The NightLight Podcast with Christopher Glyn

Consigned to the depths of depravity in drugs, addiction, guns, and gangs, Sam Childers, a biker, cried out, "I'm done living this life!" After surrendering his life to Jesus, he felt called to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war. Transformed by the horrors he saw Sam built an orphanage in the heart of territory controlled by Joseph Kony’s brutal LRA militia. However, establishing a shelter was not enough. Determined to save as many lives as possible, Sam and his team took up arms and went deep into enemy territory to rescue kidnapped and children. To his critics, Sam asks, “If a madman came in and abducted your child, and I said to you, I can bring your child home – does it matter how I bring him home?” A fervent, self-proclaimed Christian freedom fighter. Sam’s explosive book "Another Man's War", was made into a movie starring Gerard Butler, “Machine Gun Preacher” In this wide-ranging interview for Nightlight, Sam tells his personal testimony, as well as the true story of the real-life machine gun preacher! 

Carole Ward, a 3rd-generation missionary, is the founder and director of Favour International. Her book, "Send Me Where No One Wants to Go", recounts her mission to northern Uganda and South Sudan. In 2001, Carole cried out to God, praying, “Send me where no one wants to go and to do what no one wants to do.” In response, the Lord filled her with a dynamic and fearless love for Africa and to reach untouched territory and tribes for Jesus. Carole recounts astonishing signs, wonders, and miracles! “The harvest is so plentiful and the labourers are so few. Jesus said this Gospel must be preached to every tribe and tongue, and then the End will come! Who's going to go?", Carole implores. "Western Christianity has the mentality of 'Hold your territory. Just wait until Jesus comes!' NO! If darkness is fearlessly advancing, where's the church? The Devil knows his time is short and is pulling out all his stops. So shouldn't the church pull out all Christ's stops, full-throttle forward?! When penitent, pleading, prevailing, persevering, persistent prayer takes priority and preeminence over pride, people-pleasing, programs, preconceived ideas, problems, pulpits and performances, then, and only then, will God's presence and power permeate this planet once again!” 

British preacher and evangelist Paul Baker, after 26 years of service in Germany, answered God's call to Uganda and the Congo, resulting in incalculable miraculous healings from diabetes, HIV, lameness, deliverances from demons, regenerative skin replacement, and much more! Yet Paul confesses, "There's nothing spectacular about me. You don't have to be a big-time somebody to have the faith to pray for healing. God's healing power is for everyone who activates their faith and believes! The only qualification I have is the name of Jesus and to believe that whatever is broken, devastated and destroyed by the Devil can be physically, spiritually, mentally and perfectly restored by the living God of His creation! Our challenge in faith is to believe not what our mind tells us, but to believe the impossible and to bring it into existence through claiming the power of Jesus Christ!"

Author and Biblical scholar Melvin Vallomparambil explains that although it's a common gesture to offer to chip in to help pay, pick up the tab, foot the bill, or split the costs, this mindset — when transferred into performance-based, wheeling-and-dealing Christianity — is a tragic trajectory down a dead-end street! It repeatedly doubts and questions, "Have I done enough? Am I good enough? How can I deserve God's blessings?" The Devil continuously tries to trick us into thinking that WE have to do something. But God's Word says that all things are possible to those who believe! Only believe! The deal is done! Christ has won! He paid in full, foot the bill, and covered all costs!

"Bible Made Easy" podcaster Brother George presents a Biblical perspective on the events of October 7, 2023, when Palestinian Hamas fighters conducted a major attack on Israel, resulting in Israel's retaliatory obliteration of Gaza. This horrendous, heartbreaking situation has erupted in a cataclysmic divide, as all strata of society argue as to who's at fault and try to solve this seemingly unsolvable, irreconcilable conflict. Brother George outlines critical components buried deep within the historical and spiritual background of this flashpoint, and explains in detail the expository differences between Old Testament justice and New Testament love. Amidst the incendiary cycles of hatred, violence and revenge, we must clearly see that there is the Israeli viewpoint, the Palestinian viewpoint, and the overarching solution of the teachings of Jesus Christ, who came to put an end to death and destruction, and fill our souls with love's healing power and everlasting life! 

Birthing expert Natasha Bennett delivers powerful parallels between childbirth and the unfolding revelation of the End time. Do two main events from September 2023 possibly herald the signing of the covenant and the beginning of the last 7 years? Time will tell. But certainly, deception is increasingly rampant as the birth pains grow stronger and fulfilled prophecy barrels forward to a point of no return. Reliance on any processes other than God's will hinder our labour, preventing His Spirit from working in us. Before Last Days labour enters the Transition Stage, which Natasha compares to the foretold Great Tribulation, the warning is clear: Go forward! Embrace faith! Forsake fear! Cease from leaning on worldly comforts and conveniences. Seek and shelter in your respective wilderness "in the secret place of the most High [where you] shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." (Psalm 91:1)Matthew 24:8 — "All these are the beginning of sorrows."Original Greek for "sorrow": ὠδίνLiteral English translation: ódinPhonetic Spelling: o-deen'Definition: a birth pangPart of Speech: Noun, FeminineUsage: pain/throes of childbirth, acute pain, travail pain, severe agony, a snare(From: https://biblehub.com/greek/5604.htm)

Carole Ward, founder and director of Favor International and author of the books "Send Me Where No One Wants to Go!" and soon-coming "Send Us Where No One Want to Go!", recounts astonishing signs, wonders and miracles the Lord is doing to reach the untouched territories and tribes of South Sudan and other African countries, turning killers into Christians, murders into missionaries, prostitutes into preachers! After decades of strategically mobilizing Christian radio outreach, portable Bible schools, missionary training, church outposts, trauma counselling and healing, and rescuing street kids from life-threatening wounds, crime and trafficking, Carole is now echoing Christ's call for acceleration! "Let's advance and say what our indigenous army of missionaries in Africa declare: 'Our eternity is secure! Theirs isn't! Why wouldn't we give what is temporal to gain what is eternal!'" May we all, as the Body of Christ, rise up and do our part to fearlessly and courageously storm the very gates of Hell in the power of the Holy Spirit, because time is short!

Bible cosmologist Lorenzo Delaurentis returns with mind-boggling realities of the cosmic war between 777 and 666! Bible numerology reveals the incredible patterns and sequences in God's Word, and declares the indisputable proof that the Bible was written by God! It's your choice! Be marked and transformed by the mind-renewing power in the Word of God, or marked and ensnared by Satan's worldly sorcerous sciences. The Devil's documents are signed off with 666! The Bible says to count, to calculate that number! So do the math! Live by the full truth in God's Word, or end up deceptively entangled in the mark-name-image of the Beast! Jesus Christ paid the price! Tickets are free! Board flight 777 today, escape the demonology of this world, and discover why God magnifies His divine Word even above His Name!