Christians for Christ

News and Events

11/11/2004 - The Da Vinci Code is the biggest fictional book phenomenon since Harry Potter. Read the review by Mary Ann Collins regarding this popular novel.

11/24/2006 - John Smyth, Root of the Baptists. John Smyth was one of the founders of the Baptist church movement as a whole and was the impetus for the later founding of the General Baptists under his protege Thomas Helwys. Smyth also made major contributions to later Baptist denominations and influenced the founding of America through colonies fleeing religious oppression in Europe. Tull put John Smyth’s name foremost in his book on the major influencers of Baptist thought. He said, “John Smyth’s life was profoundly influenced by the tortuous course of the English Reformation. Smyth, in turn, was a leader in one stream of that Reformation which flowed through Puritanism and Separatism to the beginnings of Baptist life.” Read More . . .

2/23/2004 - Read Kathie's personal testimony which tells about her journey to find Jesus through the events leading up to Y2K.

2/28/2004 - The Sandwich, a story about a man seeking comfort from his troubles, but when it was offered to him he refused due to his stubborn pride.

4/23/2004 - Read Oh But for the Trees, one man's story about how he came to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

5/24/2004 - Friends, a Bible study article about how we can go to church on Sunday, and yet our lives are still a mess. Does it matter what church I attend? Something about my church just does not feel right. Should I be concerned?

11/6/2004 - Listen to the testimony of Jim Hill through your Windows Media Player, or download a copy in MP3 format. His life was going along fine as he worked as a design engineer at an automotive plastics supplier in Auburn Hills, Michigan. But something just did not feel right to him. Jim had a void in his heart, a deadness that made him sense that his life flying airplanes and windsurfing all over the world had been a waste. Find out what filled this void in Jim's heart.

11/11/2004 - An introductory Bible study relating Old Testament prophesy regarding a coming Messiah with the New Testament fulfillment.

11/11/2004 - Justification and the Royal Priesthood of Believers

Welcome to Christians for Christ

We are an evangelical Christian ministry organization founded to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to those people like I was. Good people. People that attend their local Catholic church because that is what they have always done. Their parents did. Their grandmother did. They got married there. They had their babies baptized there. Maybe they were altar servers there, like I was. Maybe they are struggling to live up to the high standards set by the church.

Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). He set a pretty high standard, that of perfection. Jesus was perfect, but are we able to obey his command of perfection? If we can't be perfect, then how good do we have to be? What if we missed mass a few times this year because we just didn't feel like going, are we condemned?

Sit. Kneel. Stand. I knew the routine by heart. I didn't even need a missal any more, I could recite all the prayers without even looking. Often during mass my mind wandered, and frequently I planned what I was going to do during the rest of the day. I remember going to the local news stand to buy the paper after mass. Many times I would save up my allowance money so that I could buy some candy or pop after church, and a pop only cost a quarter back then! After mass my mom or dad would make a huge breakfast which I enjoyed very much.

As I got older, life began to get much more complicated. I started a job with Ford Motor Company as a design engineer in Dearborn, Michigan. Even though I continued attending mass, I began to lose interest in it. To reduce boredom during mass I started reading a small Gideon's Bible that some whacko handed me on a sidewalk while I was going to school at Western Michigan University.

Later on I changed jobs. My friend Dan came up to me one day and asked me, "Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus?" I did not know what to tell him, I just wanted him to go away. I'm not sure what I said but it was something like, "I think I do." He knew that I was a devout Roman Catholic but unlike other Protestants he was not judgmental of me. Instead, he was kind and treated me as his equal, as his friend. This was quite different than many of the Bible thumpers that I had encountered in the past.

Dan's question to me way back in 1996 started me thinking. Please read what happened next in Oh But for the Trees. If you have any questions, please send me an email.

God Bless,

Jim Hill

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Introduction to Oh But for the Trees by Jim Hill. Click here to read the rest of the story.

I remember a day way back in the 1970’s when our family was riding in the car on the way to a weeklong summer vacation in Washington, D.C. On this nice summer day my father was driving and I was riding in the back seat of our Ford Galaxy wagon. We were having a long conversation on how various mechanical things worked. Since my father was a high school science teacher he knew a lot about things that interested me. His explanation was always preceded by just one simple word from me: “Why.” I remember that after at least an hour of this discussion, my father started to become agitated as he would explain something, then I would ask “why” again. This led to an endless spiral of a conversation that was soon terminated by my father!