Anyone listening?

Hello in there!

I figure most of you who look here already know why it has been so long since I have posted (since Nov? Wow!), but for those of you not in the know, here’s thestory….

Starting in the new year (24) I have been in and out of the hospital a few times.  I think the first one was a result of long term covid symptoms.  I was getting super dizzy while standing and it turns out that I had Orthostatic Hypotension, which is a fancy way of saying that my veins are dialated and when I stand up all the blood runs down (yay gravity) away from my head.  Now this is actually probably POTS or Postural Orthostatic Tachocardia (sp) which is a long term symptom of covid, because:  My next hospital stay I went in because I couldn’t breathe.  This turned out to be a failure in my peritoneal dialysis treatments (more on this in a minute).  One of the symptoms i noticed while getting treated for this was I could never seem to catch my breath or take a deep breath.  They eventually put me on oxygen.  Combine this with the treatment for the first problem above which got me stuck in a wheelchair.  Now back to the PD failure.  Because my PD dialysis failed, I filled some fluid around my lungs requiring 5 different procedures to drain.  Most painful thing to ever happen to me.  Since I still need dialysis to live and PD isn’t working I had to be switched to hemo dialysis 3x a week where you sit in a chair and they jack you into a big machine that sucks out your blood, cleans it up and puts it back.  I’d be lying if I said this was fun.  It’s hard on my and made me stop working as I can’t do it while on dialysis and after I get off dialysis I am a wreck until at least the next day.  There have been all sorts of problems associated with this, but fear not, I am still here, still kicking and still worshiping God Almighty who has carried and/or dragged me through all this thus far 😀

I just wanted to check back in and let you all know I have been thinking about you.  I pray for you and want to remind you to praise God each and every day!  If there is something I can pray for you about, please please let me know (email at the bottom og the site).  May God bless and keep you and I will do my best to try and get back on here a lot more frequently that lately!

My seminary – pounding the street!

As a Minister, I often get asked, mostly by haughty sanctimonious Christians (modern day Pharisees) what Seminary I went to and/or what my qualifications are. Most often this is just for some kind of misplaced competition to decide my legitimacy.

For the record, my parents never really pushed any kind of religious education for me and were not overly religious people, not attending church, etc.. I did attend some church and some sunday school education at a Baptist church with a religious Aunt of mine. I had some early personal experiences with the paranormal which pushed me into a long interest in such things, culminating into heavy study and involvement into Witchcraft and, eventually Satanism during my college years. There I met a brother Gary who God put in place to turn me around. He argued the scriptures with me and also t get me to go to church with him until I finally caved in and went. I was, and am lucky to still have him as a brother to rely on to this day. There, in a Fundamentalist church, I had my conversion. Heard the words and calling of God like thunder (literally). From there my education and interest continued until I felt called into the ministry in 1996. I was ordained and started right away!


“God does not call the qualified, he qualifies the called.”

We can see that in 1 Corinthians 1:27-29. “But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence.”

Clearly, I am part to that “God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise”..

I do take some issue that all ministers and pastors must go to Seminary in order to preach/teach and minister. Although I absolutely believe that one must learn and be a student of Jesus’ teachings, more often than not, I believe those places are reserved for teaching doctrine and denomination. Both of those can, I believe be detrimental toward the real mission of spreading the Gospel, and inhibitive of the Holy Spirit whom the Bible says is the actual teacher (John 14:26). Although some would argue, we need to make sure that one’s doctrine or denomination is not overriding the word of God or his spirit directing you.

At any rate, it’s been a rolercoaster ride for sure, being ordained, being handed a church, running a homeless ministry and then moving across the continent, all the while being a bivocational minister. What I mean by that is being a minister has never been my sole employment – no I’m not a rich televangelist! I have always relied on an additional day job (I’m also a computer systems engineer) to fund both my family and my ministry. My Biblical education has come from self studies, those with my peers and, like the title says, years of beating the streets by foot meeting my fellow man where they were with the Gospel. And now, after all that and some baptisms, communions, weddings and funerals, I am here.

Welcome to ReverendLinc.com!

Welcome to ReverendLinc.com! This site has been a long time coming. A little history: I was ordained in 1996 and pastored a church for a while (Trinity Bible Chapel / TBC ministries) along with Pastor Clarence Rodwell before I moved to California. My main ministries have been helping the homeless since then and now, anything internet or online related.

With this particular site I would like to provide some honest opinions and critical Christian examinations backed up with biblical examples. I welcome you to look into all these things with me as we all journey together until we meet Jesus again!