Name: Loretta Heiden
Location: San Francisco Peninsula.
Occupation: Teaching, cleaning, washing, cooking, driving kids around.
Interests: Hearing sound biblical teaching, discerning false teaching, contending for the faith/standing for biblical truth, and witnessing to the lost. I’m thankful to live in this international mission field where we are among thousands of people from literally all over the world. Also love to fellowship and worship with the saints of God anywhere I can find them.
Also: conversations with my kids, home education (teaching), reading, writing, gardening, traveling, camping, coffee, beaches, mountains, collecting nature and old books. I love Biology and Natural History.
Favorite music: Songs to God and about God! I like worship music with good content (words). Hymns, Celtic, classical, acoustic guitar, bagpipes, Holy Hip Hop…anything but Jazz. I also like Gospel, Urban, Soul, R&B, Funk, Messianic style worship songs, Arabic/Middle Eastern music, and worship songs from all around the world. Someday we are all going to be worshiping together at the Throne; every tribe, tongue, people and nation. The older I get, the less I like hard rock music. Right now I’m listening to lots of underground Christian rap/hip hop.
Favorite OT book: Isaiah, because it speaks so much of Jesus.
Favorite NT book: Hebrews because it declares that Jesus is the only mediator, our one high priest who has been sacrificed/offered ONCE for sins.
A few favorite books from my library:
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, John Foxe
The Unselfishness of God, Hannah Whitall Smith
Knowing God, J.I.Packer
Trusting God, Jerry Bridges
Hind’s Feet on High Places, Hannah Hurnard
Stepping Heavenward, Elizabeth Prentiss
Through Gates of Splendor, Elizabeth Elliot
Shadow of the Almighty, Elizabeth Elliot
Abiding in Christ, Andrew Murray
The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom
The Pursuit of God, A.W. Tozer
God’s Smuggler, Brother Andrew
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
Little Pilgrim’s Progress, Helen L. Taylor (children’s book)
Don’t Waste Your Life, John Piper
The Way of the Master, Ray Comfort
Discipline of Grace, Jerry Bridges
Life of David Brainerd, Jonathan Edwards
Books I would like to read: Anything by John MacArthur, Bob DeWaay, John Piper, Jerry Bridges, the original Pilgrim’s Progress, more old Puritan and Reformed classics.
A former Roman Catholic steeped in idolatry and religious hypocrisy, God saved me from my sins by His mercy and grace, at the age of 17 when He sent me a copy of the New Testament in the mail, and made me alive in Him as I read the words of Jesus.This was all His work and grace to me. God saved me by His Spirit, through His written Word, specifically John, Matthew and also Isaiah. Thank You, Lord Jesus.
