Emphasis Preaching Journal

Josh was a normal, inquisitive adolescent. He liked to explore, take risks, and push the limits. When he was fourteen, he and a friend broke into a neighbor's house and looted the liquor cabinet. That was the start of Josh's downhill slide. By the time Josh was a junior in high school he was drinking daily, getting so drunk some nights that he didn't remember what he did or how he got home. His grades plummeted as his nightlife soared. Finally, one night in a drunken stupor, he fell down the stairs of a parking garage face first into the plate-glass door.