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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Fundraising for Recovery Christian Center!
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Ex Offender Expo
The Mayor’s Office for Reintegration Services for Ex-Offenders is hosting an Ex-Offender Expo at the Philadelphia Convention Center on Tuesday, July 30th from 10am-3pm.
This event is free to attend, but make sure to register. If you are not pre-registered they will not let you in!
Please see the following link for more details: http://expo.phila.gov/The Mayor’s Office for Reintegration Services for Ex-Offenders is hosting an Ex-Offender Expo at the Philadelphia Convention Center on Tuesday, July 30th from 10am-3pm.
This event is free to attend, but make sure to register. If you are not pre-registered they will not let you in!
Please see the following link for more details: http://expo.phila.gov/
This event is free to attend, but make sure to register. If you are not pre-registered they will not let you in!
Please see the following link for more details: http://expo.phila.gov/The Mayor’s Office for Reintegration Services for Ex-Offenders is hosting an Ex-Offender Expo at the Philadelphia Convention Center on Tuesday, July 30th from 10am-3pm.
This event is free to attend, but make sure to register. If you are not pre-registered they will not let you in!
Please see the following link for more details: http://expo.phila.gov/
What a Change!
Sitting here thinking about my experience in court yesterday remembering that a little over 18 years and 7 months ago I was a bottom feeder heroin addict, convicted felon, IV drug user that because of the change God made in my life not only in allowing me to be clean 18 and a half years, pardoned and expunged my record, saved my Marine Corp career, restored my relationship with my family, brought me into ministry and has me founding and pastoring Recovery Christian Center, but He actually used me stand before a judge and speak for someone in a way that changed they way he looked at a young man and changed the outcome of a case. Not only am I grateful for the change and the opportunity, but I am also awed and humbled by the responsibility we have as a result of being in recovery and having a personal relationship with God. We who used to tear down society have the power and the responsibility to rebuild it one soul at a time.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Recovery Christian Center On The Road This Sunday Morning
Join me and Recovery Christian Center as we travel to Worship with Summerfield United Methodist Church, 2223 E. Dauphin Street in Fishtown tomorrow at 11am. Urs truly is the Word Bearer filling in for my friend Pastor Dan Roth while he is on vacation. I gotta Word for the House! Don't meet me there. BEAT ME THERE! It will CHANGE UR LIFE!
Friday, July 19, 2013
Join me for my birthday!
Come out and help me celebrate my birthday this weekend! Tonight, Friday at 7pm at Recovery Christian Center Kensington @ SKA, 2418 Kensington Ave in Philly for our Recovery Gospel Open Mic Nite!
Or Tomorrow, Saturday at 5pm at Recovery Christian Center West, 4110 Haverford Ave in West Philly for our Recovery & Deliverance Service!
Or on Sunday as RCC travels to Summerfield UMC, 2223 E. Dauphin in the Fishtown Section of Philadelphia where I am the Word Bearer while my friend Pastor Dan Roth is on vacation.
Come out and be blessed! We are Radical Ministry for Radical Brokenness!
Or Tomorrow, Saturday at 5pm at Recovery Christian Center West, 4110 Haverford Ave in West Philly for our Recovery & Deliverance Service!
Or on Sunday as RCC travels to Summerfield UMC, 2223 E. Dauphin in the Fishtown Section of Philadelphia where I am the Word Bearer while my friend Pastor Dan Roth is on vacation.
Come out and be blessed! We are Radical Ministry for Radical Brokenness!
Birthday Blessings
Sitting here on my birthday reflecting on the blessing of 52 years of life and 19 birthdays free from active addiction. I cannot even begin to count the blessings. A wonderful wife, Paula Burnett-Kimmenez, 5 beautiful daughters, a whole mess of grandbabies, and lots of loving family and friends and a wonderful Church Family inRecovery Christian Center. God has been truly good to me.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 7/15/13 - The Bondage of Unforgiveness
Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 7/15/13 - The Bondage of Unforgiveness
"Two others, both criminals, were led out to be executed with him. 33 When they came to a place called The Skull,[e] they nailed him to the cross. And the criminals were also crucified—one on his right and one on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” And the soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing dice." Luke 23:32-34 NLT
Many of us sat in disbelief, shock and anger late Saturday evening as the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case was published. We felt hurt, sadness, disappointment, deprived of justice, and some emotions much darker than that. Many of us knew that if the racial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds of the involved individuals had been different then the outcome would have been too. Our feelings are justified, but we still accountable to God for how we act.
Any of us who lived through the devastating riots following the death of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X or the ones following the acquittal of the police officers involved in the beating of Rodney King know that, as much as it might have felt good to release our anger, a senseless violent response to a senseless violent act changes nothing. The Word tells us to be angry but do not sin. We will accomplish nothing by acting out and will only end up hurting ourselves spiritually.
As a father that has lost a son to gun violence, I understand the pain, the anger, the grief, the shock, the loss, and thinking I wanted justice when I really wanted vengeance, but as a believer and a recovering person, I know that holding on to all that stuff only hurt me.
The problem with resentment, unresolved anger, and unforgiveness is that it does not usually affect the individuals that hurt us, but it does keep us in bondage. We don't just forgive to release the other person, but to release ourselves into freedom. That freedom is necessary to effect real change. While our anger is justified and should be put into marching, organizing, peaceful assembly and action, lobbying the government, voting, and campaigning for change, we can not afford to allow it to overtake us and push us into violence.
As Jesus said after being nailed to a cross for our crimes, while committing none of His own, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." After all we have been forgiven for we can't afford to let the bondage of unforgiveness overtake us.
"Two others, both criminals, were led out to be executed with him. 33 When they came to a place called The Skull,[e] they nailed him to the cross. And the criminals were also crucified—one on his right and one on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” And the soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing dice." Luke 23:32-34 NLT
Many of us sat in disbelief, shock and anger late Saturday evening as the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case was published. We felt hurt, sadness, disappointment, deprived of justice, and some emotions much darker than that. Many of us knew that if the racial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds of the involved individuals had been different then the outcome would have been too. Our feelings are justified, but we still accountable to God for how we act.
Any of us who lived through the devastating riots following the death of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X or the ones following the acquittal of the police officers involved in the beating of Rodney King know that, as much as it might have felt good to release our anger, a senseless violent response to a senseless violent act changes nothing. The Word tells us to be angry but do not sin. We will accomplish nothing by acting out and will only end up hurting ourselves spiritually.
As a father that has lost a son to gun violence, I understand the pain, the anger, the grief, the shock, the loss, and thinking I wanted justice when I really wanted vengeance, but as a believer and a recovering person, I know that holding on to all that stuff only hurt me.
The problem with resentment, unresolved anger, and unforgiveness is that it does not usually affect the individuals that hurt us, but it does keep us in bondage. We don't just forgive to release the other person, but to release ourselves into freedom. That freedom is necessary to effect real change. While our anger is justified and should be put into marching, organizing, peaceful assembly and action, lobbying the government, voting, and campaigning for change, we can not afford to allow it to overtake us and push us into violence.
As Jesus said after being nailed to a cross for our crimes, while committing none of His own, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." After all we have been forgiven for we can't afford to let the bondage of unforgiveness overtake us.
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