Browse Testimonies

David

I was a master manipulator who could twist any situation and make it someone else's fault. I hated myself so much I provoked people to beat me and bashed my own head in private. I worked nonstop trying to fill a void that success could never touch.

Beniel

I was a world champion jiu-jitsu fighter who idolized winning above everything — I pushed away family, friends, and any thought of God because winning was my god. I had no desire for a wife, kids, or Christ.

Danny

I was the most depressed person I knew personally. I grew up in church, even became a leader in Christian fellowship, but at the gut level I could not imagine God really loved me. I could not remember one happy day in my entire childhood.

Sequoia

I was a stripper and an escort who hadn't been sober since I was 18. I felt like trash. I was angry, full of shame from childhood violation, and I thought my life had no meaning. I was being trafficked and beaten, and the only way I could do the work was to stay intoxicated.

Chobby

I was a Triad branch leader — Chinese Mafia — recruited at 13, expelled from school, managing recruitment and territory by 15. I believed protection was love, and the gang gave me what my violent father never did. I was a member for life. That was who I was.

Yesupadas

I was an Untouchable boy treated worse than an animal, a committed communist who made a blood covenant to bring revolution to India. I was drinking, in gangs, cutting people, saw dead bodies — and I was happy doing it because I thought I was taking revenge.

Trino

I was an 18-year-old who had walked faithfully with God for six years, but when my brother was brutally murdered I was so overwhelmed with grief I turned to alcohol, marijuana, and crystal meth to numb the pain, and I wanted to hold an entire race accountable for the actions of one man.

John

I was the life of the party — a construction worker turned undercover cop with money, power, cars, and respect. I had everything this world said you need to have joy and peace. I was prideful, arrogant, and deep in sin — drugs, alcohol, cheating, lying.

Sean

I was a violent, rage-addicted construction foreman — drinking, doing drugs, abusing my wife and kids, threatening men with hammers. I gave away my own name and became a monster. I didn't want to know who God was. I figured I was on my own and that was enough.

Sean

I was just a nasty, narcissistic person — pure hatred, pure evil. I was addicted to porn for 20 years, an alcoholic for over 10, doing every drug I could find, physically abusive to every girlfriend I had, and desperately trying to find love from all the wrong places because I didn't have my mother's or father's love.

Monique

I was a black Christian who saw the world through a pro-black lens, believed all white people were racist, and had been taught that systems of whiteness were the root of oppression. Race was the most important thing about me.

Fernando

I was born in Mexico, raised by my grandmother in poverty, never knew my father, was molested at nine, and decided there was no God. I was very involved in drugs and alcohol, searching and seeking, chasing something just to be accepted and to be loved.