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, September 13, 2014

Daily book quote;

    There is a bumper sticker that gently imposes its little message: “Christians Aren’t Perfect, Just Forgiven.” Just forgiven? Is that really all there is to being a Christian? Well, it certainly needs to be said that Christians are forgiven. And it needs to be said that forgiveness does not depend on being perfect; but is that really what the slogan communicates? Unfortunately it does not. What the slogan really conveys is that forgiveness alone is what Christianity is all about. It says that you can have faith in Christ that brings forgiveness, while in every respect your life is no different from that of others who have no faith in Christ at all.
    Dallas Willard calls this bar code faith. He goes on to say; “Can we seriously believe that God would establish a plan for us in that essentially the Christian faith and salvation covers nothing but death and the hearafter? ...Can we believe that being saved really has nothing whatever to do with the kind of persons we are now? Or that it somehow leaves character untouched?”
    A recent interview George Gallup said that the reason Christianity hasn’t grown as it should is that people don’t see Christians as being any different from the rest of the population. The question we have to ask is “why?” Why do so few believers experience this transformation and change?
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