“The big question for me was, who has the authority to interpret scripture and establish doctrine?” Paul McCusker, who has spent decades working for Focus on the Family and serving
My Baptist Childhood In 1977, at the age of seven, I was baptized in a Baptist Church in rural north-central Louisiana. The pastor of the church was my father; I
Joe Copeck grew up as a “Christmas and Easter” Catholic, but found a more fulfilling relationship with Jesus in the Lutheran Church, eventually becoming an ordained minister. Discovering the importance
So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me; but because of
This is part 3 of an ongoing series on the Reformation. Part 1 Part 2 In this one and only Church of God from its very beginnings there arose certain rifts,
As a young parent, Matthew Kilmurry wanted to make being part of a church a priority in his family, but didn’t feel connected to the Catholic faith of his youth.
Before becoming Catholic, I was an evangelical Protestant for about twenty years, an ordained Protestant minister for more than eleven. My conversion was hard. I broke a lot of glass
My two younger sisters and I were raised in Springfield, MO by parents who valued faith, family, and friendships, and who served the community. We attended Sunday morning, Sunday evening, and Wednesday night services in a large, active Churches of Christ congregation. Our social as well as religious life revolved around this church.
Paul Bennett’s journey of faith really started when he hit rock bottom as an alcoholic. Following the advice of his recovery program to turn his life over to a “higher
John has been away at seminary for a couple of years and has now come back to his hometown with some new ideas he wants to go over. Wes,
During his early childhood, Joe Copeck’s family were plugged into their Polish Catholic heritage, but over time, they drifted away from it. After his time in the Navy, Joe entered
Joshua grew up in Lubbock, Texas, where he remembers being surrounded by restaurants and Churches- and yet he had almost no experience of Catholicism until his college years. Nagging questions