This is my Christian testimony, and it starts with an armed robbery.

In June 2012 I was charged with first-degree armed robbery. I spent two and a half months in jail, a year on house arrest, and two years on probation. Fourteen years later I work from home, my family lives in a house we closed on in May 2020, and we are building toward land of our own.

I’m not telling you that to impress you. I’m telling you because for years I was certain of something that turned out to be a lie: that my past disqualified me from anything good. If you believe that about yourself right now, I need you to keep reading.

What did I believe about myself?

I believed my record was the end of the story. I believed my mistakes were who I was, and that a man like me had a ceiling.

Some of that belief was earned. I wasn’t an innocent kid. I graduated high school in 2010 with a sophomore’s worth of college credits already finished, the kind of head start people dream about, and I wasted it. I hung out, smoked, drank, and skipped class like it was optional. I treated a gift like it was nothing.

Then in June 2012 I made a decision I can’t take back. I’ll tell that night in full, with no excuses, on video. For now, here is what matters: it was my choice. Nobody else’s. And it rewrote the next ten years of my life.

What happened after the arrest?

Two and a half months in jail was the first place I ever got honest. No crowd to perform for, nothing to numb it with, nowhere to run. I wish I could tell you I walked out changed. I didn’t. But a seed got planted in the one place I never expected.

Then came a year of house arrest and two years of probation. In December 2012, while I was still on house arrest, I found a job. It looked small. It turned out to be the first thread of a whole new life.

Here is the part of a testimony people usually leave out. For the next two years I got fired up for God, then walked away, then did it all over again. I didn’t quit on Him once. I quit twice.

In January 2015 I finally stopped visiting God and moved in. I fully surrendered, joined a great ministry, and met my wife two months later, in March 2015. We were engaged that July and married in April 2016.

What is my Christian testimony, in short?

Surrender didn’t make my life easy. It made me able to stand inside it. Here is the short version, and I’ll tell each part in full in the weeks ahead:

  • 2017: My mother died of cancer, the same year our first child was born.
  • 2018: I decided to teach myself to code, so my wife could stay home and, someday, homeschool our kids.
  • April 2019: A background check came back and my family ended up homeless. We lived with a friend, then with my dad.
  • May 2020: My father passed away on May 5. We closed on our new home on May 19, thirteen months after we had nowhere to live.
  • June 2022: I got my first tech job. On November 30 the whole company shut down with no warning.
  • 2023 to 2025: I found another tech job within a month, then watched my hours get cut for most of 2024. I picked up a lot of Amazon work to make ends meet.
  • 2025 to 2026: I went back to the warehouse where I started, this time in inside sales, and set out to share the Gospel with everyone there. I did that for thirteen months.
  • June 2026: The side tech work I picked up in December 2025 turned into a full-time, fully remote job.

That is not a highlight reel. Every line on that list was a stretch of days when I didn’t know how it would turn out. What I can tell you is that God was faithful in every one of them. Not early. Not always comfortable. Right on time.

Who is this blog for?

  • The person with a record who is tired of being defined by paperwork.
  • The one who has started over more than once and wonders whether God is done with him.
  • The one who is working hard, trusting God, and wondering if faith changes anything.
  • The one who feels like life took everything and wants to know what is left to build on.

If any of that is you, you are the reason I’m writing.

What will you find here?

The whole story, in order, one chapter at a time. And the practical things I had to learn along the way: how I got into tech with a record, what a background check really shows, how we paid down debt and rebuilt credit while living with other people, and how I held grief and gratitude in the same year.

I write it all for one purpose, which is to show you the faithfulness of God. I’m not handing you a formula. I’m showing you a track record.

Am I special?

No. I’m not special. I’m just proof.

I had a record, no degree in the field I wanted, a pile of reasons it shouldn’t work, and a God who kept showing up anyway. So if I’m not special, the only variable left is a faithful God. The same One who showed up for me is not going to skip over you.

If God did it for me, I’m going to help you see that He can do it for you.

Where do we start?

Start with one honest question: what is the one obstacle you are sure disqualifies you? When you get the free guide, reply to the first email and tell me. I read every reply.

The guide is called 5 Anchors for the Hardest Seasons. It is the five things that held me up when I couldn’t hold myself, each with a short true story and one small step you can take today. Get the free guide.