Jesus on Times Square! When I booked our Christmas billboard @ Times Square was November 1. We were out front. I knew the Lord said do it and to my knowledge when I booked going into Christmas no one else was doing it for the Holiday & New Year. My buddy, Nathan inspired [...]
YO! It was 47 years ago when ROCKY was released in theaters. City officials declared Sunday, December 3, 2023 as 'ROCKY DAY' and the box office champ showed up personally! Frank had the honor thanks to his godmother, Judy to meet Sylvester Stallone at age thirteen after she won a RAMBO II contest in 1985 [...]
PRAISE GOD! Coach Deion Sanders received our ministry leadership award. The Lord impressed on us to bless him and we love to honor those who are doing it right. When God tells you do to something we must get moving. Respect and honor are lacking in our culture today but winners recognize others without being [...]
PRAISE THE LORD! This weekend on Saturday, August 12 we celebrated with family and friends on the 25th anniversary of Frank being ordained into the Gospel Ministry. In August 1998, Frank Shelton, Jr was ordained at Cresthill Baptist in Bowie, MD and what a delight it was a quarter of a century later to pause, [...]
Yo! It is no secret that Frank is a BIG Sylvester Stallone fan. He met Sly in Hollywood as a teen (1985) and they reunited two decades later in Vegas when he was an 'extra' in ROCKY BALBOA (2005). In ROCKY V, Balboa fought Tommy Morrison who in real life was a Heavyweight Boxing Champ. He [...]
We are thrilled to announce that the highly anticipated book #Urgency will be released (July 20, 2021)! It will be a game changer for some and life changer for others. Buckle up because it is the wildest ride in the amusement park. Society for too long has been playing checkers when the real battle is [...]
Several months ago my friend, Randy Coggins called me and said he had been ministering privately to Roger Stone. He told me he saw where Franklin Graham was going to be in Florida for his DECISION AMERICA tour and he was hoping to go to the outdoor service in the Sunshine State. Roger wanted to [...]
Last week, it was an honor to return and attend a meeting with the Ambassador of El Salvador at the United Nations. My dear friend, Madelyn Rodriguez is the Chairperson for the Faith Branch Advisory of the UN for El Salvador and they graciously invited me to discuss multiple projects relating to bridging both secular [...]
This week the revered reverend, Dr. Billy Graham turned 99 years old and BGEA is celebrating all year as he turns the corner into living a century. Very few live to be one hundred and even fewer know firsthand what it has been like to be used by God like this gentle giant from North [...]
Nearly 20 years ago, God gave me a vision at a dark time in my life and ministry. Ironically, it was "officially" starting and I had already been ministering since a child but while the ink was still drying on my ordination it seemed like things were falling apart. Satan was already trying to derail God's [...]
Since childhood, I have been a HUGE Mel Gibson fan. From Mad Max to Braveheart, The Patriot to four installments of "Lethal Weapon" and his masterful depiction of "The Passion of Christ" was Divine. Literally! Even his final fight in Expendables 3 with Stallone was great and when my good friend, Pastor Brian Alarid asked [...]
On opening weekend I was able to treat my family to see the new movie "SULLY" starring Tom Hanks. Captain Chesley Sullenberger is the pilot who courageously, miraculously and safely landed the plane on the Hudson (Flight 1549) on January 15, 2009. I remember that day vividly for a couple reasons. One, it was exactly [...]
As a child, I recall being invited to attend the local theater and it was music to my ears when my parents said, "I Got You Covered." It was pure excitement to enter and escape for [...]
Kenny and "Chopper" were two brothers. They were adopted and frequented the church I came to faith in JESUS as a child. They were African American and I was born into a middle class white family. Together we were "ebony and ivory." We were brothers in Christ and I looked up to them in more [...]
HARD TO BELIEVE but it will be eight years this summer that I stepped out "By Faith" on July 27, 2007 and left the benefits, prestige and salary of Capitol Hill to preach the Gospel forsaking retirement, health insurance and job security to do the work of an evangelist. Ironically, I didn't have a single [...]
