I was the young adults pastor at a very large church in Orlando, Florida, from 1987 to 1989. The pastor of that church knew that God wanted to send my wife and me on the road full-time. So he came into a pastors' meeting at the beginning of 1989 and announced it. The...
A few years after I became a Christian, I was driving home from work, and the Lord said to me, "John, do you know I esteem you better than Myself!" I could not believe what I had heard Him say. How could He esteem me better than Himself? He was the One who created the...
As a teenager I became bound to the sin of sexual lust. The majority of American males are also bound to lust. This didn't just leave when I accepted Jesus Christ but stayed to torment me. Time and time again I would cry out to God, begging His forgiveness. I thought...
I was preaching in a church in California recently. I was to begin ministering on Sunday evening. I came early to hear the pastor preach Sunday morning, and it was wonderful. There was such life in it. I knew he had a message prepared, but he was not bound to it. I...
In 1983 I left a very good-paying engineering job with Rockwell International to enter the ministry of helps full-time. I took a several thousand dollar a year pay cut. I made a sacrifice that made it look like I was totally sold out to Jesus without any desires of my...
Have you ever fallen in love? When I was engaged to my wife, Lisa, I was head over heels in love with her. I thought of her constantly. I'd do whatever was necessary to spend as much time with her as possible. If she needed something, no matter what I was doing or...
How can we possibly keep this command of loving as He loves? How can we walk in that kind of love? If it is a command from God, that means it is not impossible. It is only impossible when we attempt it in our own strength. God would be unjust to give us a command that...