From Death to Life

A couple Sundays ago, a couple named Tom and Michelle Herbert were baptized during our Sunday meeting. Their testimony is a display of God's transforming grace:

And as if this testimony weren't powerful enough, here's an epilogue to the story [updated, as I originally had some incorrect facts]. That very day, in God's providence, a lady was visiting Covenant Life for the first time in several years, having felt compelled to come that morning. After the service, she came forward sobbing. This lady shared that she had been a daycare provider for the Herberts' children while they were enslaved to drugs, but never knew how the story ended. When she saw Tom and Michelle, and heard this testimony from these two transformed believers about to be baptized, she was undone. In Tom Herbert's words, "[this lady had] suffered at Michelle's hands when Michelle violently kidnapped one of our children from her after we had lost custody of them. This is the first time Michelle and her have talked since that dreadful day. Michelle was undone at God's hand in presenting an opportunity to repent and ask forgiveness of her." How kind of our sovereign God to bring this lady here on that very day, and to remind us all of His inscrutable ways and undeserved mercy.

Comments (10)

Thank you many times over for posting this.

Posted by Jared | October 3, 2007 8:35 AM

This is so incredible! We serve a merciful, incredible Savior!

Posted by John Jordan | October 3, 2007 4:27 PM

Josh,

Thanks for posting this video. It brought me to tears. What an incredible, powerful God we serve!!!

Posted by Jessica | October 3, 2007 7:07 PM

Unbelievable!! What an incredible testimony of our God's love for us - what sacrificial love! What an amazing example of His power over sin! Praise the Lord!

Thanks for sharing this!!!

Posted by Jennifer Lightfoot | October 4, 2007 9:42 AM

wow! What an amazing and incredible glorious God we serve!!! Thanks so much for sharing this : )

Posted by angela Borghi | October 5, 2007 5:24 PM

This is beautiful! I have placed this on my blog,too. How can anyone deny God's beautiful grace and mercy toward all of us? I will be praying that this couple's testimony can point others to Christ.

Posted by Kim | October 6, 2007 9:50 PM

I wonder what it would be like to share my testimony like that.

Posted by Anonymous | October 17, 2007 5:26 PM

I wonder what it would be like to share my testimony like that.

Posted by Anonymous | October 17, 2007 5:26 PM

Oh, thank you, thank you for not hiding this video! God is using the internet in so many ways, and this is one wonderful example. We would have likely never have seen this if God did not allow these kinds of things to be set up!

I so loved watching this couple and their genuine joy and humility. God is so faithful, and it blessed my heart to see the sincerity of truly changed hearts and lives. Thank you!

Posted by Kristi | October 23, 2007 10:18 PM

nothing is impossible to GOD..praise GOD for his grace to us..

Posted by Garry Castillo | December 25, 2007 9:52 AM

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