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'I Feel Completely Whole': Ex-Satanist Shares
How God Changed His Life
Milton Quintanilla |
Contributor for ChristianHeadlines.com |
Thursday, January 27, 2022
A testimony of a former Satanist went viral after he shared how God saved his life.
Carl Sartor, 35, explained how he came to Jesus Christ after years of running away from Him. He previously lived as an atheist for 15 years and a Satanist for five years.
"I've never been a spiritual person. I believed when you die, you was dead. That was it. I've been running from God since I was about five. I would argue you tooth and nail that he did not exist," Sartor wrote on Facebook Sunday.
"I was living in a vicious cycle of drugs and alcohol. I had a severe anger problem," he continued. "I blamed everyone and everything. I also blamed God."
It's amazing how many people don't believe in God but blame Him whenever something bad happens.
Last November, however, Sartor started attending Cross Church in Parkersburg, West Virginia, after hitting rock bottom in his life and almost committing suicide. He noted that Minister Rich Walters had invited him to the church over a year ago, but Sartor wanted nothing to do with God at the time.
"He said, 'I'd love to have you for service.' I said, 'I walk a different path, buddy," Sartor told CBN News. "You'd never catch me there. It will be a cold day in hell before you see me in church.'"
That invitation, however, would ultimately lead Sartor to Christ.
"We didn't even get to the preaching yet because we were still singing, praising, and worshipping. We didn't even make it 15 minutes in that service before he ran to that baptismal tank," Walters shared on Facebook.
"Today, he's a worshipper. Today, he's a believer. Today, he's my brother in Christ. It's like the old song says…' There's just no telling what you're gonna do, in that moment Jesus gets a hold of you!!!!' Praise God!!!" the minister said.
Walter's post included two photos of Sartor taken just several weeks apart. The first photo shows him wearing a "Saved by Satan" shirt, and the latter shows him being baptized at church. The testimony went viral, and the Facebook post has 34,000 likes, 8,500 comments and 11,000 shares.
"I feel completely whole. I feel at peace with myself. There is no longer a void," Sartor told CBN News. "Everything has changed about me."
"I'm spiritually alive now, and that happened when He wrapped His arms around me...and I felt that love," he continued.
Now that Sartor's life has been transformed, he hopes that others will be able to experience the same kind of transformation he underwent.
"For the first time in life, I had a spiritual experience. God is real, and I will continue to walk this path with him beside me. By his grace, I'm by far the best version of me I have ever been. My God is an awesome God, and I pray that everyone gets to experience his love as I have," he concluded his Facebook post.
Jordan Peterson: 'The Bible is more than just true,'
it's the bedrock of civilization
By Ryan Foley,
Christian Post Reporter|
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson appears on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Jan. 25, 2022. | Screenshot: YouTube/PowerfulJRE
World-renowned Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson said the Bible is “way more than just true,” it's the bedrock of Western civilization.
Peterson appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience” Tuesday, where he lamented that “the culture is dissolving" as he detailed his experience touring the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., and his reflections on society.
“Roughly speaking, we have a bedrock of agreement,” he said. “That’s the Bible, by the way.”
Peterson elaborated on how he came across this realization as he walked through the museum, noting that one floor is dedicated to the “history of the book.”
“For a while, literally, there was only one book and that book was the Bible,” he said. After a while, there were “all sorts of books that anybody could buy,” he added, stressing that “all those books in some sense emerged out of that underlying book [the Bible].”
Later in the discussion, Peterson spoke more about Western civilization, characterizing “fundamental texts” as “the texts upon which most other texts depend.” He cited the work of William Shakespeare as one of several “texts that influenced more other texts” before identifying the Bible as the ultimate source of all “linguistic production.”
“It isn’t that the Bible is true. It’s that the Bible is the precondition for the manifestation of truth, which makes it way more true than just true. It’s a whole different kind of truth. And I think this is not only literally the case. Factually, I think it can’t be any other way. It’s the only way we can solve the problem of perception.”
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Teenager Leads His Entire Tribe to Salvation in One of the World’s
Worst Countries for Christians
February 15, 2022
Pakistan is one of the world’s most antagonizing nations for Christians, and yet the witness of a single teenager reportedly turned an entire tribe to Christ in an incredible story of the power of the Gospel to save.
According to Mission Network News, a teenager referred to by the pseudonym Rehan was working at a restaurant when he met a Christian truck driver and missionary who shared the Gospel with him and gave him an audio Bible.
“Rehan said, ‘How is your attitude towards a waiter so gentle? Have you joined some other sect than Islam?’ Safdar gave him an audio Bible,” Nehemia, of Forgotten Ministries International, told the outlet. “Rehan took it home and began listening. Then Safdar suggested Rehan take off from his work and spend time together to answer his queries and questions at the FMI Discipleship center.”
The 17-year-old began to listen to the Bible and kept up a rapport with the truck driver and was eventually baptized as a Christian.
The story of salvation doesn’t end there, however.
The bold, young, newly-baptized Christian began to witness to members of his family, and then his whole tribe, in spite of the immense risk faced by Pakistanis who convert from Islam to Christianity.
Nehemia brought along fellow missionary workers with him to speak with the members of the tribe about Jesus.
“One evening, he gathered all the tribe’s members under one big tent. First, Rehan showed a movie about Jesus,” he explained.
“Then an FMI partner shared a 15-minute devotion about new hope in Christ. That day, a 17-year-old-boy led his whole tribe to the Lord Jesus Christ. They quit their regular practice of offering Muslim prayers.”
The roughly 60 tribe members all accepted Christ as a result of this one young man’s bold witness.
Nehemia urges Christians to pray for the tribe, as well as missionary workers among similar populations in Pakistan, which is ranked by Open Doors USA as the eighth most dangerous country in the world to follow Christ.
And much worse to convert from Islam to Christianity. This will not be the last we hear of this story, I'm afraid.
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