Shining bright!!!

Hello! To everyone yesterday was one of the best days of street evangelism we have had since we started doing outreach! People accepted Jesus and we had one man want help he cried out. He had a cocaine addiction and was homeless because of it! Praise Jesus I have a great group of Guys that are willing to put people like this in their program and help them get a fresh start. Thank you Curtis, Brian and all the staff at this blessed facility! We could not do anything without Jesus Christ and people like you who help so much! Now to my Blog entry for the day! In Matthew 5:14,16 Jesus said “You are the light of the world….Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and praise your FATHER in Heaven.” I have some things to ask you about today. These are questions I have asked myself and they have helped me tremendously! Where does light shine the brightest? The closer you get to the source of light the brighter it gets right! Like the sun lights up our world the closer you get to it, it gets brighter and you see the source in which the light comes from. In our case people see us and then see the source in which we do things JESUS! Your light shining starts at home! Leading your family and building strong relationships with your spouse and your children. I myself have made many mistakes in doing just this that’s why I am sharing it with you! A lot of pastors and evangelist put ministry before their family and most men put their work before their family as well. This will split up a family so fast! One thing I have done to help myself with what I call BALANCE. Balance of ministry, family and relationships is I have learned to say no to people when it takes away time from my family. We as MEN are called to lead our families, see 1 Corinthians chapter 7. The next question I have gets a little more personal! Are you letting your light shine in your community? If not get involved today, whether it be just a simple invite to church or something as great as helping someone cut their grass or plant flowers. Their may be people in your own neighborhood who are struggling so bad they may not be able to buy groceries or even keep all the utilities on. Help them I personally think it’s hypocritical to send money half way across the world but we want help our own neighbor who may need help! That bothers me, I see this happen all the time! This is how you see communities cleaned up and rebuilt! I wasn’t raised in a family who put Jesus first or got involved in the community. My parents did not even get things fixed at home first thus it ended their marriage and it wasn’t a pretty sight! Frankly it sucked for me and my sister. You see parents your decisions effect your children more than anyone else! I have had to learn how to build a strong marriage and relationships with my children and my community and it’s not easy but it takes putting God first to do it! Balance is what it’s all about. Folks it’s my PASSION to see my very own family be strong in the Lord and my community cleaned up, right now my community is in a state of ruin! However if people with Passion get together with Jesus leading, we can flip our communities upside down! So are you willing to get involved? Remember it starts with a relationship with Jesus Christ and leading your family! Let your light shine today! Love you people! Jason

What is a Pharisee!

What is a Pharisee? That’s the question I’m going to answer today. During Jesus Christ ministry on earth (which is still at work today by the way) he seen a person or groups of people that kept God in a box of rituals, laws and explanations. These people believed there was no more to be unearthed, revealed or discovered. It was there way or no way. Spiritual fulfillment that led to no questions, no new mystery, and no new promises. Jesus was very clear he doesn’t like this type of thinking. Thinking brings about action. This type of thinking was and still is hypocritical and lacks Love. Pharisees tried to lock people out of the Kingdom of Heaven basically! Jesus despises this type of attitude. He said in Matthew 23:13 “For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them” You see Pharisees think its all about them and the Hell with the rest of the world! You see the Kingdom of God is open to all who will accept the free gift of salvation. When I say free I’m saying Jesus Christ paid yours and my penalty through his crucifixion. A Pharisee is not Kingdom minded they are selfish, bitter, and if they can’t get the glory it’s considered wrong!! WOW! Did anyone pop in your mind when I said that? You see the Church was created for the lost and it takes change and staying in tune with culture to reach them. You have to meet the lost where they are! As long as it’s biblical and the truth of Jesus is being proclaimed it’s not up to us to say what goes on or who comes in! Last time I checked Jesus Christ draws man to him, so he is in charge of who comes and who don’t, not a committee or a Pastor or a Deacon. There are Pharisees all around us, inside the Church and some Preach behind the pulpit! I have seen racism taught which is non biblical. I’ve seen Pastors speak against interracial marriage that’s not biblical. Moses had an interracial marriage by the way! You get my point, things get taught inside the church that are not of God and those speakers will answer to God for leading people astray. So don’t put God in a box today! Love you Guys and Gals!

I Love You!

