They decided to purchase their first home, and we relocated shortly after. It finally looked like things were getting better: new home, more money, and a fresh new start. I really admired my step dad, and learned sooo much from him. We had an outstanding relationship, and he even planned on buying me my first dirt bike in the months to come.

Well, the dirt bike never came. 6 months after my parents bought the house, he suffered from a massive stroke. It happened in the middle of the night, when my mom was working and I was sleeping. I never heard a thing. He is still alive, but he's not the same. His personality is so different I feel that I don't even know him. 8 years later and I'm still not over it, and it DOES affect my tone of writing on several pages of my site... I'm just still caught up in old memories, I guess.

A Teenager - Before Finding God

Without my step dad's guidance, I slipped into trying to "fit in with the crowd". I started a rap group called "The Usual Suspects" and mostly produced beats in my basement recording studio.

This lead to "being around the wrong crowd" for too long. I started drinking, smoking, swearing, and just not caring. Nobody was about to change me - I was a breed of the worst. I still knew how to act politely around others, but I had a heart of stone.

Your probably like "Maybe it's time to check out a different christian website..." lol. But really, I'm a christian now.

Enter: God.

My story of salvation is posted here, but here's the message I'm really trying to drive home with my whole site: God saved me (and I had a heart of stone), and he is willing to begin the same work in you if you accept Jesus Christ into the core of your life.

I was completely "wasted" from drinking, crying on a cold basement floor, pleading to God to help me. Well, He heard me, and has blessed me in many areas of my life ever since. If God saved someone as "cold hearted" as me, won't he do the same for you?

Where I'm At Now...

I got married last year, and the marriage is great. I'm really beginning to understand the concept of unconditional love, even when they don't meet the conditions.

I felt that I needed to figure out a way to spread the gospel to more people. I decided to do it on the web. I had no clue how to build a website, and when I looked into it, I was really confused and overwhelmed.

I eventually found the answer.

I started using Site Build It. They are a company that specializes in teaching you how to turn your knowledge about any topic into a profitable web business.

I have a fairly strong knowledge about Jesus Christ and Site Build It enables me to turn my knowledge about him into an income while introducing the gospel to the unsaved. It's Perfect!

*UPDATE - My "About Me" page has generated so many questions, I was forced to do About Me (Part 2)

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