Wrestling with Jacob

A journal of faith, grief and devotional musings

christian persecution

  • The popping of the bubble wrap

    What has been taken from you because you are a Christian? Your house, your child, your income, your career, your possessions? What has ever been threatened because you are a Christian? Have you been slandered, taken beatings, been thrown in jail for the name of Jesus? Our constitutional freedoms as Christians have been in bubble Read more

  • Black Beauties: A commentary on Hidden Figures

    Take One I was born on the day that senator Robert Kennedy was shot by the hands of Sirhan Sirhan. On June 5th, 1968 I came into a world of terrible social injustice and hatred of black Americans. Two months prior to my birth on April the 4th, 1968 my Christian brother and fellow American Read more

  • Christian persecution; understanding hatred of God

    Not everyone who says to me ‘Lord, Lord’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven. But he who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, ‘ Lord, Lord’, have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your Read more