The Conversation: A Christian approach to origins (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781503088719)

I grew up as the son of a Baptist preacher, which in theory should have kept me on the straight and narrow, but as it all to often happens, I spent most of my life rebelling against the positive examples my parents proposed to me. I worked on a quail farm with my parents while I completed high school, and then on to two years of technical college studying electronics. I then began my career as a service technician for office equipment, but at no time in my life had I ever taken an interest in writing - that is until the Lord put that desire in my heart. It's been a while now since my eyes were opened to my need for a closer relationship with God, and I still just can't get enough. I was saved as a child, but never realized how to pursue a more meaningful relationship with my savior, and so I began to drift away from God and my church. I never understood that my choice of living life with me as the focal point, only led to pain and depression throughout the years, until the Lord decided enough was enough. Jesus wanted more for me than just existence and he found a way to get my attention - so I began my journey back into fellowship with God. Until this time Satan had left me alone - for the most part - when I wasn't any threat to him, but as I began to see the straight and narrow in a way that would ultimately put me at war with sin, he couldn't have that and so his initial engagement was an attack on my marriage, and because of our then opposing lifestyles, he won the battle. The divorce took a lot out of me, and slowed me down for a couple of years with worsening depression, but God sent me a very special woman who supported me, and helped me get back on my feet. When he put the desire in my heart to write for him, it forced me to study in a way that I never had before, and it gave me understanding that has changed my life and restored the joy of my salvation.