Inspirational stories of God's love and grace...

The medallion hung in plain sight. Across the gaping abyss, the golden disk reflected the light from the torch. Zuriel couldn’t quite see the raised cross on the medallion, but he knew it was the prize he sought, although he hadn’t expected to find it so easily. His mind raced, trying to puzzle out why the precious medallion would be displayed so openly. Surely, with its great importance it should have been hidden better than this?

Long after her husband and sons had gone to bed, Caroline was too restless to sleep. She sat at the worn oak kitchen table and worked on her latest stained glass project, which she planned to hang in the living room window. All evening she had been unable to forget her phone conversation with her older sister, Susan. Now, as she cut out a thin piece of sea green glass, she replayed in her head Susan’s latest round of advice.

Kidnapped in India by radicals because of her conversion to Christianity, a young woman prays for her captors. Unknown to her, a team of ex-military Christians are planning a daring rescue with the use of non-lethal weapons.
Adapted from the COIL series by D.I. Telbat.

Maria looked at the sad face of her little girl and wondered what to do. The child had finally fallen asleep, while tear tracks dried on her cheeks. She was getting weaker all the time, and there was no more money for treatments at the doctor's office. There was barely enough money for food and, without a job, Maria had no hope of getting any more money, or food, in the near future. She sighed, and ignoring her own grumbling stomach, sat down to pray. God seemed so very far away.