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in Addiction on Jun 16, 2010
Selling drugs and using crystal meth, Greg Winkle's parents and family began to grow tired of seeing their son go down a destructive path. Faced with prison, Greg turned to faith to get himself through. Watch this video as Greg tells his story of God's timing in his life, and how his conversion brought release and restoration.
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in Anger on Jun 16, 2010
Dennis Parrish's life story started with loss and loneliness: his wife was taken from him by alcoholism and his four year old daughter was murdered. Faced with his own alcoholism and filled with anger and hopelessness, Dennis went out in search for answers. This inspirational man found more then what he originally sought for. Take a peak at the video of his testimony and recovery.
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in Body Image on Jun 07, 2010
Michelle Aguilar was born into a broken "Christian" family and learned to turn to food instead of God to cope with the pain. Realizing she had a problem, she was inspired to auditioned for the hit reality TV show The Biggest Loser, and became a contestant with her estranged mother. Watch her video as she tells how she was able to lose control in order to gain faith, discover herself, and reconcile with her mother.
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in Self-Injury on Jun 05, 2010
At first glance Lanae Hale looked like any other girl. But below the surface, and hidden from the world she was broken and torn, looking for a way to escape her emotional depression. And like many other teens in America she tried to find an escape through cutting.
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in Marriage on Jun 03, 2010
Raped by father at the age of six, Lisa Luby Ryan's childhood was destroyed. She thought what followed in her life - affairs, abortions, divorce, and neglect - could never be forgiven by God. But revealing her secrets to the Almighty Forgiver gave her the only thing she had ever wanted: true and unfailing love.
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in Addiction on May 26, 2010
Experiencing sexual abuse and rape at a young age, Cynthia slipped into experimentation with drugs, sex, and food to cope with the pain. Watch this video to hear this inspirational women tell her story about her struggle to survive on the true authentic love of Jesus Christ.
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in Sports on May 15, 2010
Bill Rieser grew up on the streets of a small Italian neighborhood in the midst of Black and Spanish Harlem in New York City. Although his childhood was tough, Bill was a star of high school basketball—he was reported to have a 44-inch vertical leap! He was heavily recruited by major colleges and seemed destined to play in the NBA. But God had other plans for Bill’s life.
Watch Bill's story on video:
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in Atheism on May 15, 2010
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Lee Strobel, a former atheist, holds a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, was an investigative newspaper reporter, and was the award-winning legal editor of the Chicago Tribune. Currently, he is a teaching pastor at Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif., and a board member of the Willow Creek Association.
An all-around religious skeptic born in 1952 (notions of God represent wishful thinking), his wife stunned him in the autumn of 1979 with the announcement that she had become a Christian. "I rolled my eyes and braced for the worst, feeling like the victim of a bait-and-switch scam. I had married one Leslie...the fun Leslie, the carefree Leslie, the risk-taking Leslie...and now I feared she was going to turn into some sort of sexually repressed prude who would trade our upwardly mobile lifestyle for all-night prayer vigils and volunteer work in grimy soup kitchens."
At age 28 and after almost two years of intense investigation Jesus, he converted on 8 Nov. 1981. He published The Case For Christ in 1998 and The Case For Faith in 2000. I've read both and think that each of these less-than-300 pages books has excellent information for those who think they will not find intelligent evidence in favor of faith and Jesus.
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in Meaning on May 14, 2010
One of the greatest pieces of evidence that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that Christianity is true, and the Bible is the Word of God, is what happens in a person’s life when they come to know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. A changed life is a tremendous, powerful testimony for the reality of the Christian faith. In that light I would like to be very personal with you today and share my journey from skepticism to faith, from rejection to acceptance, from a denier to one who accepts. And so let me try to bring in my background and all and to point out the process that I went through to come to know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and what happened.
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in Music on May 08, 2010
Ken Mansfield, former US manager of the Beatles' Apple Record company, found God and now reflects on his former life of fame and fortune, music and money.