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Sometimes God steps into our lives and asks us to do something that wasn’t even close to being on our radar. When you feel his call, especially when it’s something you hadn’t been expecting, how do...
View ArticleWhatever It Takes: How Love Turned Tragedy Into Blessing
Fair Warning: This story has some graphic imagery. A true story but names have been changed: Catherine, a young woman Jim, Catherine’s roommate Mary, one amazing friend I was a pastor in my...
View ArticleLOVE>FEAR, Granddaughter of Westboro Baptist Church Leader Leaves
“For nearly all of her twenty-seven years, Megan believed it: believed what her grandfather Fred Phelps preached from the pulpit; believed what her dad Brent and her mom Shirley taught during the...
View ArticleWhat’s a single white guy doing with 3 Mexican kids?
“David Marin was in his early 40s, longing to be a dad.”I’d led an interesting life,” he writes in his new book, “traveled to 11 countries, jumped out of airplanes, graduated from law school, and I’d...
View ArticleGood Neighbor Rescues Man from Fire
Photo by Jason Grow “Lightning flashed through the darkness over Donald Lubeck’s bedroom skylight. Before the 80-year-old retired international aid worker could count “one thousand one,” he was shaken...
View ArticleShout Out! Get Your Name Personally Doodled and Raise Money for Water Projects
Ashley’s Story Ashley Westrich has LOVE>FEAR. Ashley Westrich is Junior Designer at Charity: Water. She offers her talents, career, and life to love others. And don’t be fooled: Ashley has a lot of...
View ArticleThe Humble Women Who Inspired World Vision
“My father, Bob Pierce, first traveled to China in 1947 with Youth for Christ. World Vision wasn’t even a twinkle in his eye. But years later, he would write, “My own world vision from God was sparked...
View ArticleLOVE>fear of being stabbed in arm and life being drained into a bag
The BloodMobile parked in front of Maryville Vineyard The LOVE>FEAR Blood Drive held yesterday, March 24th at Maryville Vineyard Church was an incredible success! All 60 slots were filled prior to...
View ArticleBill Hyde, the “Apostolic John Wayne”
“Ten years ago March 4, a bomb planted at a Philippine airport by a Muslim rebel group killed 23 people — including one American, a Southern Baptist missionary named Bill Hyde. It’s ironic that Hyde,...
View ArticleHearts were meant to be broken
“My discovery of the tenacity of the human heart began in 7th grade. I was asked if I wanted to care for a family at church’s foster baby who I had fallen in love with over the summer. I remember my...
View Article13 fears that love casts out
Below is a summary of LOVE>FEAR’s feature stories to date. We want to make sure that if you missed one, you can find it quickly and easily now. Just click on any of the titles “LOVE>…..” or the...
View ArticleNorth Carolina businessman takes risks for the Gospel in Central Asia
‘No foreigners beyond this point’ “‘No foreigners beyond this point,’ reads the sign in a remote area of a Central Asian country. Paul Hart* notices it just as the motorcycle he is riding blows past....
View ArticleUnlikely Heroes
WWII Couple Saves Children with LOVE>FEAR “A Jewish couple sat in their elegant dining room and charted a daring mission that, nearly 75 years later, sounds like a far-fetched movie plot. Gilbert...
View ArticleLove without reward: laying life, limb, and kidney on the line
This story was submitted to LOVE>FEAR by lovegreater reader and follower Cheryl Shoffstall. Upon learning of lovegreater.org from a friend, Cheryl checked out our stories and decided that she had a...
View ArticleShout Out! Home of Hope, Bangalore, India
Last week, we had a few stories from Raja’s Home of Hope in Bangalore, India. The stories from the home were absolutely incredible and we wanted to give the home a little more publicity. Serving the...
View ArticleRunning the Race: being able to say “I need help”
“I’ve tried losing weight before but I never tried getting healthy. There’s a big difference. Whenever I tried losing weight in the past I couldn’t, so there was the fear of failure. Feeling like I...
View ArticleGirls Who Risk Their Lives for Education-NY Times
http://tarateng.wordpress.com/ “Almost unnoticed, one of the great civil rights struggles of our times is being fought out in our midst. Across the Indian subcontinent, in Afghanistan and in Africa,...
View ArticleColorado retirees return to India to help victimized girls
Giving up comfort, retirement to give girls in India a Second Chance Don and Janice Hughes of Breckenridge, Colo., were looking forward to retirement. After doing investigative work in South Asia...
View ArticleThe Man Who Walked into the Hornet’s Nest: a story of love found in the most...
After years of dealing with the old managers, trust me, I’m cynical “Nursing moms and newborns are the people I do battle for. So when I showed up at the apartment Thursday morning, Kelsi and I were...
View Article“FORG”“IVEN”
The Tattoo Tattooing the letters for the word “forgiven” on the tops of his fingers ensured Branden Ramsey that he would have no choice but to tell people about Jesus. “I thought it would be a good...
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