Some of God's people who congratulate themselves on being firmly planted in the faith merely have their spiritual feet stuck in concrete. They are trapped in the rapidly drying cement of do-nothingness," a compound of spiritual "wash water" and the sand of timidity. Many saints have been immobilized in do-nothingness for so long that it would take a sledgehammer to break them free.

Tell me, Avi, Arnold asked, "has anyone ever threatened to kill you because of who you are?" He wasn't asking out of morbid curiosity, nor was he inquiring about dangers I might have encountered as a missionary with Jews for Jesus. He wasn't really asking a question but preparing to make a statement.

* Based on information in Ready to Rebuild: The Imminent Plan to Rebuild the Last Days Temple by Thomas Ice and Randall Price (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1992). Though not all Christians may agree with the authors' views of the end times, this book can be recommended as a responsible treatment of Third-Temple activity in Israel.

One bright spring morning I woke up early to go and meet a man I had been discipling. When I got out of bed I felt very weak, but I shook it off, figuring that it was nothing a little more sleep couldn't cure. Was I ever wrong! By afternoon I found myself in the emergency room of a local hospital. I was hooked up to cardiac monitors and intravenous fluid lines, and doctors, nurses and emergency room technicians were carefully watching my condition. A combination of medications I was taking had caused internal bleeding.