The Testimony of PT Tan Birmingham, AL, USA. 1985 – I was five years old. We had just read Psalm 91 and prayed as a family, asking for God’s protection during my brother’s heart surgery. The team raised the rails on Ernie’s bed and proceeded to roll him out of the...
Salvation Stories
It Could Happen to You
It was later spring, 2021. My wife Linda had slowed down to short walks from a battle with terminal cancer and I noticed that I was easily getting winded from much exertion. So, I returned to the gym. On June 25, 2021, I arrived at the gym after 10:30pm. Only two...
Resting in Christ
I was born in Ottawa, ON, Canada on February 23, 1943, in the middle of World War II. I was my mom’s first child, and the first grandchild of my dad’s parents who we lived with all during the war. For a time, I was the “fair haired boy,” that is until my dad who had...
The Testimony of Doug Tremper
I was raised in a “God-fearing” home, although as my brothers and I grew up our parents did not read Scripture to us or teach us the gospel. We were taught what was right, and that we needed to be in church every week. We went to Protestant churches, usually the...
My Assurance of Salvation – The Testimony of Brian Graham
Why is a settled assurance of salvation so difficult for some genuine believers to experience? I read in the Belfast Telegraph recently (a Northern Ireland newspaper), an interview with an evangelical man in Northern Ireland. He indicated that he never had any crisis...
My Journey From A Library to a Funeral Home
The Testimony of Shane Johnson My salvation story begins in a library and ends in a funeral home, although I now know it started much earlier than that. But from what I remember that day in the library was the first step that guided my feet to the gospel of God. I...
The Song that led to Salvation
The Testimony of Ian Williams I grew up in a Christian family of eight children in the northern Ontario city of Sudbury. It was not a perfect family, but it was perfect for me. God’s Word was honored in our home; I can remember as a boy about four or five years old...
The Long Way Home
The grass felt cool and comforting on my back as I laid my head back and closed my eyes. But the pain in my leg raced up and down from my toes to my stomach like the clawing of a furious animal. White haze filled my vision and I felt sick to my stomach. That morning...
Where Will I Go After I Die?
Introduction by Paul D. Bramsen: Malick was the first Muslim we saw come to Christ in Senegal (1988). In 1992 Malick became the editor and voice for our Wolof Way of Righteousness radio series. In 1994, he joined me in baptizing our three children in the Senegal...
Salvation Stories: Joseph Frimpong
“That from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus”.2 Timothy 3:15 The above verse applied to Timothy’s salvation, and I think the same is true as far as my own salvation is...
Come and Hear: Suzanne Weigand
It was February 1946, and the first ship of French war brides had arrived in New York Harbor. Suzanne and Harry Wiegand’s son Pierre wrote about the event for their fiftieth wedding anniversary: “It was a cold but pleasant day with lots of excitement at the dock along...
Salvation Stories: Peter Kerr
Growing up in South Africa in a non-Christian family, I did not hear the gospel until I was in my late teens. My mother had passed away suddenly when I was around eight years old, and this impacted our family deeply. My father struggled to cope with the loss and...
Salvation Stories: Ray Jones
“Come and hear, all you who fear God, And I will declare what He has done for my soul.”Psalm 66:16 On the busy corner of St. Peters, in the town of Bedford, England, stands the statue of John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim’s Progress. Behind him at his feet lies the...
Salvation Stories: Gary Weeks
Restored and Renewed I was born on a dairy farm in the province of Prince Edward Island, Canada in 1950. I was born again at a Christian camp in Ontario twelve years later. My parents were separated when I was just three months old and my mother raised me in Toronto....
Salvation Stories: Clive Hodson
How God Touched My Life I was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England in 1947. As a young boy God touched my life in two ways. My grandmother who lived with us always prayed the Lord’s prayer each night before going to bed. I was also in a church choir. A highlight was when...
Salvation Stories: Peter Zein
I grew up in a Christian home on a farm near Stratford, Ontario. There I regularly attended a denominational church but I never remember hearing the gospel. During my high school years, I began to use mild drugs and alcohol, and later at a Toronto college my usage...
Flying by Occupation, Grounded in Faith
I was born into a Christian home in New York City on October 2, 1956, the fourth of five children. At the time my parents were fellowshipping at Grace Gospel Chapel in the Bronx. However, they soon branched off to White Plains, NY, joining with others to start a Sunday School in a garage before […]
Great is Thy Faithfulness: One Thing Alone
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” Matthew 7:7,8 (ESV) Growing up in a conservative Jewish home was a unique […]
How I Became a Follower of Christ
I grew up as a child in a fundamental “churchy” family. We went to church together, were always involved in church-related activities, and were usually present whenever a meeting was scheduled. Every year our fellowship would have a “Decision Day” on a Sunday in September. The Decision Day was when the gospel was preached, and […]
My Journey from Judaism to Atheism to Faith
When young I was active in my local synagogue where I had my Bar Mitzvah and was in the youth group. Later in college, I was treasurer of the Hillel Jewish group, but functionally an atheist. I drank heavily and engaged in improper relationships with women but justified this by lowering my standards. I enjoyed […]