The International Prison Ministry has had a ministry to prisoners by supply bible and testimony books for 50 years. A prison chaplain or librarian might be able to order a set of testimony books.
Another couple of resources that one might interesting if the Internet is available are;
…and…
http://www.biblelessonsintl.com/ which I highly recommend.
J.
All that sounds good but my jail actively prevents pastors, christian materials from entering the facility all in the name of contrband. Which judging by all the guards theyve arrested has nothing to do with God. What we need is a good lawyer to enforce the constitution on these corrupt cops.
You might try emailing churches in your area to see if they know of any Christian attorneys that would take on your case pro bono.
emailing is not an option I have hand written 14 churches, ACLU, 19 Government agencies, center for religious freedom, filed several PLRA actions, and have for all my efforts received 60 days of solitairy, 1 beating, and a bad reputation. My faith in organized religion has been at 0 for 25 years now it is in the - negative numbers. Judgement day is gonna be lit for many wealthy so called christians
@Inmate …when I open the Scriptures I see the heart of Christ bending toward the forgotten and the confined, and His own words in ~Matthew 25:35 to 36 keep rising in my spirit because He says He was hungry and they fed Him, He was thirsty and they gave Him drink, He was a stranger and they received Him, He was naked and they clothed Him, He was sick and they visited Him, He was in prison and they came to Him, and the verb visited in Greek is epeskepsasthe which carries the sense of moving toward someone with intentional care, not a casual drop by but a purposeful drawing near, and Jesus explains in ~Matthew 25:40 that whenever this compassion is shown to the least of His brothers it is shown to Him, which means the cell you sit in is not unseen because the King Himself steps into those walls with you, and when the writer of Hebrews commands in ~Hebrews 13:3 to remember the prisoners as though bound with them the Greek imperative mnemoneuete presses the reader to keep the imprisoned constantly in mind, an ongoing remembering, a gnomic present that speaks a timeless truth that God’s people are never permitted to let the incarcerated vanish from their prayers or their love, and this flows from the prophecy Jesus fulfills in ~Isaiah 61:1 where the Servant is anointed to proclaim liberty to captives and release for prisoners, the Hebrew verb deror carries the sense of freedom that erupts because God Himself intervenes, and even if your body is confined the crucified and risen Christ breaks inner chains with His own presence, and ~James 1:27 reminds us that true religion visits the distressed with pure and undefiled compassion, the Greek verb episkeptesthai again carries that movement toward someone who feels abandoned, which means that your suffering does not place you beyond the reach of God’s people or God’s mercy, and in ~Acts 16 Paul and Silas sing hymns inside their cell and the chains fall because the living Christ walks where His servants walk, and the same Christ who stretched His arms on the cross for the guilty now stretches His mercy toward you, cleansing, restoring, and making you a witness right where you are, so take courage because the One who conquered death steps into the prison with you and His word assures you that you are never forsaken.
Shalom Achi.
J.
Just a word of caution, don’t get “bitter” brother
J.
Not bitter, rather inspired to find or plant a church that goes back to the roots of our people where church was defined by actions and people rather than a big building with coffee service and a nice band.
I hear you brother, I spent years in an outreach ministry very similar to the work David Wilkerson poured his life into, and we tried to live Matthew 25 every single day by stepping toward the broken, the hungry, the addicted, and the forgotten, carrying the compassion of Christ into the streets and the cells rather than only quoting verses from a distance, and what you need right now is practical help with real presence and real support, not a handful of isolated proof texts that never touch the ground where your life is actually unfolding.
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Johann.
