Guns to God: My journey from drug dealing to deliverance

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Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. If he came home in a mood, he’d often take it out on those who were at home, it was just the normality of the situation. Everybody from every department of the office was required to take part, so I reluctantly went along.

Spring Harvest - Have you seen this months Legendary Sermon featuring Claud Jackson from HTB Church? His story is not just about a life of crime, but about the turning points, and the disillusion and damage, that take someone there. An expert panel discusses the introduction of Prayers of Love and Faith and blessings for same-sex couples. It was hypocritical of me, but I never used drugs myself because I’d seen the damage they’d done to people who took them. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.It is strange that we can spend a lifetime sitting through church services and actually not really pray.

Instead, he started smoking, drinking and doing drugs with his brother and his friends, and selling cigarettes to his schoolfriends. Dad would get the Bible out every few months and demand we all sit round the dinner table while he read Psalm 23. Claud Jackson was dealing class A drugs and driving expensive sports cars before an encounter with God changed everything.He really looked forward to the sessions and, one evening, ‘my heart dared Jesus to come into my life and make a change’, giving him a sense of deep joy and peace. By now, I had tried to upstage him many times in the office and couldn’t; no matter who was around, Pete would always say good morning to me when he saw me. Claud shares his powerful testimony, from dealing drugs to finding faith, and becoming an advocate for change.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Innehållet i podden är skapat av Premier Christianity magazine och inte av, eller tillsammans med, Poddtoppen. When Claud was approached about becoming a mentor for high-risk young offenders for the local council, it initially seemed like a handy ‘respectable’ cover for his drug-dealing activities. At the second meeting, I entered, held out my hand to one lady to shake her hand, and she hugged me. I remember how we gathered in one place to teach teamwork – I arrived in a convertible, and he on a bicycle.It’s not the external forces of secularism, individualism or consumerism that are the biggest threat to the Church today. By the time I was 20, I was so passionate about this lifestyle that I didn’t give a damn about other people. So I prayed and said: “I dare you to come into my life, Jesus, and do what these people say you can do. The only conclusion I’ve come to is the poverty of our situation, and having six children, was a huge pressure on both of my parents.