Dear Friends, In light of Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, January 27th, I thought I would take the time today to post some “thoughts” or quotes from Corrie ten Boom, whose name was made known worldwide through the book and movie that followed, called, “The Hiding Place.” It was released my second year in college (when I was 18, and 5 years before I came to faith in Christ). I was so taken in by her heroism and willingness to risk life and limb, doing what was against the law in occupied Holland at the time, and hiding Jewish people from the Nazis. Even as an unbeliever she and her family were quite an inspiration to me, risking the wrath of the Nazi’s for breaking the law to not only hide Jewish people in a secret room in their house, but helping them escape the country, and thereby saving many lives. She, along with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, were two of my earliest heroes of the Christian faith. People who not only had faith but sought to live it out in their lives – despite ...
Encouraging and Inspirational Christian Thoughts