testimony Archives - Sattler College https://sattler.edu/blog/tag/testimony/ Equipping Jesus' Peaceful Revolution Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:23:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://sattler.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/favicon.png testimony Archives - Sattler College https://sattler.edu/blog/tag/testimony/ 32 32 Faith, Media, and Mission: Balancing the Call – Episode 019 https://sattler.edu/blog/faith-media-and-mission-balancing-the-call-episode-019/ https://sattler.edu/blog/faith-media-and-mission-balancing-the-call-episode-019/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:22:36 +0000 https://sattler.edu/?p=513099 Don’t miss a future episode. Subscribe wherever you get podcasts! In this episode, Daniel Willis shares his inspiring journey from a tumultuous past to a faith-driven life as a videographer and editor spreading the gospel. Join us as we delve into transformative journeys of faith, exploring the intersections of personal testimony, early Christian teachings, and the pursuit of authentic discipleship. Through an engaging conversation, we uncover the challenges and triumphs of living out the Sermon on the Mount in today’s world, offering insights and inspiration for those seeking to deepen their walk with Christ. Learn more about studying at Sattler College. Mentioned in this episode: Chapters: 0:00 – Discovering Faith and Mission Work8:33 – Seeking Truth Amid Denominational Differences17:12 – Exploring Early Christian Beliefs26:36 – Navigating Truth in Denominational Differences41:25 – Navigating Responsible Media Consumption53:24 – Reflective Questions on Faith and Service Transcript This transcript has been auto generated and likely contains errors. Zack Johnson: 0:00All right, it’s December 9th 2024. This is take three actually. Daniel Willis: 0:10Oh, don’t say that. Zack Johnson: 0:12No, I made a joke that we filmed earlier, or we recorded an hour long and then it didn’t get recorded. So we’re going to re-record. Yes, I’m here with Daniel Willis. Daniel, welcome to Boston. Hey, thanks, it’s weird to say that twice, so I’m. I’ll just start off by asking what is your current work and where can we, where can we find some of the work that you do? Daniel Willis: 0:36just to frame sort of who you are and what you’re doing currently yeah, I am a videographer and video editor and I edit for different YouTube channels, Including Sadler’s. Including Sadler that’s important, I’m just kidding. I used to do it for the followers the way they wanted it in-house, just because there’s people that wanted to do it. But for Strength to Strength Sound Faith, Sound Faith, Music, Hope for Wonder in Amish, All Nations, Bible Translators and a bunch of other YouTube channels on and off, like Kingdom Fellowship Weekends once a year. There’s certain things that are just a few times a year, but it was my passion because it helped. Things like that. Videos that I’ve seen online brought me to a more obedient faith Following Christ, following the Sermon on the Mount and having a brotherhood and not being a Lone Ranger. It was something that’s become very passionate to me and so, thankfully, God gave me the ability to make it a job where I can feed my family by editing for these different faithful churches. Zack Johnson: 1:37Yeah. So I’m really excited to have you here, because here we always record some things and they get sent off from the internet and I know that you’re doing a lot of it on the other end. But I’d love to launch with the typical what’s your condensed story? I know you could probably talk for a long time about your story. Some bits of your testimony, some of your passions will probably come out through that. Can you condense that? Daniel Willis: 2:02into a? Yeah, growing up I wasn’t in a normal christian family. My dad was an alcoholic, my brothers were into drugs and selling drugs. I got a felony when I was 13, started fight clubs, sent people to hospital, destroyed all kinds of properties did, did all kinds of bad things, including meant literally planning to kill someone, and didn’t do it, thankfully. And Christ got a hold of me through my football coach, invited me to go to a Starlight Crusade, a Baptist preaching event where they have all this entertainment for children and these bands. And then there’s this hellfire and brimstone sermon and I had just got a felony and knew that something was wrong and the pastor, it felt like, was describing me and all the sins and these things that I could be free from. And I honestly do believe that after that baptism, god was working with me and guiding me. Daniel Willis: 3:02I wasn’t perfect. I couldn’t read. I didn’t go to church afterwards. I didn’t have a Bible. I wasn’t capable of reading. I didn’t read very well at all, I should say my reading comprehension was very low. Daniel Willis: 3:14I was a bully. Then, after I became a Christian, I knew that I was supposed to abstain from sexual relations and not do drugs and I realized my bullying was not christ-like, and so I started bullying the bullies. And what, what did you call it last? Oh, vigilante, vigilante, yeah, what I did. And when it wasn’t good it seemed good. Daniel Willis: 3:38Until when I turned 16 and started going to church I realized a lot of the things that I thought were godly weren’t godly, and my life changed a lot at that point. But they realized I had struggled reading and they gave me an NLT and I told them I was struggling reading that. Then one of my elders gave me the Bible on CD or somehow I got a hold of it I’m pretty sure that’s how it was and then I just listened to it and listened to it and read and listened to it and it just became like my passion. It was like everything I want to do is consume the bible. Daniel Willis: 4:11I carried it around, uh, high school and I think everybody thought I was extremely weird because I went from this you know, jock, beating up people, to always talking about jesus and giving people hugs and telling them that we actually have to live for Christ. Then went to Johnson University, met my wife, was called into missions work and I had a triple major missions, bible and TESOL or ESL major. And then me and my wife. We got that because we were planning to go to China and I needed to know about missions and […]

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