Christopher Yuan visited the nurse at the prison where he was incarcerated.

The nurse wrote down bad news on a slip of paper and slid it to him.

And I saw three letters and a symbol, and it read H-I-V positive.

Today, we'll hear about those three letters and a symbol that so greatly affected Christopher's life.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, September 3, 2015.

If you're with young children, you'll want to know that today's program deals with mature themes.

As we return to the conversation, here's something to listen for. The piano playing and vocals

you here in the background were recorded by our guest Christopher

Yuan.

Here's Nancy, continuing the series Out of a Far Country.

Well, if you've been with us over the last several days, I know that you've been really

touched by the story of Angela Yuan and her son, Christopher, who've co-authored a book telling just their very touching story

and it's a story of God and His Grace. It's called Out of a Far Country. And it's really

the story of two prodigals, we've been saying, a prodigal mom, three, for that matter, a prodigal

dad who came to faith in this journey as well. And then Christopher, who had been,

and I'm just for those who haven't been with us, catching up a little bit, had been actively

involved for a number of years in a lifestyle of drugs, sexual promiscuity, homosexuality,

very, very far from the Lord.

But God had been getting his mother's attention.

Angela, you've shared that story with us over the past several days, and it brought you to faith, had brought your husband of faith, had been restoring your marriage that had been hopelessly broken, had been changing you while you'd been praying for God to change your son.

And now after years of waiting, God was starting to change your son's heart and draw him home.

You've told this story in this book, Out of a Far Country.

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