Clear — Sold Out in the first year

Thanks to everyone who purchased Clear. Also, thanks for all the texts, emails, DMs and Facebook quotes. I'm honored that GOD has used my verbiage to minister to so many people. We are in our second order of product, and the orders keep coming in.


Plans for 2010 are to complete the audio version of the book. I am also about 3/4 finished with a new believers study guide to accompany the relationship aspects of the book. I hope to release this sometime in the spring.


Please continue to recommend the book to your family and friends. There are many individuals who are searching for more in GOD, true transparency is the key.


GOD bless, and have a great Christmas and New Year!

Rage Against the Machine

I was recently party to a conversation between a few individuals from varying ilk within the Apostolic Movement. Everyone involved seemed to have their own opinions as to the current status of the Movement and subsequent reasons for the attrition that is becoming all the more prevalent.

I’ve never been known to run from a good argument.

The conversation had it’s genesis in and around the subject of individuals talking about their journey, or seeking GOD, or any other such statement. I got the distinct impression that these types of expressions—in the opinions of those conversing—are not appropriate for an Apostolic. One participant made the statement, “This ain’t no journey. We’ve arrived! We are here!”

Hmmmmmmmm.

To assume that we are not on a journey to salvation is a total denial of 2 Peter 1:5-11 where the apostle provides us with a list of godly characteristics that should be added to our faith. This Text demonstrates that there is more to salvation than simply receiving the faith. Throughout Paul’s letters to the 1st Century Community we find him admonishing the new believers to move toward spiritual maturity; another example of growth, or a journey—if you will.

This also brings to mind another question: if we’ve arrived, or we are here, does that mean that we should no longer hope on Christ’s appearing? Is this really all there is? Is Spirit-baptism the epitome of our relationship with GOD. Does the fact that we’ve arrived mean that we shouldn’t seek a relationship with GOD at all? If so, why then is the underlying theme of the entire Text GOD’s plan to return humanity to right relationship with Him?

Another statement that simply made no sense to me was, “All these people who just want to analyze Scripture. Just listen to your pastor!”

Again, what?

Where in the Text does it say to blindly follow men called by GOD? This same individual denied that Paul’s instruction to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:14-16 applied to anyone other than Timothy. This is yet another example of cherry picking Text to fit a personal credenda. Don’t get me wrong, I am not espousing a practice of ignoring GOD-delegated authority. However, if GOD had intended that we simply blindly follow the instructions handed down by preachers, He would have never given us access beyond the veil; there would have been no need to move away from Judaism, and grace would have been pointless.

Pastors are gifts given by GOD for the perfecting of the saints until we all come to the unity of the faith, not for us to check our brains at the altar once Spirit-baptized. GOD’s mission is not for His people to connect with Him through an intermediary; He wants to relate with us Himself. Why else would He make comparison after comparison of His relationship with His Bride to that of a husband and wife. Saying that the only way that we should interact with GOD is through our pastor is the same as saying that the only way a husband and wife should be intimate is by listening to someone else talk about intimacy. At some point you have to get up off the couch and get into the bedroom and let the relating begin. Yes, our pastors are integral, but they are not the determiner of our personal relationships with our GOD. How can we know the voice of our Shepherd if we only listen to the under-shepherd?

The sad thing is that this thinking is more the norm in the Apostolic Movement than not. It’s time to wake up and realize that this mindset is one of the primary causes of the attrition that we are experiencing, not a collective of compromise. In fact, if more time was spent teaching the laity to personally interact with GOD regularly, and if there were more personal interaction with GOD, there would be less compromise. The flip side is that many of our pulpits would become silent because too many of our preachers don’t have a clue how to preach or teach to people who are truly knowledgeable of the Text. Take away the clothesline and introduce real-life principles and far too many are left speechless and sadly ignorant of true Christianity.

Do you want to hear true holiness teaching? Here goes: talk to GOD, daily. Read His Word, daily. Honestly seek (yeah, I said it) GOD and ask Him to illuminate His Word, His Character, His Mission to you, daily. Ask Him to guide your footsteps, and to check you when you’re moving away from Him, daily. Die, daily. Fall in love with Him, daily. Do all of this and you won’t need someone standing behind a pulpit telling you the length of your shirt sleeves, or some other standard that is more based on denominationalism than on actual Text.

We can no longer complacently sit on the sideline with our collective head in the sands of our credenda-driven pathos, simply willing to accept the status quo. Now is the time for us to rage against the machine of religion and denominationalism that is choking the life out of the followers of the Apostolic Faith. We need to accept the fact that we don’t have all of Truth, but have been given a glimpse of Him, but won’t see much more until we return to Him. We need to stop converting people to pentecostalism and begin truly discipling them to GOD.

The time has come to rage, rage against the attrition; rage against the ignorance; rage against the lack of intimacy. Not against people, against mindsets.

There’s more that GOD desires for His people to do. Are we ready?

L'Chaim [repost from NoNegativityNow.com]

I was asked recently to write an article for nonegativitynow.com, which was an extreme honor. This is one of my favorite websites, and I encourage you to check it out often. There are great writers (myself excluded) and and lot of whatnot that will help you in your walk with GOD. 

l’chaim

Have you ever noticed those people who go through life devoid of true interaction with anything other than themselves? These sad individuals are constantly surrounded in a shroud of negativity that clouds their judgement and blocks meaningful connections. I was once one such sorry soul, but a life-changing event positively altered my existence; I discovered GOD.

Now, I know what you're thinking, here he goes on some lame conversion story, but you'd be wrong. While I had known about GOD for my entire life, had even claimed to be filled with GOD, I existed empty, void, negative. The god I knew was only full of judgement, but the GOD I discovered called me to a deep intimate relationship. It was (and is) amazing. I was almost like GOD turned to me and (in a Joey Tribbiani voice) said, "How you doin'?" I was hooked.

The most amazing thing about this relationship with GOD is, the negativity has disappeared. Where I was once judgmental, I now extend mercy. Where I once pulled away from interaction with other people, I now embrace new friends and acquaintances. All because of intimacy with GOD.

In my opinion the reason that so many so-call "Christians" live such negative lives, is because they haven't discovered the difference between existence and life. The Jews have a phrase they use when toasting a drink, "la chaim," which simply means "to life." However, this phrase doesn't simply indicate a toast to life, it indicates a conscience choice of life over existence. We exist when we absorb but never give out. The only time we truly live is when we give out of ourselves. To choose life we have to give life. For example, the money in our wallets exists, but when we take that existing money and give it to someone in need, we are giving life to them, thus altering the money from mere existence to life.

To truly live we have to spill ourselves out to the world in which we live. It is physiologically impossible for you to stay depressed when you are helping someone else. The giving of ourselves gets our focus off of us and onto others. When we stop focusing on ourselves it is easy to let go of our negativity. Could this be the "more abundant life" that Jesus talked about; a life dedicated to giving to others?

Think about it, GOD gave so that we could live. This is GOD's character. When we discover GOD, we discover the power of giving ourselves away. When we give ourselves away, we release the negativity of simply existing. When we choose life, we choose GOD.

I chose GOD and He changed everything about me. No, this is not a product nor cure-all that "you too" can receive by sending in your check or money order for $19.95 to some obscure address in White Plains, NY. This is a choice that you have to make: either to live without GOD, or to be intimate with Him.

I dare you to try it.

I dare you to try GOD.