J. R. Woodgates
After 30 years in and out of prison, Abner Falero received a life-changing gift through the food port of his solitary confinement cell door.
One of my Recommended Readings in Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path is Do What Jesus Did. It tells how ordinary Chicagoland Christians, led by the Holy Spirit, bring to unbelievers undeserved blessings that make them more willing to hear the Gospel.
Ordinary Christian prisoners can bless unbelieving inmates in the same ways and so expand the Kingdom of God.
This video shows a murderous Latin Kings leader in Aurora, Illinois unexpectedly experiencing God’s love (and mercy) and becoming a Christian – with noticeable results for himself and the welfare of his city.
It’s introduced by the book’s author, Robby Dawkins.
This is the kind of transition I’d like to see take place in the lives of men who read – and apply – Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path! Whether or not they are actually guilty of having committed a crime should not matter.
Our lazy American culture of single parenting, sloppy schooling, and a preoccupation with non-stop entertainment, sports, video games and self-gratification has produced an unprecedented number of young men unfit for work, marriage, the military or much else. Fattening frogs for snakes.
Many prisoners bear (and believe in) ugly identity labels that others have put on them, often beginning in childhood.
Jesus came to “bear our sins in his own body” (see 1 Peter 2:24).
This clever video shows how Jesus can not only erase but replace our labels once we’ve been transformed by him.
Isn’t looking at porn no worse than having a few drinks in a bar, smoking a legal joint, visiting a strip club, betting on horses or playing a slot machine? Why can’t we just accept it along with such other “little vices?” A new survey on pornography in America suggests why we shouldn’t accept it: