Thank you so much Ashly, for airing this awesome story. None of us is perfect; to hear these testimonies helps me and hopefully others to stay the course and trust in the Lord who is always extending out His arm of mercy to us. Thank thou both, may the Lord continue to bless you both.👍❤️❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼💕
The strength of the opposition indicates the strength of our position. If we were like every other church, no one would oppose us. But we Latter-day Saints stand for something, and that is that God speaks today. Thanks for sharing. Each of us must come to a knowledge of the truth through study, prayer and the witness of the Holy Spirit.
I love these stories so much. Just how real and vulnerable they are. I was able to feel my saviours love through this. And also was able to relate to his son's experience. My family also was less active and trying to figure things out after my parent's divorce. To make a long story short the missionaries found us and the ward rallied to take me and my siblings to church and church activities when our parents couldn't/didn't want to and I started going to seminary and gained a testimony and the rest is history so to speak. Served a mission, married in the temple, had a kid with another on its way. Both my parents had their own paths back to the church and are now amiable to each other. Life is not perfect but it is good. God is good.
What a story! The children who find a way amaze me sooo much!! And give a lot of hope. It's kind of like salmon who leave their home, enter the teaming ocean, then make their way back to the stream of their beginning. The children often get crumbs and make a beautiful life out of those crumbs. God bless!!
@@sherigraham3873 Yes. The Lord in His infinite wisdom gave us the plan of salvation and happiness which in its focal point includes having children. Having children is one of life's saving joys. And in many cases those children will take a part in the salvation of their parents.
Thank you, Karl, for sharing your story! The Lord does love you and each one of us. I have felt that myself, and I'm so grateful for what He did for us.
Thank for sharing all the amazing faith crisis journey’s you’ve had on your show! It’s amazing how we look at people from the outside and think they have it all…… however, once the doors are closed, it’s a different story! Thank you Karl for sharing your story 💕 I truly enjoyed listening to your interview.
So happy for Karl and his conversion story! This is an awesome podcast. Thank you for your time and effort, and for everyone sharing their experiences.! So happy for all of you!!❤
Very good interview. Thankyou for helping others who need to hear this experience. Very timely for our day. Good nuggets of insight for many challenging life directions and situations. This truly is a labor of love 💕.
Ashley, thank you. I'm sure you get quite a few of those lately. The popular thing to do these days is to post videos about how you finally have seen the light, etc, and have left the church. One of my favorite hymns is, who's on the Lord's side who? In it is the most powerful true statement there ever was. " No coward bears our flag". Bravo good woman. I haven't watched even a minute of this video, but the point and message is clear, rings true to me, so I just had to comment here. Keep up the good work!
C'mon guys! Over 8,000 views and only 325 likes?? Let's show some love here! Thank you Ashley and Lauren for all the time and effort you put into these! They give me hope and fill me with the Savior's love for everyone ❤
I really appreciate these stories. Thank you so much for dedicating your time to this channel. And thank you, Karl, for reaching out to share your story.
Another great interview, Ashly. Thank you. And thanks to Karl, too. The peace inside people who come back is plain to see. And I know it, too, from experience. But like when I left church and entertained the anti’s views, that peace just simply wasn’t there. A lot of them have a really septic, putrefying energy. It’s ironic that the thing they hate so much becomes the central focal point of their lives. Others just move on. When my gay brother left, he still loved and supported my mom going. And when a friend got unjustly excommunicated with no evidence he just moved on a setup a highly successful international business. Whingers, whiners and complainers love to cluster, and it has nothing to do with the church. And everything to do with mindset. Whether at the drinking fountain at work, in the army, or anywhere there are people, you always find them. In business they’re called crap magnets. I’m so glad I moved on from that and left it all behind. So grateful for Karl’s testimony. The peace of the Saviour and His gospel, being square in your own conscience, and your bishop is very real, and simply can’t be replicated in any drug den, den of depravity or anywhere else the world has to offer. Repentance truly is a gift from God, an invitation to turn away from the direction you’re going in and turn your heart back towards Him. “Peace give I unto you. Not as the world giveth, give I unto you.”
