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Ep 106: Awakening the Soul - Embracing Redemption (Part 1)
"Have you ever experienced God’s presence? Today, Pastor Teddy, and Pastor Mark Crabtree explore relatable narratives of faith, identity, and resilience. Personal struggles, faith journeys, and transformative encounters with Christ are shared, emphasizing renewal and spiritual growth."
The episode delves into the profound transformation that faith can bring in one's life, illustrating how encounters with the risen Christ lead individuals from despair to hope. Through personal stories, the discussion with Pastor Marc Crabtree of Refuge Church, emphasizes the significance of understanding biblical narratives and their relevance in modern life, particularly focusing on the powerful story of James, the brother of Jesus.
• The connection between Christmas and personal demystification of biblical characters
• Personal journey of Pastor Mark Crabtree reflecting on identity struggles
• The importance of apologetics in understanding faith
• The transformational power seen in the lives of early disciples
• Real-life encounters with Christ and their lasting impact on believers
• Encouragement for listeners to explore their own faith narratives
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Speaker 2:It's the best, it was powerful man. I mean, it's just doing the Christmas story in that way. You know, just presenting it in that form brings the story alive in such a way that you're really able to connect with it, right, like you can really put yourself in the place of Joe and of Mary and what is going on, and it lets you think about what would we be thinking in that situation? We got to take the saints out of the stained glass, right? That's what I call it. What you guys do with Plays on Word really brings these stories to life.
Speaker 3:You're the only name. You're the only name. You're the only name.
Speaker 1:Hello and welcome to Plays on Word Radio, where we discuss, analyze, work and play on the Word of God. Thank you for joining us on this excursion. Today let's join Pastor Teddy, also known as Fred David Kenney Jr, the founder of Plays on Word Theater, as he does a deep dive into the Word of God.
Speaker 3:Welcome Mark Crabtree to Plays on Word Radio. Mark is the pastor of Refuge Church in Robbinsville. Robbinsville, lawrenceville and Hamilton are the western side of New Jersey, central western side of New Jersey, and so yeah, I lived in Hamilton for a quick minute too, so yeah, yes, pastor at Refuge Church Robbinsville, new Jersey.
Speaker 2:And so yeah, I lived in Hamilton for a quick minute too. So yeah, yes, pastor at Refuge Church Robbinsville, new Jersey. And I also am the family and young adult pastor at Graceway Bible Church in Hamilton.
Speaker 3:Amen, that's where our dear brother Scott Teranski is located. I believe, yes, it is. Yes, it is my very first Calvary Chapel I ever went to. Was, that's great. He was pastoring that church, meeting in the school up in I want to say Lawrenceville Somewhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, somewhere in there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so that's and that's a. That's a while back, yeah, man. So we we came out and did Christmas, joe, yes, for you guys at Refuge Church, your christmas event that you guys host. Any thoughts on that man? Any thoughts?
Speaker 2:It was powerful man. I mean, it's just you know doing the story, the christmas story, in that way, right?
Speaker 2:I mean you are phenomenal, what you do but you know just presenting it in that form brings are phenomenal what you do. But, you know, just presenting it in that form brings I don't even know the right word, impact is a good word, but it bring, it brings the story alive in such a way that you're really able to connect with it, right, like you can really put yourself in the place of joe and of mary and you know what is going on. And it lets you think about what you know. What would we be thinking in that situation? Because you know, I call it, we got to take the saints out of the stained glass, right, that's what I call it, because they were real people, just like we were, with the fear and anxiety and unsureness. You know, and I'm prepping for something for a sermon I'm doing this week about the impact of the resurrected Christ right in the first sermon I'm doing this week about the impact of the resurrected Christ right.
Speaker 2:And we read in scripture there was a time that Mary didn't even believe Jesus when he was an adult, doing these miracles, and his brothers were like what are you doing? Come home with us and stop being crazy, right? And so that's not to speak anything wrong about Mary. She was human. About Mary she was human, she was a mother, she was a parent, and so you know, how do you balance being a mom of a son and the steward of God on earth, right, how do you balance that? How do you even wrap your head around that situation? So, anyway, you know, what you guys do with Plays on Word really brings these stories to life, so that not only do we hear the story, but we understand the story in a way that's different than when we're just reading it in scripture. It's being told to us by a parent or a or an authority figure at church, you know yeah amen.
