MBB Global, New York, NY (2026)

06/24/2026

For I know the plans I have for you” — this is the Lord’s declaration — “plans for your well-being, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremiah 29: 11)

I was raised in an Arab country within a Muslim family, and faith has been an essential part of my life and identity since childhood.
I lived an ordinary life until the war broke out, forcing us to leave our homeland and seek refuge in a European country. It was there that my questions began to deepen.

Amidst the pain and destruction, I found myself asking: Where is God in all of this? Why is there so much injustice? In exile, I began searching for the truth by reading about religions and philosophy, trying to understand what was happening around me and within me.
During my search, I started reading about the life of Christ and noticed things I hadn’t paid attention to before.

I paused at texts referring to the death of Christ, which raised deep questions for me about what I had previously learned.
I began exploring different interpretations, but I found many discrepancies that did not convince me, which only added to my confusion.

I started looking into various interpretations, but I encountered many differences that did not convince me, which only increased my confusion.
Then I read the Gospel, where I found a complete story about God's love and sacrifice for humanity.
I was deeply moved by the idea that Christ died and rose again to offer humanity true salvation and hope.

I also came across various historical accounts that confirm the events of the crucifixion, which reinforced my belief in what I had read.
Over time, I felt inner peace I had never known before, as if I had found the answers I had been looking for all along.

It was a journey filled with struggle and questioning, but it ultimately led me to completely change my beliefs.
In the end, I realized that true faith for me had come to be based on love, hope, and inner peace.

06/23/2026

He forgives all your iniquity; He heals all your diseases. (Psalms 103: 3)

I grew up in an Asian country within a traditional Muslim family, where my life was surrounded by strict constraints and unbreakable expectations.
I married at a young age to a man much older than me, and my marriage was devoid of love, filled with the duty and pressure to have a child.

After several unsuccessful attempts and painful miscarriages, I felt like a person without value in the eyes of my family.
Finally, I was blessed with a baby girl, but the joy turned into shock when the doctors informed me that she was born blind.
I faced severe harshness from my husband and his family, who considered what happened to be divine punishment, which only increased my pain and loneliness.
In the hospital, I met a Christian woman who told me about God’s love, and that He does not punish the innocent but loves them unconditionally.

Her words began to touch my heart, especially when she talked to me about Jesus, who healed the sick and embraced the outcasts.
On a night filled with despair, I prayed to Jesus for the first time for my daughter, asking for her healing with all the hope in my heart.
Then, something unimaginable happened: My daughter opened her eyes and began to see. That moment changed my life completely.

But this miracle brought my family’s anger upon me, and they accused me of blasphemy, forcing me to choose between my faith and my daughter.

I refused to deny what had happened, so I left home with my daughter, leaving everything behind to start a new life.
I found refuge among people who embraced me with love, and I learned that true faith is based on grace, not fear.
Today, I live in peace, carrying in my heart the certainty that true love can transform life even in the darkest of circumstances.

06/22/2026

The Rock his work is perfect; all his ways are just. A faithful God, without bias, he is righteous and true. (Deuteronomy 32: 4)

I am someone who grew up in a devout Muslim environment, raised from a young age to pray, fast, and read the Quran. I was always keen to be religiously and morally committed. Despite this, I always had an unshakable question within me about the true meaning of God, love, and justice, and why I sometimes felt that there was something missing in the understanding I was brought up with.

Over time, I began to explore on my own and did not settle for the ideas I inherited. I read philosophy and explored various religions and texts, starting to compare and reflect deeply. This search led me to reconsider many of the assumptions I once regarded as unquestionable truths.
The more I delved into reading and reflection, especially when comparing what I read in the Quran with the Gospels, significant intellectual questions began to form in my mind about some of the concepts I understood regarding God’s attributes, such as justice, will, guidance, and mercy, and how they can be comprehensively understood.
In contrast, when I read the teachings of Christ as found in the Gospels, I felt—describing my personal experience—that there was a greater emphasis on love, forgiveness, and mercy. This profoundly affected my inner perspective and opened a wide door for spiritual reflection.

After a long period of searching and inner struggle, I reached a personal conviction that led me to choose faith in Christ, not out of a momentary emotional impulse, but after a long journey of contemplation during which I felt that this path was closer to the understanding and meaning that settled in my heart. This decision marked a significant turning point in my life, despite the social challenges and pressures from my surroundings that accompanied it.

