Welcome

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I would like to thank you for taking the time to view this website.  As you look through the site I hope you can get a sense of how thankful I am for how much God has blessed me.  I am doing what I love and I get to do it with people who I love.  Feel free to take a look around, check out the pictures, read the captions, order a book or write on my blog.  I just appreciate that you took the time to connect with me through this site.

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A New Release!

Someone to Devour
Winning the Spiritual Battle Within Human Conflict

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Someone to Devour  addresses the subject of dealing with conflict in relationships.  Too often no one can tell the difference between how believers and non-believers deal with conflict.  The factor that most people, Christians included, seem to underestimate is the impact of the spiritual realm.  Satan and his army of demons use their, time tested, process to impact the thoughts and actions of those in conflict.  Through a difficult time in ministry, Jeff discovered a Biblical process of working though conflict by using the Armor of God revealed in Ephesian 6.  Keep checking as the editing process is underway and we hope to release this, eye opening book, before the end of the year.  It is our hope and prayer that "Someone to Devour" will minister to both individuals and churches in conflicts.

Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for Someone to Devour.   
                                                                                                                                                                                       1 Peter 5:8 

All Good People Go to Heaven?

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Jeff Barksdale was born on April 22, 1960.  At age 19 he began a 26 year career in the Massachusetts Department of Correction.  Jeff began as a Correction Officer at The Bridgewater State Hospital for the criminally insane.  Over the next twenty-two years Jeff would work at two other facilities, The Massachusetts Treatment Center for the Sexually Dangerous as well as The Massachusetts Boot Camp.  During that time Jeff was promoted twice before returning to the Bridgewater State Hospital as a Lieutenant for the final four years of his career.  Through all of those years Jeff was growing in his understanding of truth.  What he observed was men and women, from both sides of the law, battling with the very concepts of good and evil.  He has combined his search for truth with his prison experiences. “All Good People Go to Heaven?” is the culmination of his observations. 

Lifecoast Church Worship CD

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Lifecoast Church has a very talented worship team.  My son Tyler, my wife Stacy and Myself are truly blessed to be a part of a team that honors and lifts up the name of Jesus with their talents and abilities.  Our Worship leader, Cheryl Stevens coordinated this CD project but more importantly she is a person who models worshiping the Savior in spirit and in truth.  This CD contains many worships songs that you love to sing as well as some newer arrangements and songs that may be new to you.  We offer this through our website as well as through the Lifecoast Church website as a tool for people to sing God's praises.  Go to sample page to listen