Jake Edmunds What is a life encompassed with a mental disease? A disease that will wrap around its host; threatening to suffocate and drown him in confusion, neglect, lack of strength, loneliness, and pain. Tough question? No, not really. It’s a life on the edge of chaos. A life living with Tourette’s Syndrome. My mind …
Category Archives: Ebenezer Stories
ALMOST GONE
John Baldwin In June 2014, we, with the help of the FBI, stopped our 18-year-old daughter, Mackenzie, from secretly leaving the United States – just 3 days before she was to board a plane to marry a Muslim man from Kosovo. Fourteen months earlier, Mackenzie and a friend were killing time surfing the video chat …
BLESSED IN OBEDIENCE
Ashleigh Lankford We started noticing changes in my mom a few years ago. However, with us living four hours away, we weren’t able to keep track of her day to day. Still, when I was pregnant with my second baby six years ago, she forgot our baby’s gender and name, which was very much unlike …
TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS
Jessica Britnell “Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.” Psalms 90:12 The day my second baby was born is a day that has forever changed me in so many ways. Our daughter was born a little after 9:00 in the morning without too much concern. Although …
RECOVERING FROM CONTROL, PERFECTIONISM, AND APPROVAL-SEEKING
This is a transcript of a testimony given at re:generation, a 12-step recovery program. It’s longer than our usual stories, so we’ve provided an audio version. Whether you read or listen, the illustrations shown below will be helpful! My name is Amanda. I have a new life in Christ and I’m recovering from control, perfectionism, …
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MY JOURNEY TO THE SPACIOUS PLACE
This is a story of how God led us to the wilderness, through the desert, and into the pit, to pull us out into a spacious place…all to intimately show us Who He truly is. THROUGH EXILE: THE WILDERNESS “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? …
BEAUTY FROM BAGGAGE
Anonymous For most of my life, I would’ve told you that I had a near perfect childhood. I lived in the same tight-knit community with both sets of grandparents. My parents are high school sweethearts who are still madly in love. I loved my schools and my church and my neighborhood. My home was a …
FROM RELIGION TO RELATION
Susan Nelson I was raised in a Catholic home where I was dropped off at Sunday School and picked up after church. We had a Bible in the home, but it was a “family heirloom” and no one was to touch it or take it out of the box without supervision. Essentially, I knew OF …
THE LIFE GOD GAVE ME
Sam Martin I have a beautiful life – a blessed life. But it’s not the life I ever imagined I would have – one that included burying my son. Around the time my husband and I had been married four years, we began to talk about growing our family. We learned in December 2015 that …
Life After 9/11, Tower II
By Nathan Harness {For the detailed 9/11 story, scroll to the bottom for the audio version!} My name is Nathan Harness and by the grace of God I am struggling well with fear, anxiety, control, lust, and people pleasing. I know, I know that is for another ministry, but it paints well the picture of …
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