How to Live and Keep from Dying

About the Book

This handbook on how to live and enjoy the Abundant Christian Life is drawn from wonderful experiences I was so blessed to share with Pat, my loving wife of 59 years. This very Special Lady was the light of my life and the joy of my heart from the time we became sweethearts in junior high school until she slipped away to heaven in March of this year (2013). It is in loving memory of her that I dedicate this book with hopes that many will be encouraged and helped in their quest to Live and Keep from Dying. Dick Braswell 2013

About the Author

Dick Braswell has been in the ministry for the past fifty years and was Senior Pastor of Life Church in Mobile, Alabama for forty seven years until he semi-retired in 2009. A former Southern Baptist, he received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit in the early days of the Charismatic Movement and led his church into the mainstream of neo-Pentecostal theology. Life Church in Mobile emerged from a small congregation to become a growing church with a world vision that has placed and supported missionaries and mission works in Liberia, Ghana, and Serra Leone West Africa, the former Soviet Union, the South Pacific, Central America, Indonesia, Eastern Europe, Siberia, and Hawaii. In addition, it has made a powerful impact on the entire Gulf Coast with its Home Mission outreaches and satellite churches. He and his wife, Pat, founded and established Faith Academy, a Christian School, in 1969 and it is now one of the largest Christian Schools in the state of Alabama with a student body of approximately 2000. He is presently serving as President and Administrator of Life Church Ministries, writing and speaking in leadership conferences at home and abroad and enjoying time with his family.