Path Towards Faith

I published new episode:3. "Newish" Believer, please check it out. You can also find it on iTunes and Spotify! https://www.podbean.com/ei/pb-gmhte-e7caeb

I published new episode:2. My Testimony, please check it out. https://www.podbean.com/ei/pb-mkggd-e664bf

Photo by  Luis Miguel Martínez Bonilla   A few days ago I was reading a devotional and within that the author, Priscilla Shirer, told a story of a donkey that spent its life walking in a circle giving rides to little children at fairs. When this donkey was "retired" it went to spend the rest of its days in a huge, beautiful pasture. Instead of roaming around its new land it just walked in circles, because that is all it had ever known. The point of her analogy was to show us that as Christians we have been given a new life, and to question why we keep walking in the circles of unforgiveness, shame and guilt. "This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; an new life has begun!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 If you, in your heart, have accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior, knowing that he died for our sins, then you are born again (made new). This should be exciting news! As believers, we are not called to remain in those circles of gu...

I wanted my first post to be a brief back story of how my journey coming to know Jesus began. I did not grow up in a family that ever went to church or really talked about anything religious. What I did know as a child is that when people die they go to Heaven and that there is this place called Hell that you did not want to go to. I did have various friends and some outside family that would invite me to church with them and I was always allowed to go. I found it boring at the time and very monotonous, so needless to say I had no excitement about church, God or anything to do with it really. As a teen I did begin to sort of look at religion as a whole and question myself as to what I believed in and didn't believe in. I asked my parents why we never went to a church. My moms answer was simple, "I don't want to push any beliefs onto you, decide for yourself what you believe." This led me to ask my grandmother. She at least gave me some more advice, she talked about he...