A Believer's Journey

by Randy Thompson

Randy Thompson, singer, songwriter and Christian recording artist, was passionate about sharing his faith at churches around the country. For nearly twenty years, his music and his lyrics, as well as his personal faith, changed lives all across America. This book is an extension of that passion—written in the three years before Randy and his wife Linda received the devastating diagnosis of his Frontotemporal Dementia.

As Randy himself writes, “This is a history of my experience of trusting God with my gifts and talents and believing He would provide for my ministry and my family. It is also a chance for me to remember all the ways I was used and all the ways God met me in the process of ministering…”

Before he began writing A Believer’s Journey, Randy spent several years as senior pastor of Open Door Fellowship Church in Phoenix, Arizona. But, toward the end of that time, something seemed to be wrong. Randy wasn’t who he once was. He had been in full-time ministry for over 17 years but after leaving the pastorate, he found he couldn’t hold a part-time job at Home Depot.

Even so, he felt deeply that God wasn’t done with him. While grappling with the changes going on in his mind and in his life, he wrote with a sense of urgency—unaware he was in the early stages of the dementia that would be diagnosed in 2014. In those years, God inspired Randy to share his heart in a way that leaves his readers with no question of who Jesus is and what they needed to do to spend eternity in heaven with Him.

Randy also writes “I am homesick for heaven. I am a new creature and was made for His Kingdom and there is in me a longing to be there when the time is right. Until the time when He will take me home, I have the privilege and joy of carrying Christ to a lost and broken world.”

This book will change you. You will laugh, you will cry and above all, you will see Jesus in a way that you may not have seen before. You will want to meet Him and know Him and follow Him into a life of service and joy no matter what challenges you may be facing in life. Through his writing Randy urges you to put your trust in Him. It will be the greatest adventure you will ever know!

About the author

Randy Thompson began playing guitar and writing songs as a young boy. He would later accept Jesus into his heart as a teenager. He was so passionate about his faith, he wore a cross necklace and carried his Bible to high school every day. He soon switched to a 12 string guitar, and began to write Christian songs and sing in Christian coffee houses in the 70’s throughout Phoenix, Arizona.

Randy recorded his first cassette of original songs in 1978 ~ Jesus Touched Me. Recently those 10 songs were uploaded to his YouTube Channel. (Randy Thompson Ministries YouTube Channel)

He married his wife Linda in 1979 and they entered into full-time ministry in 1980, the same year he graduated from Grand Canyon College with Bible & History degrees. They started a family in 1982, raising Shawn, Miranda & Tyler in Tempe, Arizona.

Randy Thompson Ministries was formed in 1990. He started marketing his ministry and traveling around the country doing concerts in big and small churches. He was doing what God created him to do… sharing the love of Jesus in song and powerful teaching.

Seven more cassettes and CDs would follow. God would use his songs mightily, as more and more testimonials would pour in. One particular letter stood out. A young girl was walking along the Carefree Highway after her car had broke down. (No cell phones back then) She saw a cassette on the side of the road with the tape hanging out. She wound it up with a pencil and popped it in her portable cassette player. She was so deeply moved by the songs that she spent months looking for more of Randy’s music. But because the cassette case was scuffed up, she was looking for Randy Thomas. Eventually a Christian Bookstore in Flagstaff showed her Randy’s cassettes. She had found him! She immediately bought his cassettes and eventually his CDs. She was so thrilled to have a way to contact Randy to tell her story, how God used his music to bring her back to God.

After many years in full-time ministry, he took on the position as the pastor of his church. But in 2011 they let him go as he wasn’t himself. Something was wrong. That is when he started writing “A Believer’s Journey”, because he’s a prophet, an evangelist and a truth teller. He finished the book three years later, six months before he was diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia in 2014. The book was finally published in 2024.

Randy is currently in a memory care facility. He is peaceful, calm and easy going and dearly loved by the staff and caregivers who love his music. While he is unable to do concerts, share Jesus, or write songs anymore, the lyrics in his songs and the words in his book will live on long after he sees Jesus face-to-face.