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Howard Keele
Elaine Kidd - I Followed the World's Ways - Until I Lost Control
Mark Kuenzi - All I wanted was happiness, All I wanted was peace of mind, Just to be freed from my loneliness, But Jesus gave me new life, Divine!
Howard Keele
Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
EMail: hkeele@home.comHaving flirted with Jesus Christ and his teachings for 15 years or more I finally took the Alpha course at my local Anglican church the first quarter of 1999. Totally non denominational this course taught me the basics and was excellent.
I still did not fully understand however, the key foundation I believe of the Christian faith. The bottom line is that Jesus Christ made a promise the night before he was crucified.
This is the promise that Jesus made the night before he was Crucified.
John 14:25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Cool ..... The SON of GOD made a promise. If there is anybody that would keep his promise it would be Jesus I would think ..... No ???
IF Jesus made this promise then the holy ghost must be here today. So if you go to a church like a lively Pentecostal church .... sure enough you will find Him. If the holy ghost or spirit is around to day then all that the bible says is true and the dominoes of doubt begin to fall.
I urge you to take your family to the ALPHA course that is now taught in over 12,000 churches world wide and is even going into mainland China. It sole purpose is to teach you about Jesus Christ. I also suggest that you pick up a student Bible, literally the word of GOD, through the holy spirit.
Read The Gospel according to John.... Christ used to call him and his Brother James Sons of thunder because of their tempers. Then ACTS.
Have I experienced the Holy ghost or spirit. Absolutely, he guides me all the time now but this past year I have been crying my eyes out after reading the above verse and understanding its significance, ( in Tim Hortons of all places), woken up in the middle of the night so that he could literally tell me how proud He was of me (one of the most un nerving and wonderful experiences of my life) for witnessing to Philip and my wife about the my experiences, and just last Tuesday at the Alpha course, laughing so much I had to get up and get out of the church. No that was weird.
Jesus is the Christ
Elaine Kidd
Emmaus, PA
EMail: dhammett@xc.orgI Followed the World's Ways —
Until I Lost ControlI grew up on a farm and led a pretty sheltered life out in the country with very few neighbors. I was overweight and the world kept screaming at me that I had to lose weight. Thin was all that was acceptable. Needless to say I tried every fad diet that came down the road -- with very little success. Tried as I might I just could not shed the weight. I almost came to the point of accepting the fact that I would never be thin.
When I was old enough to drive and had access to a car, all of a sudden I had friends that never acknowledged me before. I didn't know then that all they were interested in was a chauffeur. I took them to parties that I would have never been invited to on my own merit. I felt loved and needed, so I stuck with them, knowing that some of the things that were taking place I really did not want to be part of.
Then one night I took my friends to a party in Allentown. I met this guy that complimented me on my good looks. He said if I would just lose some weight I would be a knockout. Well, I just looked at him and laughed and said I had tried everything under the sun, and then some, to lose weight, and that. I hadn't been very successful. He replied that he had something that would help me lose weight. He said he was so sure this would work that he would give me my first 30 hits for free. I was skeptical but like a dummy I took them and tried them. To my surprise they worked like a charm. I had no appetite and actually I had no desire for food at all. Later I discovered that I was taking a drug they called uppers. But by that time I had started to lose weight, and people were complimenting me on my weight loss. To be truthful, I really enjoyed the attention I was receiving.
Well in no time at all, I was taking more and more uppers so that my weight loss would continue. Before long it got harder and harder to come up with the increasing amount of money I needed to supply my addiction. I started working at a young age for my parents' business, so I had money. But, it was slowly disappearing. I took more and more uppers to keep my weight loss going. Before long I realized that I was not in control of my life. The pills were.
Since I did not have much of a spiritual upbringing, I was kind of surprised that I would look to God for help. I prayed and asked God that if He was out there, would He help me. But since God did not drop an angel out of heaven to help me, I continued to deal with my problem the best way that I could. I found myself agreeing to move to Florida with another girl.
Nancy and I drove my car to Jacksonville, Florida. When we arrived, Nancy went with her boyfriend to his apartment. They arranged for me to stay with two other guys in their apartment. By this time I was doing many things that I was not proud of, and I really was grateful that I had not been caught.
Four months after moving to Florida, there came a knock at the door. I answered the door to find a man calling himself Brother Johnny, from Harvest Baptist Church. He asked me if I were to die today, would I spend eternity in heaven or hell! I quickly answered him "In hell." He asked if he could come in and talk to me? I said, "I could care less!" When I turned to show him the sofa, I could see my roommates racing for the back door.
There I was, all alone with the local outreach director of the church. We must have argued for several hours over whether or not I would go to heaven. I told him I had done a lot of things that I was sure that God could not forgive. Brother Johnny was just as adamant that God could forgive me. I told him about sin after sin - and he showed me in the bible that God would forgive that sin. So I decided to trust Him. I asked God to forgive me of my sins, and to help me to get on the right road and stay there. From that point on, the bad started to fall away and be replaced by the good.
