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The True and Only Way to Live in Heaven With Jesus Christ For Evermore First of all, I Would like to tell you a little about myself I am a twenty-seven year old man. I was raised in middle Tennessee. I have two siblings which consist of an older brother and a younger sister. My […]

LOVE LIFTED ME The Conversion of an Atheist I was raised in a very religious family, all members of the group describing themselves as “The Church of Christ”. Generations of my family had been caught up in that group, and I was no exception. As a child I went to church three times each week. […]

From Harriet’s  letter to the minister of  Shortwood Baptist Church in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England in 1849: “About the age of sixteen I was very much concerned about my never dying soul. I had many convictions of sin but stifled them and they where [sic ] has [sic ] the morning cloud and the early Dew. […]

I was eight and at Do Re Mi Gospel Music Academy when I realized I was lost.  I started crying, and Chasney Butcher came over and asked me about it. I told her I was lost, and I laid my head in her lap.  I thought she would tell my family, so I didn’t.  She […]

GUM SPRING BAPTIST CHURCH This church is located in Chatham county, N. C. between Pittsborough and Haywood. It was constituted on the 3d Saturday in July, A. D. 1829, by Elders H. Harman and Isaac Kirby. The conviction, conversion, and baptism of Brother William Drake, the first deacon of this church, was of a peculiar […]

I cannot remember when I began to be an infidel.  Certainly at a very early age-even before I knew what infidelity meant.  There was nothing in my home life to beget or suggest it.  My father was a self-educated Baptist minister, preaching — mainly without compensation — to village or country churches.  My mother was […]

I sometimes think I might have been in darkness and despair until now, had it not been for the goodness of God in sending a snowstorm one Sunday morning, while I was going to a certain place of worship. I turned down a side street, and came to a little Primitive Methodist Church. In that […]

My name is April Garrett (formerly Williams until nearly 2 years ago). I am a high school math teacher of Algebra 2 (for now), and I live in Gallatin, TN. I did not grow up missionary baptist but in college, God saw fit to send peeps my way that truly knew the Lord because He […]

In the early to mid 1950’s, there was not a lot of recreation or things to do for past time.  In the spring and summer, when revival season would begin, my father and mother, Blon and Lillion Johnson, would take my sister and me to all the revivals around about the community whatever the denomination […]

I was saved when I was about 8 years old during a fall revival at Sycamore Valley Missionary Baptist Church. The church is located in the southern part of Macon County, not far from the Smith County line. I was the youngest of four children. We were raised on a hillside farm not far from […]

I went to my daddy, and I was hoping he could help me. What did that mean in the Bible?   Well, every time he would tell me go to mama. He could not read very well, and I just thought that I would be bull headed and not tell mama. We had “Old year Out […]