By Dr. Ted Baehr
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
– Romans 5:5
What to do when all is lost?
Back in the dawn of satellite casting, a mainline denomination asked me to produce a program on aging that they could satellite cast to all their churches and old age homes. There are very few facilities that could do this at that time, but a friend of mine who worked with the TV advertising department of General Electric had such a studio in New York City.
We hired the top crew, including a close friend who was to become the primary director/designer of all of Fox News. These were the days in the early 1980s when satellite dishes were the size of a small skating rink.
The set-up took hours of complex technical work.
Just a couple of minutes before the show was to be satellite cast, the power grid in New York City went down for a brief blip. At that time, computer technology was rudimentary enough that everyone assumed that we had lost all the color balancing and other technical aspects required to mount the program.
Then, God intervened.
We gathered the cast and crew and prayed…and just seconds before the show was supposed to go on the satellite, everything clicked on miraculously. None of the archaic computer information was lost, and none of the technical data.
Many of the crew in that New York City studio were transformed. Some of them became life-long friends and accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
“Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.”
-Luke 18:1
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