Only the Lord Jesus Christ could take a sinner like me, and make me beautiful. Maybe not in the world's eyes, but in God,s eyes I am beautiful. John 16:33 says, These things I have spoken unto you, that in me, ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
Mark Kuenzi
Emmaus, PA
EMail: dhammett@xc.orgAll I wanted was happiness, All I wanted was peace of mind, Just to be freed from my loneliness, But Jesus gave me new life, Divine!
Even though I experimented in many of the vices that kids growing up in my era were into, most people probably thought of me as a good boy from a good family. My parents took me and my two older brothers to a Lutheran church every Sunday morning. But, like many kids that grew up in the church, I became turned off to it for various reasons. Mainly, I did not like the hypocrisy I saw. Besides that, I thought the Bible, with its "creation account," was proven untrustworthy by evolution. Religion, frankly, just failed to meet my needs.
I was growing up in unsettled and changing times. The threat of Communism, the assassination of President Kennedy, the Viet Nam War, draft dodgers and campus unrest, civil unrest, riots, the burning of our cities, along with immorality and a general breakdown of our traditional values were just some of the unsettling events of that period.
As a teen, what I wanted out of life was happiness and peace of mind. Where could I find it? I really didn't know. A lot of kids I was growing up with were seeking it through materialism, popularity, or the pleasures of youthful vices. Would this be my answer? Strong ties with family, traditional moral teaching, and especially the grace of God, told me. "No, sin will not satisfy." Where was my answer?
My dad grew up on a dairy farm, with lots of memories of "the good old days," and farm living. Also, among some of those following the hippie movement of my teen years, there was a back-to-the-land movement. Maybe "back to the land" is where I 'd find my peace, I thought.
So, between my junior and senior years of high school, I contacted some friends of the family who ran a dairy farm. I asked if I could work on their farm for the summer, in exchange for room and board. They agreed, and I went.
I found I really did enjoy their way of life on the farm. But, there was something else that intrigued me even more. This farmer was the first adult man I knew, on a day-to-day basis, that I never heard curse or swear. As this family marveled at how other folks could drink alcohol, get drunk and feel sick, and say they enjoyed it, I marveled at their "different" way of thinking. Another "different" thought that challenged me was the call to moral purity that I read about in the Sunday School paper I had received at their church. The youth at this church were also different. They talked as if they had a personal relationship with God that lasted through the whole week and applied everyday situations.
Something was different here. These people could have fun and enjoy life in a way I would never have imagined. I started to hunger after the word of God, and attended a Bible study with folks from their church. Too soon, though, summer came to a close.
I went back to suburban Pittsburgh, 100 miles from where my heart and mind had been challenged. I began my senior year of high school - still groping, searching and dissatisfied.
Switching from rock station to rock station on my radio, and occasionally tuning into a country station, I passed by a broadcast that caught my attention. I turned back to listen. I heard a gospel song that particularly gripped me. Its lyrics said, "I don't need to understand, I just need to hold His hand."
Though I had discounted the Bible as a reliable source of God's revelation of Himself to man, I could not discount the reality of Christ in the lives of the people I had met that summer. Their faith and doctrine centered around the very Bible I rejected. While I didn't understand everything, I began to understand my emptiness and how God could fill the void in my life.
It took about a month or two of tuning daily to this program of Gospel messages and music before I fully realized my need to surrender my life to Christ as Lord, and to call upon Him as my Savior. The book of Romans, chapter 10, verses 9 and 13 say, "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved...For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved."Finally, at the end of the broadcast one day, I got on my knees by the kitchen table in my home, and with tears in my eyes, I confessed my sin, yielded my stubborn will to Christ, and called upon him as my personal Savior. What a load was lifted from me!
The next morning, I awoke with the words of a popular recording running through my mind. "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me." I now understood those words that I had never really thought about before. "I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see." That was exactly what had happened to me.
That was only the beginning.. I've been a Christian for more than 20 years now. A favorite scripture verse of mine, Second Corinthians 5:17, describes what transpired in my life. "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
Since that time, God has given me joy and peace, direction, purpose, and fulfillment in serving Him. He has also given me a wonderful Christian wife, and four children to train for Him. I'm so thankful that, in this troubled world, I can give my children the same hope, joy, peace, and purpose that I have found in Him.
I closing, let me share with you the words of a song I wrote while I was attending Bible college a number of years ago.
New Life, Divine
All I wanted was happiness,
All I wanted was peace of mind,
Just to be freed from my loneliness,
But Jesus gave me new life, Divine!
New life, Divine, Salvation's mine!
Hallelujah! I have new life, Divine!
Lost in sin and misery,
Through life's dark way I could not see,
Then I heard, God loved me so,
He gave His son that I might know,
New life Divine, Salvation's mine!
Hallelujah! I have new life Divine!
Sinner, won't you hear His plea,
Obey His voice on bended knee,
Before His presence humbly bow,
Ask Christ to save you, save you now.
New life, Divine, salvation's thine!
Hallelujah! You'll have new life, Divine!
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