This was the most important day of my life.  On that night in my living room, I was reborn and became a child of God.  Marshall Pridgen led both my wife, Kappi, and me to Jesus that night.

Since then the Lord has blessed my family in many ways.  I have a daughter, Tiffany, who teaches school and a son, Tyler, who is in college and has been called by God to the ministry.  I am most thankful that God has saved my whole family.

"That I may know Him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto His death,

If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. 

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect; but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended; but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. " 

        The Scripture says that one day we will be just like Him. I have a long way to go. But by the grace of God, I will make it.  Down here on this earth I seem to always come up short. I am not the husband I need to be, not the father I need to be, and I am not the Christian I need to be. 

I am clothed in the righteousness of Christ and that is His gift to me.  He loves me even though I don’t measure up.  His love is unconditional.  Praise be to God!