My Testimony (part two)

 

I was talking to Mark Shepard. and he told me to be more specific  about things I was writing so let me get back to part one.

In the summer of 67’ I played in a band called “The Strawberry Alarm Clock”  With a NUMBER ONE song in the Nation called “Incense and Peppermints”.  I guess you could say I was living a dream come true.  Barbara was seventeen I was nineteen.  Going to the beach every day.  And playing music in a great band.  But it all came to a screaming halt in December of 67’ when I enlisted in the US Navy and left for VIET NAM six months later.

Like I said in (part one)  it was quit scary, people getting killed around me.  It was hard for me to understand why God protected me.  Real hard. (more on this later.) But God answered my Grandmother’s prayers. And I came home, SEEMINGLY in one piece.

We were married Feb. 14, 1970 on Valentine's Day.  We bought a home in Redondo Beach. And found a church.  Myer Lane Southern Baptist Church. I had no day time job and the church prayed for me, and I started working for the US Postal Service a few weeks later.  I loved the job GOD had given me.  (more on this later)  I continued to play music in various rock bands and recorded in various studios. God blessed us with three children. And a wonderful church life.  We were youth leaders.  We actually took the high school kids to Hollywood, stood in line for 6 hours, to see STAR WARS when it first was shown at Graman’s Theater. 

Part three coming soon.

 

My Testimony (part 0ne)

 

MY YOUTH

I excepted Christ as my Savior in 5th grade.  I attended church with my Grandmother through my teenage years.  I met  Barbara while in junior high school.  I also started playing drums, it was the SIXTY’s.  Barbara and I dated and in the summer of 1967 we knew we LOVED each other.  The Viet Nam War was going strong and I enlisted in The US Navy.  I know I was kept safe my my Grandmother’s prayers.  Twice while in Viet Nam people were killed all around me, but not even a scratch on me.  I was gone for three years.  Came home and Barbara and I were married Valentines day 1970.

TRUST through CHRIST

 

Greetings.  I want you to read something.  I want you to know something about me.  Its my blog and I want it to start with GOD’s Word.  Here goes.

2 Corinthians 3: 4-6

4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward.  5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves;  but our sufficiency is of God;  6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter; but of the spirit:  for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Thanks for coming and reading my blog. Coming next will be my testimony of God’s restoration.