Thank you Karl! This story sounds fairly vulnerable. Im grateful you were courageous enough to talk about it. Also, can I just say that your kids sound absolutely amazing? I mean I’m sure you knew that but it’s always nice to hear when other people tell you, right? 😄 they sound like they have a lot of grit and just know what matters in life!
If you look for things wrong with any thing in this world ..chruch or people,you will find it! You need to decide whos side you are on. And and have faith!
Karl thank you for sharing your story of the life lessons you have learned through leaving the church and coming back. Thank you so much, this gives me a lot of insight into how I can continue to pray for family members in my family who has left the gospel and the church. God never gives up on anyone. He loves all of his children to the very end of their lives. And He is with all of us each and every day even if people can't feel His presence He is always there. Jesus has a tenacious love for all of His brothers and sisters and He wants all of us to come back into His Father's presence!
It comes down to this in my mind... were you happy in the old world with your ex, thinking the church wasn't true but doing the things you were doing? Or living the life in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, whether it's true or not? I truly believe it's true and I pick that path to live because it makes me happy, peaceful, helps me be more loving and giving. The other way when you're going down a wrong path, you're selfish, everything is about you and it gets very lonely. So, why not pick the path to live the way Jesus lived to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ? It seems like a no Brainer. I do admire all these stories and the bravery it takes to tell them. Even though I never wanted to leave the church, and I'm 68 now, these stories help me to keep the faith for some of my children that have left that they might return before I die one day ❤
😁I just keep wanting to say more! John did create his on chruch on mormon stories .because he can't come to relize he can't leave the chruch completely.
Heartfelt story. My only concern is that Karl's portrayal of former LDS might be taken too universally. Most former LDS I know go on living moral lives with strong families and merely have a different set of personal beliefs based on their own moral convictions. People of all faiths can fall into vices that they need to escape from. I'm glad that the church helped Karl get his life back on track.
For me what it comes down to personal revelation and a relationship with God. God is the main piece to all of this and what I have been noticing is the people who don't have that piece are the ones who struggle the most.-Lauren
@@Come.Back.Podcast I would say that for the most part, I completely agree with you. I have talked with, and interviewed hundreds of people who have gone thru or are going thru struggles with their beliefs. I find that in many, many of those cases, people have put their trust and faith in an Organization, and not The Gospel. In order for me to make everything work, I had to separate "The Church" and "The Gospel" and realize that they are not the same thing. The Church is a vehicle that will lead us to The Gospel, and when we rely too much on an institution that is led by people who make mistakes and don't always do the right thing, when we find those flaws, it is damaging to our testimonies because they weren't founded in the right things...Namely what you mentioned. Personal revelation and a relationship with Deity. It's not that these persons are "Lazy Learners" or that they "Want to sin" or that the gospel is "Too hard or demanding" it's that when the warts and blemishes of The Church are discovered, they don't know how to deal with it, because they always believed there weren't any!! I recently read a book by Henry Eyring Sr. called "Reflections of a Scientist". Amazing book IMHO and I loved the fact that he has always advocated for the warts and blemishes to be front and center. If I had one minor complaint about how The Church has handled some of these issues it would be that I feel like they have acted like an overprotective parent in that they haven't publicly dealt with turbulent issues. Thanks for everything :)
The LDS church has always been a safe place for white men. It's a fraught place for POC and LGBTQ people. That's changed very little in the past 40 years
@@highsociety7677 you're ridiculous. I know how much gay members suffer because of absurd LDS theology and rhetoric. I don't have any respect at all for LDS leaders or apologists. And I'm suspicious of members who are so callous and unChristlike that they ignore how people suffer
