I was raised Lutheran. I attended Sunday school and church. I was in the church band, the junior and senior choir, and I attended three years of Catechism. I was very religious and very involved in the church. I did programs for my church: readings, etc. About the age of fifteen, I started to drift away and feel the presence of evil in my life. As a result, I lost my religious faith. I started drinking about this time and became very withdrawn and depressed. Everything in my life became a fight.
At age sixteen, I started to schedule myself to work on Sundays. I was getting served in bars and started tending bar at age seventeen. By this time, my dad was shot while going to work.
Following graduation from high school in 1988, my drinking continued and progressed. I moved away from home and attended a community college where I eventually dropped out (I did not even finish a semester). In 1989, I got a DUI.
In 1998 I finally got sober and eventually ended up in Sacramento. However,
in 2005 I made a very poor decision and moved to Seattle, where I started drinking
again after 7 ½ years of sobriety. In Mid-
Early in July of 2007, I started reading the Left Behind series. What I received from those books is something I had never gotten from all my church exposure growing up. I learned that I could only get to the Father through the Son. I definitely had a spiritual experience. I accepted Jesus into my heart. Completely! In August of 2007 I began to attend a Church of Christ and was baptized again. The only way to the Father is through the Son. This is part of the Gospel I wish to tell.
I am a Christian. I am born again in Jesus. I am devout in my faith. Two years ago in January I started college classes in order to receive a Bachelor’s degree in Christian Studies. I feel strongly that God is calling me to the ministry. I read and study the bible daily, and I sincerely believe that it is God’s word. I try to be holy and do what is right in God’s eyes; but I know I fall short many times.
With the help of my wife, I am trying to raise my daughter in the ways of the bible. I pray constantly. And I pray that God’s will be made clear for me, that my faith be made strong and that my faith keeps burning in me brightly.
To go from where I was as a sixteen year old to where I am now just blows me away. And to have God and His son accept me back with open arms, just brings tears to my eyes when I think about it. They have waited with so much patience and love for me to return to them, and when I finally did, they just welcomed me home. I do believe that I am called to serve God in whatever way He will have me, for however long He gives me. I have spent years running from His truth. Now I need to tell everyone who wants to listen about Him.
Logan Rice
