Posted by: Amy
in Success on Jul 19, 2010
Kirk Cameron is best known as the lovable teen heartthrob Mike Seaver, of the award winning series Growing Pains. He entertained audiences worldwide as the charming troublemaker. He is also known to many Christians as "Buck Williams" from the Left Behind films -- based on the NY Times runaway best selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. He had more than just legions of fanatic fans. He also had stalkers and kidnapping threats, and was sometimes driven to the set in a bulletproof car. It got him thinking about his own mortality. He had it all, but still felt empty.
Watch Kirk's inspirational video as he tell his motivational life story of discovering faith and how his Christian conversion changed his life.
Posted by: Amy
in Success on Jul 14, 2010
How does a little girl born into a poor, immigrant family in northern Canada wind up, as a grown woman, running her own business trading and marketing domestic crude oil, one of the most competitive, high stakes business arenas in the world?
Simple: It has to be a “God thing.”
Posted by: lifestory
in Pride on Jul 10, 2010
Hello, my name is Lauren Shaw, and I’d like to share a part of my story with you. I am a performer. Not the kind of performer who steps on stage and wows audiences with my ability to play an instrument, recite a monologue, or create a work of art. Rather, I am the kind of performer who gets things done and meets expectations. Much of my life I’ve been able to perform in a way that earns me enough praise to make me feel good about myself, and that achieves enough for me to stand out.
Today I want to tell you a little about my performances and about some times when the curtain rose and for one reason or another I could not get on the stage. I also want to tell you about the freedom I have found from the need to perform, the freedom to live a life without being chained to expectations and demands, applause or approval.
Posted by: lifestory
in Success on Jun 22, 2010
Stephen Baldwin's life was centered around money, fame, success, and ultimately himself as an actor. But God wanted more for his life. Watch his video and read his story to learn his inspirational story of God placing people in his life to bring him to faith.
Posted by: lifestory
in Success on Jun 14, 2010
Wayne Huizenga Jr. has lead a privileged life. His father is the only person in history to build three Fortune 1000 companies (Waste Management, Blockbuster Entertainment and AutoNation) nearly from scratch, develop six NYSE-listed companies, as well as own three pro-sports teams in a single market, two of which won national championships. Working beside his father, Wayne had access to a materially blessed life: his own jet, the best parties, even travelling aboard a nuclear-powered submarine. Despite all this he found himself, "...happy but unfilled." Watch these videos as Wayne tells the inspirational story of the revelation he had in Jesus Christ.
Posted by: lifestory
in Music on Jun 03, 2010
The jaws of the music world dropped when Brian "Head" Welch, the guitarist from the new-metal band Korn, announced he was quitting the band. It was dubbed a "bad joke" when he went on to say he had found Christ. Brian struggled to kick drugs, understand the love of the Father, and become a good father to his own daughter, all on the world's stage. Watch these videos to hear what inspired Brian to live for God and for his daughter instead of success.
Posted by: lifestory
in Sports on May 15, 2010
Bryan Jennings: As I was growing up, my friends and I were doing what many teenagers are doing today - drinking,having sex before marriage and swearing. I was left feeling very empty. One night I decied to read the Bible that had been sitting, gathering dust, on my desk.
Posted by: lifestory
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.
Posted by: lifestory
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.
Posted by: lifestory
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.