![]() My mother's death when I was 14 haunted me with the thoughts of my own mortality and told me of the all-to-real disasters in life for which no one I could find had any satisfying answers. I wanted something to fill what seemed to be a dark, hollow void of incompleteness in my innermost self. My entire pre-Christian life was characterized by an intense and insatiable quest for "truth" and I was quickly dissatisfied with one philosophy after another as I came to see that none offered any inner knowing that transformed human experience. My anti-Christian stance was of course based on ignorance of the actual content of Christianity and my enormous arrogance of sheer intellectual pride. She, however continued to pray faithfully for me for thirty years and by her life demonstrated more selflessness and concern for others than I have encountered since. As a child I rebelled against the nominal Christianity I was exposed to as a boy, became enamored with science and soon took the position of an atheist, antagonistic to such "old fashioned" and out of date ideas as those held by my godly paternal grandmother Alma L. I have been a Christian only about half of my lifetime, since the age of 30. ![]() This is book is an open statement of my personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ. Jerusalem Above, The Mother of usįootnotes are Included at the end of each Special thanks to Eric Finke of Apple Computers for recovering this book from a TXT file on a DVD. The case of brief quotations in articles and reviews. ![]() ![]() Reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the publisher except in References are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1946, 1952, ©ġ971, 1973, Division of Christian Education, National Council of the Churches of Christ inĬopyright © 1988, by New Leaf Press. Unless otherwise identified, all Scripture () This planetary nebula is about 3 light-years, or 2 X 1013 miles in diameter. ![]()
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