The Titanic's lifeboats seemed irrelevant since the ship was declared unsinkable When it was sinking however it was a different story Similarly many disregard the Gospel until they need a Savior Hear more on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg ----------------------------------------- Click here and look for FROM THE SERMON to stream or read the full message This program is part of the series 'God's Power for Salvation' Learn more about our current resource request your copy with a donation of any amount Helpful Resources - Learn about God's salvation plan - Read our most recent articles - Subscribe to our [... more]

During World War II Waldemer Semenov was serving as a junior engineer aboard the SS Alcoa Guide when mdash nearly three hundred miles off the coast of North Carolina mdash a German submarine surfaced and opened fire on the ship The ship was hit caught fire and began to sink Semenov and his crew lowered a lifeboat into the water and used the vessel rsquo s compass to sail toward the shipping lanes After three days a patrol plane spotted their lifeboat and the USS Broome rescued the men the next day Thanks to that compass Semenov and twenty-six other [... more]

The four chaplains weren rsquo t known as ldquo heroes rdquo But on a frigid February night in when their transport ship the SS Dorchester was torpedoed off the coast of Greenland during World War II the four gave their all to calm hundreds of panicked soldiers With the ship sinking and injured men jumping for overcrowded lifeboats the four chaplains calmed pandemonium by ldquo preaching courage rdquo a survivor said When life jackets ran out each took his off giving it to a frightened young man They had determined to go down with the ship so that others might [... more]

John Harper had no idea what was about to unfold as he and his six-year-old daughter embarked on the Titanic But one thing he knew he loved Jesus and he was passionate that others know Him too As soon as the ship hit an iceberg and water started pouring in Harper a widower put his little girl on a lifeboat and headed into the chaos to save as many people as possible As he distributed life jackets he reportedly shouted ldquo Let the women children and the unsaved into the lifeboats rdquo Until his last breath Harper shared about Jesus [... more]