Rewired for the Journey

  I had a great insight the other day that illuminated within me an understanding of myself. So to explain this I have to back up to my childhood. I had a great awakening within my soul at the age of fourteen when a brother of a friend shared the story of Jesus Christ with me. I went home after that conversation and went to my room. I closed the door and got on my knees and prayed to God to forgive me of my sins and come into my heart. I caught fire for the Lord after that short time in my bedroom. After that experience, I started to read the Holy Bible every chance I got and I was fascinated by what I was reading. As time went on I felt the desire to be a preacher. Now, this led to my Dad getting me opportunities to be a guest preacher at different churches around the city. Then people started telling me I would be the next Billy Graham. This started me to think maybe that is what God wanted me to do on planet earth?!?    Now it is obvious that I was not the next Billy Graham. But bec

  Some in our culture nowadays would think this blog will be about politics since the word evangelical has been hijacked to mean a far right-wing Republican using the Bible as a weapon. How sad is that definition and so closed-minded?  But no I am going to look at this from its original meaning. Just know that not all evangelicals are political nuts nor are we showy TV preachers faking holiness to get easy money.  I took a test some years ago that was quite lengthy and at the end, it evaluated that I was evangelical in my beliefs. An evangelical believes in four major foundations to qualify them into this category. I will not go into deep detail but give a cliff note summary so let us begin. The first belief is that a person must be born-again meaning repent of one's sins and acknowledge that Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the dead three days later. This is also called being converted and one changes the way one lives. You live for Jesus and not for the world or one&#