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Encouraging Testimonials from October 2015

November 2nd, 2015

From a site user: “I read your site’s article about suicide while sitting here alone in front of my 9mm. Just a few moments earlier, I had finally come to closure with the intense struggle I’ve faced over the last year of wanting to end my life. I had always found a way to keep resisting suicide, “just one more day,” as I’ve said to myself so many times. Tonight though, I finally let go. I unanxiously decided this is the hour that I would end my life. As I looked curiously at my gun, I began to review what it was that I expected to happen immediately after I pulled the trigger. I thought about Hell, and always, the idea really bothered me. I am a Christian. As in… really – I am. Not just a church-goer or a nominal Christian. The contradiction is obvious, as Christians are obviously not supposed to kill themselves; but alas, here I am, and was about to check out in just that way. Point being, I read your article and now I’m putting the gun away. I expected a cheesy diatribe about how all people who kill themselves go to Hell, in which case I probably would have gotten even more depressed and in the sense of further alienation from any real idea of God’s love, carried on with the point and shoot. Your article – like none other I’ve read, noted poignantly how many godly people felt an intense desire to escape their suffering to the point that they considered death an acceptable alternative. But they each found grace instead of death as their answer, in diverse ways, and they all had encounters with the Lord in their time of trial that deepened their ability to obey, to live in peace, and to overcome. No one has ever successfully talked me down from suicide. I was just too undecided to carry it out – until tonight. I’ve read this though, and now I don’t feel quite so alone, and quite so certain that God has no intention of helping me. I’m going to live now and I’m going to find grace now. Thank you.”

From a site user: “I have been going through some of your questions and answers and find it very interesting and most them go deep in explaining every question asked. Like in my country Nigeria most especially Northern part we’ve facing challenges that one has to go on researh and deep study in order to convinced some one that come up with questions. We are living with muslim in my country some of them want to know the truth and come to the faith, while others throw challenging question. Even some of our christian brothers in faith need to be enlighten. You guys are doing a very good job God bless you aboundantly.”

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