There is an inmate who is very young that arrived at the jail about a month ago. He’s in the place in the jail where men have the most serious situations. When I first saw this inmate, he was very cold, staring at me in a sort of unfriendly stare-down Read more…
In Scripture, there are accounts of people appearing drunk (see Acts 2:14-15), because they were just healed by GOD, because of their closeness to GOD, or because of direct revelation of GOD (such as with the Pentecost prayer). There are other examples, too. This sort of overtakenness, of sheer out-of-control Read more…
As I type this, millions are outside preparing to watch the solar eclipse. The jail inmates and myself have been talking today about how the eclipse actually proves that GOD exists. It is pretty simple but robust empirical proof; here it goes… The sun is, we are told, 400 times Read more…
There have been some amazing events in the jail ministry this past week. These events involve donations from one of the KJM mission workers, who has been donating socks, reading glasses, board games, underwear, and books. Let me tell you about one such event, a sign from the LORD (see Read more…
Two weeks ago I talked to a man who was in the padded medical room receiving medical care from the jail nurses. He was wearing a protective gown (also informally referred to by the inmates as a suicide gown). This week I saw this inmate again, but now he has Read more…
Last Friday afternoon, my wife (Lead Chaplain Amy Grupp) and I went to the medical wing in the jail, often the most intense place inside the jail (especially intense spiritually). I talked to a young fellow right when I walked in. He was just standing near the glass door, looking Read more…
We received word from Sheriff Fuller that KJM is going to be given access for jail ministry imminently. We are in a launch phase, at the moment. More details will follow in the coming days. GOD has blessed us, and showered us with His miracles.
Yesterday, on the way home from jail, I was still in a state of Jesus-joy, Jesus-high, from sacrificing self to nothing, in order to serve the inmates in the jail all afternoon. I always travel home right through parts of downtown, such as on Vine St. Some men in a Read more…
Yesterday I was at a cell with four men in it. I walked up, and one fella yelled, “finally!” He was up on his bed, and as soon as I arrived and started talking, this fellow, Michael, started crying heavily, while sitting on his bed. By the goodness of the Read more…
Being in the jail daily is fullness of joy. It is by total surrender to Christ, while on the jail floor, that the LORD enables us to experience the presence of GOD with the jail inmates. There is no room for condemnation, of any sort, in a place of such Read more…