Subject: God’s Hostage: Lessons Learned in a Turkish Prison

Plus: Message of the Month, Featured Resource, Command of Christ, and Character Quality

Lessons Learned in a Turkish Prison

The powerful testimony of Andrew Brunson

What does it look like to trust God when you’re falsely accused, isolated, and stripped of every comfort? In this powerful episode, Andrew Brunson, a former missionary to Turkey who spent two years in a Turkish prison for his faith in Christ, shares his testimony of that trying time. His testimony compels us to consider this important question: Will we still follow Jesus when we cannot see His faithfulness or feel His presence?


In prison, Andrew faced darkness, isolation, and deep spiritual crisis. Yet, he emerged from that trial with a deeper love for Christ and his faith refined. Now serving as a voice to help prepare the Body of Christ for coming trials, Andrew’s message is a vital call to trust and obey—even in the most severe testing.


Through Andrew’s journey and testimony, we are reminded of Christ’s command in Matthew 5 to rejoice in persecution. Andrews testimony will challenge you to cultivate a resilient faith, fix your eyes on eternity, and learn to stand firm in dark times.

Message of the Month

Let God Arise

John Van Gelderen

When the Lord is working as He is doing in these most recent days in our nation, people begin to fall on their faces and turn to the one Source of all truth and holiness: the Lord Himself!


In this Message of the Month, “Let God Arise” by John Van Gelderen, let his powerful stories about revival ignite faith in your own heart for what God is doing today! This impassioned message expounding on Psalm 68 urges us as believers to seek the Lord with our whole hearts, to resist the sin in our lives, and to cry out to God to use us. Ask yourself: What would happen if each of us got down on our knees with willing, surrendered hearts and cried out to God to bring revival?


COMMAND OF CHRIST

Baptize My Disciples

“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”

Matthew 28:19

In this series on the command “Baptize My Disciples,” we are invited to see baptism as a profound declaration of our union with Christ. Rooted in the authority and love of the risen Savior, baptism marks the believer’s identity in Him, testifying that we have died to sin and been raised in newness of life.

The Commands of Christ Podcast

A fresh way to meditate on the words of Jesus. New episodes every Monday, available everywhere you listen to podcasts!

CHARACTER QUALITY

Virtue

vs. Impurity

DEFINITION:

The moral excellence and purity of spirit that radiate from my life as I obey God’s Word

KEY VERSE:

“According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue . . . . And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge.”

—II PETER 1:3, 5

KEY BIBLE STORY:

Three Hundred Men Face a Mighty Army

“And he [Gideon] said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise . . . . When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.”

—Judges 7:17–18


Featured Resource

Evidence Not Seen

$17.99  $15.99

The autobiography of one of the twentieth century’s great women of faith, Evidence Not Seen tells the story of American missionary Darlene Deibler Rose. Working among primitive tribes people in the jungles of Indonesia, she is caught up in the ravages of World War II. Accused of being a spy and imprisoned by the Japanese, Darlene learns the cost of following Christ, no matter what. Her story is one of incredible miracles and intense suffering.

(While supplies last)

Upcoming Event

Veterans Banquet

Big Sandy, Texas, November 6

Free dinner for all of our veterans, their families, and anyone from the community who would like to honor our dedicated service members.