{"id":33149,"date":"2020-12-07T06:41:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T13:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=33149"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:48:28","slug":"heart-felt-letter-from-a-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/heart-felt-letter-from-a-prisoner\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart-Felt Letter From a Prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/bible-prisoner.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28134\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LTRP Note:<\/strong> Over the years, Lighthouse Trails has heard from numerous men (and some women) who are incarcerated in U.S. prisons. 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We will keep the information completely confidential and will not include your name or address in the mailing (unless you ask for just your name and\/or a short note to be included). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following letter we recently received expresses some of the challenges Bible-believing prisoners experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dear Lighthouse Trails:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God bless and thank you for the booklets and one book, <em>Who Wrote Our Hymns<\/em> (I had planned buying it someday). They are making their rounds in my section and will go further when Covid clears to allow room for movement.&nbsp; With the many books and booklets you\u2019ve sent, and I\u2019ve bought, they help when someone brings something \u201cnew\u201d (or another author) to the table. Such is the case lately when the Bible study teacher brought a poem about the \u201cDemoniac of Gardara\u201d from John Piper and asked me what I thought of it.&nbsp; I read it and did not like (approve) it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years back, the _______ Department of Criminal Justice believed it to be the best thing for rehabilitation needs to offer theology degrees on one of the units. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was their answer.&nbsp; It is a four-year degree. Problem is, not a single one I\u2019ve met holds to the <em>King James.<\/em> This is important to me.&nbsp;. . . The list goes on and ecumenical, emergent, apostate words describe well the seminary students that come through the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I add this to say, the person who introduced our teacher to Piper is himself a deluded seminary student.&nbsp; I ask God to help them, but I guess with any other _____-approved curriculum, it cannot be singular, it must be plural.&nbsp; Its almost laughable if it didn\u2019t hurt so bad the persecution and disdain for Bible-believing Christians.&nbsp; I\u2019ll not give up; I just don\u2019t want to make any brother stumble. I think it\u2019s pride, but not proud in a self-confident way, because a lot of time I feel so humble I\u2019d just get out of the way. No not that pride.&nbsp; I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, but I cringe at the words and the schemes I hear toward the guards and other inmates. After twenty years here, I still don\u2019t belong.&nbsp;I don\u2019t want to fit the mold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am odd and different. It makes for a very solitary walk.&nbsp; When I was a people person, I was well liked.&nbsp; But I was a walking buffoon, a clown. An atheist.&nbsp; God continues to change me, and every once in a while, I find someone whose life is where I am, and we enjoy each other\u2019s company. But that is not here in my section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After eight years in this same section, I\u2019ve asked to be moved.&nbsp; Lord willing I\u2019ll find again those brothers I once connected with in my\/our travels to and from wherever on the unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Years ago, the Lord allowed me to teach a Bible study.&nbsp; Only thing I asked was we all use the King James Bible.&nbsp; I read mostly but allowed the Holy Spirit to guide me. We had 16 men in the study at one time.&nbsp; I\u2019m still here, and they are all gone.&nbsp; The Lord has not called me back to do a study, but I\u2019m ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The John Piper poem didn\u2019t make the rounds, thankfully. But Calvinism is making in roads because of the books and undiscerning souls.&nbsp; Like John Piper and his selling of \u201cFuture Grace,\u201d these men are nurtured by the seeker friendly, honey dripping, &#8220;non-judgmental&#8221; books and people; and eventually you\u2019ve got to join this or that organization.&nbsp; Thank God, the first organization I joined was Dave Hunt&#8217;s Berean Call!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meeting people\u2019s physical needs is great if they\u2019re starving but honestly, they starve spiritually if we do not feed them the Word of God\u2014goodness!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prayer. Only God can change these who love and are loved by the world. We don\u2019t need any more Billy Grahams, but instead Billy Sundays! Too Late? Pray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love you all.&nbsp; I thank God for his ministry in the Lighthouse.&nbsp; You all keep fighting the good fight, your crowns are waiting on you.&nbsp; We can all throw them at the feet of the One who is our everything!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for listening,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your brother,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard (not real name)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harry Ironside gave a sermon (that can be watched \u2013&nbsp; see below) about the servant, Onesimus, who worked for Philemon and who after stealing from his master, fled and eventually ended up in prison with the apostle Paul who led the man to the Lord. It\u2019s a beautiful account of the Gospel wherein Paul writes to Philemon and asks him to forgive his servant, receive him back into his household as now a brother, and charge the offense to Paul\u2019s account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us remember those believers who are imprisoned, having once walked in darkness but now, by His grace and mercy, walk in the light of our Savior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 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