Speaker 3:what? What passage are you in while you're prepping for the sermon here? I'm just yeah amen. What passage are you in You're prepping for a sermon here?
Speaker 2:I don't know if I ever really read it in the perspective that he encountered the risen Christ. Yeah, man, it wasn't that he had this dream or this vision, so to speak. He encountered the risen Christ and the people with him which was his entourage of other Pharisees and aides and guards encountered it too. We often don't remember that right, we often don't think of that, and so I'm looking into that, and then I'm also looking into which I think is the biggest and most radical change is Jesus's brother, james.
Speaker 2:Right, james didn't believe his brother and that's why I was going into where it says you know his brothers. And Mary said come home, you're nuts, right Like. And you know. That's probably the most radical change because God's you know, jesus says in Scripture to us that we can preach and prophesy anywhere except in our hometown. Right, that's the hardest place and even for Jesus it was the hardest place.
Speaker 2:I think the most radical change, the most radical and most impactful change in someone's life that the resurrected Christ had, was in James. And Paul tells us in the Creed in 1 Corinthians that he specifically says James encountered the risen Christ. And then that's when we see that change. Right, it wasn't through Jesus's life, it was after his death and resurrection. So that's what I'm getting into and it's a two-part series. It's part two of New Year, new Me, and it started in Isaiah 43 about the Israelites and where God tells them remember where I brought you, and then he tells them but forget all of that and look forward to the future, right, so yeah, I actually just just spoke about that with James.
Speaker 3:I uh, I went on a, which I often do on a, on a, uh, on an OCD rant, um, uh.
Speaker 2:I think that's a pastor thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we were. We were finishing up the book of Galatians and I forget how I got to James, but I was like can you imagine growing up with Jesus? What was going through his mind? And then I went to Corinthians where it says he appeared to Cephas and James and Paul and then 500 people. But that thing with James. I sat on that for a second because it was like can you imagine growing up For him the realization of wait, now it's all, wait a minute, now it's making sense. Every time we play basketball. He never missed and now I'm understanding. You know, now, can you imagine growing up with Jesus as your older brother? That's like a, what you know, yeah, so, and then I think that the change I use that in apologetics to the, with the looking at the resurrection, there's, there's an acronym of its feet FEAT. Fatally. He was fatally wounded, absolutely. Jesus died FEAT, so F is fatally wounded. E is empty tomb. The tomb was definitely empty tomb. The tomb was definitely.
Speaker 3:A is appearances and the T is transformation, the transformation of Peter, paul, james, the disciples that all went to their death saying I don't care, you can kill me, because guess what? I saw that guy. I ate one of them. I touched him and then the end of the T the transformation is us and for the last 2,000 years this same risen Jesus has transformed the lives of people that don't even—some people didn't even know his name.
Speaker 3:There's a story about this lady who was in a I want to say, world War II prison camp. She was a prisoner of war, I guess of the Japanese, and this is probably a morphed story over Christian Christianese or whatever. It's been morphed a bunch of times. But she was in a prison camp and then, after the war, some missionaries came through, the one that was with me, the one that got me through when I was a prisoner of war. I knew him, but I didn't know his name. Now I know his name, and so this Jesus is transformed. He's transformed Hopefully everybody listening right now. If he hasn't transformed, you just ask him.
Speaker 2:That's right. That's right. I mean I'll tell you, um, what happens when we encounter the risen Christ, right, I mean, there is. You know, we're just finishing up a study with the young adults at grace way, and I did, I'm doing the study with the for the case for Christ, with Lee Strobel, and the reason why I'm doing that with the young adults? Because we lay down not just a foundation for the young adults, but a foundation that will give them the confidence they need to face conversations, to face questions.
Speaker 2:So apologetics, right, and that's where Eli pulled out of his book some of these things, and he goes over that fee. Right, he doesn't call it that, but he goes through that line. And it's not just a transformative power there is in Christ, but it's also like you're taking jewish people and in a matter of days and or a matter of a year, say, 10 000 jewish people abandon their generations of training, of faith, of knowing whatever life is is through this faith that they have and they Completely I hate to use the word, but I don't know how to say buy into who Christ is, and they are fully, believe it with all their hearts, enough to go to death. Right, and another point he points out about that is not only were the disciples willing to die for what they believed, yeah, but they would have known it wasn't true, right, right. So no one's willing to die with for what they know isn't true people, people today.
