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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Friday, October 10, 2014

Daily book quote from "The Pastor's Desk"

Philippians 2:12-18 – “Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfil his good purpose.”

     Let me give you a little better understanding of the term “work out” and we’ll see what Paul is getting at here. This term is translated from the Greek, and it was the same word used when giving an account of the once-famous silver mines of Spain. They spoke of “working out” the mines, meaning that the owner would operate the mines in a manner that would get the utmost value from them. Now, the mine’s owner already had the mine in their possession, but now they were to derive the full benefit of their ownership by “working out” all the ore from all the various tunnels and shafts and caves.
    So what Paul is really saying here is that as Christians, we are to strive to get the greatest potential benefit from our salvation. God has put a tremendous capacity for good in our lives - like the “mother-load” in a silver mine, and he wants us to realize that potential to its absolute fullest. Jesus said; “I have come that they may have life and life abundantly!”
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