“I hit rock bottom”

Stuart Cookson didn’t ‘feel’ like a Christian and depression drove him towards suicide – until he turned to God

By Chris Eyte

HAVE YOU ever stood in a church and felt that you don’t really belong there?

That’s how Stuart … Read More

Cancer survivor: “I don’t fear death”

Michael Bushby nearly hanged himself after a devastating prognosis. But God intervened and today he is cancer free

By Chris Eyte

MICHAEL Bushby sat alone in the darkness of his garage, holding a beer in one hand and a skipping … Read More

“I met Jesus in jail,” says ex-drug addict mum

When married mum Lisa Ortiz woke up from a drugs stupor in a holding cell, she felt terrified that she was going to die an addict.

As she looked round the cell in Warren County Jail on 17 August, 2012, … Read More

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

Life from the dead

Christy and Linda Smith wouldn’t be together today if he hadn’t survived a potentially fatal brain haemorrhage

“You shall not die but live!” were the powerful words from the Bible that enabled one man to survive a deadly disease and walk out of hospital 14 days later.

‘Life from the dead’ is at the heart of Christianity, inherited from Judaism, which has always celebrated life.

While both communities have recently celebrated the history-changing Easter and Passover, the legacy of those events is still impacting the lives of individuals and nations today. 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