Speaker 3:People today die for what is a lie, but they don't believe nobody's going to die for something they know is a lie somebody's like guess what?
Speaker 3:yo, we made that up. Man, y'all don't kill me, you can exactly. You know, we cooked the whole thing up in the upper room. We were trying to get a tax break or whatever. Somebody would have broken and said nobody, that doesn't strain credibility. It's absolutely ridiculous to think that these dudes went to their deaths, and what way they died. The way they died was gnarly man most, every one of them, and it makes no sense that they would go to their deaths for something that they know is not true. Somebody would have been like yo man, yo man, I was just trying to. I was here for the free food. Peter said go along with it, but I don't want nothing to do with this man. Somebody would have broke, that's right.
Speaker 2:There's no accounts.
Speaker 1:Nothing, nothing.
Speaker 2:Nobody said wait a minute, hold on, get that vat of boiling water oil away from me, or you know, I mean even peter right, not just crucify me, but do it upside down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like make it even worse and then you know, finding out about crucifixion. We just went through this study about um, the case for the resurrection and crucifixion and all the word excruciating Comes from the latin word from the cross. Yes, comes from the latin word from the cross. Yes, that means the pain that you felt through crucifixion was so bad they did. They had to invent a word to describe the level of pain that it was. That means it was so unimaginable. They didn't even have a word to describe the agony of crucifixion. And so, yeah it's. You know, when you lay out all of that, even if you are an atheist, even if you're a skeptic, even if you are an agnostic, even if you're not sure what to think, if you take all of these things and just look at them through a lens of reason, you have to at least say there's something more to this than fairy tales.
Speaker 2:You have to admit at least that much Now. If you're not willing to take that final step yet, you have to at least look at it from a reasonable viewpoint right. Lee Strobel says at the end of his book he realized that his atheism collapsed under the weight of the evidence before him. That's a powerful statement. It collapsed. It wasn't strong enough to hold up under the weight of truth, and that's amazing.
Speaker 3:And I mean that works for me in my life too. God's made it that way.
Speaker 3:God's made it that way by giving us the evidence. And we just talked about the disciples, the people that actually saw him and ate with him. What's even more fascinating to me are you and me and people who have not ever seen him, and there are brothers and sisters, even today, to this day, that are like you're going to have to kill me. You can take my life, because my life means nothing to me and I know in whom I know my redeemer lives. You can take my. There are people you know. You think about all the beheadings that happen, that's right and they're like yeah, I'm a Christian, yes, I'm a Christian, yeah, yeah, I'm going to die for Christ. But you can, you can kill me.
Speaker 2:And they're not old people at the end of their life.
Speaker 3:A lot of them are young young, who have never stories, never seen Jesus, but they've encountered the risen Christ, and that, to me, is even greater. So tell me, how did, how did you come to encounter this? How did you come to meet Jesus?
Speaker 2:So I you know I I go all the way back. I accepted Christ at a very young age. Um, I grew up in a home that you know my parents tried they did the best they could with what they had. Is what I tell them, you know and I understand that. But my parents divorced when I was seven. But I went to, I had the opportunity to go to a Christian school when I was young and I went to a school called Matunchin Christian Academy out of the Assembly of God churches. So at age six we were at chapel service and you know they were given who Christ is and why we need him. And even at six years old I understood, and the spirit laid upon me, the truth of who he was and that I needed him Right.
Speaker 1:I didn't understand it to the level that I understand it now.
Speaker 2:I just knew that I needed him. Him Often, as you say, like my daughter Annabeth, you know it's funny in our house because, as you know, we have a flipped paradigm in our house right, I was a stay-at-home dad.
Speaker 2:Jen went into work, you know, and so but Annabeth, you know, when she gets hurt she needs a daddy kiss right. Even mommy's kiss doesn't do. She needs a daddy kiss right. And so that level of what we perceive as need as children, that's how I felt Christ, and I remember feeling that I could tell you. I was standing in the second row of chapel on the left-hand side of the Sunshine Christian Academy in 1987 with my hands on the back of the seat, thinking these things I remember, like it was yesterday.
