You see, in public, I was a model child. Even from kindergarten onward, good grades, good behavior, and so on. It is quite possible as a child to say you’re a Christian and for everyone to assume it’s true. (The same is true of adults.) As for me, I was not born again.
Read More“Did you play college basketball?” I’m asked that question on occasion. I guess it’s a reasonable question considering my height. The story behind my answer though always reminds me how Christ saved me from living for myself that I might live for Him.
Read More“Where will you spend eternity?” It’s a simple, straight-forward, and typical question often asked when presenting the gospel….especially in the south Georgia Christian school I attended during my middle school years. However, this very question would be the one that changed my life forever.
Read More“I got saved,” my friend told me one day when I was about 10 years old.“
Saved from what?” I asked.
“Hell,” he said.
“Who saved you?”
“The preacher!”
As a teenager, I was the last kid anyone thought faith in Christ and gospel ministry was in my future. Today, being happily married to my high school sweetheart with five children and serving the Lord Jesus in the local church and missions is purely because of God’s work of grace.
Read More“If you live under my roof, you're going to church!” My dad told me that more than once while I was growing up in Brunswick, Georgia. By church, he meant Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday. Looking back, I know being raised that way was a blessing. I avoided a lot of the mistakes and problems people outside the church experience as they grow up. I also realized something was missing from my childhood faith – a hunger and a thirst.
Read More“Dad, don't wreck. I don't want to go to hell,” I cried. I was only 11 years old, and we had just left a revival service. He was turning the car around to go back to the church.
Read MoreMy testimony is not all that exciting except JESUS saved me at the age of 28. You could say it all started with dinner and a movie.
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