“I met Jesus in jail,” says ex-drug addict mum
When married mum Lisa Ortiz woke up from a drugs stupor in a holding cell, she felt terrified that she was going to die an addict. As she looked round…
Jesus took me over a threshold
Joan Daniel, 94, stopped breathing for 17 minutes after pre-operative drugs caused a heart attack before a gynaecological procedure in 1980. The grandmother of seven from Romsey, Hampshire, told HEART,…
“Life from the dead” for a pastor and for our nation?
A well known pastor and prayer leader recently died in hospital, but revived following intense prayer from his daughter and church. Prayer leader Pastor Brenda Taylor reported, “He was in…
I died and met the God I’d run from all my life
Since 2009, when Crystal McVea was clinically dead for nine minutes, she has told her story to Christian and secular TV stations, and has written a book. The married mother…
‘Modern-day resurrection’
The story of John Smith, a 14-year-old boy who experienced a ‘modern day resurrection’ after being dragged lifeless from a frozen lake has been made into a 2019 Hollywood film,…
Life from the dead
Christy and Linda Smith wouldn’t be together today if he hadn’t survived a potentially fatal brain haemorrhage “You shall not die but live!” were the powerful words from the Bible…
How a squeaky clean ethos got my business off the ground
When Luke Murfitt boldly pitched his fledgling cleaning company to the senior project manager of a major London property developer, he soon discovered he was competing against some of the…
The ex-druggie bringing hope to Southampton’s addicts
Meet the former heroin addict feeding dozens of hungry families and addicts on his old council estate Yvonne sat miserably in the courtroom, clutching a carrier bag. She’d been arrested…
Time to go back to the Bible
After we featured the story of a man whose mother groomed him from childhood as a medium (click here), he was flooded with emails. Now a pastor, Greg Hibbins didn’t…
Still on air at 100
“I was told I had a voice for radio and I thank God for that,” says Britain’s oldest DJ It seems there’s no such thing as retirement for veteran radio…