Today, I view my story as a journey in search of truth, meaning, and inner peace. It is not an invitation to follow a specific path, but rather a personal experience I went through while trying to be honest with myself about what I believe in.

06/21/2026

"Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful." - Luke 6:36

Goodness and steadfast love walked among us, took on flesh, was tempted as we are yet without sin, and was touched with the feeling of our infirmities. He deals gently with the ignorant and wayward.

Such love is a communicable attribute of God. Therefore, he commands us to learn patience and kindness. In taking us on, we who are too often impatient, too often unkind-and in making us into the image of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit will make us patient and kind. He will teach us to be "in it for good" with other people, amid the ups, the downs, the exigencies. This is the lifelong goal of Christian ministry.

The Lord's heart is revealed in this beautiful description: “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger {in the Greek, "patient"}, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin” (Exodus 34:6-7). He is in it for good with all who take this revelation to heart as God's great gift of himself, as our greatest need, as the goal of our moral transformation.

It is striking that when revealing his glory and goodness, the Lord chose to show forth communicable attributes. He could have mentioned his omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence self-existence, eternity _ things infinitely beyond the creature. But he chose to reveal his mercy, what is within our comprehension, within our experience, within our grasp - by grace. We, too, learn to become merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, forgiving.

06/20/2026

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6:5

A Prayer for Transformation.
Our Father in heaven, we are so grateful that your people of all generations have been listeners from the heart to what you reveal about what it means to know you, how it is that we seek you, what it means to love you, to need you, to fall on our face before you, to tremble before you, to delight in you. And we pray that as we think today, tonight, and throughout the weeks to come about the way in which you meet us, you change us, and transform us, we ask you that you would give to us nothing less than your Holy Spirit himself, the one who enlivens us, awakens us, gives us ears to hear, who writes words of life upon our hearts and reveals who you are.

Show us our dire need, reveal your promises of mercy, and remind us that you do what you say and that your actions back up your words. We pray that we would be men and women who enter into the good things that you offer, and we would be those men and women who give to others freely, humbly caring for them, because of all the good things that you give to us. We pray your blessing, your wisdom. Would you help us this very day by the power of your grace?
Amen.

06/19/2026

Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.
He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.
Jeremiah 17:7-8

We know from Jeremiah 17 that we are called to trust the living God, who is the fountain of living water. We are called to turn away from our idolatries and to trust only Him (v. 7). So, conversations about the heart are asking, who is your god at this moment? Who do you love? Whose voice are you listening to? What do you want? Do you want the will of the Holy Spirit? Do you want the will of the Spirit? Or do you want the will of the flesh, the devil, of sinful human beings?

At all times, at the most fundamental level, we are all doing something with God. Every thought, word, deed, action, reaction, and choice are growing out of what we do with God. What we call the heart is meant to be a relational category. And what we call “fruit” and “thorns” is ultimately also about our relationship with God. Both good and bad thoughts and actions, thorns or sweet fruit, come out of the heart, they come out of what motivates you.

So, your relationship to God gets expressed in how you deal in life, every emotional reaction you have, every thought pattern that hooks you, every choice you make. All of these things, at bottom, express the core of who or what you worship. Change comes as what you worship shifts from your own desires to Christ, your Redeemer and Friend.

06/18/2026

There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So, the one who fears is not complete in love. (1. John 4: 18)

I grew up in an Arab country within a strict Muslim family, where religion dominated every aspect of my life, leaving no room for discussion or independent thinking.

I grew up believing that strict obedience and fear were the only correct path, and when I got married and moved to live in a European country, my fears for my children increased.
I decided to build a fortress of rules and strictness around them, raising them to adhere completely and warning them against any different ideas, especially the Christian faith.

I thought that by doing so, I was protecting them and creating an ideal model, and the community around me praised me and considered me an example of a successful mother.
But suddenly, everything collapsed when all my children decided to leave Islam and follow Christ. It was a harsh shock that shook my very being.

I strongly rejected their decision and cut them out of my life, feeling that they had betrayed and let down everything I had taught them.
The community’s view towards me also changed; I became cast off after once being admired, and I lived in deep agony and brokenness.
Despite my harshness towards them, my children responded only with love. They would check on me and show me unexpected affection.
In one confrontation, my daughter explained to me how she had been living in constant fear and pressure, seeking acceptance through impossible perfection.

