Battle of the Sexes: Un-Biblical & Just Plain Whack
No setting things up, I’m about to just go in. “Battle of the Sexes” has the right main letters…because it’s a bunch of “b.s.” And too many Christians have allowed culture and social norms to get...
View ArticleThe Stewardship of Social Media
“I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak” (Matthew 12:36, ESV) It’s easy to be negative and talk endlessly about the negatives and impersonal...
View ArticleJoin the Backpack Brigade for Operation: Soul Patrol
The Backpack Brigade will be a network of volunteers who will be part of Soul Speech Ministries’ “Operation: Soul Patrol” (our ongoing ministry to the poor and homeless). Individuals and groups will...
View ArticleThe Unlikely Mentor’s Journey
When I was a 21-year-old student taking classes at Santa Monica College in 1994, I served as president of a campus organization and also briefly worked as a peer advisor to fellow students. These...
View ArticleSpeech Fo’ Yo’ Soul (Extended Original Theme) by Jediael Ben Johnson
On Friday March 7th of 2014, near the corner of King and Crenshaw by his old ‘hood (and across the street from the then-coffeehouse where Soul Speech started in 2001), Jediael Ben Johnson (formerly...
View ArticleVoices, Echoes, & The Stewardship of Life
As a poet and a man of “color” (I hesitate to say “African-American”, since I’m as much Native American and Irish as I am “Black”)…I was definitely influenced (particularly in my teen and college-age...
View ArticleTimes & Seasons
Which Way Did He Go, George? As most of you already know, for several years I’ve been praying about moving out of downtown L.A. and towards a beach or waterfront town. Initially, I thought I was headed...
View ArticleOperation: Soul Patrol
“Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which He has promised to those who love Him?” (James 2:5 ESV) I’ve been...
View ArticleI’ve Got Your Six
“A friend loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity” – Proverbs 17:17 I have a bigger burden for men in our churches than even I realized. So many of us have struggled with our sins,...
View ArticleBirth of The King
Not-So-Silent Night, But Oh-So-Holy Night Magi from the east Having taken flight To see prophecy being fulfilled To behold the birth of our Savior and King Though Herod sought to have Him killed The...
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