@@highsociety7677Apt name fits Are you serious ? Or just being country club flippant? The racism is appalling. Pologamy. Witchcraft. Occult practices in temple . Blood Atonement for years. What's next secret decoder rings? I will be nice and use LDS. Does LDS ever acknowledge and apologize? The arrogance is mind boogling. Has any researched and paid reparation to descendants of the MM massacre? You should. Public apology to blacks for the racist mouth of Brigham Young? So either God is a racist or Brigham is a false prophet. BOM not one shred of evidence from an accredited source. My great uncle is an archeologist and he said we have no idea where Harry Potter land is. So don't be so smug
When you seek answers from the Book of Mormon instead of the Bible, God can't help you because you have turned your back on Him. Therefore this leaves the door open for Satan (II Corinthians 11:14-15) to step into your life with a false christ or prophet showing you "signs and wonders" to lead you away from the real Jesus of the Bible who is God the Son 2nd person of the Trinity. God Himself warns us about this in MATTHEW 24:23-24 "Then if anyone says to you, Look, here is the Christ! or There! do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect..." Mormons teach and believe that their jesus is the brother of Satan, which contradicts what God says in His Bible that Jesus is God the Son 2nd person of the Trinity. So Mormons, which Jesus do you believe in? A. Your jesus of the Book of Mormon, who is the brother of Satan. OR B. The Jesus of the Bible, who is God the Son 2nd person of the Trinity.
Matthew 7:16-20 King James Version 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
@Brent Statham II CORINTHIANS 11:14-15 "And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works..." MATTHEW 24:23-24 "Then if anyone says to you,Look, here is the Christ! or There! do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect..." So "great signs and wonders" don't mean the truth. Knowing the true identity of Jesus Christ (John 14:6) in a world full of false christs and false prophets (Matthew 24:23-24) will mean the difference between you going to heaven or hell.
@@rushit2me meet “Bored Albert.” He’s a troll. A well meaning one. But he never engages in any meaningful dialogue. Doesn’t watch the interviews, just comes here to force his beliefs down everyone’s throat. He’s best just left to his own devices and ignored.
@Millennial Falkon Well here's your chance to show me the truth (?). Answer this question: Why isn't there any archeological evidence to support any stories that is in the Book of Mormon? To this day, the Mormon church hasn't provided any kind of archeological evidence to support anything in the Book of Mormon.
@@AlbertJLouieif you spent time talking to a member of the church who has overcome sin through the Atonement of Jesus Christ from the doctrines taught in the Book of Mormon that in my mind would be plenty of evidence. Having archaeological evidence for the Bible does not save one from sin. We all have that. Having faith in Jesus Christ will save. Open your heart and listen and watch someone who has been transformed through the Grace of Jesus Christ. The spiritual archeology is more important than then physical. As Jesus said to Thomas, blessed are those that haven’t seen but believe.
“Members do their best.” Amen. Thank you Karl for sharing your experience and your testimony of Jesus Christ.
Thank you, Karl, for having the courage to share your story.
You have no idea how important these podcasts are. The Spirits telling me all these amazing testimonies can and will, help those falling away. 🙏❤️
This podcast is a bright spot for me. Thank you for taking the time to do it, and kudos to Karl and all your guests for their boldness and bravery.
Thanks Karl for being brave and sharing your story! You will help many come back to the gospel!
Wonderful. Now I pray more will return! GOD NEVER FORGETS HIS CHILDREN.
Thanks for sharing Karl, you are awesome!
Thank you so much Ashly, for airing this awesome story. None of us is perfect; to hear these testimonies helps me and hopefully others to stay the course and trust in the Lord who is always extending out His arm of mercy to us. Thank thou both, may the Lord continue to bless you both.👍❤️❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼💕
The strength of the opposition indicates the strength of our position. If we were like every other church, no one would oppose us. But we Latter-day Saints stand for something, and that is that God speaks today. Thanks for sharing. Each of us must come to a knowledge of the truth through study, prayer and the witness of the Holy Spirit.
