about

Prior to founding Word from Vine as a faith-based ministry, to shine a light on the Hebrew scriptures for life, JB haled from Florida and has been ministering since his college days in the 1980s in the Washington D.C. area and later on while pursuing his graduate degrees. After his ministerial program he received his ministers license in 1994 and continued his credentials for ordination in 1997. His calling to ministry and service extended beyond gatherings and denominational walls and across life’s bridges while practicing law.  He felt the call to establish and pastor Full Life Covenant Ministries (nondenominational); he did so for 18 years along with ministering through Epic Dialog, an online ministry addressing life questions and issues, i.e., substance abuse, depression, suicide, faith, beliefs, God and other life issues.  He pastored assisted living facilities, provided pastoral services to rural churches, served in leadership and boards as clergy, and as counsel, and established a community youth baseball ministry program.  From ministering and teaching to advising and facilitating ministries, JB sought to encourage others, share the word, and try and be what the word urges of us all ‘… you shall love your neighbor as yourself...’ [Lv. 19:18] As JB has stated, ‘… From ministering and working in a secular world, it is my impression that an apathetic egoistic spiritual condition is permiating culture and society throughout the world.’  JB also notes that ironically the scriptures reveal that there would be a future social mindset – we see it today in society – that upon hearing the ‘word’, would react by blessing themselves in their hearts saying ‘I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my heart’ – as though the drunkard could be included with the sober. [Dt. 29:19]  We are all living in the consequences of such a spiritual state.  We easily tend to not be mindful of the consequences of how we all live. So, with much refelection, through Word from Vine  / Palabra de Vid, the work and effort continues to share the scriptures as a lens to life impacting our thinking, faith and culture through life’s path under God’s blessing, hopefully drawing us closer to God.  

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