Another Special Life in Christ:
These testimony lives are not stories of "role models". Jesus is the role model! These are lives wonderfully touched & changed by Jesus!

Ann Rice:

Her Life Before Jesus Came In:

Born Howard Allen O'Brien on October 4, 1941 in New Orleans, I refer you to her website. She is a popular writer of vampire novels who left the Catholic Church when she was 18.

Her Life Since Jesus Came In:

In an afterword to her Egypt book, Rice explains how she researched the book. Readers should begin here because I cannot imagine reading the novel without first reading the explanation of her scholarship (absolutely meticulous and in-depth) and her testimony about her return to faith.

Rice's return to faith was, in fact, facilitated by her study. She was curious about who Jesus was and is. In her pursuit of truth about Jesus, an academic and historical investigation, she bumped into "the Truth." Like C. S. Lewis, her intellect led her to belief and then her heart changed. Contrary to what some popular evangelists say, intellectual assent can precede the change (the metanoia) of the heart.

She expected that the arguments of skeptical New Testament scholars would demonstrate "that Christianity was, at heart, a kind of fraud." Instead, she found that their arguments were "reached on the basis of little or no data at all." One must have tremendous respect for her willingness to examine so dispassionately, and then set aside a position with which she had been in fundamental agreement. She read, thought and concluded these writers were wrong; Jesus really is who the church has said he is. And she has consecrated her work to Jesus. For more, use an on-line search engine with her name and the secondary search word, testimony.

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You have just read a very brief example of the powerful, supernatural transformation of a person's life which is possible through the acceptance of Jesus as your savior. Are you tired of life as it now is for you? He will accept you just as you are right this second! Consider accepting Jesus  now [check it out]!

(posted 12 July 2006)