From Homecoming King, To Homeschooling Dad - Part 5: The Five Year Plan

The previous four blog posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4) described my journey to salvation from my sins and the process of the Holy Spirit working in my life to make me acceptable before God. From 2002 to present, God was (and still is) preparing my heart and life to provide for a family with children. He blessed me with a beautiful wife (on the inside and outside) that has always stood with me in the good and bad moments of life. When we got married in 2003, we decided to wait at least five years to have children. Why five years?

From Homecoming King, To Homeschooling Dad - Part 4: Growing in Grace and Knowledge

In Part 3 of this series, I briefly talked about the New Life I received in Jesus Christ. Most importantly, through God's Word He showed me that in order to be a Christian, I must not sin (see John 5:14 and John 8:11). This can be accomplished by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit which comes after justification or repentance of sins. During this series I plan to talk about how after receiving the New Life that only Jesus Christ can provide, I began to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18) which takes place through a process called sanctification.

From Homecoming King, To Homeschooling Dad - Part 3: New Life

Have you ever wished at least once in your life that you could start over? Have you ever looked back on things from the past and desired to do things differently? Have you even wished you were born as somebody else? I can say with certainty that I was tempted with these thoughts in my early teen years. Thankfully though, I did not allow these thoughts to captivate me or control me. I was able to push forward and live out my life (as I shared some of those experiences in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series). And thankfully, although it was long overdue, I started a new life with the slate wiped clean.