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Many aged persons have either forgotten their birthdays or have lost the birth certificate and cannot tell exactly how old they are; but that does not at all prove that they are not alive. So your not knowing precisely when you were converted is no evidence that you are not saved.

Ever hear the story of the Prodigal Pig? It goes like this: There was a man who had two son And loved them for they were his own. The younger said, “Dad, I want my estate, I think that I’m now fully grown.” The son left home, went far away, And spent all he had living high. A famine then hit and low…

The flame in the eyes had been extinguished. The smirk had been humbled. The devil-may-care attitude had been replaced with soberness. His first few days of destitution were likely steamy with resentment. He was mad at everyone. Everyone was to blame. His friends shouldn’t have bailed out on him. And…

IMAGINE THE MYSTERY and delight of not only hearing but seeing the story of Jesus for the first time, almost as an eyewitness. That’s what happened to a primitive tribe in the jungles of East Asia, when missionaries showed them the Jesus film. Not only had these people never heard of Jesus, they had…

You may, or may not recognize this picture. This is Francis Collins. He is a well respected geneticists who headed up the Human Genome Project as the Director of the National Institutes of Health. In case you’ve never heard of the Human Genome Project, it was the complete mapping of the Human DNA. The…

He was the youngest of 15 children. Standing six-foot three-inches tall, his piercing eyes and leadership ability gave him such recognition that he soon was apprenticed to become a lawyer, even though he had never been to college. But then something happened. He had an Isaiah experience. He found himself…

Is this not he that destroyed them which called on this name… But Saul increased the more in strength… proving that this is the very Christ. —Acts 9:21-22 It has been said, “No one who ever meets Jesus remains the same.” Paul was never the same after meeting Christ on the Damascus road. The power of…

That’s what Liz Curtis Higgs thought. Liz Curtis Higgs was one of the best-known disc jockeys in America, and she lived quite a…wild lifestyle without God. In fact, Howard Stern was the A.M. show, and Liz Curtis Higgs was the P.M. show. And one day Howard Stern said to Liz, “You know, you need to clean…

C. S. Lewis knew about this surrender. He began as a self-described atheistic intellectual. For two years he struggled with this. The Holy Spirit was working on him until he finally discovered the joy of surrender. He writes of his conversion: You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night…

Before his conversion, he may have been a hard task master. He ruled his family with an iron fist and a vociferous will. Going against him was not just hard, it was impossible. He owned slaves and most of them knuckled under quickly. All but Ones, that is. That was his name, Ones, short for something…

Tim Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian in Manhattan, shares the story of a woman in his congregation who was learning how the grace extended to us through Christ's work on the cross can actually be more challenging than religion. He writes: Some years ago I met with a woman who began coming to church…

DVD - David Nasser - Gives his testimony

Quaint, bizarre, eccentric, peculiar—those words describe a little, wiry coal miner named Billy Bray, of Cornwell, England. Before his conversion in November, 1832, Billy lived a vile life. After finding Christ, he became a flaming evangelist and lay preacher. On a mountain near his home lived a cluster…

If you are what you’ve always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation. Pepper ‘n Salt, by Vance Havner, page 86

The church is a nursery for babes in Christ but not a hatchery with the idea of taking in bad eggs in the hope that they hatch out into real Christians later. Not Peace But a Sword, Vance Havner, page 110

Years ago I heard a story about two sisters who enjoyed attending dances and wild parties. Then they were converted and found new life in Christ. They received an invitation to a party and sent their RSVP in these words: “We regret that we cannot attend because we recently died.” Be Complete, Warren…

Many a so-called revival is only a drive for church members, which adds more unsaved sinners, starched and ironed, but not washed, to a fellowship where even the true believers have not been aroused for years. - Vance Havner Leadership, Winter 1996, page 77

An expanded excerpt from the diary of John Wesley, reprinted on the 100th anniversary of his May 24, 1738, conversion by The Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume XX. New Series, Vol. IX, 1838. New York: T. Mason and G. Lane, for The Methodist Episcopal Church, at the conference office, 200…

Muslims view entering heaven as an act of justice. God stacks your good works against your bad works and, if the good outweighs the bad, you get in. For that reason, no muslim ever knows for certain if they’re actually going to heaven unless . . . unless they die in Jihad, that is unless they strap on…

Philosopher Emile Cailliet was born in a small French village near the end of the 19th century. His early education was committed to naturalism, leaving no room for God or supernatural intervention in human affairs. His godless philosophy, however, didn’t help him deal with the horrors of WWI Confronted…

Conversion: The point after a touchdown. Faith, Hope and Hilarity, Dick Van Dyke, page 120

We are too much like the little boy who cut off his dog’s tail an inch at a time so it wouldn’t hurt as much as all at once! This Grace Also, Mac Layton, page 11

Against all positions that deny either the possibility of significant change (stemming from deterministic views of genetic, social, or environmental influence) or that hold out change as a possibility, only after long periods of time, the Christian cheerfully of thorough, rapid change. This is a very…

As men became increasingly weak and needy thye turned to religion. (pp. 54-55) Driving force for religion was fear "Fear mad for division rather than for community" (p. 56) Ernest Gordon, To End All Wars

“The Navy’s changed so you won’t have to.” Radio spot, 3-17-76, WFMW, Madisonville, KY