I want to share this with you because I care for you and your soul. I was in church as a child, even a regular attendant in Sunday School. After my folks moved, I spent years away from church. About the age of 15 or 16, I began to get a strong interest in motorcycles, especially choppers. The first bike I ever chopped was a 500 Norton, that I later swapped for a 1962 full-dressed Harley, which I immediately took home, disassembled, and began chopping it.

    At 17, I moved out of my folks’ house because I had a hard time getting along with my mother and moved in with a friend who had an apartment and rode a chopped Harley also. I managed to finish high school and rode my Harley there sometimes even though the principal had asked me to take it back home. The teachers did not like to hear me pull up. I was running straight fishtail pipes. By now, I was my own man. I had finished school, was working, smoking, drinking, and partying, especially with the girls. I got married at the age of 18, only to go through a divorce about two years later because of adultery, plus it had become the “in” thing to do in the early 70’s. The running around was my own idea.

    I always wanted to travel, so I started driving an 18-wheel reefer truck coast to coast. Later, I hauled steel on a flat bed locally and throughout the southeastern side of the United States. I’ve drank, smoked pot, taken speed, and even used cocaine off the dog house cover of a cab-over I was driving. I’ve even been jailed because of over width violations and I’ve waited all day for scales to close because of wildcatting. I didn’t understand that God was watching over me, as He had been so many times before. I had begun to smoke pot, hash, and drink regularly. I rented a house and had several different women stay with me. I had begun a life that was very adulterous.

   Several years later, after saying I didn’t think I’d ever marry again, my conscience began to bother me and I decided to marry the girl I was living with in hopes of easing her convictions and soothing our parents’ minds. It was the Holy Spirit convicting me of sin, but I didn’t know it. I was selling and doing more drugs, pot, hash, THC, MDA, and cocaine. I had even tried Angel Dust, PCP, and don’t forget the uppers and downers. I have worked on my Harley in times past with kilos of pot stashed in the loft above my head and stolen motorcycle parts all around. By now, I had been arrested for pot while riding the Harley after I tried to out run the police. I got off with just a misdemeanor. They were only able to find one or two joints on me. I had several friends who dealt drugs quite heavily and have been in and slept in houses where kilos of pot and ounces of cocaine were kept. Because of the places I liked to ride and hang out, I had begun to always keep a pistol in my back pocket. If I had a grease rag in my back pocket, you knew I had a gun in it. I never wore colors of any group or gang, so I was always watching out for other bikers. I kept mostly to myself.

    I remember leaving Atlanta one day by myself to go to Daytona and ran into a bunch of bikers out of Illinois. After helping fix one of the bikes that had broken down, they asked me to ride with them. They liked my bike a lot and it didn’t take long for me to realize they had begun to like it too much. The first night I slept with a rope tied between me and the bike and a gun close by. The next night the Florida law pulled us over because one of the bikes had a headlight out. We stopped and partied at a roadside bar where the leader of the Illinois group picked up the female piano player. Later, she chose to ride with me instead of him. I had a hard time sleeping that night, not knowing when I dozed off, if I’d wake up. There were several of them and only one me. The next morning they decided to part company with me. Again, God was with me, and I didn’t even know it. I decided to move south to get out of Atlanta, and bought a lot with a cabin on the water at Lake Sinclair. I was still using and selling drugs and handling stolen motorcycle parts. I thought I had it made; I was living with the retired people at only 26 years old. All I lacked was the three and a half years it would take to pay off my place whereas most of the others around the lake had worked all their life to do the same. Still running around with girls, doing drugs, and housing stolen motorcycle parts, my wife got tired of it and left, moving back to Atlanta. I got arrested again for pot and locked up on a felony charge. After cursing God to His face one night, I came under conviction that I couldn’t keep going on that way. I went back to Atlanta to try and reconcile the marriage. After she refused, I headed to a party with friends who ran a topless bar in the Atlanta area. While sitting at a red light, I began to get scared. If there was a literal hell, I knew if I didn’t straighten up, and I died, I was hell-bound for sure. While fighting the strongest battle I had ever fought in my mind, I decided that when the light turned green, I would make a decision to go party and forget about it or go for God and find someone who could tell me about the Bible. When the light changed, I made the choice for Christ. PRAISE GOD!

    I got saved, born again; I became a new creature in Christ! The Lord delivered me from cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, adultery, and saved my soul. He called me to preach and teach shortly after and God has opened door after door. I was ordained with a church in the Atlanta area and became one of the ministers there to work for God. I have done evangelistic work at home and abroad. I have worked with Truckstop Ministries, Inc., which is located south of the Atlanta area, helping to evangelize and teach truckers about God’s Word. I have served as President of a Christian Motorcycle Chapter in the Atlanta area. God has helped me to do jail and prison work, teaching, performing weddings, and motorcycle swap meet ministries. I gave up my house and my Harley after I found the Lord in order to serve Him better.

    Everything I gave up for Him, He has given back, including a Godly home with a wonderful, Christian wife named Connie. We are currently pastoring Chief Cornerstone Ministries, Inc., near Jackson, Georgia. God has given us a vision to reach out to those who are normally rejected by society. We started Chief Cornerstone Ministries with no money or buildings, and about thirteen people. I would run ads in the local newspaper - “Welcome, drug addicts, prostitutes, alcoholics, truck drivers, bikers, homosexuals, unwed mothers, divorcees, and lesbians.” My wife Connie, (The Wife) and I are pastoring full time, run a Christian game room, and do a lot of teaching, especially on dispensationalism, using a large, 17 foot, colorful chart. We are also in Daytona on a regular basis teaching in prisons and churches.

    You cannot out-give God. Will you give your heart and life to the Lord before it’s too late? REMEMBER: It doesn’t matter how rich or poor, how educated or uneducated you are, nor how successful you are in life, none of us are guaranteed tomorrow. Paul said in 2nd Corinthians 6:2, “Behold now is the accepted time: behold Now is the day of Salvation.”

    Yesterday is a cancelled check. You can’t change it.

    Tomorrow is a promissory note. You may not receive it.

    Today is the only cash you have. Spend it wisely.

Scriptures to Be Saved

  Admit you are a sinner.
Romans 3:23. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

  Repent.
1st John 1:9. If we confess our sins (to God) He is able to forgive us and cleanse us of all unrighteousness.
Romans 10:9-10. If thou will confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and believe in thine heart thou shall be saved.

  Accept Christ as your Savior.
Acts 4:12. There is no other name given under Heaven whereby we must be saved.
John 3:3. Then you will be born again, and become a new creature in Christ.

To stay strong in your new faith, you will need to do three things:

  1. Pray - 1st Thessalonians 5:17

  2. Study the Bible - 2nd Timothy 2:15

  3. Regularly assemble with other brethren - Hebrews 10:25

A prayer after installing Chief Conerstone Ministries' new sign

My first calling is teaching. I love to teach on the different dispensations of God’s dealings with man.
Hear and see where you are, where you’ve come from, and where you’ll be going in God’s eternal future!

To schedule a teaching session, you may contact me at the address on the Web Site.

MAY GOD BLESS YOU!