It seemed I couldn’t get enough of serving God in the context of the local church. After God turned my heart toward Grace Baptist I joined the church, got baptized, began showing up for everything they offered, made plans to work in AWANA ministry and was seeking more. Sometime that summer God began to burden [...]
Archive for October, 2006
After joining the church it was a course of total involvement. It might be better stated that a course was set for me. I don’t think I really thought about doing this or that. It would be more accurate to say that I was a compelled man. It was sort of like breathing. Laboring in [...]
I was greatly convicted because of my love for rock and roll. I don’t remember if I went down to the altar and repented of this “sin” or not. (The altar in an Independent Baptist church are the steps that lead up to the platform. Many Baptists at the end of their sermon ask for [...]
After hearing from God that I should be at Grace Baptist I went back the next Sunday and for all intents and purposes that was what Baptist folk would call “my home church”. I attended First Baptist Church when I was a kid, but stopped going by the time I was 10 or 11 years [...]
I was sitting in the main auditorium of a Southern Baptist church in May 1985. It was there that it became very clear to me that I should be at Grace Baptist Church on Weddington Road. It was such clarity; it came from nowhere. I was sitting there thinking about whatever and then my mind [...]
As noted with the Disappointment with God blog there was no change in me that was perceptible. I had tried many things in my short 24 years of living. I smoked pot, drank beer, hung out with “fun” and not so fun people. I planned to make a million by the time I was 30, [...]
I got up from my bed and looked out the blinds of my bedroom shortly after asking God to save me. I do not know all the reasons I was doing that. I do remember there was an expectation in my mind that things would be immediately, noticeably different. I cracked the blinds apart and [...]
After I read the “plan of salvation” in the back of one of those books on Eschatology I was seriously confronted in my heart. There were questions to answer. I needed answers. After some reflection it became apparent to me that there was only one question to answer. I knew if I answered this question [...]
After my lunch break that day (see prior blog entry) I went to my machine. It was one of the newer machines. I was standing at the end of that machine when my boss, Ricky Price, came up and asked me if I really believed what I said back at the lunch table. I told [...]
At Delaval we typically took our lunch break at the break table in our department. It was better than walking to the cafeteria. We could walk for 30 seconds, sit down and be done with it until the break bell went off again. Ahh, yes, life on the production line. Typically on these breaks we [...]
