Welcome to One Life Following Him ✝️
Feeling Lost or Stuck?
Are you searching for more - someone who wants to live your life with conviction, clarity, and courage?
Maybe you’re doing your best, but most days feel like survival: managing life, juggling problems, and putting out fires. And underneath all of it is a deeper question you can’t ignore:
Is this all there is… or is God calling me to something more?
Start with Jesus
Real life begins with Jesus - it starts with surrender. If you’re searching for faith, peace, and a foundation that won’t shift when life gets hard, Jesus is not just part of the answer - He is the answer. When you anchor your life in Christ, you don’t just gain inspiration; you gain a new identity, a steady purpose, and a different way to live.
Discover your calling
You weren’t created to drift through life. You were created on purpose and for a purpose. When you begin to see your life through the lens of calling, living stops being “trying to prove yourself” and becomes stewardship - using your gifts to serve people well, make wise decisions, and build what honors God.
Why Follow Jesus?
Because life isn’t something you figure out alone - and the cost of doing it your own way is too high.
If you’re honest, you already know something needs to change. Not just your habits. Not just your mindset. Something deeper.
Most of us spend years chasing the same things - approval, control, comfort, success - only to find they don’t hold up when life gets heavy. We try harder. We do better. We promise ourselves “this time will be different.” And for a while, it is… until it isn’t.
That’s where Jesus is different.
Jesus doesn’t offer self-improvement. He offers a new life.
Following Jesus is choosing surrender over striving - because you’ve realized you were never meant to be your own savior. It’s submitting your life to the One who made you, knows you fully, and still invites you in.
Luke 9:23-24
Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
Why Jesus?
- Grace – You don’t have to earn your way back to God. Jesus already made the way.
- Freedom – Not freedom to do whatever you want, but freedom from what’s been holding you: sin, shame, fear, and the exhausting need to prove yourself.
- Purpose – Your life isn’t random. In Christ, you’re given a calling that’s bigger than success and deeper than achievement.
- Transformation – Real change doesn’t come from trying harder; it comes from being made new from the inside out.
- Hope that holds – When circumstances shake, Jesus doesn’t. He’s steady, present, and faithful - especially when you’re not.
You don’t need more information. You need redemption. You need a Savior.
And Jesus isn’t just a better way to live - He is the way.
If you’re tired of carrying your life on your own shoulders, the invitation is still open: come to Him. Surrender. Follow. And discover what it means to be truly alive.
If you're interested in learning more about Jesus and The Good News, check out my partner page with The Disciple Daily: The-Good-News-Bill – The Disciple Daily
About Bill
Jesus transformed my life!
Greetings friend. I'm Bill Martin, and I'm a follower of Jesus.
I have a heart and passion for sharing the Good News of Jesus with others. Not only what it means to surrender our lives to Him, but what it looks like to Follow Him.
Will you Follow Him with me?
I love sharing content and stories based on God's Word on YouTube and TikTok on my @onelifefollowingHim channel, and I invite you to follow me as I tell others about Jesus.
I'm blessed to be married to my wife, Marti, for 33 years, with 2 daughters and their husbands, and 2 g-kids.