| Gender: | Male |
| Born: | September 20, 1961 |
| Location: | Eatontown, New Jersey, United States |
| Connection: | No connection |
| Relationship: | Divorced/Separated |
| I'm looking for: | Platonic friends |
| Denomination: | non-denominational |
A little about Timothy-Paul B.
A lifelong resident of the Jersey shore, I am a former youth minister with Aslan Youth Ministries,standup comic and radio talk show host. Shortly after a breakout performance at the famous New York City Improv, I was compelled to abandon the superficialities of the entertainment field and seek a far more fullfilling and low profile life in the pursuit of God. I always did my own writing as an entertainer, and God has redirected my writing ability for His own purposes. I am in the process of completing my first book entitled "Foolish Things Vol.1 "The Ups and Downs of a Manic Christian".Please don't be taken aback by the title, this book is unlike much of what has been seen before in Christian literature. Based on years of deep personal suffering and life experiences,it is aimed at people trapped in empty, lifeless belief systems, and is designed to bring comfort to those who suffer in the arena of the mind. It is designed to help make the person of Jesus Christ more accessable to those whose thought lives make it difficult for them through lack of peace, guilt, despondence and depression. I have suffered these things myself,and have spoken and listened to many people over the years, and find that they have so much on their minds,but no one to share it with at the risk of sounding weak,foolish,confused,and for fear of rejection. My book is a guide to Christ for the unhappy, the uncertain, and the unloved. It is an open invitation to glimpse into the suffering of one mans' soul and the way out of emotional suffering. It chronicles the profound affects of disease and despair, of lonliness and depression. It is the culmination of thought and experience. It is an illustration of correction and learning. It reflects deep wounds and necessary healing. It portrays capability and inability.It displays both brokeness and wholeness. It is a type of life story without chronology. It is a trip on and off the not so merry-go-round of self. It is the journey of a speck of dust seeking its way toward God, and walking together with the willing.
Some of Timothy-Paul B. Recent Blogs
True Intimacy
What is true intimacy? Has true intimacy been lost in our culture? In Genesis 2:24,God portrays intimacy between a man and a woman this way, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh."How beautiful those words...
My kingdom is not of this world...
Dont get too caught up in current events...
Don't Fit In?
Ever feel like you just don't fit in with the crowd? It could be the family crowd, the workplace crowd, even or especially the Church or Bible Study crowd.I have felt like that for most of my life. It is a very troubling dilemma unless you understand it. The first line of thought is usually...
The End Times and The Book of Revelation
There seems to be a lot of teaching about the end times in Christian media. I would agree that we are living in the end times and have been for quite a while. Much of the end times teaching I have seen and heard is based on The Book of Revelation. Indeed it is full of...
Fear and Worry
Luke 1:30 - The angel to Mary "Don't be afraid,you have found favor with God."Matt.1:20 - The angel to Joseph "Do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife."Matt.10:28 - Jesus "Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul."Matt.10:31 - Jesus...
More About Timothy-Paul B.
| Interests: | Religion/Spiritual |
| Favorite Sports: | Walking/Hiking |
| Favorite Movies: | Passion of the Christ, Braveheart, Jaws, Forrest Gump |
| Favorite Music: | Jars of Clay, James Taylor, Winds of Worship, Simon and Garfunkel, Rich Mullins |
| Favorite Books: | The Practise of the Presence of God, Friendship With God, Grace The Essence Of God, You Don't Find Water On The Mountaintop |
| Overview: | A lifelong resident of the Jersey shore, I am a former youth minister with Aslan Youth Ministries,standup comic and radio talk show host. Shortly after a breakout performance at the famous New York City Improv, I was compelled to abandon the superficialities of the entertainment field and seek a far more fullfilling and low profile life in the pursuit of God. I always did my own writing as an entertainer, and God has redirected my writing ability for His own purposes. I am in the process of completing my first book entitled "Foolish Things Vol.1 "The Ups and Downs of a Manic Christian".Please don't be taken aback by the title, this book is unlike much of what has been seen before in Christian literature. Based on years of deep personal suffering and life experiences,it is aimed at people trapped in empty, lifeless belief systems, and is designed to bring comfort to those who suffer in the arena of the mind. It is designed to help make the person of Jesus Christ more accessable to those whose thought lives make it difficult for them through lack of peace, guilt, despondence and depression. I have suffered these things myself,and have spoken and listened to many people over the years, and find that they have so much on their minds,but no one to share it with at the risk of sounding weak,foolish,confused,and for fear of rejection. My book is a guide to Christ for the unhappy, the uncertain, and the unloved. It is an open invitation to glimpse into the suffering of one mans' soul and the way out of emotional suffering. It chronicles the profound affects of disease and despair, of lonliness and depression. It is the culmination of thought and experience. It is an illustration of correction and learning. It reflects deep wounds and necessary healing. It portrays capability and inability.It displays both brokeness and wholeness. It is a type of life story without chronology. It is a trip on and off the not so merry-go-round of self. It is the journey of a speck of dust seeking its way toward God, and walking together with the willing. |
| Relationship: | Divorced/Separated |
| I'm looking for: | Platonic friends |
| Height: | 5'11" - 6' (179 cm - 183 cm) |
| Weight: | 161 lbs - 170 lbs ( 74 Kg - 77 Kg) |
