Romans 2 Week 1: Chapter 9

Well VCC and JBMI supports what a wonderful session God gave us in our Romans course last night. What was significant to me is what Holy Spirit showed us about His Word. God is more interested in being faithful to Himself then he is to us. But when He is faithful to Himself He is faithful to us simultaneously. When God is faithful to Himself we gain the benefit. What a revelation. For those of you in the class let’s talk about what God did. For those not in the class how does the above statement strike you? As I talked about in class last night, I am ready to keep the class going on this blog while we anticipate the upcoming class each week.

2009 NFL Conference Championships

For all my fellow sports and football fans out there its time to get into a dialogue from now until the Superbowl. Of course after the big game we will talk about it too, but first things first. In the AFC contest, I did expect the Colts to win but I thought they would dominate the entire game as opposed to solely the second half. Manning is the best “student” of the game I have ever seen. Are there other great quarterbacks, yes, but he is the smartest I have ever seen. He can take whatever the defense gives him and figure it out and then beat them at their own game. This is exactly what he did. One of the ways he does this, and did so yesterday, is he understood the defense would highly guard particular receivers so he would devise a game plan to go to the open receivers. He could truly spread the ball around. The receiver that needs to have a big game for the Colts to win is the receiver that has a big game. Moving to the NFC contest, it was much more balanced as the necessity for overtime displayed. It was back and forth, back and forth. I have a complaint about this game as I do all NFL overtime games. The “first score wins” approach of the NFL is not good for the game. I think a better alternative would be for the NFL to adopt the college rules of each team to get the ball once. The detail of whether the ball should be placed at the 25 yard line or should be made to travel the entire length of the field is up for debate. The first is very, very exciting but the second maybe fairer. Please debate this with me because I have not thought much about this one. Also, I want everybody’s pick & why so please give it to me. I like the Colts but I think it will be a close offensive shootout, with the Colts prevailing 35 to 31.

Bengals 2009 Playoffs

Good morning everybody. When I started this blog I told you that I would blog about ministry as well as personal things that either you would be interested in or I simply wanted to take note of. This is a taking note entry. What I wanted to take note of is that horrible Bengals game on 1/9. This season was only the second winning season in 19 years. It was only the second playoff appearance in that time period. The Jets ran the ball well and the Bengals did not stay as committed to the run as they should have. Chad Johnson was shut down and our place kicker missed two field goals (28, 36 yrds respectively). But I think Benson had 128 yards running. I think Carson Palmer is not convertible with being primarily a running team. If I was a faithful fan during many loosing seasons, you better believe I am going to enjoy being a fan when the team has a true ability to win. To all those supports of Jason Brothers Ministries International Inc. who are sports fans let talk about it. Until Next Time…

Fist Love

Hello once again supporters of Jason Brothers Ministries International Inc. Tonight’s entry is to tell you about another opportunity I had to minister in the pulpit of VCC this past Sunday (12/27/09). The message itself can be found on our churches web site (http://victorychristian.net/messagesaudio.html). It is a word that had been on my heart for a few months. It was a difficult word to minister from a human perspective because it was not one of those shouting “swinging from the rafters” messages that we Pentecostal /Charismatic ministers love delivering. Rather it was a message of serious interoperation. Simultaneously, it was an “easy” message to the extent that it was the exact message that God wanted me to deliver. The message was given the title, “your first love” It is for occasions such as this one that are why I love preaching the gospel and will die doing so. Thank you so much Bishop Gary for giving me the opportunity. Please download the message and send any and all feedback to jb8500@yahoo.com Thank you Father for creating monuments like Sunday, thank you Lord Jesus for calling me to preach your gospel, and thank you Holy Spirit for anointing and empowering me to deliver the word with power and demonstration. Until Next Time…

VCC pastor appreciation day 2009

Yesterday was another first for me. It was the first time I have been asked to minister on a pastor appreciation day. It was a surprise to pastor Gary. [I affectionately call him Bishop for theological reasons]. However Bishop felt lead of the Holy Spirit to share a message God had given him. He did so and it was a wonderful message. However, upon finishing his message he said we could go on with what we had planed. We did so and I did in fact get to preach. I was given only a short time but I was able to get through most of what I had prepared. I ministered from Second Timothy 4:2-5. I learned a lot of neat stuff from the passage during my preparation. This was the second time (although this one was spontaneous and not preplanned) that I have heard two sermons or messages in a single service while at VCC. It is sometimes referred to a “tag team” preaching. I was blessed to do this early on in my ministry when ministering with Bill Cummins. It is a lot of fun to watch how the Holy Spirit works everything together in a beautiful tapestry. I want to say thank you to all those who were responsible for giving me this wonderful opportunity. I would also like to say thank you to all the prayer supports, financial supports and followers on this blog. Please continue to pray as to how the Holy Spirit may lead you as I need to raise the budget for the 2010 schedule discussed in a previous entry. Until Next time…

2009 VCC Missions weekend

This past weekend was the annual Victory Christian Church (VCC) missions banquets/weekend. Not all but many of our missionaries can in for at least part of the weekend.

Friday night (11/13) was the banquet at Der Dutchmen restaurant in Waynesville. The Evening consisted of dinner, the introduction and comments of a few of the missionaries at the banquet, worship and a presentation from keynote speaker Dr. Paul Opsahl regarding his work in the African nation of Swaziland.

Saturday morning (11/14) at VCC was the annual mission’s round table discussion. It began with a lecture by A. Kent Cason a missionary to the nation of South Africa as well as other Southern African nation. It was a wonderful. One of the facts that I can recall that impacted me was that use of the “alter call” was not noted as a practice did not start until the 1800’s. At this event participants were given to be given the opportunity to ask questions of missionaries to find out what live was like on the field. There was some lively discussion. However not as many missionaries participated as I expected was the conversion was not as rich as I had hoped. However the Lord blessed me with opportunity to meet and likely network with A. Kent Cason in the future.

Sunday morning (11/15) at VCC was the annual missions pledge service. Praise the Lord that the all the pledge dollars needed to meet our churches missions projects were pledged. Pray for all of us at VCC that we will be faithful to fulfill our pledges as God enables.

I praise God for the privilege to serve on Lay staff at VCC. I see the providence of God at work here. I have always wanted the opportunity to serve as an international teacher/prophet with the spiritual and financial support of the local church of which I attend. That is slowly happening here and I look forward with anticipation that thee support will continue to increase. Thank you Pastor Gary & VCC family. Thank you VCC for your future interaction on this blog

Until Next Time…

Back home..Pigeon Forge...Back Home

Hello everybody.

Well I thought it was time to check in. There are not any ministry opportunities to update you on. However that does not mean that life is not happening. I arrived home in Ohio on 10/24. After going to church at Victory Christian Center (VCC) mom got up on Monday 10/25 and asked if I want to go to Pigeon Forge (PF) with dad while he worked here last week. I said yes and that is what we did. So I was not home for me then 48 hrs then I was on thee road again to PF. While there I did there what I do a lot of here at home when not ministering. I watched various television shows and listed to lots of talk radio programs via the internet. Then come the weekend and Saturday (10/31) witch means college football and then we drove home early yesterday morning (very early due to time change) then once home watched the Rush interview on Fox News, NFL football and several DVR’d shows and headed to bed.

Like I said not much exciting to talk about but such is real life sometimes

Thanks to all of you who love me and take a genuine interest in me life as well as Jason Brothers Ministries International Inc.

Keep the interactions coming,

Until next Time...