ABOUT Jerry Duckworth

GOD HAS RADICALLY TRANSFORMED MY LIFE FOR HIS GLORY!

For the longest time, I was committed to living my life the way I wanted to live it. I had no regard for God or the things of God, and I was content living a lifestyle that openly transgresses the holy Law of God. I had to be broken, humbled, and judged by God before the obedience of one security guard changed my life.

Since that time, God's grace, through the power of the gospel has changed my outlook on the world. I have been given a new heart with new desires, and I have truly become a new creation in Christ Jesus.

God has blessed me tremendously by giving me my loving and supporting wife, Allison, and our two children, John and Levi. I am honored to serve the Lord by speaking in various churches and even ministering to inmates with ChristSong Ministries.

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IN FAITHFUL COOPERATION FOR THE GOSPEL

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FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT

On Christmas Eve of 2017, I was in the darkest place of my life. I had been arrested for felony probation violation and possession of meth. I had gotten into a fight with another inmate and was charged with assault inflicting serious bodily injury and thrown into an isolation cell.
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So here I am, Christmas Eve, in an isolation cell under the Burke County Courthouse. I cannot celebrate with the other inmates, and I can’t even call home to wish my family a Merry Christmas. I thought to myself, “This is my life now, locked up like an animal, alone with no hope, and then I will die and burn in Hell for all eternity." The darkness engulfed me along with a suffocating sense of hopelessness.

As the suffocating darkness seemed to swallow me whole my eyes were opened to my predicament. I felt as if the ground could open up at any moment and I would plummet into the fiery depths of Hell. I did not fully understand the Gospel. All I knew is that I was compelled to do whatever was necessary to be saved.

I wanted to bust out of that cell and run to a church, but I could not and my fear and desperation increased. What if I died before I could be saved? I was nearly in a panic and began to cry out to the other inmate, “I need to be saved! What do I do?" He told me to calm down and that one of the Christian guards would be on duty soon. That gave me some small sense of ease, but that was in four hours! What if Christ came back before then?! I paced back and forth until finally he was on duty and was walking past my cell. I stopped him and said these words that I had heard from the book of Acts “What must I do to be saved?” He led me to Christ and suddenly my heart overflowed with a sense of the love of God. I felt a peace wash over me as if I could feel the blood of Jesus cleanse me, and I knew that my life would never be the same. It was out of the darkness that the light of the Gospel shone forth in all its brilliant splendor, and my life was changed forever: post tenebras lux

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CALLED TO PROCLAIM GOD'S WORD

As a Kingdom-focused student of God's Word, I am eager to share what God has been teaching me with your church. Skilled in expositional preaching, hermeneutics, apologetics, and evangelism, I deliver practical sermons that come straight from Scripture and encourage growth in your sheep.

EXPOSITIONAL PREACHING
THEOLOGICALLY SOUND APPLICATIONS
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A few words About Me

GOD HAS RADICALLY TRANSFORMED MY LIFE FOR HIS GLORY!

IN FAITHFUL COOPERATION FOR THE GOSPEL

FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT

CALLED TO PROCLAIM GOD'S WORD

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