My story of course began in eternity past when our good God determined to glorify Himself, to do good to me, to do good to my family, to do good to my church family, and many others through the disease of cancer.
I remember it really well. It started with a common physical from my doctor. I was about 45 years old at the time—in 2014. He found a mass in my throat and after about a week and a half of additional tests, I found myself canceling a flight to the ACBC conference in Los Angeles and instead on this very day five years ago, I had my first surgery.
That surgery produced further testing, and they found that I had actually two different kinds of cancer. One in particular was pretty difficult to treat (or at least had that reputation) and we also found out that it had spread through my lymph nodes. That’s stage three cancer, for those of you who are familiar. That led to a second surgery and some radiation treatments that following December.
I want to share with you some of the things that brought
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