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.

Thank you for checking out my blog and I hope that you will also check my website at;


😊! E-mail me a question on this link and I will try to answer it here.

Name

Email *

Message *

Thursday, January 22, 2015

There are 4 ways that we can truly demonstrate our love for God;
1.   We love God with our worship.
“God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth”. When we worship God, it should be a genuine, grateful expression of our love… “we love because he first loved us”…. We ought to come to church prepared to worship and prepared to show or demonstrate our love for God. It goes beyond going through the motions of an order of worship. Sometimes we fall short in our worship. It may be because of circumstances, but it is always the fault of the worshipper. We bring the wrong attitudes; the wrong expectations; or maybe no expectations at all. We know we love God, but not even an all knowing, all seeing, God would be able to tell it by our actions!  We sit - in all our prosperity and blessing - with our hands folded - and sing (O-how I love Jesus…) like we are doing him a favor by being there!  If we are embarrassed to demonstrate our love for God, is it any wonder why he would say; “These people draw near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me”?
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Blog Archive