What’s up! I know I talk about love all the time but love means a lot to me. We take the most currently used phrase and just say it. Do you mean it? You have heard it thousands of times “I Love You” lets examine something. Jesus said in the book of Luke 6:27 “But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.” The first thing we need to notice is the fact that he said “you who hear me!” So we have a choice to listen? Which is the obedient thing to do or do most of us if were honest ignore it. The second principle is “do good to those who hate you.” Wow now that is a hard one! My point is both of the things I have talked about so far are so hard to do. However if they were not important Jesus would have never said this! As hard as it is we as believers must do the very thing he talks about in this verse. Its amazing the results you get when you do this. We can reach out and love on people who hate us and sometimes they wake up and see you’re a real genuine person and they see Jesus all in you. You see when we do street ministry we gat a whole bunch of critics and people that hate us. So we serve those people more than anyone else and I tell you it’s not easy! Jesus said “do good to your enemies” and doing good to them goes beyond words; it takes action and reaching out to our enemies! Jesus commands us to do this very thing! Love is what put Jesus on the cross. He loved us enough to suffer extreme pain for us, physical and emotional. You see he died for his enemies and he said “Father forgive them for they no not what they are doing” wow that’s mercy! We were separated from God and he seen THE WAY to bring about reconnection and peace to our relationship with God. All you have to do is except Jesus and he will give you a love like no other. Maybe you have accepted Jesus and you’re a Christian, but if you’re honest you struggle with loving your enemies and doing good to them. I know I do! Maybe today is the day you write the very people down you don’t like and begin to pray over that list. You will be amazed how this will bring about action in the relationship you could care less about. Pour out love on these people, IT WORKS! “I Love You” is a phrase we really need to understand! It’s more than just something you say all the time it has meaning! Use it with meaning today! That is LOVE! If you don’t have a relationship with Jesus Christ I would LOVE to talk to you about making him your everything! Email me or leave a comment. I will get back to you today! Tomorrow is part 2 “The Pursuit of Love.” Have a Great Day!

You think you can do better?

Man something hit me while I was working on Sunday after church. Yes I work on Saturday and Sunday. I have a schedule were I work 11am to 11pm on both weekend days; I’m off all week Monday through Friday. Well not off I have fun raising my 5 month old princess aka my baby girl. She is so fun to learn from and so different from my 5 yr old boy who reminds me of myself. Ok enough about my work schedule back to what hit me. Clemson’s football team took one of the worst beat downs ever. In all the years I've been a fan I have never seen them physically and emotionally be defeated that bad. I predicted a 24-10 score with Clemson winning, man was I off or what. Bama dropped the hammer on them. They were not a #9 team more like a #20 team. Clemson’s not as bad as Alabama made them look. The thing that hit me like a ton of bricks was hearing people say “get rid of Tommy he stinks he can’t beat good teams.” Frankly I’m tired of hearing Clemson fans that say they support the program not supporting the coach. At the first sign of a struggle they immediately say stuff like fire him. Coaching was definitely a factor, the game plan went wrong. In my opinion it was more the players not wanting to win and they didn’t want it as bad as Bama did. Clemson was not physical and laid down from the start. Here is my other point I support Clemson’s coaches and players no matter what the outcome. I support them on the field and off. There are some great coaches and players involved in Clemson’s program. You see as Christians we to screw up daily, if you say you don’t you’re a liar and you need a piece of humble pie! What if Jesus said “You know enough is enough, I get the same results and I’m going to give up? He or she has the resources and the talent to do great things but don’t do what I say to do so the heck with them.” You see Jesus don’t say this; he says nothing can pluck you from my hand and I Love you unconditionally. When in reality we as humans have the mindset to give up on people before we even truly believe in them and support them. So if you think you can do better at coaching Clemson than Tommy Bowden go for it. However remember if you give up on him as a coach you don’t support the team. This is the same thing we do to Jesus sometimes we give up on him. He never gives up on us no matter how bad we screw up! So don’t give up on Jesus, his team is the winning team regardless of our circumstances in life as Christians we win. So have mercy on people who don’t show you mercy. That is one of the many things Jesus did.

True Love!

