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Combat Veterans Initiative, Snellville, GA (2026)

09/16/2024

Again, thank you for everyone that sent me wishes June 24th for my 70th birthday, and start of my 71st year. On my last birthday I wrote about my birth and the mother I never got to see. This most recent 70th I reveal that I was at 20 years old when I learned that I was the last male in a cursed family bloodline, and I would never be able to have children, much less a son to carry on the family name.

I came into the Church as a new believer in June 1983. At 29 years old, when I gave my life to Christ, I was not just "getting saved," but in my case I was responding to a "conditional invitation" to "count the cost of being a Disciple," and to learn what it meant to "abide in Christ," and to have "His Words living in me."

Only then would I hopefully would "bear much good fruit, showing myself to be His disciple to the Glory of the Father." If my entire family line had to end with me, I prayed it would end on a Christ-glorifying note in me.

Prophets all over the country and Europe have told me I would not only have one son, but even twins, but male fertility science said otherwise, and well-intentioned prayers did not change the physical reality, and the curse was not manifestly broken, at least not yet. (lol)

Often as a counselor I sometimes enthusiastically feel like I really let the Spirit "nail the negative issues of other believers' flesh to the Cross."

I think about how thrilled I am to see when believers who have come to see me, and who want to grow in Christ and succeed in marriage, suddenly and "enthusiastically" realize the resulting transformation that is occurring inside them (entheos = God from within), and proving itself in outward expression of the life and words of Christ.

I am even more thrilled when both their inward faith and outward words and actions become such that they can help "sanctify others in the Bride of Christ," someplace where the need for such ministry may not even yet be recognized within the Church.

This sanctity and "Christ formed in you, the Hope of Glory," should be the driving purpose of the 5-fold ministers - who are "gifts to the body meant especially to equip us for ministry to one another, so the church grows into the full stature of Christ."

Then I am reminded of all the pastors who have heard of my ministry even from elders and worship leaders in their church, but who would rather investigate my life to see if they can disqualify me for ministry due to some slander they hear, or truth about a past sin long-repented of, that was later spread and kept alive by gossip. "By slander (false lies) a man destroys his neighbor, and by gossip (of true or false divulgences) a city is destroyed."

It's incredible how jealously some of those "would-be-five-fold ministers" ignore and even prevent the gifts of others from blossoming as they shrink back from exploring their own gifts that lie buried under fear and/or traditions, and which are unmoved by scholarly preaching. They may be "fivers," but they too often function completely separately and alone.

I've always been a highly gifted and disciplined team player in sports, and other endeavors, but I also excelled as a coach, and business consultant, and then as a disciple I found that Jesus was similarly pleased to be "the Wonderful Counselor" in me and through me for the last half of my 70 years.

I have great joy as a counselor when I get to see any of my clients realize their own increasing transformation, but even greater joy when they become selflessly motivated to muster the guts to bring a friend or a peer, and to intercede while sitting in on those sessions.

My joy is positively over-flowing when someone self-sacrificially launches out into the deep themselves, trusting the Spirit, the gift, and the anointing as I did 35 years ago. Only to the likes of them does scripture say, "You don't need that any man teach you, for the anointing that is in you is real and it will guide you unto all Truth."

I testify that believing, knowing and loving that Truth was a good place for me to start this half of my life, when the One - who is never not anointed - was suddenly pleased to reveal Himself inside me as the Wonderful Counselor.

I pray that anyone who has partaken of spiritual dialogue and prayer with me in the last 35 years would continue to ask Jesus if He would be pleased to reveal more of Himself, His words and wisdom in you, and more of His burden for countless members - our eternal siblings - in the not yet spotless Bride.

A good future Truth to aim for requires inspiration such as the apostle Paul spoke of when he said, "We the apostles (=sent ones) carry about in our bodies the dying of the Lord Jesus (Why?), so that His life will "be formed" in our mortal bodies. And, so death is at work in us so that life may be at work (and formed) in you."

We are told that "Hope deferred makes the heart sick," but also that "Hope that is "real hope" does not disappoint." Do you know of this "real hope?" It is "Christ FORMED in you, the Hope of Glory."

