My next birthday is on Nov. 99 I will be 68 years old. I wondered around in the wilderness of this world for 40 years. I took comfort and shelter in a beer can. Listen to any alcoholics testimony and you have then heard mine. Rebellion was my middle name. Thank God I went through what I did in the world, because when I got ready to come out of it I was determined not to return. I left the old man in the world and put on the new man in Christ Jesus. The same zeal I had for sin was reversed towards righteous living. It was a joyful event when Jesus revealed His love for me. Today I have a new life in Christ because I was willing to die to self.

I have a wonderful wife of almost 30 years. We have raised 7 children. Mine, hers, ours. I was able to raise our youngest daughter because I lost my job as maintenance man in 83. My unbridled zeal for the Lord got me fired. So I became a househusband. I learned many things and one of them was to appreciate what a housewife has to put up with. The first thing I learned though this setting aside was that in order to get a perfume out of some roses is to crush them. The same employer that fired me hired my wife and put her through nursing school free. Romans 8:28. We had to maintain our personal lives, but the Lord used this to teach us to trust in Him. I have been down that road of churchianity, legalistic and self righteous, and works programs. The Lord is looking for that one new man and I�m looking forward to being apart of and in Him. God Bless And Keep You in Him. Brother Ed Hintz.