Jesus took me over a threshold

Joan Daniel, 94, stopped breathing for 17 minutes after pre-operative drugs caused a heart attack before a gynaecological procedure in 1980. The grandmother of seven from Romsey, Hampshire, told HEART, “While I was ‘gone’ I experienced Jesus taking me over … Read More

“Life from the dead” for a pastor and for our nation?

A well known pastor and prayer leader recently died in hospital, but revived following intense prayer from his daughter and church.

Prayer leader Pastor Brenda Taylor reported, “He was in hospital for emergency surgery, and at one point actually ‘died’ … Read More

I died and met the God I’d run from all my life

Since 2009, when Crystal McVea was clinically dead for nine minutes, she has told her story to Christian and secular TV stations, and has written a book.

The married mother of four says she went to heaven after complications from … Read More

‘Modern-day resurrection’

The story of John Smith, a 14-year-old boy who experienced a ‘modern day resurrection’ after being dragged lifeless from a frozen lake has been made into a 2019 Hollywood film, ‘Breakthrough’.

His adoptive mother, Joyce, prayed aloud over her son’s … Read More

Jean Vanier, champion of the vulnerable

Jean Vanier (1928-2019) founded L’Arche communities for people with learning disabilities One of the world’s best known Catholic humanitarians, Jean Vanier, died on 7 May aged 90.

He founded two international organisations for people with intellectual disabilities, L’Arche (The Ark) … Read More

How a squeaky clean ethos got my business off the ground

When Luke Murfitt boldly pitched his fledgling cleaning company to the senior project manager of a major London property developer, he soon discovered he was competing against some of the City’s largest commercial cleaning companies. Read More

The ex-druggie bringing hope to Southampton’s addicts

Meet the former heroin addict feeding dozens of hungry families and addicts on his old council estate

Yvonne sat miserably in the courtroom, clutching a carrier bag.

She’d been arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer who had come to arrest her son – and was so sure she’d be in prison by the end of the day that she’d packed her belongings in advance. Read More

Time to go back to the Bible

After we featured the story of a man whose mother groomed him from childhood as a medium (click here), he was flooded with emails. Now a pastor, Greg Hibbins didn’t mind taking up to two hours a day to help readers, but alarm bells rang about the lack of in-depth Bible teaching available to them. What follows is by Greg Hibbins. Read More

Still on air at 100

“I was told I had a voice for radio and I thank God for that,” says Britain’s oldest DJ It seems there’s no such thing as retirement for veteran radio presenter Eric Cull, who began broadcasting from a pigsty in … Read More

Churchgoers are getting off the pews and onto the streets

Chaplains bring light to the high street
The cheery faces of Littlehampton’s town chaplains have recently become a familiar sight on Littlehampton’s high street. Read More