His Mercy, and Grace, and Peace be to you all,
Jeff Carr
770-985-1235

06/29/2024

READ SAMPLE LETTER BELOW, (Clandestine Communique to Joe Biden, probably before he became President?)

Why would a career politician of nearly 50 years run for President, obviously putting himself under every citizen's microscope, and then remain so stubbornly derelict in his Constitutional duties as the Head of the Executive Branch of the government and all intelligence and law enforcement agencies, and as the Commander in Chief of the Military?

Why would he leave the southern border open to all out enemies? And why would he provide aid and comfort to the undocumented and dangerous agents of those enemies?

Why would he weaken out supply lines, draw down our oil reserves, and weaken our Military on every base in the world, and tie the hands of all members of Law Enforcement so that Americans realize they are no longer safe and need to protect themselves and any things needed to supply their family's needs?

What could he be expecting in return? The truth is hidden somewhere yet undisclosed and unfound. A clue may be that rich Oligarchs all around the world have the majority of their most valuable assets held for them in the name of some other silent dead persons, or by living victims over whom they hold terrifying power, and whom they can sustain financially for chump change.

I believe Xi Jinping and Putin only had to say to Joe, and maybe Hunter;

THE LETTER AND PLEDGE

"Dear President of the United States,

We and our allies beholden to us all over the world will soon have the capability to invade and destroy the USA with great loss of life and infrastructure.

But, we don't have to decimate your country if you will simply use your Presidency to protect the USA, against total destruction, by weakening the United States so that the USA cannot ever mount a global counter-attack against China, Russia, and N. Korea.

President Biden, you can act out this agenda surreptitiously in any and every way possible, and for whatever misleading ideological agenda by which you choose to justify your actions or your inactions.

Weaken you're electrical grid, your supply of natural gas and your emergency oil reserves. Don't develop mining rights or operations for crucial minerals. Let your supply lines languish, and let your sanctions of our friends expire.

Delay the Congressional appropriation process, and limit the funding for your Military and Defense Industry so that it causes limitations for the manufacture of armaments, jets, satellites, ships, submarines, tanks, other vehicles of war, and all munitions and missiles.

Do nothing to increase the financial or technological resources, or to improve the effectiveness and defense of your Intelligence Community domestically or wherever they are stationed all around the world.

Let your Congressional Committees believe they have completely unraveled the mystery of where any token amount of wealth came to your family, when they truly have only scratched the surface.

Hunter's laptop will prove to be merely a cheap shiny object that draws attention from the myriad of ways by which we will make Hunter and the rest of your family great and wealthy in the New World Order to come. Provide us the names of all whose futures you desire us to prosper beyond their imagination; family, friends and peers, and even future descendants.

All of them will come to believe that democracy in America became too divisive and insufferably weak, but your foresight of the future global order will reveal you as a great leader who preserved for the USA a chance to survive and to take a somewhat diminished place in the community of nations ruled by those who were destined to be its future leaders.

Do nothing out of ambition for the ideological or material success or the United States, because it's time of world leadership is coming to an end. The transition will be painful for those who hold to nationalistic patriotism as the highest of ideals, but the inevitability of a more efficient and rapidly changing global world order will soon be accepted by all, and their God will be proven impotent to deliver them unto whatever world order for which they formerly prayed."

Warmest regards from your most loyal friends,

__________________________ ___________________________
Xi Jinping Vladimir Putin

10/27/2021

Had Beau Biden not died of brain cancer in 2008, and if had he ever spoken to Jim Clyburn of South Carolina of his deep and persistent inner conflict with his father's ideals, lies, thoughts, words and deeds by the time of the Presidential Campaign of 2020, Jim Clyburn of South Carolina would never have endorsed Joe Biden for President, unless Jim Clyburn is as corrupt as Joe Biden.

God used my Dad's WWII Combat Stories to grip Beau Biden.

One night in 2007 Senator Joe Biden's son Beau attended a special event for young soldiers and older veterans to hear a few talks, and ask questions of several formerly skilled and battle tested combat veterans.

