swingers on the bus and on occasion had some other pastors as well. We were on “The Porn Debate” tour of 7 cities in 7 nights.

Ron is arguably the biggest porn star in the world with 2,000 XXX rated videos. He claims to have had sex with over 5,000 women.

I started XXXchurch.com 8 years ago, created a software called X3watch that is keeping almost 1 million people accountable online and I am most often known as the Porn Pastor. I have only had sex with one woman who happens to be my wife.

Ron says we are just alike. He has been with 5,000 women and I have been with my wife of 12 years almost 5,000 times.

Just alike… Well not really.

Ron is for porn and I am against porn. We are opponents on stage. In fact we have debated each other over 60 times in the last 4 years. We have debated at Yale, Ohio State, University of Southern California, Texas Tech, and in a few weeks we start the school year off with another debate at the University of Tennessee.

We are opponents on stage but off stage we are great friends. That’s really what this is about. Jesus dined with tax collectors and befriended prostitutes. I don’t want to be known as the guy who debates Ron, I’d rather be known as the guy who loves Ron.

Love wins. My old pastor in Grand Rapids said that a lot. I have come to realize not only does love win, but love works and love waits.

Last year, Ron was in Vegas for Easter weekend. Before he hit the topless pool at Mandalay Bay, he said he was free so I picked him up in my minivan with my two toddlers in the back, and wife as well, and we all headed to church.

Ron loves worship music. If you don’t believe watch this YouTube video.

He loved the song “Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So.”

Ron and I travel quite a bit on for the porn debates. When we see each other at porn shows across the country we go out and when he is in Las Vegas or I am in Los Angeles , we connect up for a meal or just to hang out.

Ron and I talk about sex, the Bible, marriage, family, kids, heaven, hell, turtles, and so much more. He is never short on words. He has told me he is afraid to die. What if he is wrong and Jesus is really who he said he was?

For the last four years we have hit up college campuses and a few nightclubs with the porn debate. We have never been to a Christian university or a church.

Why not?

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For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. – John 3:16

The Heavenly Father

In a world of much uncertainty, you can be certain about one thing: God knows everything about you: everything you have ever done; everything you have ever said; and every thought you have ever had. God, our Heavenly Father, is the Creator and Sustainer of the the universe. He created all humans, and cares for us and loves us deeply. When Adam and Eve, the first man and woman on earth, sinned against God in the Garden of Eden, God had to separate humanity from Himself. He did this because He is holy and cannot be associated with sin.

However, God was grieved to have to do this, and because He loves us deeply, He put in motion a plan to bring sinful humanity back to himself. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). Our Heavenly Father gave His all to try and reestablish a relationship with us.

He sent His only son Jesus Christ to take our sins upon Himself and be punished for them on the cross of Calvary. Why did He do this? He did it for you and for me. Click Here to Read More about Jesus and you.