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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

by | Aug 26, 2025 | , , , , , ,

FOLLOW-UP TO   "A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS" Hebrews 10:23-24 (NAS) says, "Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds..." When Jeff came to our Wednesday life group for corporate prayer, after his most recent cancer diagnosis, our "Family Strong," as Jeff calls us, surrounded him, literally. He sat on the coffee table in our living room and became hidden in the fold of...

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I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

by | Aug 19, 2025 | , , , , , ,

A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS - PART ONE 1985 is when I met the love of my life. Her name is Tina. We got married the following year in 1986. We talked about having kids and in 1991 we were excited to find out she was pregnant. I already had a son from my first marriage, Kris, so I was hoping to have a daughter one day, too. Unfortunately, she had a miscarriage a couple months in. We were heartbroken. In January of 1993 I found out I had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Thankfully the cancer was localized...

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I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

by | Aug 19, 2025 | , , , , , , , ,

A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS - PART TWO In summer of 2005, my daughter asked if she could go to a church camp with her friend. Following that trip, she started regularly attending church with her friend and her friend’s family. And after a while, my daughter started asking me to go to church with her. It took a few attempts, but she finally convinced me to go with her. So I went and then found myself attending on a regular basis. I felt it was time for me to reconnect my relationship with the...

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I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”

by | Aug 19, 2025 | , , , , , , ,

A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS - PART THREE On March the 25th, 2019, I had an appointment at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida to start a new drug to see if my heart would function better. They admitted me so I could be monitored. Unfortunately, after a day and a half, they had to stop the drug. It was causing my heart to beat too fast. All the monitors in my hospital room were going off, signaling my heart was in distress. This was when I knew I had reconnected with Christ and made my...

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