Thank you for your story 🙏
I love these stories so much. Just how real and vulnerable they are. I was able to feel my saviours love through this. And also was able to relate to his son's experience. My family also was less active and trying to figure things out after my parent's divorce. To make a long story short the missionaries found us and the ward rallied to take me and my siblings to church and church activities when our parents couldn't/didn't want to and I started going to seminary and gained a testimony and the rest is history so to speak. Served a mission, married in the temple, had a kid with another on its way. Both my parents had their own paths back to the church and are now amiable to each other. Life is not perfect but it is good. God is good.
What a story! The children who find a way amaze me sooo much!! And give a lot of hope. It's kind of like salmon who leave their home, enter the teaming ocean, then make their way back to the stream of their beginning.
The children often get crumbs and make a beautiful life out of those crumbs. God bless!!
@@sherigraham3873 Yes. The Lord in His infinite wisdom gave us the plan of salvation and happiness which in its focal point includes having children. Having children is one of life's saving joys. And in many cases those children will take a part in the salvation of their parents.
@@CarlosMunoz-hw1zj Wow, that's a beautiful response! One eternal round. I guess I never thought of it that way.
Thank you, Karl, for sharing your story! The Lord does love you and each one of us. I have felt that myself, and I'm so grateful for what He did for us.
I was serving my mission with John Dehlin in the Guatemala North Mission back in 1988. I would not have imagine that John would leave the Church.
Thank you Karl. God truly has the whole world in his hands.
Ashly, you're doing great work. Thank you for providing this platform!
Thank for sharing all the amazing faith crisis journey’s you’ve had on your show! It’s amazing how we look at people from the outside and think they have it all…… however, once the doors are closed, it’s a different story!
Thank you Karl for sharing your story 💕 I truly enjoyed listening to your interview.
Wow, lots of things to smile about in Karl's story. The Lord's mercy is endless.
Loved it. I Learned a few things. Thank you.
So happy for Karl and his conversion story! This is an awesome podcast. Thank you for your time and effort, and for everyone sharing their experiences.! So happy for all of you!!❤
Awesome testimony, Karl. Loved it.
Another wonderful story! Thank you for dedicating your time and energy to bring the world these stories.
Very good interview. Thankyou for helping others who need to hear this experience. Very timely for our day. Good nuggets of insight for many challenging life directions and situations. This truly is a labor of love 💕.
Sister Stone, thank you for your testimony and for your service in hosting this podcast. Much appreciated! Best blessings to you.
Ashley, thank you. I'm sure you get quite a few of those lately. The popular thing to do these days is to post videos about how you finally have seen the light, etc, and have left the church. One of my favorite hymns is, who's on the Lord's side who? In it is the most powerful true statement there ever was. " No coward bears our flag". Bravo good woman.
I haven't watched even a minute of this video, but the point and message is clear, rings true to me, so I just had to comment here. Keep up the good work!
As an organist and lover of the hymns I love that song. The hymns are truly scripture to me.
I love redeeming stories. We all have ‘em !!! Jesus heals everything He touches if we let Him. I didn’t catch the pod cast. 3 dads …. ?
3 dads bods. It's on spotify ...thanks for the comments.
C'mon guys! Over 8,000 views and only 325 likes?? Let's show some love here!
Thank you Ashley and Lauren for all the time and effort you put into these! They give me hope and fill me with the Savior's love for everyone ❤
Thank you so much - you're freaking awesome!
I really appreciate these stories. Thank you so much for dedicating your time to this channel. And thank you, Karl, for reaching out to share your story.
Another great interview, Ashly. Thank you. And thanks to Karl, too.
The peace inside people who come back is plain to see. And I know it, too, from experience.
But like when I left church and entertained the anti’s views, that peace just simply wasn’t there.
A lot of them have a really septic, putrefying energy. It’s ironic that the thing they hate so much becomes the central focal point of their lives.
Others just move on. When my gay brother left, he still loved and supported my mom going. And when a friend got unjustly excommunicated with no evidence he just moved on a setup a highly successful international business.