Speaker 2:And I prayed that prayer like the sinner's prayer, right, and my life went the way it did. And, as I grew up and encountered divorce with my parents and, uh, death of loved ones and, um, you know, by the time I got into, you know, my parents, the divorce was not pleasant not that any of them really are, but it was pretty bad. Um, there was a lot of things on both sides no blame to one or the other, but there was a lot, of, a lot of trauma. We'll say, um, and so, going into grade school and going into high school, I played football, um, and I ate, drank, slept football. Uh, football was my, was my key out of my town, my key out of away from my family, to get to school, right, and I had a full scholarship to go to a um level three school, tennessee. And my junior year I shattered my left humerus bone Second game of the season, yeah, or it wasn't, I'm sorry it broke and I had to have steel bars put in my arm and all, and I lost that whole season.
Speaker 1:Six months later.
Speaker 2:I went into surgery without the use of, or out of surgery without the use of my left hand.
Speaker 2:And they weren't even sure if I'd ever get it back again my hand laid like this for six months and I was doing physical therapy and physical therapy and I just gotten the use of my hand back after six months. Lots of work, uh, electric stim therapy, the whole nine just got the use of my hand back and I'm on the school bus and the school bus stopped short and I put my hand up on the seat to stop me and my arm snapped. Oh, six months later, no, so through. I won't go into why it snapped, you know it's debatable, but, uh, through that I didn't have to have surgery again. I went through recovery, again more physical therapy.
Speaker 2:So I was ready for my senior season and through political things that happened at private schools, because I was going to a private high school, they were actually not going to start me my senior year with a full scholarship still intact and so I left that school and went to Matuchin High, which was the public school that was in our area. I was ready for the season. Man, I was lifting, I was in best shape that I had been in. Second game of the season, opening kickoff, I ran down. We were playing a team that had a football team in 50 years and this kid, about a third my size, runs up to me and just stops. And I'm thinking in my head man highlight reel here we come, and I was just gonna truck him and and I went to throw my hands into him, he put his helmet right into my arm and my left arm, the humerus bone, for the third time in a year.
Speaker 2:I mean that shattered.
Speaker 1:I had to go in for surgery and the doctor said when he went into surgery it looked like a hand grenade went off in my arm.
Speaker 2:They had to take bones from a dead person, cadaver bones, just to reconstruct my arm, and I was told that if I ever injured my arm that level again that I would never be able to use it again. And they pretty much told me my, my career in football was over. I bet, and so my identity was in football. My identity was in that my life fell apart in my head. My whole life was over. Yeah, but shortly after that happened, you know, I went through high school and still my senior year.
Speaker 2:That's who you were. You were, I mean football six, but through life circumstances and situations I drifted right and you know it's. The ironic thing is I always knew in my heart who Christ was. I always knew he was the way to heaven.
Speaker 2:I always knew he was the Messiah. I never questioned that. I remember even thinking in my head why can't I let go of this belief? Why can't I just reject Christ? Why can't I just fully reject him and go in a different way, right, I just reject Christ. Why can't I just fully reject him and go in a different way, right?
Speaker 2:And so after that, I found out that was in 98, and I graduated in 99. But in April of 99, before I graduated, I found out that my oldest daughter was on her way, and so, after football was over, I lost my identity. There, I chased down every promise, every empty, hollow promise the world gave me. Where happiness came from, love came from, fulfillment came from because I had no identity. And so I chased down every one of them drugs, alcohol, sex, women so many different areas.
Speaker 2:So I found out my daughter was coming in April and I went okay and I failed my senior year in school. I had to go to summer school to get my degree and even then I said to my dad I have no interest in finishing summer school, I don't care about my diploma, I'm not my degree, my diploma. I don't care about my diploma, I'm just gonna go to work. I can't go to college now. Anyway, I lost my ride.
Speaker 3:I lost you know I lost all of that and I lost football.
Speaker 2:Anyway, you were in thes man. So then, coming out of high school and knowing my daughter was on the way, I said, well, I come from a military family.
Speaker 1:And I said well, I'm going to go into military. I'm going to get a military job. I mean, it's good, I'm going to get money for college.
