Articles in Personal Stories
Al Reichman: Forgiveness and God's Love
My earliest memories are tied to the strict Jewish religious observance in our family life that took place under the watchful eye of my father. But as observant as my father was, there was a side to his personality that was, quite frankly, brutal - even to the point of physical violence.
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Dennis K.: A New Definition of Success
I thought I'd put to rest questions about "The Meaning of Life" during my hippy days growing up around Washington, DC. After trying out a lot of schools in the area, I buckled down at American University. When I finished, I launched out into the business world. By then, I had decided that the meaning of life was that life had no meaning.
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Dariush: An Iranian Jew Meets Jesus the Messiah
Coming to Faith
I was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1957. I grew up in a Jewish home, but only went to synagogue two or three times a year. At the time, Iran was a secular Muslim nation with a Jewish population of roughly 70,000 centered in Tehran. Though Iran was friendly to Western culture, the nation never embraced the Jewish people. I remember watching my fellow Iranians in the streets chanting "death to the Jews" before a soccer game in which Iran was to compete with Israel. Today, only a few thousand Jews remain.
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Emily Seemar: Messiah's Sheltering Love
My story would not be complete without including my mother's story. She had a difficult childhood and as an adult she sometimes found it hard to cope. My father had been raised as an observant Jew and was encouraged to get an education. But the more educated he became, the more he drifted from any sort of anchoring religious belief.
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Alan Shore: In Spite of Doubt
It has been almost 30 years since I accepted the claim that Jesus is the Messiah, according to the Hebrew prophets. When I look back at that callow, unformed youth and ask, "How could you have made such an outrageous decision?" I am amazed not so much that I did it, but that I have stood by that choice in all that has followed.
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Fran Feldman: A Whole Family, One Decision at a Time
The horrifying reality of the Holocaust was not something I had to learn about in books or in movies. It was the moving force that shaped my family's life.
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