It's no exaggeration for me to put it this way. You are a treasure to Insight for Living. You and you alone represent someone who cares, someone who understands, someone who is growing and learning and, best of all, changing to become more like Christ. That thrills me more than anything I could name. So, thank you for being you, for being there for us. Believe me, I understand what that means. My appreciation knows no bounds. Thank you for the gift of you.
— Chuck Swindoll
Dear Dr. Swindoll, I am so grateful for your leadership and how the Lord has used your gifts and your model of obedient discipline as He speaks through you.
— Jon
Pastor Chuck and the insight for living team, I just want to thank you for opening my understanding of God's grace. Your teaching has really made me fall in love with God.
— Rona
I meditate over the wonderful Bible teaching and learn more about the people and lessons from the Bible than I ever had in years growing up in church. Thank you to Insight for Living for continually bringing Bible-based teaching that is growing the Christian family.
— Alison
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for always delivering poignant and scriptural broadcasts. Thank you for being such an inspiration to our family. Your service to God and the church is appreciated more than you could ever know.
— Rhonda
Tears are coming to my eyes while I type this. IFL is a special ministry that God has definitely blessed. God has used your ministry to teach me concepts and truths that are being sown into my spirit and I will be forever grateful for your ministry. Thank you.
— Rodney
During several tough seasons of life I would cry my way to work, that is until IFL started. I have collected several of Chuck's books through library and community book sales. Your ministry is a big part of my time with God. Thank you.
— Mary
Thank you for following your calling and bringing many to Christ and for helping me and many others to keep the faith and help us through our daily lives.
— Tina
I have not found any ministry that reaches so effectively into the life of the everyday Christian and leads them to a place of hope and renewed strength in the Lord through His Word.
— Alfreda
I know in the deepest of ways possible, that God speaks to me through Chuck.
— Fred
Thank you for being a steady, reliable source of encouragement in my walk with Jesus Christ.
— Sandra
I am grateful you have allowed Jesus to use your life to touch my live. In some cases it has been the Light in the progressive darkness that is emerging.
I recall your teaching on the Antichrist, it has helped me to appreciate what Jesus said when he compared the End times to the time of Noah.
It has helped me to live my life for the Lord as best as I can and seeking to get His will done everyday.
My prayer has been that God will touch so many millions more through your ministry as we prepare for his eventual return.
Yours in Christ,
— David
His programmes have helped me in my darkest hours, making me see beyond myself and grow as a person who truly loves my Lord Jesus Christ.
— Renee
—I felt I was failing in every way and to be with the Lord would be the only way to make that feeling end. But your words caught me & jerked me back to a sense of purpose in light of being a Christian. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I sought personal counseling for depression. Though our marriage didn't survive 15 years later, I had two more children and the blessing of being a mother to those three masterpieces brings me to tears of thanks daily! God has used my struggle with depression to comfort other mothers suffering loss, even to this day. Had I not heard that sentence from you that moment, the enemy would have won on so many levels. Thank you for your Biblical wisdom & sharing it so freely with the world!
I was raised in a fundamental church and I will always value the foundation I received there, but it was hard, austere, and had not much joy. You can imagine how Pastor Chuck rocked my world to discover that a believer in Jesus is supposed to have joy too! (big smile) Many sermons affected me, and I have a journal of tidbits that I would grab and write down verses and insights that particularly convicted/impacted me.
But the one that I have repeated to my now-adult daughters is the story of the socks! (I wonder if there is a word limit on this box? LOL) My husband is in agriculture, and it was not uncommon for him to walk fields and get his work socks incredibly grungy. I am blessed to have a husband whose feet do not stink but were those socks ever dirty! When he took them off they would land in the hamper all wadded up with a lb. of soil in them. How that irked me!
I grumbled, usually NOT under my breath, about that dirt and how I had to shake out the socks . . . how ungracious I must have sounded! Praise God He gave me 38 years and counting to make up to my poor husband for my harsh attitude about those dumb socks.
How did my attitude turn around? Quite simply, I believe that God was sick of my attitude about them. You decide if you agree with me on that. It had been a morning when I had been particularly aggravated while I was doing laundry, and I was at work listening to Pastor Chuck when all of a sudden he mentioned wives grumbling about their husbands. My ears perked up, and when he mentioned us grumbling about laundry and wadded up socks—I kid you not, He said wadded up socks!—I almost fell out of my chair.
This was in the mid-1990s, and I remember the force of that conviction as if it had happened an hour ago. Pastor Chuck went on to say that we should use the opportunity of the socks to praise God that we had a husband to wear socks. I am crying even as I type it. Yes, that one sermon completely changed my mindset and attitude. PRAISE GOD!
A few months went by and I was retelling the story to my sister. I mentioned to her the miracle of how once I stopped complaining about the socks and just did the laundry, my heart changed and I was no longer disgusted by those socks. When I saw them I remembered what Pastor Chuck said, and I thanked God that my husband was a steady provider, a hard worker, that he very seldom complained, and lo and behold the socks no longer bothered me! What a testament to our Father.
But the story does not end there: a few months after my change of heart, my husband overheard me tell the story to my sister and he remarked that he had no idea that those socks bothered me. (Maybe I had not grumbled as loud as I thought? But God had certainly heard my disquieted spirit.) To this day (30+ years), I kid you not, I have never seen another wadded up sock or very few grains of soil. Can you believe it?
What a mighty God we serve that He should have Pastor Chuck teach men and women how to be God-honoring spouses, that we should listen to him, and that God should change something as seemingly trivial as an attitude toward socks. I have shared this testimony with sisters and daughters, and it always brings a tear to my eye and a smile to my heart to think of how faithful God is and how faithful Pastor Chuck has been. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for the faithful and available ministry of Insight for Living.
—S.M.