believe, Bible, Church, growing, Josh McDowell, More Than a Carpenter, Spiritual legacy, testimony
As a former skeptic, when I became a believer in high school, I was insanely focused on knowing why I believed what I believed. For my own sense of security, I needed to discover the facts behind the doctrine I was being taught at church. So I dove into the Bible. I...
Fall, Genesis, Heaven, sin, waiting
Some things about life suck. This has nothing to do with my natural bent toward pessimism or my forgetting to take my depression medication. It has everything to do with the Fall. (The event, not the season.) When sin entered the world, it ruined stuff. And ever...
believe, Church, fear, God, growing, Spiritual legacy
After I decided Jesus was legit, and after I started reading the Bible some, the next logical step was for me to start attending a church. (Logical to the believers around me, that is; the concept was lost on me for quite awhile). But that idea terrified me. So I...
believe, faith, growing, Spiritual legacy, testimony, truth
(For Part I of my story, read Spiritual Legacy: I Once Was Lost. For Part II of my story, read Spiritual Legacy: What Difference Did God Make?) I was 16 when I relied on God for the first time. It was more like I threatened God, telling Him that it was His...