Speaker 2:I'll be able to support my daughter. I'll build a life for myself. And then the military rejected me. Yep, the Air Force wouldn't take me because of my grades. The Marines wouldn't take me because of my arm. The Army wouldn't take me because of other medical things. So I went to go on the Navy. I scored 98 on my ASVAB, which is one point from perfect.
Speaker 1:And they said you can have any job you want in the Navy.
Speaker 2:They convinced me to go into the nuclear program. And the day we were on our way to Mets so going to get my physical to start, my recruiter and I are going in there. And I turned to him and I said I have to be honest with you, number one, I don't want to be in the Navy. Now he's freaking out because I'm like his top candidate. They gave me a $60,000 sign on bonus just to sign on the line because of going in the nuclear program.
Speaker 2:And um, I said, not only that, but I actually sabotaged myself by going and smoking weed the night before my my um, yeah and so, um and uh, he was beside himself. He didn't even know what to say to me. Of course I wait till we get to the place. He's getting ready to check us into the hotel and I tell him all this. So he said well, what do you want to do? And that's when I said I want to go into marines, I want to be a marine.
Speaker 2:I really didn't want to be in the navy, but my whole family was in navy. I felt obligated. So he said listen, my girlfriend is a marine recruiter, I'll get you set up with her. Let's get you clean for 30 days and then I said okay, and it was after that. The marines wouldn't even give me a physical oh, my injuries, they wouldn't even consider me. Oh, so, yeah, um, so that happened. Um, all right, so I went to work with my dad doing heating and air conditioning and still chasing down all this stuff, and, um, in 2006, I um tried to go into the army national guard and they accepted me. I took my as that again. I got like a high 80s, which, for being so far out of school, was great. And she had asked me.
Speaker 1:Well, what job do you want? And you know, I saw this guy walking in with a beret on and gold rope around his shoulder with the medals on his chest, you know?
Speaker 2:and I said what does he do? And she goes. You don't want his job and I said no, no what does he do? And she goes. Mark, you're too him what you do, he goes he goes I.
Speaker 3:I jump out of helicopters into third world countries and blow them up, and I'm home in time for dinner and I went.
Speaker 2:I want his job. He did air assault. So if you ever saw the movie Black Hawk Down, that's what his job. He's the one that was repelling out of helicopters into Mogadishu. So I said I want his job. So three days before I leave for Metz, I'm driving. I just left the bar hanging out with my buddies getting ready to leave for boot camp. And I'm on my way home and I get into a car accident and my right hand bounces off the steering wheel and hits the rubber shifter.
Speaker 1:Let me tell you how it snapped the mid-metacarpal in my hand.
Speaker 2:The most freak injury ever.
Speaker 1:For that way that accident and it broke in such a way that I had to have a steel plate put in it and that ended my military career before it even began.
Speaker 2:And so another letdown, another crisis of identity in my life, because now I was all in.
Speaker 2:I was going to be a military guy, you know yeah and um. That destroyed my identity there and so, anyway, went further down into the pathway of drugs. That culminated in 2013. I was living in Philly, I was engaged at the time and I was a mess. I was a mess, my identity was flip flopped upside down and, august 9th of 2013, I had ended a drug binge of Oxycontin, percocet, oxycodone, valium. There is no medical way that I was still alive. It doesn't even make sense. Right? God is the God. That doesn't make sense. He is the God of restoration. He is the God of reconciliation. He is the God of everything. He bent the rules for you.
Speaker 1:Oh, he flip flopped the rules upside down. Right, we talk about encountering the risen Christ.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and let me tell you, Teddy, even in the light of that. I sat in my car ready to take my life. And I sat in my car outside of my apartment on August 9th 2013 and I took a hunting knife to my wrist.
Speaker 3:Wow and Done. You just wanted to be done.
Speaker 2:That was it. I was just on my daughter. At that point I didn't have a relationship with my older daughter. I wasn't a lot this year. Everything was rocky. I was. You couldn't even recognize me if I showed you pictures of them, which I Ironically don't have any but I wouldn't even know who I was. Totally done. My life was just in the toilet. I put it there. But either way, I sat in that car and I know for a fact that I slit my wrist. You know you can smell blood, right. You know you got to have that smell.
Speaker 1:When I slit my wrist.
