Two stories of God's grace and a new initiative from Reformation Bible College today on renewing your mind.

I'm a horrible sinner who did terrible, horrible things, and I have a great and awesome Jesus who I love with every fiber of my being.

When Jesus said, if the sun sets you free, you'll be free indeed.

Does that promise reach behind prison walls?

Welcome to the Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. Today you'll hear about the grace of God in the lives of two men serving life sentences in Bibb Correctional,

a prison in Alabama, and who are both now part of Reformation Bible College's first ever remote campus.

Yes, a remote campus in prison.

Stay with us at the end of the episode, as Stephen Nichols, the President of Reformation Bible College,

will join me to share more of their stories and how this incredible opportunity came about.

I'm told this is the first radio program permitted to be recorded inside a correctional facility in Alabama.

So I'm very grateful for this opportunity.

After going through security, I met two inmates and sat down to speak with them.

My conversation began with Pat, a father of three, and then you'll hear from

Stephen, a towering figure, and why he turned to more violence when he first entered the prison system.

I ended up getting sentenced to life in prison. And so I go from going to work every day with a promising job where they're

moving me along to a supervisor's position to now I'm sitting in a cell and I'm trying to

figure out what am I going to do? How did this happen? What's going on? So now I am really talking to God in a way that I've never talked to him before.

Like, what's wrong here?

When I first got to prison, I barely turned 20 years old,

and I was sent to maximum security prison,

where I was taught by the older convicts that violence was the way to go

and the way to make it in life and to be honest it helped me to stuff all of the pain

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