Message To Man encourages KNLS listeners to turn to the Bible for timely answers to life's most difficult problems.  Dr. Harold Hazelip, President Emeritus of Lipscomb University, relates the stories of those who have been touched by God's message to man.  Click on a topic below to review that message.

STARTING A GOOD WORK

Dr. Jim Judge has been blessed with the opportunity to be involved in many good works all over the world. He teaches courses on AIDS awareness that have taken him from Siberia’s frozen tundra to the teeming cities of Indonesia. He also teaches ethics at one of America’s premiere medical schools and so has had the chance to shape the careers of thousands of young doctors. Its safe to say that Dr. Judge has touched countless lives. But out of all the people he has served, one small child stands out in his mind, a young African girl he treated for asthma while serving as a Christian mission doctor in Kenya.

Dr. Judge describes this precious child saying, "Sarah became my good friend and I think she thought my colleague, because when I would arrive on the floor she would immediately come and basically hold my hand or grab hold of my coat and she would walk with us from room to room from bed to bed."

Dr. Judge says he’s often wondered what became of this sweet little girl, but he doesn’t worry about her fate. You see, like Christian people everywhere, Dr. Judge has the believer’s assurance that God is intimately involved in all our lives. A passage of scripture from the first chapter of the Bible book called Philippians is especially comforting.

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LOVE GOD WITH YOUR ALL

Branda Polk was born into a family with two great passions; faith and physical fitness. Branda is quite an athlete in her own right and enjoys a successful career as a personal fitness trainer. She goes out of her way to be a good steward of the body given her by God, but Branda admits she wasn’t always so diligent to care for her heart, mind and soul. She says God helped her restore a proper balance as she fought a life threatening cancer.

A study of God’s Word helps bring balance to every aspect of life. Sadly, many people worldwide have never taken time to read the scriptures. Hello, this is Harold Hazelip for the New Life Station, and I’d like to send you a copy of God’s message to mankind without cost or obligation. Here’s how you can get your free copy today.

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FISK SINGERS AND THE WORD

Fisk University, located in the American State of Tennessee, was established in 1866 to educate the children of former slaves. As a way to fund the operation, the school formed a student choral group to tour the country. Known as the Jubilee Singers the Fisk performers sang classical arrangements for mostly white audiences. Current Jubilee Director Dr. Paul Kwamee says that, initially, the group was not well received and often badly treated.

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MOURNING AND THE WORD

Ed Bailey and his wife Annette were devoted to God and served faithfully as missionaries to Italy for several years. But being a child of God doesn’t provide immunity from adversity. Without warning Annette developed cancer and died in less than six months. Ed likens the experience to being adrift at sea in a storm.

Ed observes, "Storms are very scary. For someone of great faith…for a person with deep and abiding faith, in the middle of a storm, you’re still very, very afraid."

Ed says he survived Annette’s passing only by being prepared in advance. Few people choose to contemplate death, but a lifetime of devotion to God and His Word prepares Christian believers to face life’s darkest moments.

Ed sites a passage from the Bible book called Ecclesiastes saying "The wise man made the observation that it is better to go to a house of mourning than it is a house of joy. And I think what he’s referring to there is that it is good to spend time with those sober things in life. Because whether you want to or not, those things are going to hit. And unless you’ve confronted that before hand then its going to make it that much more difficult to confront it and come to terms with it while you’re in the midst of it."

Millions worldwide are not prepared to face death, their own, or the passing of a loved one. Are you prepared to meet God your Creator? This is Harold Hazelip for the New Life Station, and I’d like to send you a copy of God’s message to mankind without cost or obligation. Here’s how you can get your free copy today.

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WORD COMFORTS STORM VICTIMS

Steve and Patti Ellis serve as Christian missionaries to Cambodia, one of the world’s most troubled regions. In 1997 the Ellis’ lived through some tense days when a military coup shook the nation. So 1999 found them back home in the United States for a much-needed rest. But a springtime storm put the Ellis family to the test once again. One of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded devastated their Oklahoma City neighborhood. The Ellis’ rode out the twister in a neighbor’s shelter.

Steve recalls those frightening minutes saying, "As the storm got directly over the storm cellar it sucked all the air outside of the storm cellar and it felt like your heads were just going to explode. And it started taking some of the plaster off from inside the storm cellar. We thought the storm cellar was going to collapse. And then there was a loud crash and we thought a tree or something had fallen over the storm cellar door and then it became quiet."

We all face tragedies sooner or later but millions worldwide do not have God’s Word as a resource in adversity. When trouble comes calling, you need all the help you can find! This is Harold Hazelip for the New Life Station, and I’d like to send you a copy of God’s message to mankind without cost or obligation. Here’s how you can get your free copy today.

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THE WORD AND TEENS

Nancy Alcorn served for many years as a government social worker. She spent most of her days in juvenile detention working with some of America’s most troubled teens. But Alcorn eventually left government work because she wasn’t allowed to use the one tool she knew could really change the course of young lives, the Bible. Alcorn now heads a flourishing Christian ministry that enjoys a remarkable success rate. A young lady we’ll call Sally is a recent graduate of the program.

