First off, let me introduce you to the one who matters most, my beautiful (I’d say HOT but this is a Christian site) wife Cristina. We’ve been married for 5 years and have 2 beautiful kids, Liv and Sophie.

Now about me.

I've known about God’s grace for as long as I can remember. From the beginning, something just clicked for me—I understood that my salvation was a gift I could never earn. But as I continued on this journey, I struggled with a culture that emphasized self-improvement and steps to become “better” Christians. It always seemed, and still does, that its about what you can do “extra” for God rather than just accepting that He did it ALL (If you have ALL, theres no extra… right?). Early on, I was beaten up spiritually pretty heavily for believing that Jesus did it all and that I had nothing to contribute toward earning my way to the Father.

No pity party here—just being real. After all, this is about me. 😉

As time went on, I even questioned if grace was truly this good or if I was crazy for believing what the Bible says: “It’s not of your works,” “Free for freedom’s sake,” “Where sin abounds, grace superabounds,” “In Christ, we are new creations,” “We are already seated with Jesus at the right hand of the Father,” “The free gift of God is eternal life in Christ,” “Canceling the record of debt that stood against us,” “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by His grace as a gift.”

But in the end, all I can do is trust the Word, not the “Ten steps to becoming the person Jesus would never have to die for in the first place” sermons.

My mission now is to share the Gospel that Jesus, Paul, and the apostles preached—the Gospel that got them all killed. If preaching the Gospel of Grace was the cause of their death, it’s probably the most important thing we should listen to.

"But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God." — Acts 20:24

Nice to meet you,

Forrest Young

PS - If you haven’t notice it yet, God loves you. Even when you feel like you’re not loving him with everything.