She told me that she found in Christ unconditional love and salvation based on grace, not fear or deeds.
I began to observe their lives from a distance and saw in them genuine peace and joy that I had never seen before, even though they had left the path I had imposed on them.

Doubts crept into my heart, and I began to rethink everything I had built my life upon, wondering if I had been wronged all those years.
In the end, I realized that love and grace are stronger than fear, and that true faith stems from a relationship based on love, not harshness and strictness.

06/17/2026

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, and yet they testify about me. (John 5:39)

I grew up in an Arab country within a conservative Muslim environment, where I was raised to adhere to religious practices and uphold customs and traditions.
I practiced rituals such as prayer and fasting, but over time, I began to ask deep questions about the reality I observed around me.
I noticed a contradiction between what was said about morals and the actual practices of cruelty and mistreatment of others.

I was puzzled by how a person could combine outward religiosity with actions that lacked compassion and humanity.
This led me to delve deeply into the sources of what I had learned, trying to understand the roots of these behaviors.
With increased reflection, I began to feel an internal conflict between what I believed and what I saw and experienced.

Later, I moved to live in a European country, where new experiences and different perspectives on life and humanity opened up to me.
I saw communities that valued respect and humanity without religious appearances, which made me rethink my concepts.
During this journey, I began to learn about the teachings of Christ, which focus on love and inner peace.

In these teachings, I found answers to my questions and a sense of peace that I had never experienced before.
I realized that, for me, faith should be an authentic relationship that comes from within, not just external rituals.

After a long journey of searching and reflection, I made the decision to leave Islam and embrace Christianity based on personal conviction.
Today, I live with a new faith that grants me inner peace, and I believe that sincere searching leads a person to the truth that brings comfort to their heart.

06/16/2026

Not by strength or by might, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord of Armies. (Zechariah 4: 6B)

I was raised in an atheist family in a European country, and I always had to prove my worth through my excellence, so I built my identity on being the most intelligent.
At an early age, I denied the existence of God and would argue with believers, seeking to prove the contradictions in their faith.
But at a later stage, I began to confront a profound question: “Where do morals come from if there is no God?”.

I couldn’t find a convincing answer, so I decided to postpone my search and focus on my studies until I enrolled in a prestigious university.
There, my self-image crumbled when I was no longer the most intelligent, and I began to question my true worth.

I met a friend who was a believer, and he began to ask me deeper questions about the source and meaning of morality.
I enrolled in a philosophical study of ethics, where I encountered ideas that linked goodness to God, which shook my convictions.
I decided to read the Bible again, not to criticize it, but to understand it.
When I read the teachings of Christ, I realized that I was not as righteous as I had thought, and that I needed a true change.

In a moment of contemplation on the story of the crucifixion, I felt that I needed forgiveness that I could not attain on my own.
I continued to explore intellectual and scientific evidence and found that it led me to faith in Christ.

I realized that true love was manifested in Christ’s sacrifice, and that my worth does not come from my achievements but from His love for me.
In the end, I surrendered my life to Him completely and found freedom and peace I had never known before.

06/15/2026

But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. …
If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.
Luke 6:27-28, 32

It is easy to glaze over when you hear, “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.” It is easy to write off Jesus, as if he must not really mean it, as if in saying this he is being a rather gentle-souled, naive idealist. Does Jesus's call imply that he hopes that people “can just be nicer to each other”? Is Jesus unaware that this sounds like, “Let people walk all over you”? Nothing of the sort. The love and goodness he is talking about has more grit than sweetness, more hard-as-nails realism than niceness. You can't separate what he did for us: Blood, and sweat, and tears from what he calls us to do. He means what he says.

To do good to someone who does wrong, who has hurt you or others - this is a marvel. It's so much easier to give back in kind. Charity does what the recipient doesn't deserve. Someone deserves payback because they did you or others wrong. But you do charity.

Anger grips tightly a wrong, points it out, prosecutes it, punishes it. Mercy acts generously toward a wrongdoer, rather than claiming your pound of flesh. Anger thinks this way: "Tve been wronged, so I will deal out fair and just punishment to the malefactor." But generosity, like patience and forgiveness is "unfair." You treat with purposeful kindness someone who treated you or others badly.

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