Welcome to Keepers of the Fire, this website is dedicated to those on a journey like no other.  

The one thing we all have in common is that there was a day when we realized that we didn’t know the Lord. I didn’t need a sermon or a Sunday School lesson, I knew something wasn’t right. The language that “church folks” use is “not saved,” not wrong, just not as descriptive.  Where I begin with folks in determining where they are at with God, I begin with my own journey.

My Story

As far back as I remember, I’ve had an awareness of God, or what I believed was God.  My mother confirmed this when I was older and seeking to understand how I saw life and the world around me.  The best I can describe it is that I was aware of life and the love around me, I have always been aware of the spirit of those around me and tried to be an encourager. 

As I became older, I found myself being more of a counselor, wanting to help people through their struggles.  I always thought of myself as a good kid, caring for others.  It was when I got to college and went through a crisis that I realized that I wasn’t all that good.  I did some soul searching and came to the conclusion that I knew about God, but I didn’t know Him.

One Sunday morning, the preacher was preaching on Jeremiah 17:9 - 10; “The heart is deceitful above all things. And desperately wicked, who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind. Even to give every man according to his ways. According to the fruit of his doings.” This verse described exactly how I was feeling! That afternoon, I met with my Sunday School teacher and told him my struggle.  I believed that if I got re-baptized that it would solve my problems. He asked me why I thought that getting baptized again would solve the issue, I really didn’t know, I guess I thought that if I did something it would make me feel better.  He was honest and said, “Larry, I think that you ‘know about God, but you really don’t know Him.”  He then proceeded to lead me through the scriptures that convinced me of the next steps to having a relationship with God. It changed my life and gave me the peace that I was seeking.