Beyond Survival
17. September 2014
We kept milk out in the snow because we didn’t have a refrigerator, heated our trailer by keeping the oven door open all night, went to the ...
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Divine Intervention
01. August 2014
One privilege of living 86 years is experiencing the hand of God directing my life and decisions in a variety of ways. There is not enough space here ...
Testimony: Starting on the Same Page
02. June 2014
Bill and I met at a youth group roller skating party. His girlfriend introduced us but we got better acquainted about four years later during a ...
Everyday Sanctification
01. March 2014
Telling of God’s grace in my life is as much about the present as it is about the past. However, I will start with a summary of my background. My ...
Testimony: Every Step of the Way
01. December 2013
Steps toward Christ Although I visited the Catholic church with my dad a handful of times as a child, my two siblings and I belonged to a small ...
History of a Clueless Convert
01. October 2013
I was raised Episcopalian. Although the gospel was imbedded in the liturgy of my church, it was not clearly preached. As a child, I thought that the ...
Diary of a Mental Hospital Chaplain
01. July 2013
Tuesday, October 3 Chaplain,” the psychiatrist said. She summoned me with her hands. “Here is someone I want you to meet.” A patient was ...
Long Spiritual Journies For Two Pastor-Brothers
01. July 2013
A Covenant Child from a Catholic Church My siblings and I were raised Catholic, although Dad had been raised Lutheran. As he tells me, a college ...
A Good Heritage
01. May 2013
A Good Heritage I was blessed by being born and raised in a covenant home that actually spanned three homes. I was born in Hopkinton, Iowa, on Nov. ...
Ottawa Theological Seminary Student Testimonies
01. March 2013
Combining Truth and Experience —Daniel N. Dupuis I became a member of the Ottawa RPC in the summer of 2010, roughly five years into my walk with ...
Out of Darkness
01. March 2013
Who Am I? I am currently a seminary student under care of the St. Lawrence Presbytery, and I expect, Lord willing, to graduate in May 2013. I was ...
Forget Not all His Benefits
31. January 2013
Growing up in the Methodist church, I heard and believed the gospel, yet I chose to live my life as if I didn’t. After college, I moved to Kansas ...
Mid-Life Opportunity
01. November 2012
They aren’t really having a mid-life crisis. But Travis and Gina Sheets want to put their vocational skills to work on the African mission field in ...
My Life Calling
01. November 2012
Airplanes and boats—those were my “things”! In junior high I enjoyed the shop class the most. It was during WWII, and model planes were needed ...
From Rebel to Redeemed
26. September 2012
By God’s grace I am a 32-year-old homeschooling mom of three, with high hopes to have a quiver full of children. It is amazing how far I have come ...
God Always Provides
30. July 2012
The Big Umbrella Ruth Spear There was a big black umbrella way back in the closet under the stairway. I was told it was used in China when my parents ...
The Realities of Death and Joy
01. June 2012
My purpose in writing this is to emphasize two tremendous realities that Beverly and I experienced because of our son’ s death: the reality of death ...
The Train Wreck of My Conversion
01. June 2012
On Feb. 14, 1999, I started to go to the Syracuse Reformed Presbyterian Church—and not for research. Even though I felt like a freak in that church, ...
The Compliant Rebel
01. June 2012
The Testimony of Bill Boyle My story is not only about how God confronted me with my sin and worked repentance in my life, but also how He worked in ...
Almost Too Good to Be True
13. April 2012
When I think about how the Lord has worked in my life, one word comes to mind again and again: grace. I’m amazed at how He reached down, plucked me ...