Beau was about to leave for training before he would deploy to Iraq to fulfill his commitment to one year of combat duty. That timing was probably what caused him to be very moved by what my father spoke as the last speaker.

Just before leaving the hotel hungry, Beau saw my father standing in a short line to the hotel restaurant which was known for great steaks. He was wearing a WW II Combat Veteran's Jacket that I'd had specially made for my Dad - a jacket fit for a true WW II hero.

Beau walked toward him to commend him for his talk and very candid and revealing personal stories, and thanked him for his service to the country in WWII. He also complimented him for the beautiful leather bomber jacket that I had sparingly partially covered in meaningful patches, pins and medals.

He asked if my Dad had company for dinner, and then asked if he could join my father for dinner and have the honor of paying for the meal. I would later learn that Beau was positively captivated by my fahter's very graphic, and poignant scout/sniper and combat soldier stories.

My Dad was inducted to service directly under Gen. Patton, due to an administrative error, but quickly earned his place as Patton's #1 scout/sniper - partly because he spoke fluent German. After hearing my Dad's scouting reports from deep behind enemy lines, Gen. Patton decided he wanted three such men to operate as a team, and he wanted my Dad to choose the other two men.

My Dad persuaded Gen. Patton to let him pick two of his best friends to fill those positions because they had grown up together, all three of them spoke fluent German, and each of them were expert marksmen. Like the biblical "Chief three of King David's mighty men," my Dad and his two best friends became widely known as the "3 long rifles of Patton."

They were legendary in their ability to approach enemy positions with stealth, to intercept German scouts, and to clothe themselves in their uniforms, and to blend in at strategically placed German eating and sleeping establishments until the most opportune moments came about for them to decimate both the dregs and the Elite SS of the German enemy as they unsuspectingly dined and drank too much in taverns, or went to their beds in inns or in their tent camps.

During their meal my father reveaked to Beau that he had a very special firstborn son, and Beau acknowledged I must be very proud of my Dad. He never admitted being the Attorney General of Delaware, or the son of Joe Biden, but Beau did tell my Dad how conflicted he was in his heart as he strived to show respect and obey his father, but his father's weakness, lack of truthfulness, and especially his lack of anything resembling genuine patriotism.

I later learned that my father humbly admitted that I had actually received more instruction, coaching and encouragement by a dozen of his War buddies and their wives, than by him. When Dad was 30 and my Mom was 24 she was comatose and dying of "sleeping sickness," in a small epidemic which hit Massachusetts and Rhode Island in 1953. She died just a few hours after they risked trying to save my life by a C-Section delivery. My Dad admitted that the loss of his wife threw him into a tailspin in almost every area of his life, and that he lost all faith and even broke off all communication with God.

Beau still did not reveal his own identity as the son of Sen. Joe Biden, perhaps out of respectful discretion, or perhaps because he could easily sense my Dad's severe allergy to discussions of politics that only tempted my Dad to comment sarcastically about one of more elected representatives of the people, in whom he only saw cowardly and hypocritical rhetoric and behavior.

Beau did reveal his position in the Army National Guard and that his "year of combat service" was rapidly approaching, and this providential dinner meeting was happening about 10 or 11 months before the 2008 Presidential Election. Beau asked my Dad for any words of wisdom about surviving a year of the threat and reality of combat.

I'm sure my Dad gave him some advice related to mental and emotional preparedness. But, my Dad had also accepted Jesus as his Savior six years earlier in 2001, and had even let me counsel him on several occasions.

It caused my Dad to write down my name and number and told Beau that he should call "the wisest man I ever met, who just happens to counsel many active duty soldiers, reservists, and combat veterans."

My Dad had met many of my clients over the years, who had survived repeated deployments, and he told Beau to call me in Atlanta if he was serious about surviving combat physically, mentally and emotionally, and if he wanted to return to the U.S.A. truly able to live a civilian life fully worth living," no matter how terrifying and traumatic the combat experience had been before his tour of duty was over, or how incessantly and vividly the images of the battlefield would try to creep into his dreams, and plague him with sleepless nights.

