“Why I forgave my husband’s killers,” says Christmas Eve widow

The senseless murder of church organist Alan Greaves on his way to midnight mass shocked the nation. Seven years on, his widow has asked to share her journey of forgiveness with HEART readers “Forgiveness works. It works for us, when … Read More

Heaven scent

Sense of smell healing brought musician to his senses

The big break for one of Yorkshire’s most talented folk rock music groups came after… wait for it… a smell. To be specific, the whiff of a pint of beer. Why?

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The nightmare of living in a “haunted” house

Spooky sensations are often passed off as harmless Halloween fun, but for one family, the daily terror of living in a former medium’s house couldn’t have been more real. Mum Beryl warns, “Don’t dabble in the occult. If it wasn’t … Read More

“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