At age 4 I made a feeble suicide attempt

Jo Heath is a friend of my wife and me. She sent us her story after reading my testimony: I just read your testimony. I see where your daughter gets her step-by-step logical examination of things! Yours is a brutally honest, logical testimony that is sure to get nonbelievers to, at the very least, pique … Read more

The One Channel TV

Discovering love and joy through honesty, logic, and courage. It was a 4.5-inch black-and-white TV combined with a cassette player. Brilliant, I thought. We can watch the news on this thing! This was in the autumn of 1995 when my girlfriend Kolbrún and I moved into a flat in Reykjavík, and this little TV came … Read more

God with us

It was an unusually long line at the hardware store, shaped like the letter Y. I was at the top left. Icelanders are notoriously bad at forming lines. Probably because our forefathers sailed from Norway to Iceland, choosing to live independently on a highly active volcanic rock in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, … Read more

Their heart cry

This was several years ago. I had decided to spend 2 hours walking in our small town and ask God for opportunities to engage in meaningful conversations that would lead to the gospel. My time was almost up when I returned to our small church to use the bathroom. I only had 15 minutes left … Read more

A new generation in Europe is waiting to hear the gospel

My son David and I met them last month on our drive to north Iceland where David was playing a soccer tournament. She was from Germany but he from Hungary. I have enjoyed the many conversations I have had with young Europeans hitchhiking in Iceland. I wondered if this conversation would be any different. As … Read more