How do I know that my Dad said that? Because 3-4 nights later Beau called me in Atlanta and told me so. We talked from 8:00 p.m. till 4 a.m., and it did not take more than 30 minutes before we were sharing as if we had grown up as neighbors, but with two very different fathers.

Beau shared very deep feelings and thoughts about his father that were in conflict with some pride he had in his Dad, as a member of the federal government. He apologetically said I probably could not relate to his conflict.

I was honest, and I let Beau know that I was proud of my Dad for his military service, and for the respect he seemed due by many other combat veterans, but I was also very often disgusted with him for his arrogant opinions about everything he disagreed with, and also very hurt at how un-affectionate and verbally abusive he could be to me while I was always bragging about him to others. Though good in every sport, I was small for my age (until senior year high school). I always avoided fights with any bullies and knew I could not therefore ever be considered a hero like my Dad.

Beau was disgusted with his Dad's emotional favoritism, and also with his fathers tendency to speak out of both sides of his mouth, with a mixture of prideful ambition and a bad habit of embellishing stories - more and more as he told them.

I'll end with this, that will surprise no American patriot watching what Joe Biden has done to this country in seven months.

When Joe Biden became the V.P. to Barack Obama, Beau Biden repeatedly told me that his father must never become the President of the United States, "not even if Obama was assassinated," and not if Joe decided to run for the Presidency in 2016. Over the several calls we had in about 7 years Beau repeated that many times and told me so many reasons why he felt that way.

I am convinced that if Beau Biden is in the biblical "cloud of witnesses," watching as things unfold on this planet, we Americans can be sure that no one could be more ashamed of President Joe Biden than his own eldest son.

He despised his father's ambition, exaggerations, and duplicity, and therefore early in childhood, he also rejected his father's favoritism, and inordinate displays of affection to his son.

Given Beau's warning and reasons, is it any wonder we get nothing of honesty, or America pride and patriotism out of the Biden Administration?

07/05/2020

A true WWII hero, and definitely my hero, second only to Christ. Dad was the first of three snipers who all travelled with Gen. Patton. He became a sniper in the cause of world freedom, and I became a spiritual sniper for the freedom of those who come here "not dead enough to a self (the righteous spiritual way)," and therefore "not alive enough in Christ to walk on the straight and narrow path that leads to live but which few find."

The military broke you down in order to build you back up into the soldiers they needed. You will find this counseling one of the most difficult things you have ever attempted. There are so many things besides the combat vet that I have to help you break down in order for you to keep growing into the man He wants you to be.

(MORE OF MY FATHER'S STORY AND MINE BELOW)

10/15/2019

WWII hero and my hero. He was a sniper in the cause of freedom, and I became a spiritual sniper for the freedom of those who come here "not dead enough to self," and therefore "not alive enough in Christ."

10/01/2019

"He trains my fingers for battle and my hands for war."

10/01/2019

OH THAT ALL CHRISTIANS CHERISHED, AND CLEARLY PORTRAYED JESUS' CALL TO SELF-DENIAL, AS THESE SOLDIERS SELFLESSLY GUARD THE EMPTY TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER. READ ON.

When you read of their devotion don't you feel a lump in your throat? Or, maybe you're like one of my Baptist friends who considers it such a waste that so many man hours have been spent guarding an empty tomb. I think there's an inspiring message here for Christians who especially want to understand the ongoing work of sanctification in our lives.

If only we Christians were taught to hold steadfastly to the message that we were and are crucified with Christ, we were and are buried with him in his death for three days and three nights exactly like the sign of Jonah, and as a result we were and are raised up with him, and transformed by his resurrection life, daily, since we are commanded to deny ourselves and take up our cross daily.

The Apostle Paul was a great servant of Christ, but when he told the Corinthians "I assure you all that I Die daily for you," he was speaking of a spiritual reality that he wanted all of his disciples to grasp and practice. He also wrote that "we carry about in our bodies the dying of the Lord Jesus so that his life may be formed in our mortal bodies so therefore death is at work in us so that life may be at work in you."

