{"id":27227,"date":"2016-08-30T00:10:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T05:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/?p=27227"},"modified":"2023-05-16T13:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:12:53","slug":"out-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/out-of-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Josh,
\n\"Darkness\"
\nHow can we thank you for your faithful service to our Lord Jesus? \u00a0Your book, More Than a Carpenter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>,<\/em> was instrumental in bringing my dear brother back to Christ after he wandered into the New Age movement and Occult.<\/p>\n

After he watched the movie Jesus<\/em><\/strong><\/a> provided by Campus Crusades, the Holy Spirit showed my brother the truth of who Jesus was. Next he read More Than a Carpenter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em> When he got to the end of the book, he said the sinner\u2019s prayer asking Jesus to be his Lord and Savior.\u00a0 We burned all his occult books. He got into a discipleship program and read God\u2019s word with a passion. My brother Tim\u2019s life was transformed by Christ.\u00a0 My brother’s life showered over with God\u2019s forgiveness, mercy and love. Tim produced music for the Glory of God, by playing the harp, guitar, violin, flute, and synthesizer.<\/p>\n

Tim passed suddenly of a massive heart attack while on a hike 5 years ago.\u00a0 He passed on to heaven with a smile on his face.\u00a0 We miss dear Tim so much (he was 11 months older than me and we seemed more like twins) but we know we will see him again one day in our heavenly home with our Heavenly Father. He will be one of thousands waiting in the greeting line for you in Heaven. Thank you, thank you, thank you!<\/em><\/p>\n

We love you and pray for you and all the many souls who read your books or hear you speak, so that the Good News would pierce their souls and minds and they would believe in Christ\u2019s redemptive work on the Cross.<\/p>\n

The Word has healed me also. I was a survivor of sex abuse at age 5 years old. Listening to Billy Graham<\/a> and reading your books turned my life around.\u00a0 Thank you, thank you, thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Josh, How can we thank you for your faithful service to our Lord Jesus? \u00a0Your book, More Than a Carpenter, was instrumental in bringing my dear brother back to Christ after he wandered into the New Age movement and Occult. After he watched the movie Jesus provided by Campus Crusades, the Holy Spirit showed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23327,"featured_media":27216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"1189","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"\"'More than a Carpenter' was instrumental in bringing my brother back to Christ from New Age and the Occult. You and Billy Graham gave me hope!\" READ >","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1189],"tags":[270,259,275,188,269,274,279,327,122],"translator":[],"blog-author":[78],"class_list":["post-27227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-god-on-the-move","tag-death","tag-evil","tag-jesus","tag-josh-mcdowell","tag-prayer","tag-salvation","tag-stories","tag-testimony","tag-truth","blog-author-josh-mcdowell-ministry-team"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/607\/2016\/06\/iStock_13730964_MEDIUM-597814.jpg","meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27227"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/translator?post=27227"},{"taxonomy":"blog-author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites-stage.josh.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-author?post=27227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}