Another time I was asked to preach at a retreat overseas where almost a thousand people were registered. Two meetings were held each day and one in the evening. The first two services were very strong. I preached on holiness and repentance. Yet, in each service I...
In 1990 I ministered at a "full gospel" church. The people thought they were alive and moving with God. As I preached Sunday morning, I felt as if my words were being hurled back in my face. It was like preaching face-to-face with a brick wall. The atmosphere was...
Often we face situations that would paralyze us, rendering us unable to complete what God has set before us, if we did not have the mind of Christ. I faced one such challenge in Mexico.I was invited to Monterey, Mexico, for a citywide evangelistic meeting. It was only...
Years ago I was with another minister on an airplane. We met a Jewish woman who was very outgoing and witty. We got into an intense conversation with her about the Lord Jesus. We fired statements back and forth to one another, attempting to prove Jesus as the Messiah....
Once I was ministering in another church where the meetings had begun Sunday morning and were scheduled to go through Wednesday night. We were having tremendous meetings, with evidence of repentance, healing and deliverance. The church had experienced a breakthrough...
In 1983 I left my career position as an engineer to enter the full-time ministry of helps for a very large church. In my position I served the pastor, his wife and all incoming guest ministers by taking care of menial tasks in order to free them up for the work God...
Shortly after I was saved, my wife and I were discussing the woman who brought the alabaster flask of fragrant oil to the Pharisee's house and washed Jesus' feet with tears and anointed His feet with oil. As the woman did this, the Pharisee looked at her with contempt...