Similarly, in 1st Peter we are told that Christ "set us an example that we were to follow in." That was an example of self-denial, bearing up under unjust suffering without any retaliation or bitterness, and dying to self, for the sake of others. The Apostle Peter even affirms that "many things that Paul writes are hard and difficult to understand but the immature and unstable distort them."

In 33 years as a counselor I have never met a single Christian ( nor pastor) who could clearly describe to me the means by which a Christian husband is to die to self and be transformed into the likeness of Jesus, capable of loving his wife as Christ loves the church. Clearly the vast majority of Christians do not understand sanctification, of self or of marriage, and that is the fault of their leaders who are not living openly as "examples to the flock."

Paul wrote about the Christian's daily pursuit of sanctification and transformation by means of death to self and resurrection with Christ even more than he wrote about salvation. Salvation is only the first step in us appropriating the work that Jesus accomplished on the cross for us.

The rest of that Christian walk is a little like a high wire tightrope walk. At one end the high wire is secured by the truth that I am crucified with Christ today, and the other end of the high wire is secured by the truth that I am seated with Christ in Heavenly places. I am daily moving from one end of the high wire to the other and sometimes more than once. No wonder Christians sometimes feel a little schizophrenic. It takes some effort to wrap your brain around the truths pardon to sanctification.

Jesus, Paul and Peter want us to grow past this immaturity and learn how to deny self, take up our cross, Die daily, and follow him in newness of life, so that we even become more effective witnesses, intercessors and catalysts for change in the lives of others.

Hebrews 12:14 tells us that we are to "pursue peace with all men and the sanctification without which no one shall see the Lord." Essentially, I cannot be the person I need to be for you to see Jesus unless I am more dead to self. And around you, very specific things in me may need to be put to death, before I can even communicate effectively with you.

Baptists especially do not like that many Christians choose to wear a crucifix around their neck with Christ still portrayed as hanging on it. I fear they worship an empty cross more than they worship because of an empty tomb.

My crucifix reminds me that each day that I die to something of myself, that death does not occur apart from my death with and in Jesus' death for me. Scripture tells me clearly that "One died for all, and therefore all died, and he died that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died and rose again on their behalf."

Baptists, who really dislike the crucifix with Jesus hanging on it, are no different than the sensationalists among the Pentecostals and Charismatics who love to sing modern praise and worship songs that proclaim Jesus to be the "Lion of the tribe of Judah," and in one very popular song they even portray him as "riding a white horse all across our land with fire in his eyes." They can't wait for him to come back as the avenging Lion of the tribe of Judah.

Ironically, "The Lamb of God" is made reference to twenty-three times in the Book of Revelation.. Only one time it is proclaimed "Behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah." When the Apostle John heard this declaration in heaven, he tells us that "I turned and I beheld him..." and how did The Lion of the tribe of Judah appear? The Apostle John says that he appeared "....like a lamb slain, seated on the throne."

That is who Jesus is until he actually returns as the Lion of the tribe of Judah to destroy his enemies, and to Proclaim otherwise is tantamount to practicing mythology instead of Christianity and Christian worship. The tomb is empty. but the one who vacated it sits on the throne as a lamb slain.

Do you worship Christ because of an empty Cross, or because of an empty tomb? The empty tomb should inspire you to take up your cross so that it never be found empty of what needs to die in you today, and that you never be found empty of that portion of Christ that someone else needs you to be, today

Your brother in Christ,
Rev. Jeff

09/29/2019

GOD USED THE POST ABOUT MY DAD SURVIVING BEING A SCOUT SNIPER TO TOUCH THE HEART OF ANOTHER SON WHOSE FATHER WAS THE 2ND SCOUT/SNIPER, BUT WHO WAS WOUNDED SEVERELY AND COULD NOT BE AS ACTIVE AS MY DAD. HE DIED RECENTLY AND GOD SPIRITUALLY RESTORED THE SON TO HIS FATHER AND EVEN TO ME.

I was never going to write the recent post (on 9/23) about my dad being an Army scout sniper, who also spoke fluent German, and served directly at the behest of General Patton for a 10-month tour of duty, 200+ days of which he spent Behind Enemy Lines.

