Just before he received his last prison sentence in 2019, Lewis Gibson was living in a homeless hostel. He’d been warned that he would end up in jail again if he continued on his drug-fuelled lifestyle.
‘I was in despair, because I knew I was going back to prison,’ Lewis explained. At a crisis point, Gibson turned to a United Christian Broadcasters (UCB) devotional he’d picked up during a previous stint in prison. In it, he read Romans 10:13: ‘Whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.’
He took a marker pen and wrote the verse on the wall of his room. ‘It struck me as a revelation,’ he said. ‘I read it again, and I read it out loud. I was so desperate. I’d had enough of the way I was living my life.’
The comforting doctrine of the necessity of affliction — part two
This article is a "part two" to the piece of the same title (en online, 13 Sept. 2025) …