Sally described her experience by saying, "I didn’t believe people could love me because I was so mean and angry. But even though I pushed people away, they did, they loved me and they taught me what God said about me. Instead of believing what I just thought I was, they showed me in the Bible who Christ said I was. Through that I grew, slowly. After two weeks, I asked Jesus to be my Savior, and things just started changing after that. I was able to be healed from many things from my past and just grew closer to God until I was ready to stand on my own."

Nancy Alcorn says only God and His Word can bring lasting change to young lives. She describes the change saying, "You just begin to see God do this and its not out of an outward conformity to rules its out of a heart transformation that takes place because of what Jesus has done in their lives. He came to heal the broken hearted and set the captives free and He’s doing just that."

God our Father is ready and willing to redeem the lives of all His children, but many have never taken the opportunity to read His message to mankind. This is Harold Hazelip for the New Life Station, and I’d like to send you a copy of the Bible without cost or obligation. Here’s how you can get your free copy today.

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SIGHT TO THE BLIND

Husband and wife Peter and Nancy Wonder are both health care professionals who felt an early calling to serve God as medical missionaries. Today they travel from port to port in the Caribbean and Central America aboard the Christian hospital ship Caribbean Mercy. Nancy’s particular task is to work in the optical surgery unit where her team routinely restores sight to the blind. She recalls a recent patient named Rubia. Rubia could see little more than blurred shapes while her husband was completely blind.

Nancy continues the couple’s story by saying, "The week before her surgery, Rubia had been leading her husband down the street and they had fallen into a hole. So she came. We did her surgery. The next morning I took that patch off her eye. And she jumped up in the air and threw her arms up and she just said, ‘Glory to God! Glory to God! I can see. Now we won’t fall in holes anymore.’"

Only recently has nurse Nancy realized that her calling from God was very specific, noting that it was a passage in the Bible book called Isaiah that originally inspired her to leave the comfort of home and family for the mission field.

She recites a portion of that verse saying, "I will lead the blind by ways they have not known. Along unfamiliar paths I will guide them. I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth."

Nurse Nancy concludes, "I didn’t realize till later that God was talking about blind people and that was what He had called me to do. Through modern medical science, open the eyes that are blind and also to open their spiritual eyes."

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BITTER OR BETTER?

A family outing turned tragic for seven-year-old Gwenn Clifford when a camping stove exploded and covered her with flaming fuel. Burned over eighty percent of her body, doctors did not expect Gwenn to live. In the years since, Gwenn has been under the knife so many times, she’s actually lost count of the number of corrective surgeries performed on her body. Where does Gwenn turn for comfort and strength in adversity? The support of fellow Christians is important she says, along with lots of prayer and time spent in the Word. Gwenn takes special comfort from the Apostle Paul’s acceptance of his "thorn in the flesh". She says,

 

"He (God) may not take this away from me. He probably won’t. I’m not going to wake up and the scars are gonn’a be gone. Dealing with those scars or the issue of you being different looking from other people is a very big deal. And it’s a very cultural thing that you fit in, that you look a certain way. So, lots of question I went through dealing with, ‘Yes, I’m going to have to live with these, what am I going to do about it. Am I going to be bitter or am I going to be better through the Lord."

 

Gwenn chose the Lord and to be better. In the year’s since she has built a successful marriage, she’s the mother of two beautiful children, and enjoys a flourishing career as an artist, best known for her paintings. Gwenn councils other burn victims and serves as an inspiration to everyone she meets.

We all carry deep scars of one kind or another. That’s why it is so important to remember that God and his Word can heal even the deepest wounds. This is Harold Hazelip for the New Life Station, and I’d like to send you a copy of the Bible without cost or obligation. Here’s how you can get your free copy today.

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FAITH OF OUR MOTHERS

Cynthia Williams is a veteran television journalist who anchors the evening news in Nashville, Tennessee. Over the air Cynthia projects warmth, authority, and above all, an unshakable calm. Grace under pressure is a skill she developed as a child living with seven siblings - and a father who drank. She recalls her troubled childhood saying,

"You know, there was this constant confusion. The cops would show up every now and then because daddy had a drunk on and took the rifle and was going to shoot Uncle Henry. Nothing happened, nobody was killed, but it was just that kind of constant roller coaster environment."

As seems to happen so often, Cynthia not only failed to learn from her father’s mistakes, she actually followed the same wayward path. A long string of poor choices nearly killed her, but at life’s lowest point, Cynthia began to reconsider the faith she learned at her mother’s feet. She concludes,

"Looking back on it now as an adult, I really appreciate the foundation that my mother tried to build for us at that time. Because when things did go wrong in my life as an adult, as they usually do, and you stray from your faith, then you recognize that you’re doing wrong. You know, the Bible says, ‘Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.’ I think sometimes you depart, but then you know where to come back to."

Do you find yourself repeating mistakes made by family and friends? Only God and His Word can provide the strength you need to break that cycle of tragedy and misery. This is Harold Hazelip for the New Life Station, and I’d like to send you a copy of the Bible without cost or obligation. Here’s how you can get your free copy today.

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