One of my father's WWII war buddies, who was like an uncle to me as a boy, had a son my age who used to be among my Facebook friends, but he never posted anything, and he had even unfriended me at one point just because of how religious and fervent my previous posts were.

My dad would be 95 right now if he hadn't passed away in June 2011. This friend's dad just passed away less than a week ago at 95. I didn't hear from him immediately about the loss of his dad, but a mutual friend showed him my post just an hour before the start of his father's funeral. God wanted him to see it just at that moment in his life.

He read the post and added his dad's name with my dad's name where it was appropriate, and then at his time to speak he read the post in the funeral. He openly reminisced with the attendees about his father's stories of World War II victories with my father behind enemy lines.

Two days later he called me and told me my post lifted much of his grief over what his dad and the whole family had suffered as a result of serious wounds his dad incurred in World War II. We spoke and he admitted that he had grown resentful over the years that his father had been seriously disabled, for the rest of his life, while my father remained a healthy athlete for the rest of his life.

Upon re-reading my post, he suddenly was reminded of all the stories his dad used to tell him about being a scout sniper alongside my dad, and his bitterness began to lift.

Other than his father's sufferings, he and I are very much alike in our life's experiences, but he never understood what a hard-ass my father was, and how hurtful it was at times to be his son and so often the victim of his angry and merciless words.

He realized and told me that he had forgotten much of what the suffering of WW II veterans was all about, but suddenly he reclaimed the sacrifice his dad and mom, and he had made, and he was amazed (instead of angry) at how his dad continued to walk in Victory of Mind and Spirit ever since the war ended, while his son grew further and further away from God.

I got to share with him how we Christians are not supposed to live our lives trying to avoid suffering , but rather we are supposed to arm ourselves with a "Readiness to Suffer" for the cause of the Gospel simply because Jesus suffered and "set us an example to follow in."

His father passed away while deeply grieved at his son's distance from God, but now his son was beginning again to recognize his need for a Heavenly Father and he sought out a brother - me - who could talk to him about recapturing that.

After a very long conversation about the precepts of this 33-year long counseling ministry, this friend asked me if I would consider moving back to Massachusetts, to live in his house and train him, in order to bring this message of Transformation by Cross to the many hundreds of vets that he knows - Vietnam vets like him, Gulf War vets, and combat Vets who have served since 9/11/2001.

I told him it would not be an easy decision to leave Atlanta permanently, but told him that I would think about it, and I admitted to him that I am sick of facing the ignorance of most pastors in the Bible Belt about "the way of sanctification," "daily death to self," and very pointed "intercession by way of the cross," and "transformed life in Christ" so that we Christians might really let Jesus abide in us, experience us abiding in Him, and as a result find ourselves supernaturally "bearing much fruit as his disciples to the glory of the father. "

I told him he would have a rough year of training ahead, and to begin looking for a couple of local church elders who would be willing to cover him being discipled by this kind of Christian ministry, in spite of the controversy that he and I would most likely stir up in pastor-ruled churches and denominational churches, and probably in the Veterans Administration in New England.

Tonight he told me that he spoke to a couple of pastors today, from different local churches, and neither of them had ever heard of Elijah House ministries or John Sandford who set me into Ministry in 1987, and they were openly cynical about this kind of ministry which they have never heard of.

I reminded him that this is why I asked him to seek out a few church "elders" from more than one church in his town, who could meet with us and eventually function as a board of elders.

I've got prostate surgery to go through in the middle of November, to be followed by several weeks of healing, and then most likely a couple of months of chemotherapy. I can't really put my house in order here and consider a move back to Massachusetts until the cancer has been dealt with successfully.

But, even if I travel up there again, I think it would only be for a 1-year stay to train him and others. That would probably be followed up by just a couple shorter trips each year.

Maybe I anticipate this because I have absolutely no other friends from New England who have reciprocated my efforts to stay in contact with them, after college, other than business associates from New England, who have also not stayed in contact with me ever since I quit my business career in mid-1987 to go into this type of counseling ministry.

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