God's story, your life.

Unfolding short stories.

My dad died recently to multiple maloma cancer.

Everyone's got a story.

For me, I was just blessed to have a dad who was a preacher, who lived the way he preached,

and it influenced everything. I wanted to live for the world. So I was a lukewarm Christian, I would say.

And it was only when my second brother died when everything changed. And those things my dad taught me, instilled in me, the truth I always heard.

You know, it was like those seeds are becoming plants within me.

That was the time I really actually became a reborn Christian when my second brother died.

But today, you know, when I'm older, I keep getting these memories from my dad when he said certain things, when he taught us certain things.

And now it's like it's becoming fruit within me.

I will never be able to thank God enough for an earthly dad that really lived the way he preached.

Sometimes kids may feel like, man, my parents are Christian, but they just

focus on the judgment. So I have to do everything right, but they don't bring the love enough.

So you can either preach too much love, you know, and not that God is actually a God who will judge

you righteously. And so he was in the middle. I felt that everything they preached was good. I just wanted to live for the world.

Everything in the world, you know, looked good to me. So even after school, when I went to England the first time to work, you know, that was the first time I felt like freedom.

So I went drinking. I was very different than what I'm like today. And that's just because of God's grace. I was like the

prodigal son, basically, in a nutshell. But, you know, my dad, he just showed me love. And also, of course,

every action that I take, there will be consequences. So I have to take responsibility. And even though I was out in the world,

you know, I would now and then, I would feel like, man, this is what my dad said. Oh, this is how I grew up.

And I kind of feel God also trying to pull me away from the world, but I didn't want to. So I kind of

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