Pastors, Church Families, Friends & Family:

As I write this letter, it is again a new year. We now have a new president in this country, but regardless of who is in the White House, God is still at work in the church house. As Christians, we just need to stay busy with the gospel and be about redeeming the time (Eph. 5:16 and Col. 4:5). Last year may have brought difficulties for some Christians and churches and probably brought success and victory for others. Regardless of what has come our way last year, we need not to look back but instead look forward. The Apostle Paul was steadfast because of a couple reasons. First, he said, “…forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before (Philippians 3:13). Paul was always going forward with the gospel. Secondly, in spite of his present circumstances, he said in Philippians 4:11, “… I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” What a great example we have here. If we could forget the past (good or bad), be content, press forward for souls … Read More »

Pastors, Church Families, Friends and Family,

As critical key to being a good missionary, preacher, pastor or Christian in general is learning to die to ourselves. When one of the early missionaries went to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back saying, “You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages.”” To that, the missionary replied, “We died before we came here.” One of the greatest missionaries, the Apostle Paul, said of himself in 1 Corinthians 15:31, “…I die daily.” He also said of us in Colossians 3:3. “For ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.” Oh, how we need to lift high the gospel, but die to ourselves so others might see the light of our glorious Savior, Jesus Christ!

As we remembered to die to ourselves lately, we have been privileged to see souls saved in church services after they’ve seen themselves in light of God’s Word. Amen! After preaching, I was excited to see and 11-year-old boy come forward during Children’s church to be saved at a mission conference we attended. … Read More »