If you read my bio you saw that I have been around or involved with ministry a great deal of my life through my family and others. My parents always took me to church and made sure my sister and I knew the importance of God's House.  As a child I remember a night in Eager Beavers class that I prayed a prayer and asked Jesus into my heart. However for many years I had a lot of questions and fears about accepting Jesus that I never shared with anyone. As I looked back on that night I couldn't remember if I prayed that prayer because other kids did or if I really meant it but to me I was saved and that was all that mattered. Now as a minster I don't like to use the term saved but rather I like to ask people if they have a personal relationship with Jesus. You see for years thats what I was missing.  I was raised in church, I heard the gospel all the time however as time moved on and I  grew older I didn't ground myself in the truths that I had been taught and other that my parents and grandparents I had no discipleship in my life to help me grow in Christ. As I began high school I found my self falling into things that the world does and going with the crowd. Although I never got into drugs or alcohol I later realized that the filth that I talked and the stuff that I did was just as bad. I was full of pride and hate and talked about people like they were nothing. I never thought of these things as sin b/c I was so wrapped up in it. I had my good days and my bad I tried to witness and to share with others about God's love but at the same time found my self falling into the sins of the world. in 1999 I started dating and, was in a four year relationship with a beautiful young lady. We went to church together, concerts together and even couples conferences together, however we very seldom prayed together or studied God's word together. After four years that relationship fell through and it came at a terrible time when I lost my job, totaled my car and depleted my bank account.  I realized that God was trying to get my attention. I had been such a terrible example of a Christian and although I went to church every Sunday and sang beautiful song I had come to grips that I didn't have a personal relationship with Jesus. I may have made a decision at age seven but I had drifted away from God and built my life on material things. I tried to make up excuses as to why things happened the way they did but i soon came to recognize that it was my own selfishness and sin that had got me into the trouble that I was in and that had turned my friends and the person that I loved against me. My lust for so many things had turned my heart cold and God was on the back burner. God however was giving me a second chance.  I went to my pastor at that time and told him that I didn't feel like a Christian and that I had drifted so far from God. I remember spending time in prayer with him it was at that time that I told God that I was sorry for what I had done and that I needed to change and give my whole life to Him. You see repentance is not only confessing but it is also turning from your sin and moving forward. Since then God has taken me and molded and shaped me into the Godly man that I am now.  He has given me great meaning an purpose to life. I have come to grips that its not all about me but that its all about a risen Savior who died for my sins and extended His loving hand of mercy toward me so that I could spend all eternity with Him. Thats not all though, above that He has allowed me to be His servant and go out and share my story and my song with hundreds of people to help them recognize their own sins and how God can turn their life around if they will let him.  We can fool man but we can't fool God and so friends I urge you today if you don't know Jesus and you don't have a personal relationship with Him, seek His face and get to know Him today. Jesus is the sweetest name I know.....Please visit my page titled:  Plan of Salvation  and or contact me or your local church today! I am so grateful for what Jesus has done for me and I ask that you as believers pray for my ministry daily and ask Gods Blessing and anointing on me, His servant.