His Grace is sufficient

Reprinted with author’s permission
By Larry Nevenhoven
Temecula, California

In 1985, I ran into a brick wall with my life. I needed thousands of dollars to start a publishing company and bail myself and my family out of debt. Credit cards and financial sources were tapped out. There was no one to turn to, not one drop of hope [...]

Persecuted for Christ

Pastor Mark Driscoll at Mars Hill Church recently featured several testimonies in a sermon called “Submission to Authority.”
These testimonies were submitted by the people who attend Mars Hill Church, in response to Pastor Mark’s request for examples of times when they’ve faced persecution for their faith.  While many of them are uplifting and end on [...]

Jesus Heals Post Abortion Trauma

One of my favorite radio programs regularly features authors who share their testimonies of God’s grace in their lives.  Recently, on Midday Connection, Julie Woodley shared her story of childhood sexual abuse, several abortions, and the love she found in Christ that has helped her heal.
Click here to listen to the program and the interview [...]

Cardboard Testimonies

Some friends posted this video on their blog, and I thought I would pass it along.  It’s a nice reminder that testimonies don’t need to be long or elaborate, and they can cover all sorts of ways that God has blessed you.
Have a tissue ready for this one.

Life that is Truly Life (1 Tim 6:19)

By Pastor Adam Sinnett
Seattle, Washington
Mars Hill Church: West Seattle Campus
During my sophomore year in college at the University of Washington I had a bike accident in which I broke my neck (C2 vertebrae), dislocated my jaw, and fractured my face in four locations. I like to say that I’ve only broken one bone in [...]

Sweetly Broken

By Melissa Baldwin
Granger, Indiana
Fear is a miserable companion. It begins in the pit of my stomach before my mind even registers it’s existence. It cloaks itself in depression and sometimes anger. It insinuates itself into every response, masking it’s true position as an idol in my heart with euphemisms like “worry” and “concern”. The reality [...]