On my website you’ll see three publications, Faith in Crisis – How God Shows Up When You Need Him Most, Diwaniya Stories, and Kuwaiti Seeker. I’m afraid their theme is a bit complicated, and life if complicated. But the message of these publications is simple. I’ll get to that in a bit.
First, let me say I have great respect for Islam and Muslims individually. I’ve studied Islam, and I know many Muslims. The Muslims I’ve known I consider friends, honorable and sincere persons, all of them. I’d be OK with them in a foxhole.
The only difference between them and me is Jesus.
Faith in Crisis deals with my family’s experiences during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The Lord preserved our family through his infinite grace. But if I had not survived, his grace and mercy would be no different. Even in the worst of that episode, I experienced, yes truly experienced, his love.
Diwaniya Stories is an odd little volume told my fictional character Yacoub. Yacoub delineates much of the history of Islam in these stories. I think it’s an honest rendition. I did not intend to be critical but simply factual.
Kuwaiti Seeker, soon to be published, tells Yacoub’s story. Yacoub sought the truth in Islam. Whether he failed or Islam failed, I will not say. In any case, he fell into sin, even though the precepts of Islam were there for him to follow. He failed and he knew it. He had no intention of following Jesus. But Jesus, once again in his infinite grace, pulled Yacoub from the brink. Nothing Yacoub did warranted Jesus coming after him.
So, that’s the theme: Jesus, the Lord, rescues us whether or not we are in the market for it. Jesus is the difference.
Check it out: the complete story is Genesis through Revelation.
March 27, 2018
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March 28, 2018
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