On June 1st, 1973, Charles Coulson visited a friend, Tom Phillips.

While the Watergate scandal exploded in the presses and he was baffled and shocked that Tom Phillips explained he had just accepted Jesus Christ.

But he saw that Tom was at peace with himself and with God.

And when he left the house, he couldn't put the key in his ignition because he was crying so hard.

You write, I was confronted with my own sin, not just Watergate, dirty tricks, but the sin deep within me,

the hidden evil that lives in every human heart.

It was painful and I could not escape. I cried out to God

and found myself driven irresistibly into his waiting arms.

That was the night I gave my life to Jesus Christ and began the greatest adventure of my life. That story's been told hundreds of times in the past 10 years. He's a very famous person now.

But too many of us settle for that experience.

Colson didn't.

Not only was the White House hatchet man willing to cry in 1983, he was also

willing to repent several years later of a woefully inadequate view of God.

It was during a period of unusual spiritual dryness, he says, and if you're in one this morning, take heart because as you read the biographies of the Saints, it is astonishing how many times God meets Saints in singular ways in the midst of the desert.

Do not

far off a friend suggested to Colston in this time that he watched the video cassette lecture

series on the holiness of God by r. C. C.el. And here's what Coulson Wright. All I knew about

Spruel was that he was a theologian, so I wasn't enthusiastic.

After all, I reasoned, theology was for people who had time to study,

locked in ivory towers far from the battlefield of human need.

However, at my friend's urging, I finally agreed to watch Spruill Series.

By the end of the sixth lecture I was on my knees deep in prayer in awe of God's absolute holiness.

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