Tales from the Lions’ Den is a collection of memorable incidents from my incarceration.
However, if you 're not completely familiar with the biblical story of Daniel and his lions’ den
experience, you will not comprehend the significance of my stories. So I encourage you to,
at the very least, read Daniel chapter six in a modern translation of the Bible before
reading any further here.
The manufactured crime which caused Daniel’s experience in the lions’ den is in reality the
"crime" which I committed. I did things God’s way when I worked with foster children and
handicapped children, knowing it could get me into trouble with the secular humanists and
counterfeit Christians who run our social services agencies. James 1: 27 was a guide to
me: “External religious worship [religion as it is expressed in outward acts] that is
pure and unblemished in the sight of God the Father is this: to visit and help and
care for the orphans and widows in their affliction and need, and to keep oneself
unspotted and uncontaminated from the world.” (Amplified Bible.) “The world” is
more concerned with keeping-up politically-correct appearances and building for itself
small empires of job security than with providing godly childcare! At the hands of the world,
false reports grew into gossip and slander against me, which were presented as evidence,
resulting in a phony conviction for child molesting. I have never molested any child!
Convicted child molesters have very real reasons to fear their expected treatment by other
convicted offenders! However, genuine Christians caught in such circumstances as I was
have a wonderful instruction from God in 1st Peter chapter 4, summed up here by quoting
only verse 16: “…if [one is ill-treated and suffers] as a Christian [which he is
contemptuously called,] let him not be ashamed, but give glory to God that he is
[deemed worthy to suffer] in this name. And again at Philippians 4: verse 6,
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with
thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God,
which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through
Christ Jesus.” But my useless, worldly, court-appointed pauper attorney offered me this
advice: “Tell other inmates you are in prison for driving drunk on a suspended license.”
Again, I chose to obey God instead of men and looked other convicted offenders in their
eyes when I told them I had been wrongly convicted of child molesting. And I soon
discovered to my great relief that the convicted drug dealers who really run things in jail
and prison are far better at discerning the truth than the local authorities were! I heard
stories of the horrendous abuse of other men who were believed to be child molesters:
beatings, sodomies and other forms of forced sexual activities, poisonings and head-
splitting, which involved a padlock placed in a sock and smashed into someone’s head,
usually when they were sleeping. Those who survived and often many who were simply
threatened asked to be moved to the Protective Custody dorm, where virtually none of the
positive things the Department of Corrections offers to prisoners are available. However, I
can tell you sincerely that I went to sleep every night among the general prison population
and slept peacefully and confidently because of my covenant with the Lord Jesus Christ.
God keeps His Word!
Another wonderful instruction from God was spoken by Jesus Himself: “If anyone desires
to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My
sake will save it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is
himself destroyed of lost? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him
the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His
Father’s and of the holy angels.” (Luke 9: 23 – 26) I have believed these words for a
very long time. And I was committed to follow His teaching, to serve His cause and to
imitate His life, despite my many failures, for a long time before I was slandered and
jailed. Perhaps you can imagine that the convicted drug dealers, who really are the
leaders, at least in the jail and prison where I was, have many, many ways to test the
genuineness of a man. And I must give all the praise to Jesus for giving me the grace to
pass every test of the genuineness of my commitment to follow Him!
I gained and held a reputation in jail and prison, at least among those who actually came to
know me, of being a man of God, a true student and teacher of God’s Word, and a willing
helper of men. This is because I soon came to understand that I was sent to prison not
only to receive the answer to my prayers for God’s best Bible college education -- an
amazing truth all by itself! -- but also to serve as His minister and ambassador to the men
inside jail and prison with me. Think back, as I have done, to the manner of training the
apostles of Jesus received after His resurrection. And then consider the privilege which I
received. Don’t think for one minute that I want to go back inside jail and prison. It was a
hard place to be. But God used me there in ways I have not experienced since my
release. And He blessed me with an understanding of His ways I cannot imagine
obtaining in any other way.
Here, then, are my Tales From the Lions’ Den.