Sorry for slight delay in posting. Just in last month and half I have been blessed to minister coast to coast and just returned this weekend from preaching in Caribbean with my dear friend and Grammy Winner, Michael English. We were honored to reunite with Gospel Cruise Fest and for the week we saw [...]
Two and a half months from now churches and Christians all across America will be able to share their faith with family, friends and complete strangers with the latest outreach from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Dr. Graham turns 96 in November and the world was blessed tremendously by his message "MY HOPE - The [...]
WATCH: "Carrying Greatness" Book Promo Trailer After having the message in me for four decades we are grateful to announce that my newest book "CARRYING GREATNESS" will be released on Tuesday, May 6, 2014! ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY on AMAZON! This book had been brewing in me for years and it finally poured out and ready [...]
For the past two months on my ministry e-letters and social media I have been reminding folks of the "SON OF GOD" movie that hits over 3,000 theaters nation-wide tomorrow on Friday, February 28, 2014! Since childhood, I love going to the theater and enjoy trailers promoting future films but my favorite is the poster [...]
On New Year's Eve 2013 - New Year's Day 2014 it was my honor to be a small part of what God did BIG this past week at my friend, Dean Forrest annual BIG GOD Conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Ironically, on New Year's Eve last year I was help ushering in the New [...]
The gentleman above is Mr. Bobby Leach. He was the very first person to survive going over Niagra Falls in a barrel in 1911. With this white brother in a barrel perhaps that is where my favorite restaurant got their name - Cracker Barrel :) NO JOKE! Niagra Falls got its name from an Indian [...]
Last year, while visiting California to tape a tv show at Trinity Broadcast Network studios (TBN) in Santa Ana I stopped by to visit the iconic Crystal Cathedral. Just weeks before, the legendary church called my cell while I was at home and inquired if I wanted to preach a Sunday sermon or give my [...]
Yesterday, my dear friend and fellow Evangelist Randy Hogue texted me the quote below. It touched me so much that immediately I added a picture of Bono and shared it on FB and less than 18 hours it got over 144 shares and scores of comments. Literally, because of friends sharing it with their social [...]
Two weeks ago, I was in a whirl-wind tour of ministering in the Great State of Georgia. I love the South and the last time I was there instead of the trademark Georgia Peach someone after hearing me speak called me "The Georgia Preach." In just eight days, I drove 3,004 miles (alone), preached eight [...]
Get COURAGEOUS and CRUISE for CHRIST Perhaps you saw the movie "Courageous" starring Alex Kendrick. Ruth & I have been invited by Gospel Cruise Fest to sail with Alex and minister on an upcoming cruise to Bahamas this November 11-16, 2013! My friend, Arnie Shipp is booking this BOAT (literally) and God is using him [...]
WHAT GOD DID IN LONDON @ 2012 Olympics Outreach (featured in EMERGING EVANGELISTS) It has been said: "GOING FOR GOLD" but recently I had the privilege to GO FOR GOD! This month, I had the privilege to spend 12 days in London, England for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Ironically, it was the XXX Olympiad [...]
As I grow older, my desire is to complain less and encourage more. For years, I have said "Better to be a good example than a poor excuse." Very few things get my goat but one of them is the failure to use turn signals as a motorist on the road. You have been there, [...]
It was my privilege to return yesterday to the great First Baptist Church of Glenarden in Upper Marlboro, MD and worship the Lord. Dr John K Jenkins, senior pastor of the 11,000 member church is passionate about making dynamic disciples for JESUS. He is the brother-in-law to one of my best friends, Stevie Prather and [...]
This is post NINE of a ten part blog. Check back each Monday for a new submission. Well, it has been fun to share some spiritual secrets that worked well for me the past 32 years walking with my Lord. I pray you have been blessed from these Heavenly hints and as this proverbial plane [...]
This is post number EIGHT of a ten part blog. Check back each Monday for a new submission My parents over a decade and half ago drove me 450 miles to beautiful North Carolina to enroll at Gardner-Webb University. Previously, on the trip before when I toured the campus as a prospective student we stayed [...]
