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 In 1980, in Toledo, Ohio, I was the
lead singer for the rock band Pyramid and was
returning from a club performance. Having passed
out at the wheel, my vehicle headed over the
guardrail off an I-75 overpass. Providentially,
an Ohio state highway patrolman witnessed
the scene and said it was as if the hand of God
reached down and put your car back on the
road.
I knew in my heart that God
literally reached down and intervened,
saving my life. Not knowing why God would
even bother to save me in the midst of my
hell-bound waywardness; I sought answers from a
devote born-again Christian, the mother of
one of my band
mates.
 Thinking I
was high, she gave me a tract
called, Four Spiritual Laws
and sent me
away. However, after reading it, my life
was transformed from Rock n Roll rages to Rock
of Ages praises! I was raised and schooled Roman
Catholic, but this was an encounter with God
that set me off on a life long spiritual
journey. I was
a 17 year old boy, spiraling down hill fast,
with no hope of seeing the ripe old age of 21,
and worse yet, no desire too! However, God
had a plan for my
life!
I
went on to seminary
and ministerial ordination, and have served as
a church planter, a local church pastor, a hospital chaplain, and
denominational Prayer Ministries
Coordinator with the Gulf States Conference of
Seventh-day Adventist, and most recently as the
Biblical Prayer Ministries Coordinator with the
Mobile Baptist Association.
After
being
saved, I began devouring
Scripture. I walked away from Catholicism and
began a church search that led to
a missionary Baptist group and later
to the Seventh-Day Adventist Church where I
became an ordained pastor, only to leave because
of doctrinal differences and an unwanted
divorce, and to be reconnect with my original
Baptist roots, 20 years later, at Dayspring
Baptist Church in Mobile,
Alabama.
Perhaps
you have not yet discovered God's plan for your
life? Friend, God does have a purpose for you.
You may not feel like it, but know this -
feeling is like a cabose! A locomotive doesn't
need a cabose to get to its destination. And God
does have a destination for
you!
Why
not begin where I did and read what I read -
Four Spiritual Laws
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