About me

I was born and raised in Northern (Superior) Wisconsin about 80 miles from the Canadian border; and, yes it gets very cold there! At the young age of 32 I began to feel called into ministry. One night at a church dinner, my wife Judy and I sat at a table next to our district superintendent. In the course of our conversation, he said that he had a small church that needed someone to supply the pulpit until he could appoint a new pastor. My pastor suggested that maybe I could do that. I agreed, and two Sundays later, my wife and I drove to that small rural church. Little did we know that I would fill the pulpit in that church for thirteen years!

I have now been in the ministry for 35 years after also serving churches in Virginia and Maryland. I am currently retired...well, sort of. In my retirement, I am now serving as part-time Pastor of First Evangelical Covenant Church in Superior Wi. I began writing books about seven years ago, and still enjoy speaking and teaching when I can. My wife Judy passed away in 2021and I have since remarried to My wife Crystal.

I have a deep desire to help people grow in their faith and knowledge of God’s Word. My books are what I call a “Quest for Discipleship”. As I said, I am a published author and I have nineteen books which include my latest called "Tell Me, Show Me, Fill Me, Change Me"; "In It For Life"; “By His Hand”; “Show and Tell”; “The Promised Gift”; “Jars of Clay”; “The Kingdom of God”; “From the Pastor’s Desk”; “More From the Pastor’s Desk”; "T.E.A.M."; "Let Earth Receive Her King"; "Therefore" "Principles from Proverbs"; "God's Top ten"; "Prayer Changes Things", "5 R's of Revelation" and two "Renewed Faith" 90 day devotionals all by Life Ministries Publishing.

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Saturday, January 19, 2013


    Let me repeat something I said yesterday - The “heart” guides the outcome of one’s life…or it determines the course of your life…Where your heart is, the rest follows! Your life will follow the desires and the passions of your heart. The heart must be made new by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit…If the heart is not changed, neither is the man.
    The verses that follow; 24-27 talk about the mouth, the eyes, and the feet.We need to be disciplined about what we think; what we say; what we see; and what we do.  (If you think happy, you feel happy, you will reflect happy!) But, the opposite is also true.
    What about what we see?  Have you heard lately about people who are attracted and even addicted to pornography on the internet? I was watching Mike Murdock the other day and he said this “Don’t put anything in front of you that you don’t want in you!”
    He also talked about the “third voice that wants to be heard and have an influence on your life.”  Think about it, in the Garden there was Adam’s voice and God’s voice…Eve’s voice and God’s voice…then there came a third voice, and the third voice wanted influence and control. What about a marriage relationship? It is the third voice that speaks and creates bad thoughts and desires that lead to separation. Anytime we do anything wrong or shameful or sinful it’s because we listened to the third voice. When Peter tried to divert Jesus from his mission, Jesus recognized the third voice speaking through Peter and he said “get thee behind me Satan!”
    “Walking a straight line” or “making level paths for our feet” has to do with our actions, but at the same time there is an obvious implication about the choices we make; where we go; how we spend our time; and who we spend it with. Do we go with the flow? Are we blown by the wind? Are we following the crowd? Are we hiding the truth? The heart is like an internal GPS unit. It is only the heart that is “fixed on Jesus” that truly is the “wellspring of life!”
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