Eric Sutton

Host

I grew up going to church intermittently with my parents. We attended a Christian Missionary Alliance church but I don't remember there ever being an emphasis on salvation, or actually there ever being an invitation to be saved.

From nineteen to twenty-two years of age I spent three years in the U.S. Army (1974-1977) as a Military Policeman, responding to domestic disputes, traffic accidents (some fatal), rape, fights, drug busts, vehicle infractions and more. I quickly realized that the world, (while beautiful in nature) was often a dangerous and evil place.

After my military service, the Lord put it upon my heart that there had to be more to life than working, eating, sleeping (rinse/repeat). I began to seek the Lord and started attending churches in the area, where the Lord led me to First Bible Baptist Church in Lockport, New York. There for the first time I heard the word of God preached. It was eye opening and the preaching from the Bible fed my hungry soul. Shortly thereafter in 1984 I received the Lord as my personal saviour. I began to study the Bible and received an Associate of Divinity (A.Div) from Charity Baptist Bible Institute in Kettering, Ohio. What a blessing the Bible is, an inexhaustible source of guidance and inspiration.

I earned a Masters Degree in Counselor education, and also certification in Choice Theory and Reality Therapy from the William Glasser Institute for Choice Theory. I am now a retired school counselor, living with my wife in New York state, doing my best to serve the Lord, this podcast being one attempt.