Spiritual Legacy: What Difference Did God Make?
(For Part I of my story, read Spiritual Legacy: I Once Was Lost.) There I was, 14 years old and finally willing to believe that there was a God. But my everyday life didn’t change. I was still a...
View ArticleSpiritual Legacy: Discovering Jesus
(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...
View ArticleSpiritual Legacy: How I Lied to Get a Bible
(For the story of my salvation, read Part I, Part II, and Part III.) I became a Christian through a long process that culminated in November, 1999. Once I decided that Jesus was really who He claimed...
View ArticleSpiritual Legacy: Getting Over My Fear of Church
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...
View ArticleSpiritual Legacy: A Passion is Born
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...
View ArticleSpiritual Legacy: My First College
As high school drew to a close, I knew two things about my future: I wanted to play soccer in college I wanted to study the Bible in college I used my human intellect – not the power of prayer or the...
View ArticleSpiritual Legacy: My Second and Third Colleges
It’s been awhile since I wrote about my first year in college, but you may remember that I was somewhat dissatisfied with the college I chose to attend. (The sarcasm, it is thick and heavy like the...
View ArticleSpiritual Legacy: He Provides
I’ve never had a full-time job. As in, NEVER. I guess that’s what happens when you marry an “established” man before you graduate college. Elian had a great job that met our needs. I finished my degree...
View ArticleSpiritual Legacy: God Guides
About a month ago I started having a symptom that commonsense told me I should have checked by a doctor. It wasn’t bothersome, but knowing it might be a bad sign, I called the doctor. And she told me...
View ArticleSpiritual Legacy: God-Sized Dreams
So Thursday morning I’m going to wake up earlier than I want to and board a flight to the rest of my life. (How’s that for an opening line?) Actually, I really have no idea if or how my...
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