However, if you 're not completely familiar with the biblical story of Daniel and his lions’ den
experience, you will not comprehend the significance of my stories. So I encourage you to,
at the very least, read Daniel chapter six in a modern translation of the Bible before
reading any further here.
The manufactured crime which caused Daniel’s experience in the lions’ den is in reality the
"crime" which I committed. I did things God’s way when I worked with foster children and
handicapped children, knowing it could get me into trouble with the secular humanists and
counterfeit Christians who run our social services agencies. James 1: 27 was a guide to
me: “External religious worship [religion as it is expressed in outward acts] that is
pure and unblemished in the sight of God the Father is this: to visit and help and
care for the orphans and widows in their affliction and need, and to keep oneself
unspotted and uncontaminated from the world.” (Amplified Bible.) “The world” is
more concerned with keeping-up politically-correct appearances and building for itself
small empires of job security than with providing godly childcare! At the hands of the world,
false reports grew into gossip and slander against me, which were presented as evidence,
resulting in a phony conviction for child molesting. I have never molested any child!
Convicted child molesters have very real reasons to fear their expected treatment by other
convicted offenders! However, genuine Christians caught in such circumstances as I was
have a wonderful instruction from God in 1st Peter chapter 4, summed up here by quoting
only verse 16: “…if [one is ill-treated and suffers] as a Christian [which he is
contemptuously called,] let him not be ashamed, but give glory to God that he is
[deemed worthy to suffer] in this name. And again at Philippians 4: verse 6,
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with
thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God,
which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through
Christ Jesus.” But my useless, worldly, court-appointed pauper attorney offered me this
advice: “Tell other inmates you are in prison for driving drunk on a suspended license.”
Again, I chose to obey God instead of men and looked other convicted offenders in their
eyes when I told them I had been wrongly convicted of child molesting. And I soon
discovered to my great relief that the convicted drug dealers who really run things in jail
and prison are far better at discerning the truth than the local authorities were! I heard
stories of the horrendous abuse of other men who were believed to be child molesters:
beatings, sodomies and other forms of forced sexual activities, poisonings and head-
splitting, which involved a padlock placed in a sock and smashed into someone’s head,
usually when they were sleeping. Those who survived and often many who were simply
threatened asked to be moved to the Protective Custody dorm, where virtually none of the
positive things the Department of Corrections offers to prisoners are available. However, I
can tell you sincerely that I went to sleep every night among the general prison population
and slept peacefully and confidently because of my covenant with the Lord Jesus Christ.
God keeps His Word!
Another wonderful instruction from God was spoken by Jesus Himself: “If anyone desires
to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My
sake will save it. For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is
himself destroyed of lost? For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him
the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His
Father’s and of the holy angels.” (Luke 9: 23 – 26) I have believed these words for a
very long time. And I was committed to follow His teaching, to serve His cause and to
imitate His life, despite my many failures, for a long time before I was slandered and
jailed. Perhaps you can imagine that the convicted drug dealers, who really are the
leaders, at least in the jail and prison where I was, have many, many ways to test the
genuineness of a man. And I must give all the praise to Jesus for giving me the grace to
pass every test of the genuineness of my commitment to follow Him!
I gained and held a reputation in jail and prison, at least among those who actually came to
know me, of being a man of God, a true student and teacher of God’s Word, and a willing
helper of men. This is because I soon came to understand that I was sent to prison not
only to receive the answer to my prayers for God’s best Bible college education -- an
amazing truth all by itself! -- but also to serve as His minister and ambassador to the men
inside jail and prison with me. Think back, as I have done, to the manner of training the
apostles of Jesus received after His resurrection. And then consider the privilege which I
received. Don’t think for one minute that I want to go back inside jail and prison. It was a
hard place to be. But God used me there in ways I have not experienced since my
release. And He blessed me with an understanding of His ways I cannot imagine
obtaining in any other way.
Here, then, are my Tales From the Lions’ Den.
Tales From The Lions' Den, Volume 1
Preface & Overview
Preface & Overview
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