Whingers, whiners and complainers love to cluster, and it has nothing to do with the church. And everything to do with mindset.
Whether at the drinking fountain at work, in the army, or anywhere there are people, you always find them. In business they’re called crap magnets. I’m so glad I moved on from that and left it all behind.
So grateful for Karl’s testimony. The peace of the Saviour and His gospel, being square in your own conscience, and your bishop is very real, and simply can’t be replicated in any drug den, den of depravity or anywhere else the world has to offer.
Repentance truly is a gift from God, an invitation to turn away from the direction you’re going in and turn your heart back towards Him.
“Peace give I unto you. Not as the world giveth, give I unto you.”
Thank you Karl! This story sounds fairly vulnerable. Im grateful you were courageous enough to talk about it. Also, can I just say that your kids sound absolutely amazing? I mean I’m sure you knew that but it’s always nice to hear when other people tell you, right? 😄 they sound like they have a lot of grit and just know what matters in life!
If you look for things wrong with any thing in this world ..chruch or people,you will find it! You need to decide whos side you are on. And and have faith!
Karl thank you for sharing your story of the life lessons you have learned through leaving the church and coming back. Thank you so much, this gives me a lot of insight into how I can continue to pray for family members in my family who has left the gospel and the church. God never gives up on anyone. He loves all of his children to the very end of their lives. And He is with all of us each and every day even if people can't feel His presence He is always there. Jesus has a tenacious love for all of His brothers and sisters and He wants all of us to come back into His Father's presence!
❤️
Thank you Ashley for producing this podcast! I love it! I love hearing everyone's stories oh, they are so awe inspiring!
Bless those children!
It comes down to this in my mind... were you happy in the old world with your ex, thinking the church wasn't true but doing the things you were doing? Or living the life in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, whether it's true or not? I truly believe it's true and I pick that path to live because it makes me happy, peaceful, helps me be more loving and giving. The other way when you're going down a wrong path, you're selfish, everything is about you and it gets very lonely. So, why not pick the path to live the way Jesus lived to live the Gospel of Jesus Christ? It seems like a no Brainer. I do admire all these stories and the bravery it takes to tell them. Even though I never wanted to leave the church, and I'm 68 now, these stories help me to keep the faith for some of my children that have left that they might return before I die one day ❤
😁I just keep wanting to say more! John did create his on chruch on mormon stories .because he can't come to relize he can't leave the chruch completely.
🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍
Heartfelt story. My only concern is that Karl's portrayal of former LDS might be taken too universally. Most former LDS I know go on living moral lives with strong families and merely have a different set of personal beliefs based on their own moral convictions. People of all faiths can fall into vices that they need to escape from. I'm glad that the church helped Karl get his life back on track.
So after u have been thru this experience, how can we help others who are moving down this path?
I think those that leave the chruch might feel like Adam and
eve when the have to go out into the DARKand dreary world. The soon find they need God..
In all sincerity...How do you get past the lies, deceit, untruths and deceptions of the Church?
For me what it comes down to personal revelation and a relationship with God. God is the main piece to all of this and what I have been noticing is the people who don't have that piece are the ones who struggle the most.-Lauren
@@Come.Back.Podcast I would say that for the most part, I completely agree with you. I have talked with, and interviewed hundreds of people who have gone thru or are going thru struggles with their beliefs. I find that in many, many of those cases, people have put their trust and faith in an Organization, and not The Gospel. In order for me to make everything work, I had to separate "The Church" and "The Gospel" and realize that they are not the same thing. The Church is a vehicle that will lead us to The Gospel, and when we rely too much on an institution that is led by people who make mistakes and don't always do the right thing, when we find those flaws, it is damaging to our testimonies because they weren't founded in the right things...Namely what you mentioned. Personal revelation and a relationship with Deity. It's not that these persons are "Lazy Learners" or that they "Want to sin" or that the gospel is "Too hard or demanding" it's that when the warts and blemishes of The Church are discovered, they don't know how to deal with it, because they always believed there weren't any!! I recently read a book by Henry Eyring Sr. called "Reflections of a Scientist". Amazing book IMHO and I loved the fact that he has always advocated for the warts and blemishes to be front and center. If I had one minor complaint about how The Church has handled some of these issues it would be that I feel like they have acted like an overprotective parent in that they haven't publicly dealt with turbulent issues.
