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“I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen.” -Revelation 1:18a Over three decades ago, the world was shocked to learn of the tragic death of John Lennon, the internationally known rock star and former Beatle. Mark David Chapman was the man who shot and killed him in Manhattan, New York, on the night of December 8, 1980. This is his story, in his own words....
JOHN LENNON “30 YEARS AT ATTICA” By Mark David Chapman
I’m about to write. A man is dead because of my decisions. Many other people were hurt. I am writing this to help others think before acting and hopefully go in a different direction ... away from selfishness, which is the root cause of our problems. It was a December night in 1980... It wasn’t particularly cold that long December night, but I dressed in a coat anyway. Pacing back and forth in front of the famed Dakota Apartments on West 72nd Street, I had arrived with one horrible plan in mind: to kill John Lennon! Why had I thought of
such a plan? Why John Lennon? I continued pacing the narrow strip of asphalt that formed the driveway at the entrance of the building .... A little background on myself first.. I was born in 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of David and Diane Chapman. At first, my life was like most everyone else’s. There were some fights at home, and I ran away once to Miami, Florida, but things like this were happening in homes and projects all across America in 1969. But when I turned 14, my life began to change. Although I did most of the things
Muslim woman healed by prayer in Jesus name -By Mark Ellis
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GERMANY (ANS -- January, 2017) -- An American missionary couple working with Ekballo Project answered God’s call to Berlin, Germany, and have
of the toughest people he knows. “He even has a tattoo on his body that says, ‘Don’t mess with me; I’ll kick your ass.’ “He didn’t have much mo-
refugee baptized in Germany been ministering to refugees from the Middle East. They recently baptized a young man named Nizar who told them a story that demonstrates the power of Jesus name. “My uncle’s wife, she couldn’t walk,” Nizar recounted to them. Due to a serious back problem, she was confined to her bed for a year and her weight swelled to 220 pounds. “My uncle was really lost, he didn’t know what to do,” Nizar said. His uncle had little work and was facing the possibility of relocation to another city. Nizar says his uncle is one
ney. He had to sell the things he had. It was a very hard time for him,” Nizar said. A few months went by and his uncle decided to study the Quran and become more Islamic. But after spending several weeks in the Islamic scripture, he became disillusioned and said, “OK, let’s see another thing.” So he began to converse with some of the Druze refugees about their faith. Their religion is considered a monotheistic Abrahamic religion, but it does not follow the Five Pillars of Islam. Their beliefs in-
young people do while growing up, and I was never in any big trouble yet, it was the late 1960s, the drug era, and I began to heavily use drugs. They were the biggest thing to ever come into my life. I loved drugs, and even quit school for months. All I did was do drugs and hang out with my friends. It was great for a while. But no matter what I did, or what I tried, I was never really happy. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAD SEEN MY FATHER CRY
For about two years, I ran around like this just wanting to have fun in my life. One time I got so high I was arrested at 2 AM trying to find my way home after a rock con-
tegrate features of Ismailism, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism and other philosophies. The Druze call themselves “People of Unitarianism or Monotheism.” After the uncle searched for answers among the Druze he concluded, “OK, I have found nothing here. Let’s go to another place.” Then he found a New Testament and started reading. “He read and read and read. After one week he was bored,” Nizar recounted. One day Nizar’s uncle walked into the living room, set the New Testament down, and began to pour himself a drink of arak, an anise-flavored, distilled alcoholic beverage. “He was an alcoholic,” Nizar noted. “When he was spiritual he left alcohol, but now he decided to go back.” At the same time, his wife was in the other room in severe pain. At this point, he was desperate for any kind of breakthrough and cried out to God. “OK, (God), what do you want from me? I have been through all this. You know that deep in my heart, I love you. I know that deep in my heart that I am your Continuation on page: 4
cert. When my father came to pick me up from jail, he cried. It was the first time I had ever seen him cry. I used to travel alone a lot during the summers and once, when I was 16 years old, I went to stay at my grandparents’ house in Ormond Beach, Florida, for two weeks. I will never forget one night there. It had been a real bad one. No drugs, no friends, and I felt really lonely. I was empty inside and I knew it. I was hurting. I had been deeply betrayed earlier by someone I thought was a friend. I remember lying on the sofa in the living room, looking up at the ceiling, the room very quiet. I needed help, and I Continuation on Page: 3
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Sheikh Sent To Assassinate Pastor Gets Born Again
By Mark Ellis
THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO KILLED I am not proud of what
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AMURIA, UGANDA (ANS -- January 2017) A Sunni Muslim sheikh, trained in Islamic proselytization, went to a church service in December to kill a Ugandan bishop. Like Saul of Tarsus persecuting the earliest Christians, God had other plans for his life. In Amuria, about 170 miles northeast of Kampala, Bishop George Edweu of the Pentecostal Upright Church, was preaching December 4th about hearing and understanding the
had filtered into the congregation with murderous intent and was sitting calmly among the congregation of 200 people. But as he listened to the bishop’s message, the power of the Gospel began to convict him of sin.
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The Word and the Spirit broke through the stony places in the sheikh’s heart, causing him to rush up to the podium and fall headlong at the bishop’s feet. Bishop Edweu’s eyes widened when he saw the young man approach, he stopped preaching and began to question him. “I was sent to come and attack, to kill you and Bishop George Edweu the church,” voice of God, according to destroy he told the shocked a report by Morning Star bishop, as tears rolled News (MSN). down the sheikh’s face. The 24-year-old sheikh Continuation on Page:3