I love my Christian life, my walk with the Lord, and my ever growing relationship with Him. I have the feeling that the more time I spend with Him and the better I get to know Him the more I find out how little I have yet discovered of Him. There is so much more to God than we will ever be able to comprehend or grasp here on this earth with our so limited minds. There are scriptures that I have prayed about and intently sought to understand for decades, which only now are slowly beginning to be revealed Read more [...]

I cannot emphasize the importance of truly understanding the passionate love God has for us enough. I have believed and preached for years, that fear of God will not help us to live lives of holiness and pleasing to God, but the experience of His incredible love surely will. Most people have been raised with the belief that love has to be earned by our behavior. It sits deep within us to try to perform in order to be loved. This is how life has been teaching us, but it sure doesn’t work with God. Read more [...]

I am sitting on an airplane flying home from the Northwest USA where I just ministered over a long weekend. As I thought, prayed and meditated about the last few days and all the good things God has done in His grace, all the people He healed and lives He touched, my heart is filled with gratitude. But my mind keeps going back to the service I preached last Sunday. I read the well known story from Luke 15 where Jesus talks about a man who had two sons. The younger one asked for his inheritance, then Read more [...]

In charismatic circles, I hear people talk about the anointing all the time; it has become one of those popular words that are being thrown around very lightly. It has been my passion since a very young age to study the scriptures carefully and search them out to see what Gods word says about certain subjects. I don’t mean at all that we should be critical toward what people preach and teach however, we must be wise and search out the scriptures for ourselves and study them diligently. Especially Read more [...]

I remember how the words of this well known pastor, author, and bible teacher gripped me when he talked about his conversation with an ex-satanist. The ex-satanist who was now a committed Christian told him that Christians do not understand the power of sacrifice. No, I am not talking about Christians in general, but specifically about Christians in the Western World, because I believe in countries like China, Christians do understand the incredible power that lays in sacrifice. But Christians in Read more [...]

  It is a hard thing not to let the past influence us and not allow any worries regarding the future become part of our lives. Not too many people are simply content with their lives where they are at and live every day with a heart of thankfulness. It never ceases to amaze me how people get so worked up regarding their circumstances, showing an attitude that makes you wonder if the grass really is greener on the other side. I know plenty of tall people that want to be shorter, short people Read more [...]

Do you believe in intercession? Well let me rephrase this, do you believe in intercessors? You know the group of people that are in most churches, often mainly ladies who believe that they have the gift and ministry of intercession. I struggle with that, in fact I don’t believe that there is a special group of people that is called to the ministry of intercession. Before you jump at me in defense let me tell you why I came to this conclusion, and you tell me why you believe what you believe. Remember Read more [...]

About 30 years ago I saw something new in the scriptures; (well it wasn’t new, it was just new to me) that caused me a lot of opposition many time I’ve mentioned and taught it ever since. Not that opposition bothers me; in fact I have learned to embrace it. After all it was my beloved Lord Jesus who in Luke chapter six said “woe unto you when all men speak well of you…” So even though I am not trying to be controversial, I will stand up for what I believe and will not hide my convictions Read more [...]

Many voices out there are telling us what the near future holds. People are prophesying many different things from doom and gloom to a wonderful great year that is ahead of us. What is the truth, and how can we know? Especially when the “prophets” are seemingly contradicting each other and saying opposite things, how can we know what is really true? A good thing is always to listen to your own heart and the Lord, as we can all hear the Lord according to John chapter 10. I do not want to judge Read more [...]

I don’t know about you, but there is something that kinda scares me. It makes me real nervous, simply because I know myself too well and knows what lies deep within my fallen nature. Often it goes unnoticed by the person having it until it backfires and then leaves a trail of destruction and many hurt and wounded lives. Besides that God doesn’t like it either. It can destroy intimate relationships and cause great harm to the people we love so deeply. Really it is quite gross if you think about Read more [...]