Timothy spent his high school summers volunteering on mission trips with a local church. But Timothy wasn’t a Christian—he was a professed atheist. “Although the youth center [that I had joined] was separate from the church, they often invited us to events and...
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” – 2 Corinthians 5:17 Jose grew up in a large Catholic family. His parents’ marriage, rife with abuse and addiction, ended when Jose was young. Left to raise seven...
Guy thought he could run his own life. Although he grew up in a Christian home and accepted Jesus as a teenager, his daily life didn’t always reflect it. During his senior year of high school, he stopped going to church with his grandparents and followed in his...
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” – Jeremiah 29:13 Brian was raised in a Catholic family. Although he attended church dutifully, he couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing. “I never really connected with God,” he...
Peter grew up believing God expected perfection. “My knowledge of God was that He was holy, righteous, jealous, perfect and angry and that He would punish sin because He is a just God. Therefore, I needed to act accordingly,” Peter remembered. “Although I knew He was...
