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From Dummy to Doctor
Thankfully, God did hold out hope for Eric. It was the blessed hope of the Lord Jesus Christ. God did for Eric what education, correction, and rehabilitation could not—He made Eric a new creature with a new nature and a new life. God delights in molding monuments of mercy for His glory and sometimes He will choose and do something with the base and despised things of this world that no flesh should glory in His presence (1Cor. 1:28). It had to be done the hard way with Eric, but nothing is too hard for God.After serving seven years in prison, Eric got saved. The world had tried to give him the “tools” to “fix” his problems when what he needed was the “Craftsman.” With God in his heart and at the helm of his life, he went on to earn his Doctorate of Biblical Studies Degree, author several books and songs, teach and disciple men for Christ and affect the lives of many people both in and out of prison. He not only ministered and touched other prisoners, but their families, prison staff, visitors and outside volunteers.
Over 26 years later, Eric got to experience what he describes as probably the closest thing he will ever experience to being raptured—being paroled! Since his release he has only changed two things—his address and clothes!
Eric’s springboard verse is Psalms 66:16, “Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.” He doesn’t care to tell you what God has done for his bank account and retirement portfolio. He had neither of those for most of his life and still doesn’t have the latter! However, he can and is still declaring what God has done for his soul; a sin sick, lost, desperate, hopeless soul that God saved, salvaged, and put into His service.
This is not just another intriguing story of a criminal and a supposed jailhouse conversion. Eric is a living epistle of the intervening hand, power, grace, and mercy of God.
Everybody may have a story, but nobody can weave one like God. Eric’s story is not his and the honest reader who will consider the content herein will recognize that. Don’t judge a book by its cover, or its author; read it for yourself.
Read more of the story under the various menu pages and the full-length story in his autobiography in the materials section.
Not a lot of people held out much hope for Eric Waugh. He was not only a troubled youth in and out of trouble from a very young age, but on his sixteenth birthday he sat in the county jail facing a murder charge. Less than four months later, he was convicted and sentenced to the remainder of his natural life in prison. It gets worse. In under two short years, Eric was miraculously granted an Educational Reprieve and given a conditional release to earn his education. It was a success story in the making, and for some people it gave reason to believe that there was hope for Eric after all. That is, until seven months later when he violated the conditions of his reprieve and was sent to prison for life. If there had been any hope that Eric would ever make anything of his life that just about expelled it from even the most optimistic of persons.