Sample chapter excerpt
Sample chapter excerpt
Chapter 1: Growing Up Around Faith
I don’t remember a time when I didn’t believe in God.
But I also don’t remember faith being part of our home.
My parents didn’t go to church. Not occasionally. Not regularly. They simply didn’t attend. If I went, it was because I was dropped off or went with a friend. Church was something I experienced mostly on my own.
There was no prayer at home. No Bible reading. No discussion about what faith meant or why it mattered. God wasn’t rejected in our house — He just wasn’t present in any active way.
Looking back, I think that shaped me more than I realized at the time.
As a child, I didn’t question much of it. I believed in God. I believed Jesus was real. At a young age, I accepted Him as my Savior. I meant it in the way a child understands meaning something.
But belief without guidance doesn’t grow very deep.
There was no one modeling what daily faith looked like. No one showing me what surrender meant beyond a moment in time. No connection between Sunday and the rest of the week.
So faith remained isolated.
It was something I visited.
Not something I lived.
