Mike Tremblay's Weblog

The WordPress Lifejourney account is about to be gone. We will put up all content on the two Blogspot accounts: the personal blog (you're on now) and the LifeJourney blog coming soon.

Just for this week ...  Easter - Resurrection.  Jesus has risen. He is alive. He lives.  The reality of the Living Jesus is seen daily in the lives of those who have put their faith and trust in Christ as their Savior. Life renewal occurs daily as people surrender to their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ. I remember in 1969, less than two years after becoming a Christ Follower, I was standing in the baptismal tank on Easter Sunday, publicly sharing my testimony of giving my life to Jesus by going into the waters of baptism...dead to self and alive in Christ. That day became a highlight in my life, especially since the event occurred on the day we celebrated Jesus' resurrection. He lives ... I too live! I hope for you that the Easter weekend beginning with Good Friday and finishing on Resurrection Sunday was as special for you as it was for me. Amen and amen.

In my senior year of high school, I prepared to be moving away from my parent's home in Massachusetts to a Christian camp ministry in New York state. I would graduate in May, 1971; then head to the Word of Life Inn Bible Conference for adults in June and slide a few miles south to Word of Life Bible Institute in September to study God's Word and theology. I was preparing to do some sort of Christian ministry. While at my home church in Connecticut, I loved being used to teach the youth Biblical truths. My thoughts at that time, I may become a Bible teacher after graduation and further training in seminary. My thoughts and my plans were flipped when the summer camp ministry door closed after I arrived in about three weeks. I won't go into detail as to what happened but my perspective at that time had some facets of blame-shifting which absolved me of any blame. I tried reasoning why the summer job ended without seeing anything I may have done to warrant being told to pack my