Thanks for everything :)
Lies? Paul Gregersen debunked the arrogant Egyptologists, the anti-Mormons are now ignoring it. Therefore, how could it be lies?
@@richardholmes5676Paul LDS payroll by chance?
@@andreatimmers1720 Are you that weirdo Jacques Hinks?
The LDS church has always been a safe place for white men. It's a fraught place for POC and LGBTQ people. That's changed very little in the past 40 years
@@highsociety7677 you're ridiculous. I know how much gay members suffer because of absurd LDS theology and rhetoric. I don't have any respect at all for LDS leaders or apologists. And I'm suspicious of members who are so callous and unChristlike that they ignore how people suffer
@@highsociety7677Apt name fits Are you serious ? Or just being country club flippant? The racism is appalling. Pologamy. Witchcraft. Occult practices in temple . Blood Atonement for years. What's next secret decoder rings? I will be nice and use LDS. Does LDS ever acknowledge and apologize? The arrogance is mind boogling. Has any researched and paid reparation to descendants of the MM massacre? You should. Public apology to blacks for the racist mouth of Brigham Young? So either God is a racist or Brigham is a false prophet. BOM not one shred of evidence from an accredited source. My great uncle is an archeologist and he said we have no idea where Harry Potter land is. So don't be so smug
@@nathanbigler she is a total blind LDS zombie
When you seek answers from the Book of Mormon instead of the Bible, God can't help you because you have turned your back on Him. Therefore this leaves the door open for Satan (II Corinthians 11:14-15) to step into your life with a false christ or prophet showing you "signs and wonders" to lead you away from the real Jesus of the Bible who is God the Son 2nd person of the Trinity. God Himself warns us about this in MATTHEW 24:23-24 "Then if anyone says to you, Look, here is the Christ! or There! do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect..."
Mormons teach and believe that their jesus is the brother of Satan, which contradicts what God says in His Bible that Jesus is God the Son 2nd person of the Trinity.
So Mormons, which Jesus do you believe in?
A. Your jesus of the Book of Mormon, who is the brother of Satan.
OR
B. The Jesus of the Bible, who is God the Son 2nd person of the Trinity.
Matthew 7:16-20
King James Version
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
@Brent Statham
II CORINTHIANS 11:14-15 "And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works..."
MATTHEW 24:23-24 "Then if anyone says to you,Look, here is the Christ! or There! do not believe it. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect..."
So "great signs and wonders" don't mean the truth.
Knowing the true identity of Jesus Christ (John 14:6) in a world full of false christs and false prophets (Matthew 24:23-24) will mean the difference between you going to heaven or hell.
@@rushit2me meet “Bored Albert.” He’s a troll. A well meaning one. But he never engages in any meaningful dialogue. Doesn’t watch the interviews, just comes here to force his beliefs down everyone’s throat. He’s best just left to his own devices and ignored.
@Millennial Falkon
Well here's your chance to show me the truth (?).
Answer this question:
Why isn't there any archeological evidence to support any stories that is in the Book of Mormon?
To this day, the Mormon church hasn't provided any kind of archeological evidence to support anything in the Book of Mormon.
@@AlbertJLouieif you spent time talking to a member of the church who has overcome sin through the Atonement of Jesus Christ from the doctrines taught in the Book of Mormon that in my mind would be plenty of evidence.
Having archaeological evidence for the Bible does not save one from sin. We all have that. Having faith in Jesus Christ will save. Open your heart and listen and watch someone who has been transformed through the Grace of Jesus Christ. The spiritual archeology is more important than then physical. As Jesus said to Thomas, blessed are those that haven’t seen but believe.