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A Born-Again Brain Scientist

I’m a born again brain scientist who came to Christ in an unexpected flash of faith at two o’clock in the morning. By the world’s standards I was too old and too educated to get saved. I was a clueless medical school professor with a dual Ph.D. in neurobiology and biophysics. I had no interest in spiritual matters. I’d never read the Bible and attended church rarely to please my devout Christian wife. I thought that Christianity was her hobby!

When I was 52 years old, I was rushed by an ambulance to a local hospital. The emergency room doctor quickly transferred me into the cardiac intensive care unit. As a medical school professor I fully understood the implications of data displayed on the CICU electronic monitors. It meant that I was as good as dead! In my desperation I called out to a God who I did not know. I said aloud “God, if you’re a God, send me a messenger to show me where I made a wrong turn.”

A nurse came into my room. She had the countenance of a Christian and she blushed when I inquired. I learned later that she was a pastor’s mom. My inquiry opened a spiritual door and she witnessed to me as I lay in the hospital bed. She presented God’s plan for salvation verse by verse. At 2 a.m. I repented of my sins and accepted Jesus. I was immediately filled with and indescribable joy. I was stunned and didn’t understand what had happened to me.

The first words out of my newborn mouth surprised me. I asked the nurse for a Bible! She handed me a Gideon Hospital Testament. The Holy Spirit led me to Acts chapter 22 where I read about some guy named Saul walking on the road to Damascus. I read how Jesus had miraculously transformed him in a flash of faith. I suddenly understood what had happened to me. I was sealed as a born again believer by the power of the Word.

I later joined the Gideons and have largely worked out my salvation in the context of the Gideon ministry. I’ve served in both camp and state level offices and have traveled to the uttermost parts of the earth to distribute Scriptures. The Lord has allowed me to give Gideon church presentations from Disneyland to the Republic of Congo. He has allowed me to carry the gospel into the darkest corners of the earth; I’ve been wrongfully arrested for the sake of the gospel; I’ve led the lost to Christ in languages that I don’t know; and I’ve led murderers to Jesus. All glory be to God.

I testify as a witness to the life changing power of God’s Holy Word and to how He is using the Gideons to glorify His name.