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A God of Love and Grace
Finding God despite being raised in a legalistic upbringing.
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I Met Jesus, and He Changed My Life!
Some of you may not know this, but I am the oldest brother of Ezra Byer. This is my claim to fame! I'm hoping someday to get his autograph. For years now, I have endeavored to convince everyone that I am the older AND WISER brother, but this
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My Spiritual Autobiography, in the Style of Augustine's Confessions
📖"And whoever comes to Me I will never cast out." — John 6:37 Early in my Christian life, I read Augustine’s Confessions. Augustine (354-430 AD) lived a monastic life and pursued a life of writing. One of his writings, Confessions, is his spiritual autobiography, but it
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In Memory of My Friend, Bob Stouffer
An example of a life well-lived.
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The Life-Changing Hope of Jesus
My Salvation Story I’m one of those people who doesn’t have a super “exciting” salvation story. I grew up in a Christian home, and I don’t remember a time when I didn’t know who Jesus was. My first memory of wanting Jesus in my life was
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Before, During, and After the Life-Changing Grace of God in My Life
📖"You were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." — I Corinthians 6:11 Before Before Jesus, I was poor in spirit. I had nothing inside myself to help myself, and no one else
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Surprise! I'm Not Actually Perfect.
My life has been a pattern of mistakes and misprioritizations. Case in point: At this very moment, Microsoft Word is telling me my leading sentence is a mistake. Misprioritizations? that squiggly red line asks. Are you sure that’s a real word? Well, no. But I trust the person reading
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The Miracle of Grace
📖"For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift." — Ephesians 2:8 Many conversion stories I have heard go something like this: "Before I met Christ, I was a terrible person. I was far from God and
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Identity in Christ
📖"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do." — Ephesians 2:10 Before Christ One thing I love wasting time doing is looking at cars and trucks on Facebook Marketplace that I know I can’
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The House That Death Could Not Keep
Growing up, one of my favorite stories was about how my parents came to faith in Christ. My mom was raised in a Christian family and attended church every week, while my dad was born into a Hindu-Christian family and primarily followed Hindu practices. In 1983, the year my
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How The Radical Truth of Christ Set Me Free
📖"You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." — John 8:32 Have you ever fallen asleep on a raft in the ocean? It’s amazing at first. The rays warm your body while a gentle sea breeze keeps you from overheating. The mellow roll
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How Jesus Changed My Life
📖"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" — 2 Corinthians 5:17 What Was I Like Before Jesus? As someone who grew up in the church, having a testimony as a kid always felt