Speaker 2:I saw the blood start to seep out. I smelled the powerful aroma that came from up, from being stuck like you, like a blood pouring out.
Speaker 1:I felt the stickiness on my hand because, as I did it, my fiance comes walking out of the apartment towards my car and the last thing I wanted was for her to see this, so I took my hand and I went like this onto my wrist, I put it in my lap and I started screaming at her to get back in the apartment, leave me alone.
Speaker 2:Wow, she turned around finally and just walked away, and I took my hand off my wrist to just kind of lay there and let the blood flow and just, and so I was Just like I was just waiting for the relaxation of death. Finally, everything that was laying on me was going to be gone, and as I took my hand off my wrist, I looked down and it looked like a cat had lightly scratched me on the wrist so even in the light of being saved through the drug binge and in the light of the lord putting his hand on my
Speaker 1:wrist and healing it in a very real way.
Speaker 2:I can't tell you how angry I became. I bet I got out of my car with the knife. I slammed the door. I walked up my stairs into my apartment, cursing god the whole way. How dare you save me, me, how dare you let me live, you cruel God? Because, again, I never questioned he was real. I never questioned the reality of Christ. I had reserved myself that if somehow I could save people from the reality of hell by letting them see the destruction I brought on my life, that I was okay with going there.
Speaker 2:I resigned myself and I was headed for hell and I deserved it and I was okay with that, and if I can save my brothers and I can save my daughter and I can save my parents from the realities of hell by then watching what I did to my life. I was okay with that, and that's not to pat me on the back. That was just where I reserved myself, and so you know, I go up into this apartment and I take the knife and I throw it into my coat closet so hard that the knife stuck into the sheetrock.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:But as it went past, it went past my thumb. I still have the scar on my thumb today. That when it lightly brushed by my thumb, opened up and poured blood out of it. Oh man, I got even more angry. Oh man, I got even more angry. Oh, no yeah.
Speaker 3:Like I thought God was mocking me, saying I could have let this happen.
Speaker 1:Look, your knife was sharp enough to cut Like I thought he was mocking me.
Speaker 2:So that happened. Three days later, I woke up to my wife coming, or my fiance coming home from work and the engagement ring was on our coffee table and she said I'm going to Maryland with Jessica when I come back on Monday. I expect you to no longer be here. I called my dad up and I said dad, I don't know what to do. This is what's happening. He goes to me. Mark, why don't you come to church with me tomorrow? This was Saturday night.
Speaker 1:And I went, dad, it's always God with you.
Speaker 2:Like God's the answer to everything. And I hung up on him. Yeah, he wasn't even fazed. He was just like well, why don't you join me at church tomorrow? Mark and I was. That was the last thing I need to hear is to go to church to honor and worship this God. That just mocked me, that just refused to let me have comfort and relief. And, um, so I wake up, finish this job. I am going to. He's not going to stop me this time, man, If I could have laid down a bigger gauntlet to him, I would have Right, Right, and so I literally um, I left my apartment to go to Wawa.
Speaker 1:I'm in Philly and I left to go to.
Speaker 2:Wawa, which was right down the street I drive. There's a traffic light between my apartment and Wawa Right and so I'm sitting at that traffic light right and I'm sitting here and I'm thinking in my head and I'm even probably saying out loud you're not going to stop me this time, I'm getting this done.
Speaker 2:Who are you to stop me? I'll show you Right. And like a ton of bricks, the spirit falls down on me and I start weeping. Yeah, his presence. Weeping under the weight of the presence of the Holy Spirit. Not a weight of shame and guilt, right right, but the same weight that crushed the atheism in Lee Strobel was crushing the guilt and the shame that I was feeling. It was, it was the weight of relief that he was bringing on me. And so so I'm at this light and I'm weeping.
Speaker 1:Now, and the next thing I know I'm making a U-turn to go back to my apartment, I get changed.
Speaker 2:I grabbed a Bible. I don't even know where the Bible came from and I take my story behind to church Amen. I remember pulling into the parking lot of the church and at the marquee sign of the church, the sermon that's being preached that day is rebuilding your life, and I sat in the second row of Edinburgh Road Chapel and I weeped for two hours as the worship went on and I weeped under the reality of the risen.
Speaker 3:Christ. Amen. We're going to finish this next week, you guys. Until then, the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
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