| Hair Color: | Salt-and-pepper |
| Eye Color: | Hazel |
| Languages: | English, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Overview: | People are my primary interest,and I love sharing the Gospel in a personal, intimate way. I believe in meeting people exactly where they are,and interracting personally rather than circumstantially as Jesus did. I enjoy listening to the thoughts, feelings and ideas of different people. I prefer to avoid pretense and superficiality. I believe we live on the edge of many precipices,and that God is our strength. |
| Children: | none |
| Denomination: | non-denominational |
| Church Home: | Calvary Chapel of Monmouth |
| Interests: | the thoughts,feelings,and ideas of people,free and open discussion regarding the person of Jesus Christ and His will concerning the body both individually and corporately |
| Skills / Gifts : | open to interpretation |
| Favorite verse / quote: | "You will keep him in perfect peace,whose mind is stayed on You".Isaiah 26:3 |
| My faith story: | One of my earliest memories is the death of my infant sister.It is the first time I can remember praying to God. Amy died silently, choking in her car seat during a Sunday family drive. While visiting her grave one day with my parents and surviving sister Alison,I noticed a grave that had the same last name as mine on it. It read "Peter Belford".My parents told me I had a younger brother who did not survive birth.They tried one more time to have a child. Brian was stillborn after my Mother carried him to full term.At the age of ten or eleven,I was at the playground one summer,enjoying the sunshine and munching the wild green apples from the trees,when I saw the most beautiful little girl I had ever seen.She had long dark hair,and almond shaped eyes.I fell for her instantly.We talked for a while and then she left.I never did see her again that summer,but I didn't forget her.My family moved to another town in the fall,and on the first day at my new school as I walked into the classroom the first face I saw was the little girl from the playground.I couldn't believe it!She became my first girlfriend.A short time later she was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor.During one of her trips home from the hospital,I gave her a necklace,which she cherished.Marie Ann died just a few short months later.My family moved again,but luckily I remained in the same school system.I continued through junior high and high school with my friends and sports activities.But in my sophomore year of high school I began hanging out with a different crowd and experimenting with drugs.My senior year I was going steady with a girl named Lisa.We fell in love and shared our first physical experience together.For me,the sun rose and set on her.One day while hitchiking to her house,I climbed onto the back of a stopped tractor trailer going my way. The driver took off,not knowing I was on the back of the truck.After going about a half mile,and traveling some forty plus miles an hour,I fell off the truck onto the unforgiving blacktop below.I can tell you from experience blacktop dosen't have a lot of give to it.I rolled over and over like Evel Knievel at Caesars Palace,and got a nice case of road rash,but sustained no injuries.God had His Hand on me many times in my life and this was one of them.After my senior year,Lisa broke up with me and my way of dealing with the heartbreak was to take more drugs and go completely wild.At one point,I even attempted suicide,but again God's Hand was there.My family had moved once more,and after an argument with my parents one evening,I decided to hitchike to Florida.This was an experience.I remember walking in the mountains of Virginia one late one night,the snow falling fast and hard with no cars in sight.When the snow reached my knees,I began to think there was a chance I could die.I prayed and made God all the standard "I'll never do it again" promises.Then,at the top of the mountain,I saw a tiny speck of light.Headlights!I prayed as hard as I could that I would get a ride.And I did.A soldier picked me up and drove me all the way to North Carolina where I took a hotel room for the night.The next morning,I was picked up by a girl from the mountains named Angie,on the run from her biker boyfriend and his gang. This was great!I was being chased down with the girlfriend of an angry biker and his crew!But they never caught up.Angie and I talked a lot about God during our time together.We parted ways and I completed my journey.I worked in a supermarket while in Florida and one co-worker always used to tell me about his church.God was still trying to reach me.Upon returning to New Jersey,I went back to my familiar ways.One night I remember yelling out to God "Why am I alive?"Soon I ran into an old friend and he told me all about Jesus and salvation.It hit me.I wanted to pursue God. I went to church with my old friend.The problem was,what I was being told conflicted with my heart.The Pastor screamed early on Sun.A.M.and told me God wanted me to be wealthy.The poor man in the wheelchair was told his faith was weak.People were married and divorced quickly and I was one of them.I left the church feeling bitter and had. I returned again to my old ways.I had always been a funny person so I tried standup comedy and was very successful.After six years,when I had enough of shifty agents,traveling,hotels,and the politics,I went to work for a Volvo dealership.In Aug.2007,I was diagnosed with a rare disease called Lentigo.To bring this way too long story to an end,God has used this disease to reign me in and create a daily dependence on Him.This is where I am today,dependent on God moment by moment.Many of the moments are difficult.But He has shown me that all I have been through can help someone else if I am willing to share it.And I am.That's my faith story. |
| Highest Level Completed: | College |
| Jr. High / High School(s): | Shore Regional |
| Graduation Year: | 1979 |
| College / University: | Brookdale College |
| Last year completed: | |
| Degree(s): | |
| Major: | Psychology,Radio |
| Other schooling / degrees: | Graduate of The Believers School of Ministry,K.H.F.F.Atlantic Highlands,N.J. Also studying under Dr.Richard Shaw, Calvary Chapel of Monmouth County. |