June 3

Christian apologist Josh McDowell explains that the change in his life when he trusted Christ convinced his father that there was hope for him as well. McDowell writes: “After I trusted Christ, my life was changed in six to eighteen months. But my father’s life was changed right before my eyes. It was as if someone reached down and switched on a light inside him. He touched alcohol only once after that. He got the drink as far as his lips, and that was it—after forty years of drinking! He didn’t need it anymore. Fourteen months later, he died from complications of his alcoholism. But in that fourteen-month period, over a hundred people in the area around my tiny hometown committed their lives to Christ because of the change they saw in the town drunk, my dad.” McDowell concludes: “You can laugh at Christianity. You can mock and ridicule it. But it works…because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives. — Why I Am a Christian, p 288

Today’s Reading: Psalms 25-27  Memorize: Mark 8:31
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