About Who I Am and What I Believe
“Jesus did not start a new religion or a new movement; He restored the divine order of a merciful God.”
That conviction has shaped how I have followed Jesus for more than fifty years.
My faith is grounded in Scripture and centered on the living Messiah. The Christian life, as I have come to understand it, is not institutional at its core, but relational—lived in obedience, fellowship, baptism, prayer, and the shared remembrance of Christ at the table. These are simple things. They are also the very things from which many have quietly drifted.
Over time, I have grown increasingly concerned that layers of tradition, symbolism, and religious machinery often obscure what Scripture makes clear. When systems become more complex than what is written, trust begins to shift—from God Himself to the forms meant to point to Him.
My aim is not to dismantle faith, but to call believers back to what is older, clearer, and more faithful to the witness of Scripture.
The faith once delivered to the saints is not abstract. It is lived. It is marked by obedience, humility, and shared life within the body of Christ. Believers gather, pray, break bread, and strengthen one another, just as the early church did (Acts 2:42, NASB95). Scripture speaks of saints not as a separate class, but as all who belong to Christ (Romans 1:7, NKJV). These are not ideals. They are the foundation.
My concern is not with individuals, but with the drift that occurs over time. When Jesus is reshaped by culture, politics, or tradition, the result is not clarity, but distortion. Jesus has not failed. What He established has not weakened. But it is often overshadowed.
My commitment remains simple: to point back to Scripture, to the living Messiah, and to the divine order God established from the beginning—before it was layered over, reinterpreted, or replaced.
Where This Began
My journey began in the 1970s with a devotion to studying Scripture that has never left me. By the 1980s, I was actively teaching, writing, and involved in street ministry in Virginia Beach, Virginia. During those years, I watched lives change—some who came to faith went on to serve in churches and missions. Those experiences were not theoretical. They were formative.
In the late 1980s, I founded a bulletin board system called Unconventional Thoughts, distributing newsletters and essays globally through the Christian Distribution Network in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In the early 1990s, that work moved online and became The Christian Underground Journal, where more than 600 essays were published—285 of them my own. One of those writings would later be used in prison ministry.
In 1998, I was ordained as a Minister of the Gospel through Shem Ministries International. Over the years, I have taught in Methodist, Christian & Missionary Alliance, and Lutheran congregations, and served on a Board of Elders.
Across those decades, one thing became clear: the pattern does not change. What Scripture reveals about the human condition continues to unfold in every generation. The form may change. The language may change. But the movement remains the same.
That realization is what led to the work I am now doing.
These writings—books, essays, and reflections—are not an attempt to introduce something new. They are an effort to recover what has been there all along. Their purpose is discipleship: to call believers back to the simplicity of the gospel and to the divine order established by God from the beginning.
Along the way, I have witnessed provision, correction, and grace that cannot be explained by human effort. Even in failure, the Lord remained faithful—teaching, refining, and continuing to use my life in ways I did not expect.
That has not changed.