Anyone can read for themselves about the realities of God. They can even hear from others about the realities of God. But few people realize that they can experience the realities of God first-hand as He personally reveals them. When that happens a transformation occurs, and after that life is never the same.
Ransom’s Place is a place where we declare these moments, celebrate these moments, and help people experience their own moments. Some of you may have had a sense of these moments while reading Abomey. That’s why you are here right now.
You’ve come hoping to see if it was some kind of freakish accident. If possible, you want to experience it again. And it's true … YOU CAN! If at any point while reading Abomey you said to yourself, “Hmm, I hadn’t thought of it that way before”, then this website is for you.
Updated: Jan 7, 2024
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is contempt prior to examination."
Herbert Spencer
"The only certain barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it."
Chuck Missler
Updated: Jan 7, 2024
"Remember, therefore, it is not thy hold of Christ that saves thee—it is Christ; it is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee—it is Christ; it is not even faith in Christ, though that be the instrument—it is Christ’s blood and merits; therefore, look not so much to thy hand with which thou art grasping Christ, as to Christ; look not to thy hope, but to Jesus, the source of thy hope; look not to thy faith, but to Jesus, the author and finisher of thy faith. We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. If we would at once overcome Satan and have peace with God, it must be by “looking unto Jesus.” Keep thine eye simply on him; let his death, his sufferings, his merits, his glories, his intercession, be fresh upon thy mind; when thou wakest in the morning look to him; when thou liest down at night look to him. Oh! let not thy hopes or fears come between thee and Jesus; follow hard after him, and he will never fail thee."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Ransom is a family man, a friend, a physician, a churchman. He loves people and he loves life. He loves figures of speech. So, he loves to tell stories.
When he was a junior in high school he had an experience that was foundational to his life.
He remembers it vividly. He was sitting on the floor in his bedroom listening to record albums with a friend. Those record albums are old now but they were new then. He and his friend weren't talking. They were just listening. Listening not only to the lyrics and music of each song but also to the messages embedded in them. His friend had reached the summit of childhood and was about to graduate from high school; then he would crest that summit and head off to college. In that moment, they both stood on that summit together looking back and looking forward. On that summit, it was natural for them to be focusing on both the past and what lay shrouded in the shadowy uncertain future. They were reflecting on what had been and taking a serious look at the paths ahead that would either shape their destinies or would be shaped by them. Naturally, echoes of purpose and meaning were calling out to them from within those shadows.
It was in those moments that Ransom's personality, talents, abilities, and passions based on his past crafted a bridge that shot out into that shadowy uncertain future, and it wasn't subtle. Through the years he has described it as an extremely dense, heavy feeling of "ought". The density was at least visceral if not palpable. He knew he had something others longed for and that he had to share. It was what his life ought to be about.
Over the next forty-some years, his perspectives were shaped by his experiences, increases in his knowledge, and strengthening in his passions. He has had opportunities to lead small groups and speak from stages in both secular and sacred settings. He has been asked to bring those perspectives and share them while sitting on various boards of churches and organizations. Then about 10 years ago while in the midst of many of these opportunities, he began to write. Through those writings, he developed characters that are central to his story Abomey. He has already begun a second work using those characters and has ideas for a few more. They are just some of the stories that he believes he ought to share.
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