How God changed my life I was born into a religious family to loving parents who both worked.
As I grew older, I started to see how alone I was. At my confirmation
(Methodist) and many of the families in my church at the time treated it
like it was graduation from Sunday school. Disillusioned, I kept going to
church but indulging in pornography, swearing up a storm, and giving full
vent to my anger. I did not start indulging in alcohol until after high
school for fear that I might break someone's bones when I was drunk. ;One time, I went to a science fiction convention with
some friends. On that Friday night me, a self-proclaimedDiscordian, and a reputed Satanist (voted "Most likely
to be...) all got very drunk. We even toasted to a foreign god to help us
get really toasty. When I woke up the next morning, some of my other
friends told me that they thought I was going to die choking on my puke. I
vowed never to drink again. Then I was drunk the next weekend. I started
to realize how much control I really had. I put my search for the truth
into high gear.;I was at the end of my undergraduate career then. ;Was taking an additional class at a community college while
looking for work in computers. I was talking with a friend of mine
when Jim Brandt and Jeremy Walldrop; asked me to
come to their Bible Talk. I went and saw how much they were unified in
pure love with one another (I had not seen that in any church or ;parachurch; group I had been in). I then studied the
Bible with Bernard Go, got rid of all the misunderstandings I had about
God, and started a real relationship with him! I was then baptized and
began my new life! I was no longer a slave to pornography, anger, swearing
or booze! God changed my life and can change yours, too!get;Its been a few years since I wrote this…The ICOC has
gone though many changes (see Blog 1 for some more on this) in those
years;That being said,
however, does not negate the impact on my life that the Master had on me