Good morning to all. I am going to be blogging about the power of Love. I think we could all agree Love is a very powerful thing. If you don’t think so I would tell you you’re a liar! Love is talked about all through the scriptures of the old and New Testament. The cross symbolizes just how much Love God has for you. I’m here to tell you today I don’t care how bad you think you are or how bad what you have done in your life may be. Jesus Christ loves you unconditionally! You see when he died on the cross he died for all the sins Past, Present, and Future. He new everything you were ever going to do and still he loves you! You know the one thing about street ministry and outreach that is the hardest is getting people to realize Jesus wants to help them and save them from the way they are living. The things I constantly here go a something like this. “Man I've done some horrible things and God would never help me or use me”. Or “Man I'm a prostitute or I sell drugs and God will not forgive me for all that”. Let me just set something straight right now both of these are lies from the pit of HELL! God can use anyone he is using me I have had the same struggles as some of these people. I had a drug addiction and alcohol problem, a Pornography addiction etc… He saved me he wiped all of that Junk away! God can use you I don’t care how messed up you may be! Now for another thing that drives me crazy. Some, notice I said some, Churches will not accept these types of people. Because they don’t have good clothes or maybe they stink and have not had a shower because they are homeless. They will not accept them because they are not in a nice car they may have walked to church. They don’t look like everyone else therefore they are not accepted! I don’t know about you but that does not sound like a Jesus filled church to me. It sounds like a Holy Huddle or should I say a Non- Holy Huddle. You see some not all churches make it all about them and they will listen to the teachings of Paul (YOU SHOULD BY THE WAY) and he was a murderer and about as far from God as anyone could be but they won’t open the doors to the lost who like Paul could be transformed and used in a mighty way for the Kingdom of God. This breaks my heart it really does! The reason I know about churches like this is I used to walk in unaccepted and looked down upon by them. Praise Jesus he led me to a Church where I now serve and accepted me the way Jesus did and Jesus worked in my life in a MIGHTY way. He took it all away He planted a Passion in me to reach out to the beat down busted and disgusted people within the upstate and with Jesus we can reach out in a MIGHTY way! We have been in Greenville SC now he is saying go to Anderson and Iva. We are not leaving Greenville we have more Passionate people willing to reach out in Dangerous areas. So Anderson and Iva here we come HELL is getting smaller and Gods Kingdom is already getting Bigger! You see the key element to what I’ve blogged about is LOVE! Are you showing Love to anyone today? How about the person you dislike the most, show them Love. You will be amazed at the results you will get by just showing Love to people the saved and the lost! 1 Peter chapter 4:8 tells us “Above all Love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins”. I want to challenge you to read 1 Peter chapter 3 and 4 today. It will rock your world I Love you Folks I’m out to do lunch with my Lovely Wife!

Football and Passion!

I’m going to be blogging today about this year's Clemson Football Team and giving you my Opinion and break down on the games. I used to be more Passionate about sport statistics and football than Jesus but not anymore. If you are struggling in this area putting other things before Jesus and your family balance is the key. You can have fun and enjoy life to the full without being totally consumed by an IDOL! Alright, now for the Blog. This Saturday at 8:00 Clemson will open the season against a young but talented Alabama team. However they will be victorious with a great passing game and good special teams Yeah! I said it good special teams. Final score Clemson 24 Bama 10. I would like to personally thank Tommy Bowden for being a great leader and a Jesus filled individual. He has morals and has handled criticism well over the past 10 years. He has pressed on and made it very clear he will not back down. He and all the Jesus filled coaches and players are already winners in my book and they don’t need to hear good luck. They need to hear be strong and passionate in everything they do on and off the field. Clemson will win the ACC championship this year and go to a BCS bowl! I have never made that statement before. I’m confident it will happen. Remember this is only my opinion! If the Churches in America worked hard off the field and out of the stadium (aka the sanctuary) we could reach people for Jesus like never before! If people were as passionate for Jesus as they are for there football team Churches would need a Stadium for the people there would be so many! By the way Death Valley will one day be filled up with people worshiping Jesus Christ. I’m expecting it and believing it! I’m out have to clean the house Love you folks, Jason

The streets are calling!!!!!

Today will be great, do you believe that? I’m only 26 years old but I’ve learned a lot about life already. The one thing I’ve learned is to expect great things and believe they will happen! I’m going to be sharing my heart with you today on how to expect even when you don’t want to! I’m one of those guys, what you see is what you get I hold nothing back and the word sugarcoat is not in my dictionary! I’m real and genuine to the core. So here we go. You have probably never heard a Christian say what im about to say. There are mornings I wake up and don’t feel like being a Christian, I feel flat, beat down busted and disgusted. Here is the kicker those mornings come usually when im getting ready to go do ministry work on the streets of Greenville. I remember one morning in particular I drug myself out of bed then dragged on into the bathroom and jumped in the shower. While in the shower I had made up my mind I wasn’t going to Greenville that day I was going to rest! Then the spirit hit me and said “I did not give up on you on my way to the cross so get up and go. More lives will be turned around and souls saved today than any other day since this ministry started.” JESUS got me their. So even though before I wasn’t expecting great things, now I did. Jesus said to expect and believe great things were going to happen! So I went and it was hands down the best day of ministry the 3 of us have had. We reached out to over 300 to 500 people that day all in the name of JESUS several people accepted JESUS as their lord and savior. It rocked and I could not sleep the next 2 days. Here is my point the days you feel like the Kingdom of God can’t use you, the days you feel similar to the way I felt on that Monday morning get up press on and go the reward is great. Seeing peoples lives get changed forever! You can expect even when you don’t want to and then the believing part comes quick. After you see that first person step up and give it all to JESUS. Then the day is set and go go go from that point on and reach reach reach! So if your down and out and feel like crap expect something great is going to happen and believing it might not be so hard. This is to all of those who are sold out believers and to the street evangelist getting ready to share JESUS with the addicts, prostitutes and the homeless. Do it even when you don’t feel like it! For our Lord our God is with us everywhere we go! Read Joshua 1:9 love you guys. I need prayer im going to Greenville this morning again and more lives will be changed. To JESUS be the glory! Have a great day!