Valerie Hess

“Spiritual Disciplines Devotional: A Year of Readings” has been picked up by one of your publishers to be translated and made available there in the months ahead! Blessings as you seek to bring the live the love of Jesus in a tough situation.

In January, the Iowa State Legislature invited Imam Muhammad Khan from the Islamic center in Des Moines to open the session in prayer. Mr. Khan asked for “victory over those who disbelieve” (translate: non-Muslims) and for “protection from the Great Satan” (translate: commom Islamic term for the USA). His prayer was basically cultural jihad!!!! And it is happening in lots of places around the western world. Does this make you nervous? It does me!

The Spring Arbor Course number is SFL 602. Sorry for any confusion.

Hello, friends,

Starting April 7th, I will teaching an 8-week on-line class for Spring Arbor University. It will be in the area of learning to practice the Spiritual Disciplines. The course number is SPF602 and I look forward to teaching this and interacting with all of the students who, as I understand, come from all over the world.
Contact Spring Arbor University if you would like to be a part of it.

Yana, Nigeria - A Muslim man’s frustrated desire to marry a young Christian woman resulted in him accusing her of “blasphemy,” and led to violence on February 2. One person was left dead, seven Christians hospitalized and five churches were destroyed.

The Rev. Garba Gaius, pastor of the congregation to which the young woman belongs, told Compass that the young Christian, Paitence Yusuf, was at home the night of February 1 when a young man asked her to meet him outside. After they had gone outside he told her he wanted to befriend and marry her. Yusuf sharply declined, Rev. Gaius said. As she walked back into her house, the man, whose identity has not been disclosed, told her, “I beg you in the name of God and his apostle, Muhammad, to please accept me as your boyfriend,” Rev. Gaius said. He said Yusuf looked the man in the face and replied, “You are pleading in the name of a person I do not know. Jesus I know, but Muhammad I do not know.” The Muslim man left, Rev. Gaius said, gathering friends and neighbors that night to tell them that Yusuf had blasphemed Muhammad.