by Marie | Dec 2, 2024 | Testimonies
How I Came to Receive Christ I had many problems that nobody had helped me with. I had anger issues and I was an unruly child. I never wanted to… How I Came to Receive Christ I had many problems that nobody had helped me with. I had anger issues and I was an unruly child. I never wanted to obey my mother, and I caused her much grief. My father had a drinking problem and he never spent time with me, and I never got to have a real father figure because he was always gone. He and my mom fought verbally, and I was always scared something would happen if they got too mad. Soon he and Mom separated. And afterwards, we moved in with my grandparents. They taught me about Jesus, who he was and about being saved. I listened yet I did not understand what it was all about. When I was very small I started having self-esteem issues that eventually led toete me having childhood anorexia. I suffered and was sick because I would not eat. I could not bring myself to. I was too sick. I was very weak, and I missed a lot of school. My family says I even talked about, and contemplated suicide. Eventually, I got help and it took a
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by Marie | Dec 2, 2024 | Testimonies
Got Saved From Being Suicidal I started following Jesus when I was twenty years old but didn’t truly follow him until I was twenty-one. As a traditional Vietnamese child, I… Got Saved From Being Suicidal I started following Jesus when I was twenty years old but didn’t truly follow him until I was twenty-one. As a traditional Vietnamese child, I was raised in a Buddhist temple. I vaguely remember anything that happened there other than eating traditional monk food. I never really learned or followed anything there but consider myself Buddhist. As I grew older, my family moved from Houston, Texas to Dallas, Texas because of a job. As I grew up in my new household, we stopped going to the temple and I became an atheist. My household was rough. My father had a short temper, and my mother called in whenever he yelled at me. Granted I wasn’t a great kid either. I was quite the troublemaker at home. After high school, I attended university and started dating a girl named Anna. She resided in Seattle, Washington, so communication was difficult. She was Catholic, so as an atheist, I challenged her on a lot of things in the Bible. She always stated that she didn’t have all the answers and neither did I. As we continued dating, I
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