Takashi and Naoko (Japan)

Takashi and Naoko (Japan)


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Meet Takashi and Naoko

Takashi grew up in a Christian home but he didn’t know what it meant to have a personal relationship with Jesus. As a married adult, he found it very hard to cope with the responsibilities of life – his job, child, and wife. Takashi shares that his anxiety was so bad he had suicidal thoughts. Naoko had very low self-esteem and emotional pain. She shares that she wasn’t good at communicating and was verbally abusive to her husband. Both Takashi and Naoko accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. They talk about the help and healing Jesus has brought into their hearts and married life.

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This story was produced by MovingWorks, Austin, Texas, USA.

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March 12, 2019 0

Lori (USA)

Lori (USA)


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Meet Lori

Lori shares how she experienced a very unstable upbringing in an alcoholic home. Lori describes how drugs and alcohol became a part of her teenage and adult life. She experienced divorce, and crisis in her second marriage. Lori shares how God reached out to her, and brought her to an understanding of how to enter into an eternal relationship with Him. Lori describes how God has restored her marriage and blessed her and her family.

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This story was produced by Saylorville Church , Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

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February 28, 2019 0

Tom (USA)

Tom (USA)


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Meet Tom

Tom shares how he was not interested in spiritual things. He had a party lifestyle, and entered into a sexual relationship with his girlfriend which resulted in pregnancy. Tom shares that he married his girlfriend, but life as newlyweds was strained and involved secret sin. God intervened in Tom’s life and brought him to repentance. He trusted in Christ as his Savior. Tom confessed his secret sins to his wife, and she also confessed her secret sins. God gave Tom the ability to forgive his wife. Tom has a new understanding of marriage and describes the joy in his marriage now.

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This story was produced by Saylorville Church , Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

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February 28, 2019 0

Chuck (USA)

Chuck (USA)


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Meet Chuck

Chuck shares how God became a part of Chuck’s life at a young age, and blessed him with a family and career as a doctor. Chuck talks about how he used to care too much about how others perceived him as a Christian. Chuck shares he hid a secret addiction to pornography. God used circumstances to expose Chuck’s sin, and free him from it. Chuck talks about the deepening of his relationship with God through daily Bible reading. God has now placed Chuck and his wife in a new fulfilling chapter of their lives as missionaries to West Africa. Chuck stresses the need for people to come clean about sin.

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This story was produced by Saylorville Church , Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

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February 28, 2019 0

Jen (USA)

Jen (USA)


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Meet Jen

Jen trusted in Jesus as her Lord and Savior as a child. She shares her struggle with approval from others, and the difficulties in the first year of her marriage – including dishonesty and inappropriate relationships. She describes how God helped her overcome her poor choices, confess to her husband and how He has helped her marriage.

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This story was produced by Saylorville Church , Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

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February 19, 2019 0

Charlie (USA)

Charlie (USA)


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Meet Charlie

Charlie Duke is an Apollo astronaut and famous for his landing on the moon. He shares how riveting that experience was. At the same time he acknowledges that he lacked peace in his life. Although he sought success, success was never enough. Charlie also talks about problems he encountered in his marriage and the strains of parenting. God brought peace, joy and stability into Charlie’s life when Charlie accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. He describes Christ as his firm foundation for life.

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This story was produced by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

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January 18, 2019 0

Brian (UK)

Brian (UK)


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Meet Brian

Brian started out in Liverpool England and moved to the US. He loved life in the US, he had a famous career in skateboarding and a party lifestyle. He talks about meeting his wife, falling in love but his marriage failing fast when his first child came along. Brian describes being angry, selfish, angry, and violent. He ended up getting arrested. Brian was a self-proclaimed skeptic but shares how he was drawn to a Christian bookstore and started reading the Case for Christ and the Bible. Brian questioned the deity of Jesus and called out to God to know for sure about Jesus. Brian describes a personal encounter with Christ where he trusted in Him to remove his debt of sin. Brian describes sharing his faith with others now. He no longer has anger and God has restored his marriage.

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Brian’s story was produced by I Am Second, Franklin, Tennessee, USA.

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December 16, 2018 0

Cindy (Dominican Republic)

Cindy (Dominican Republic)


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Meet Cindy

Cindy explains how she was a very career-orientated woman, and after she got married she passionately pursued her career. She talks about the stresses on her marriage as a newlywed. Around this same time, she felt compelled to find spiritual answers. She had grown up in the Catholic tradition, but her husband had an evangelical background. She attended an evangelical church. Her spiritual curiosity grew, and she ended up at an evangelical conference in the US, where she believed the gospel and became a follower of Jesus Christ.

God has shown Cindy through the Bible His design for womanhood and the family. Over time God changed Cindy’s thinking about work and home life. Cindy shares how God did the unthinkable in her life by giving her the desire to become a stay at home mom and homeschool her children. Cindy experiences joy in her life because she knows she’s living out God’s will for her, rather than what the world defines as success in a woman’s life.

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Cindy’s story was produced by Revive Our Hearts, Niles, Michigan, USA.

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December 13, 2018 0

Vicki and Bill (USA)

Vicki and Bill (USA)


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Meet Vicki and Bill

This is two stories in one video – married couple Vicki and Bill. Vicki talks about her luxurious lifestyle and successful career in New York, and how she could not escape from a gnawing sense of emptiness. She followed a party lifestyle for a while involving cocaine. She also got married thinking that would fill the void. Then she was invited to an event where she heard the gospel. She received Christ that night. Vicki was having severe marriage difficulties and had separated from her husband Bill.

Bill was a very successful businessman, who lived a very reckless life involving cocaine, alcohol abuse and affairs with other women. He had separated from Vicki and was living with another woman. Unbeknown to Bill, Vicki and their children were praying for Bill to come to know Jesus. Vicki arranged an evening where Bill was invited. He heard someone share their testimony and Bill decided to place his faith in Christ.

Vicki and Bill talk about how God has helped them recover their marriage. Vicki now helps other women work through their marriage difficulties.

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Vicki and Bill’s story was produced by Revive Our Hearts, Niles, Michigan, USA.

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December 12, 2018 0

Jody (USA)

Jody (USA)

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Jody

Meet Jody. Jody was a teen when she accepted Jesus as her Savior and asked Him to be Lord of her life. Jody shares how God was with her during a difficult time when she was treated for breast cancer. She also speaks about her marriage difficulties, that her husband was unfaithful and she reacted with selfishness. Jody shares how God intervened in her marriage, and through counseling, Jody and her husband are together. She describes what forgiveness is, and how she places all her trust in Jesus.

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Jody’s story was produced by Saylorville Church, Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

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