Author: pastorjbc

I am extremely happily married to Laura - my best friend, lover and ministry partner of over 49 years (504 months). She is an awesome lady and the mother of our 8 children - Micah, Josh, Johnny, Chris, Grace, Joe, Anna and Tim. We (really Laura) home schooled our kids for 20 years. Currently we have 13 grandkids. The Lord has blessed our tribe with an abundance of creativity which our kids express in music, writing, graphics, media and other ways. After Pastoring Calvary Chapel of Sacramento, CA for 26 years, I joined the Pastoral Staff of Calvary Chapel Salt Lake City in 2006 and now I'm with Poimen Ministries (www.poimenministries.com) which keeps us busy helping churches, pastors, and their wives any way we can. It's a great adventure.
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Flowers in the Dark

Written for Julie Wilson, the sister of friend John Wilson – an amazing artist. During a Youth Camp at Presbyterian Pines, Julie and I spent time together and corresponded over the following year. She was a sweet girl who loved wearing overalls. Julie went on to follow and serve Jesus.

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About the Love Songs

You’ll find many love songs in my searching section. Like every youth, I was looking for love and, in many ways, was in love with the idea of ‘love’. So I tended to see each relationship through the lens of my naive fantasies rather than reality. Not great for genuine relationships, but it fueled a […]

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STREETS

This is a live recording of the song, ‘Streets’, done during a concert at CSUS (California State University, Chico) in 1975.  The reel-to-reel tape was rediscovered in 2016 by David Dirks. David, along with his brother-in-law, Wayne, did the sound and the recording for the concert. After rediscovering the tape, David had to try and […]

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Sometimes

I spent the summer of 1967 living with my grandfather, Dee Childers, in South Lake Tahoe and working at Harvey’s Wagon Wheel casino and restaurant. I got off work early afternoons and would take my guitar and sit overlooking the beach and write songs. I was part of a band, back in Gridley. We had decided […]