My name is Brian Booth and I’m a sinner who was drawn by God to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit regenerated me, gave me faith and true repentance and continues to teach me the truth of God’s Word. This website is my form of witnessing the Good News, the works of Jesus Christ, to whoever will listen.

Growing up I went to church like most kids did in my day. As I got older I turned away from church, not out of anger or unbelief, but simply because I put friends, work and my own interests above the church. I always held onto what I had learned during that time and talked about the Bible a good bit to others. After marrying my beautiful wife Ellen we started going back to the same kind of church we grew up in.

Years later my wife began feeling something was wrong. Other people seemed completely satisfied with the preaching, including me. For her something was missing and she didn’t know what it was. In her search to shake her confusion she started listening to some preachers online like John MacArthur, which only confused her more. I listened to them and they were saying things I had never heard before and simply didn’t believe. The truth of those sermons was reaching her, but I just wanted to prove the men wrong. I searched the Bible specifically to disprove their sermons, but I found the exact opposite. Their teachings were grounded in Scripture with nothing taken out of context; it was undeniably biblical.

I fought hard to hold onto my old traditions. It felt like the ground was crumbling underneath me and I didn’t know these new biblical truths well enough to stand on them. I was in a transition where I couldn’t stay where I was. I knew without a doubt what I had been taught was wrong, but what was going to happen? Would I gain a new, true and solid foundation in place of the one that had falsely supported me?
I wrote an article titled, Why I Couldn’t Understand What I Didn’t Understand that goes into this in more detail.

I was in my mid-40s before the Holy Spirit began giving me understanding of Scripture. It became easier letting go of what I used to believe and embracing the truth. It’s hard to recognize that you are reading and studying the Bible through the lens of tradition or false belief. Once you let it go, let the Bible speak and let the Holy Spirit give you insight, everything falls into place. Believe the Bible’s truth and, like me, quit trying to force the Bible to bend to what you think.

My hope is that the Holy Spirit will use this website, Called to Light, to bring a better understanding of Scripture to all who read it.