Salvation Summaries

Prayer was written by O. Hallesby, PhD, Professor in the Independent Theological Seminary of Oslo, Norway and translated into English in 1931. This book has 176 pages and 11 chapters.  The chapters are: What Prayer Is, Difficulties in Prayer, Prayer as Work, Wrestling in Prayer 1, Wrestling in Prayer II,…

Rosalind Rinker, a missionary in China, wrote Conversing with God in 1959. This small book of 117 pages has 11 chapters and 5 appendices. The chapters are: Three Prayer Meetings, Prayer is a Dialogue, What is Conversational Prayer, To Whom Should We Pray, Prayer Begins a New Relationship, Why Pray…

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to read through a number of books on prayer for more guidance on how to pray (it’s not something Christians automatically know once they become a Christian) and to improve the effectiveness of my prayers (most of mine seem to go unanswered, so…

Do you make New Year’s resolutions?  Or maybe a better question is, “Do you keep (or achieve) your New Year’s resolutions?” Each year, I typically have a few fitness or spiritual goals I want to accomplish, though I don’t necessarily make or start these on January 1.  One goal last…

In my last post, I shared with you the main messages of the Qur’an, along with what I liked, disliked and was surprised by when I read it.  In this post, I’ll offer thoughts on how Christians can witness to Muslims. There are different ways to witness, but I believe…

In my last post, How to Witness to Muslims, Part 1, I talked about my general approach to witnessing (to taxi drivers), shared a conversation I had with a devout Muslim, and provided a brief comparison between the Qur’an and the Bible.  In this post, I’ll provide you the main…

In my last post, I shared a recent experience my wife and I had in witnessing to two Mormon Missionaries, and how our relationship with them ended unexpectedly. In this and the next two posts, I will share my general approach in witnessing (to taxi drivers), experience in witnessing to…

In this post, I’ll share with you the experience my wife and I had in witnessing to two Mormon missionaries, and what we recommend you do if they knock on your door. Meetings with Mormons Over the past few months, we met with two Mormon missionary women a half dozen…

On my flight home from a business trip to Austin, TX, I sat near a lady from Iran who told me fascinating stories of her family’s conversion to Christianity from Islam.  I’ll call her “Susan.” It started with one of her sons, who had spent the night at a friend’s…

Years ago, I thought John 3:16 was a good verse to determine if someone was a Christian, since “belief in Jesus” is required for salvation, and most people have likely read or at least heard of this verse. However, in my study of salvation verses, especially the parable of the…