Journey with Jesus Ministry

03/23/2026

Check out our newly redesigned website, recently designed by ADK Agency.

03/04/2026

Pam and I have been busy planning for another Christian Radio Station. And that day has come. Here it is Southern Gospel, Blue Grass Gospel, and Christian Country Gospel Music on the SothernGospel app.

https://radio.securenetsystems.net/v5/SGA

Mobile apps are in progress.

03/04/2026

Our new SouthernGospel.app goes live at 8:00AM, playing southern gospel music 24/7. Listen at www.southerngospel.app

02/07/2026

We are buttoning up a few hatches, and soon our southern gospel music app will launch on

Coming Soon Simplicity is best…

02/06/2026

Hello Friends, we need a favor. Our Ministry, Journey with Jesus Ministry, Inc. is currently working on 2 projects that could use your help. We are NOT asking for any financial assistance at this time. We do need your prayers though and if you would like to find out how you can help please contact me.

Project 1. an internet radio Southern Gospel style. We are in contact with several SG labels who are providing new tracks for Southern Gospel Music. However, we like the old stuff too. If you have any old vinyl records that are laying around your home, attic, or storage, I could use them in return I will send it back to you with a USB of the records in MP3. I have a license to digitize them for broadcast and you as the owner of the album have the license to have a digital copy of them.

Project 2. an AI Bible Study app. JWJM along with a few other ministries are in the beginning phases of using AI to create tools for studying the Bible. We will need testers, students, and partners to guide this chat style AI Bible Worker.
Why Internet Radio? Glad you asked. Internet Radio is the fastest growing streaming mechanism on the planet, it is also the fastest dying. Improperly managed stations are shutting down as fast as ones appear. This is why we need prayer, eventually funding, but for now Gospel music.

Why AI? An AI chat bot operates 24/7 365 and does not require sleep. We believe it can reach more people than those of us running ministries. We don't believe that AI will ever replace Humans at least not by us but can greatly enhance our calling to bring people to Jesus Christ.

Please pray for us as we move forward with these ministries. For more details send us a private message thanks and feel free to share.

05/27/2025

I wanted to share some bullet points on the Holy Spirit as we approach 50 days after Easter, Pentecost, as most Christians call it. Pentecost commemorates the day the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples waiting for Him in the upper room.

Jesus told the disciples to wait for this gift in Acts 1:4-5 here is what He says: "On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: 'Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'"

Pentecost originally was celebrated as a festival of weeks commemorating the receipt of another gift the Law of God. See my previous post on the law of God.

For now, here are some bullet points on the Holy Spirit.
• God is one.
• God exists in three persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit.
• Each person is fully God, co-equal and co-eternal.

Biblical support for the Holy Spirit as God can be found in several passages. Here are a few:
• Acts 5:3–4 – Peter confronts Ananias for lying to the Holy Spirit and then says, “You have not lied to men but to God,” equating the Holy Spirit with God.
• 1 Corinthians 3:16 – “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?” This implies that the Spirit’s indwelling is the same as God’s presence.
• 2 Corinthians 3:17 – “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
• Matthew 28:19 – Jesus commands baptism “in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” placing the Spirit on equal footing with the Father and the Son.

Also, the Bible attributes divine qualities to the Holy Spirit:
• Omniscience (1 Corinthians 2:10–11)
• Omnipresence (Psalm 139:7–8)
• Eternality (Hebrews 9:14)
• Creator role (Genesis 1:2; Job 33:4)

If you have any questions related to the Holy Spirit or any other Spiritual concern or question, please comment on this blog or visit merlincochran.com

01/26/2025

Pastor Merlin Cochran has a new book just published. Here is a link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV4BPJFP/
We would appreciate any good reviews.

10/24/2024

Introducing an app to study the bible.

10/19/2024

Why I live in anticipation of the second coming of Jesus Christ. Watch message live at www.saratogasda.org at 11:20 eastern time.

Saratoga Springs Church, a Seventh-day Adventist church in Saratoga Springs, NY. Looking for a church to join? Visit your local Seventh-day Adventist church in Saratoga Springs, NY and see how you and your family fit in to the Christian community provided by this SDA church.

09/11/2024

Remembering 9-11!

09/02/2024

To all who labor, Happy Labor Day!

06/22/2024

If the Samaritan woman at the well came to your church how would you treat her?