Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 6:11AM 
Far be it from me to pimp me but... a good friend wrote a little somethin, soemthin about yours truly. It's great food for thought or rule to live by.
read it here
My thanks to Ben for the kind words.
Monday, November 9, 2009 at 6:36PM 
It's gonna take three years!
A few months ago I had a conversation with Trinity Jordan, lead pastor of Elevation Church - Salt Lake City. I wanted to Twitter the entire Bible but knew I was too ADD to get past Genesis 1:1.
Trinity whose a man of many means took the idea to his team and within a few months months had developed a way to twitter the Bible...
so... Hollywood Pastor and Elevation Church TWITTER THE BIBLE!
follow here... / http://twitter.com/elevationbible
The “Twitter the Bible” project is the first and only Tweet of it’s kind.
Over 700,000 words within 31,000 plus verses, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for three years.
“It’s what the church should be doing with social media sites. Jesus would love Twitter,” says Trinity Jordan, lead Pastor of Elevation Church in Salt Lake City.
Starting in Genesis, Elevation Church started tweeting a Bible verse every hour on the hour early last week. Twitter’s 140 character limit means the complete Bible will be tweeted by mid 2012.
The Bible by the numbers: 3,536,489 letters, 773,693 words, and 31,209 verses stretched over 66 books.
The “Tweet the Bible” project is sponsored in part by HollywoodPastor.com, a ministry dedicated to those who make entertainment their business. Founder J.R. Mahon says, “Christians screw up social media outreaches. Let’s let God speak for himself, he’s done pretty good up till now.” Mahon, who created Hollywood Pastor, hopes the Bible tweet simply moves people closer to God.
“Twitter the Bible” took Elevation Church months of technical development among a handful of programmers who specifically designed software for the project. Elevation hopes this will be a helpful tool for those who do not ordinarily get a chance to read or study the Bible.
For more about the “Tweet The Bible” project, jr@hollywoodpastor.com
Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 9:25AM 
A quick note about "A QUICK GOODBYE" thanks to all who chimed in sent emails and called. Hollywood Pastor ain't going anywhere just staking claim on making sure we are doing the best job we can... Hollywood Pastor continues and I personally thank all those who make this ministry a home.
With that, a quick hello.
Introductions equal hope in a lot of ways. Meetings are not chance or fate. They are purposed accidents of faith. Some people immediately become added necessity to life, while others challenge your very nature. "Hello's" define your community, define your intent, and define commitments to faith.
The faithful are quick to point out that no one should be alone, no one should be without. That'd be great if introductions meant relationships. But most are happy hello's and nothing more. It's concerning to know most with "something" to say about God are the first to say "hello" and run. I don't give a damn how busy schedules are. There is necessity in new relationships given our cause in faith. Expanding on this point only means dealing with the egos of great speakers who need to be actors not teachers.
With that said. I'd like to introduce myself with the intent of relationship. Promises are for the strong, brave and committed. I'd like to say I promise to make every effort to hang, but I know my limits with three kids and an aged television career. So, I promise to at least do my best to foster every hello that comes my way.
So... "Hello!"
My name is John Mahon, my friends call me J.R.. My nickname has nothing to do with my middle name as much as it does the color of my hair, red. J.R. is John with the red hair, J.R.
I'm 42, yet I feel like I just got my driver's license. I love reading books on planes. I hate emery boards. I love long dinners with friends. I hate details.
I have three adopted kids. I'm Married 16 years. Television pays the bills and Jesus keeps the peace. I started this ministry for one reason and one reason only; to disciple people as I was discipled, face to face.
I've learned to be very comfortable with myself. I get who I am and adjust accordingly.
I'm fascinated with the Bible and contemporary/modern design. I pretend to surf but hate swimming. I'm a fool for old cars and trucks. I love long road trips and hate hotels.
I'd like to think I'm a good teacher, but understand ego plays a large part in how I teach. I try my best to be transparent. My teachers did the same for me, it keeps me grounded in the truth about me.
Thats the snapshot.
"Hello!"
Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 9:51AM 
As of late I've been splitting my time. Bangin' it out in a news room in San Diego and Jesusing with a delightful rag-tag group in LA.
I've spent my life communicating one story or another. Good, bad, indifferent; it's what I know. I used to think TV was my hiatus into ministry. Little did I know ministry would be a killing machine designed to bring me back to television.
Today I'm saying goodbye. Goodbye to all the bullshit of American fame-driven ministry. Goodbye to my over-adjusting caring to the cause. Goodbye to formality. Goodbye to ass kissing pastor bandits who prey on the emotional pain of those seeking Christ. Goodbye to the incestuous Christian circle jerk. Goodbye to the next great idea that gets people saved. Goodbye to T-shirts, bumper stickers and outreach driven egos bent on adding numbers to the "Kingdom." Goodbye to hiding Jesus in social causes. Goodbye to men thinking they have spiritual dominance over the world. Goodbye to butt licking spotlight chasers who hook arms with ministries to appease their lack of self confidence. Goodbye to filthy insincere hands that take cash as a part of "give and get theology" and goodbye to man-made disciplines of denomination and evangelical nuttiness.
For those who will call this an angry diatribe from a guy who should have never thought to be a pastor, disciple, TV dude trying to help the masses...bite me. This has less to do with anger as it does the reality of my faith in concert with the reality of those I serve. You would first have to understand serving people beyond your need to, to understand me saying goodbye in the manner I do.
My desire to have nothing to do with "ministry main-stream conciousness" comes from my ability to hear and listen to a God who insisted my serving be without cause or condition. I forgot that when I jumped into ministry. I forgot my voice, my strength, my imagination for new things ain't for me. It's always for another.
Goodbyes can be long and drawn out. Perhaps that's what my last two years have been. Yet it's also easy for goodbyes to be cold, callus, filled with self righteousness. The difference here? Understanding who I serve and then knowing I didn't decide to serve them at all. God did. I hear a lot of voices out there in the Christian circus saying, "I've been called to this or that." Or, "I was a CEO, so I'll go help CEO's." Listen! You are no more responsible for those types of decisions as you were responsible for the very air you breathed while sleeping last night. In other words, God makes all the calls and you were never called to anything but service to Him. This ain't about you and one particular subculture. This is about your willingness to just serve. That's why I'm saying goodbye and maybe you should too.
There are a lot of screwed up people in my life. No one more screwed up than myself. One, a gay ex pastor / chef. Another, a car wash owner / used to be porn star. Can't forget my agnostic Gaffer friend who, for the record, drives a great truck. These people don't need me, didn't need me. I need them, that's why I'm saying goodbye. I'm no closer to the prize than they are. They are a part of my faith, not why I have it. I say goodbye to keep good company, to drink a beer with them, to cry with them, let my kids crawl on them. I will serve them... and I hope they never know.
I'm leaving the centricity of men for the desire to fill hearts with Christ. If ya need me I'll be in San Diego or LA... I go both ways.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 8:33AM My wonderful, beautiful and highly intelligent mother-in-law sent this to me... it's pretty sweet. I know it's a stretch but I couldn't help but think of our illustrious American church.
A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like." The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in.
In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew,
which smelled delicious and made the holy man's mouth water. The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles that were strapped to their arms and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful. But because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths.
The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. The Lord said, "You have seen Hell."
They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the first one. There was the large round table with the large pot of stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking. The holy man said, "I don't understand." "It is simple,' said the Lord. "It requires but one skill.
You see, they have learned to feed each other."
Thanks Marlene!
