Inside This Issue

jan~mar.2008.vol.47 no.1

God is Real... By Scott Wilson

Current Challenger CoverAs I sat in a restaurant with a huge pit in my stomach, I knew my marriage was not going to work out. Roger looked at me with a gaze that penetrated my very soul and plainly stated, “Scott, the next two years of your life are the most important.” ...

Journey to Islam & Back...By Kimberly Idrees

In 2002, ... I was on staff at a Christian school...Then suddenly, everything I thought I knew or believed was brought into question. In the end, I felt I couldn’t trust anyone around me—not my family, not my friends, not even my pastor...

When Marriage Hurts...By Anonymous

As a little girl I dreamed of marrying “Prince Charming.”...As a young woman, I thought of marriage as two people serving the Lord together and loving each other unconditionally, like my parents did. But the twenty-five years I spent in two dysfunctional marriages were not pretty like my dream...

Life’s Best Chapter: Retirement...By Johnnie Godwin

Both work and retirement started early for me. As a seven-year-old boy, I began selling newspapers on the streets of my west Texas hometown. Hard work remained part of my life until 1992 when at age fifty-five...

Thank God I Am SOMEBODY...by Somebody