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I found Landover Baptist a few years ago, and I just want to say that it re-energized my spiritual life and I now have a big throbbing heart on for Jesus Christ and our LORD!!
I'm mighty happy to be with all of my brothers and sisters in Christ today, and I want to tell you the story of how I found salvation through Jesus Christ.
I still remember the day that I made the decision to turn my life around and give my heart to Jesus. I was four years old, and I was at the playground just outside our trailer park on a warm summer afternoon.
A few of the neighbor boys had found a stash of filthy magazines in their daddies' closets, and were going to sneak out behind the burning bins and into the bushes to fill their lurid minds with evil pleasures of the flesh. My mother and father, GOD bless their hearts, had already warned me about what seeing such things could do to my eyesight, and more importantly, my soul.
Those disgusting little boys called me to come along, and when I hesitated, they begin to laugh and point fingers. They scratched in the sand like chickens and flapped their arms while clucking to humiliate me and Jesus. The pressure was too much for a young boy to take, and I gave in to the temptation. We looked through every one of those magazines, not even old enough to read the articles. But with every turn of the page, I felt my guilt become stronger and stronger. I knew that Jesus had stayed behind, all alone by the teeter-totters. I felt like Judas must've felt when he betrayed our LORD, and I could almost hear satan laughing at my poor guardian angel who I'm sure was trying to keep an eye on me without accidently seeing any of the dirty pictures. Yes, that old serpant, the devil had won that fight. But it was soon to be one of his last victories in my life!
That evening at the supper table, my parents knew that satan had influenced me by the way I had trouble saying the blessing over the food. Soon, the whole ugly story came out about how I had given into temptation, and sinned. After I was disciplined, my father and mother took me down on one knee, right there in that kitchen, on that green and white tiled linoleum, at 9:16 and eleven seconds PM CST, I accepted Jesus Christ into my heart as my personal LORD and SAVIOR! GLORY TO GOD!
Throughout my teen years, I would struggle with more temptations and backsliding, and almost give up on GOD altogether. But then I found Landover Baptist Church while searching for ways to avoid sexual temptation, and they re-sparked my love for Jesus, and reminded me of that, sure I could have premarital sex today, but lose out on all of Heaven tomorrow. Besides, who needs sex when you have Jesus, amen?
Now I'm a youth pastor at my local Baptist church, and I've had the pleasure of leading dozens of teens to Christ and seeing them saved.
Yours in Christ,
Brother Bob
I'm mighty happy to be with all of my brothers and sisters in Christ today, and I want to tell you the story of how I found salvation through Jesus Christ.
I still remember the day that I made the decision to turn my life around and give my heart to Jesus. I was four years old, and I was at the playground just outside our trailer park on a warm summer afternoon.
A few of the neighbor boys had found a stash of filthy magazines in their daddies' closets, and were going to sneak out behind the burning bins and into the bushes to fill their lurid minds with evil pleasures of the flesh. My mother and father, GOD bless their hearts, had already warned me about what seeing such things could do to my eyesight, and more importantly, my soul.
Those disgusting little boys called me to come along, and when I hesitated, they begin to laugh and point fingers. They scratched in the sand like chickens and flapped their arms while clucking to humiliate me and Jesus. The pressure was too much for a young boy to take, and I gave in to the temptation. We looked through every one of those magazines, not even old enough to read the articles. But with every turn of the page, I felt my guilt become stronger and stronger. I knew that Jesus had stayed behind, all alone by the teeter-totters. I felt like Judas must've felt when he betrayed our LORD, and I could almost hear satan laughing at my poor guardian angel who I'm sure was trying to keep an eye on me without accidently seeing any of the dirty pictures. Yes, that old serpant, the devil had won that fight. But it was soon to be one of his last victories in my life!
That evening at the supper table, my parents knew that satan had influenced me by the way I had trouble saying the blessing over the food. Soon, the whole ugly story came out about how I had given into temptation, and sinned. After I was disciplined, my father and mother took me down on one knee, right there in that kitchen, on that green and white tiled linoleum, at 9:16 and eleven seconds PM CST, I accepted Jesus Christ into my heart as my personal LORD and SAVIOR! GLORY TO GOD!
Throughout my teen years, I would struggle with more temptations and backsliding, and almost give up on GOD altogether. But then I found Landover Baptist Church while searching for ways to avoid sexual temptation, and they re-sparked my love for Jesus, and reminded me of that, sure I could have premarital sex today, but lose out on all of Heaven tomorrow. Besides, who needs sex when you have Jesus, amen?
Now I'm a youth pastor at my local Baptist church, and I've had the pleasure of leading dozens of teens to Christ and seeing them saved.
Yours in Christ,
Brother Bob
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