My testimony like many others is filled with darkness, despair and of course joy. Maybe you've heard other testimonies before, and if you had then you will
understand that they never get old, for God is doing a tremendous, wonderful, marvelous work in lives each and every day. He is ressurecting dry bones, He is
restoring life to men who have been long dead.

I grew up in a Roman Catholic home. I went to Church made my communion, and Confirmation. At the age of 15 I was on fire for God, but did not have a
good core group of friends who also shared the zeal of the Lord I had. At about 18 I decided it just wasn't cool to follow Jesus, and actually it would cost
me way to much. I wanted to be free, or at least thats what I thought freedom was, to be away from God. And the funny thing is, if you want to run from God
He's not going to stop you. It's much like our parents, they tell us what is the right thing to do, but a good parent knows no matter how much they tell us
we more then likely will still seek out the thing they advise us against, and when we fall flat on our face, they know we've learned a valuable lesson.

This was much of my experience away from following Christ. I went to college, had my life all planned out. By thirty I would be a millionare, a rock star.
Gifted to play music I was working as a professional musician when I decided to go back to school for music. In college I met a wonderful man who mentored me. As I grew up into a man, my focus was on serving no one but myself. College prepared me for a great mission I have no idea was awaiting me.

Upon graduating college, things started to change. I got offered a tremendous opportunity and started my own business. In a little over three years I started
making about $150,000 a year. I had never seen money like this. Along with the money, and my lust for women, things just started to get out of control. Being in rock bands for years, I'm sure you've heard the stories of "groupies" and the sexual immorality that goes along with it. For me, it wasn't drugs, or alchol, it was sexual immorality. Things got so bad by 1999 that I was involved in an adulterous relationship, engaged to be married, and could not get enough sex to fulfill my desires. This is what an addiction is. Everyone of us have some sought of addiction its only a matter of admiting it.

There were many times I tried to break this horrible addiction, mostly at the request of my girlfriends. But it just always just ended up empty, I was never able to stay away. That same year 1999 I met an old friend of mine who had also gone down a similar path but his addiction was marijuana, smoking it and growing it. His life had gotten so bad he almost committed suicide. The day that I ran into him, I told him he looked great, and he told me that he had changed his life, and that he gave it to the Lord Jesus Christ. Of course I was a little hesitant. I knew all I needed to know about Jesus, I didn't have a problem with Him. Hey, "I was a good person, never killed anyone, never stole from anyone, never cheated anyone" but what I didn't realize is that I was far from a good person. Matter of fact in Gods eyes I was "the chief of sinners".

It was two years after this meeting with this friend that I picked up a Bible and started searching for the truth of the Gospel. I wanted to know if God was real, if Jesus was real, if all that was in the Bible could be trusted. I remember making a vow with God, "if He was really there" saying, ok God, I am going to read this whole Bible and if your real reveal yourself to me. If your Son is Jesus and He is the Messiah please show me. About 1/3 through the Old Testament, God did just that. I was saved on August 10, 2002 and life has never been the same nor will it be. God has moved me profoundley from where I was to a new creation in Christ, and He wants to do the same thing for you.

Look its simple, even though you have no part in your salvation, you do have a choice to make, "to live for Christ" or to, "live for evil." Whether you believe in God or not, you do believe there is good and evil in the world. I made a choice in 2002 to trust that God would reveal Himself to me, if He was real, and He did. What do you say? Would you at least open your heart to read the scriptures for yourself? Trust no one, accept God. Read His word from begining to end, ask Him to help you understand it, and then make up your mind. I promise you one thing, if you ask Him to reveal Himself, He will.