My doctor left the exam room to go to his next patient last Monday. I was about to leave myself when my cell phone rang. Andy, an inmate I had met with several times in the Wright County Jail, had instructed his mother to call me after his sentencing in the Sherburne County Courthouse. For […]
With time on their hands, Christian programs that come into the jails, and the quiet of lockdown, inmates have a priceless opportunity to find Jesus or rediscover the Jesus they have lost. These are the ones who come to Sunday afternoon Gideon Bible studies. They are the ones who come to talks I give in […]
I was sitting in the National Museum of Ireland, walking through an exhibit entitled Proclaiming a Republic: The 1916 Rising. I marveled at the dedication and singular purpose and passion of the men and women who were prepared to give their lives (and did) for the independence of Ireland from Great Britain. As I sat on […]
In April of this year (2018) I was telling this to a group of female inmates in the Crow Wing County Jail. To my amazement, one of the women had been with Shirley in the short term program and confirmed to the group that my story was true. “Shirley is a real spitfire for Jesus […]
Before Shirley left to drive by and take a look, she asked the woman what her name was. Then the miracle happened. The woman’s name was Annie, the very same Annie who had been praying for Shirley for the past two weeks at the bequest of Jessica. She offered to personally give Shirley a tour […]
Jasmine suggested Shirley get into a program for women at Adult and Teen Challenge in Minneapolis, but Shirley didn’t want to put her life on hold for three months or 13 months if she went with the long-term program. Jasmine kept suggesting; Shirley kept hesitating. One day she agreed to drive by the place in […]
As Shirley put it, she was hard-core bad and spent 13 years in prison in Texas. She kept cycling back through jail because of her addiction to drugs. She’s now a resident of Teen and Adult Challenge in Minneapolis. It’s there I heard her testimony on August 16 of last year when I gave the […]
You’ve all heard of Doubting Thomas in the Bible. Well, yesterday I met Believing Thomas at the Crow Wing County Jail in Brainerd, Minnesota. He’s an inmate there who attended one of my presentations on How To Stay Out of Jail. He sat with his arms crossed, expressionless, not saying a word for 50 minutes. […]
There was a time when I thought God was in His heaven and all was right with the world. I can no longer believe that. The world is a mess, pure and simple, and is careening toward chaos. Lying is fast becoming the norm of our society. Deceiving others has become a way of life […]
Mitch had to leave Colorado because a rival gang put a price on his head, a nice way of saying they intended to kill him. He and his girlfriend fled to Minnesota where he hooked up with a meth-selling gang and soon became a top seller in Central Minnesota. “I went from city to city,” […]