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The Prayer Closet: An Introduction

6 September 2011, 06:15

RyanR

Prayer closet. Few words from my time in the Advanced Training Institute (ATI) cause me to shudder the way those do. I was on staff at the Indianapolis Training Center (ITC) in 1994 when the prayer closet was instituted. For the uninitiated, ITC was housed in an old 13-story hotel, just north of downtown Indianapolis. […]

My Journey: Legalism, Atheism, and Finally Freedom

5 September 2011, 06:00

Moderator

As a teenager in the 1960s, living near Atlanta, Georgia, I often wondered about God and heaven and hoped I had been good enough to get in. Being a normal male who enjoyed life, I wasn’t so sure. My grandparents took me to church, but that stopped when I was 13. During my junior year […]

Prisoner of the Glass House

15 August 2011, 06:00

MicahK

My childhood and the home I was blessed to live it out in, was shaped from my infancy by teachings from Bill Gothard’s seminars (I was born just months before my parents attended their first of many of his seminars). I can still recall, however, in my youngest years a deep sense of idyllic peace […]

The Chosen Few?

4 August 2011, 06:00

Cyndi

“You are the cream of the crop. The Marines on the front lines…” These were words we heard often working for Bill Gothard at the Institute in Basic Life Principles. Two months ago I made a comment to a friend that while I was sure of my salvation, I felt like I was no longer […]

Finding Relationships, Not Rules

28 July 2011, 15:00

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I grew up in a family where both parents loved the Lord. They faithfully taught me God’s Word, providing me with every resource to grow spiritually. At a young age I asked Jesus to come into my heart and take away my sin. I had a heart to serve God, but my desire to […]