Over the last forty years, I believe I have heard just about every excuse possible why Christ-followers cannot be faithful to weekly church attendance, cannot be consistent in sharing Christ with the lost or answering the call into fulltime ministry. When local churches used to host evangelistic and revival crusades, I was fortunate to preach hundreds of them. During those years, I would ask Pastors to give me a list of names to call and invite to the crusade. I invited more than 10,000 Christians to attend the crusades over those years. As you can imagine, I got a lot of positive responses and also truckloads of excuses why he…

Dr. Martin Luther was a Roman monk. He was a theologian—a professor in a school. He was desperately trying to learn how to be right with God. There came a time he took a journey to Rome and climbed on his knees up Pilate’s stairs, where supposedly the blood of Jesus Christ was dropped as you go up. Dr. Luther stopped and kissed the blood on every one of those steps. But when he came to the top of the stairs, he realized he was no more right with God that he had been. Yet it was through the book of Romans that Martin Luther studied, and he came to…

Pastors and ministry leaders from across 22 Pacific Island nations converged in Fiji October 8-10, 2024, for the FINISH Oceania Summit, where they collaboratively developed missional strategies for leadership development, evangelism, discipleship, church planting and strategic networking. Convened by the Global Church Network (GCN) in synergistic partnership with Dr. Suliasi Kurulo, founder of World Harvest Center and Christian Missionary Fellowship in Suva, Fiji, the summit was the next part of the FINISH 2030 campaign to finalize the Great Commission by 2030.  “In order to complete the Great Commission, ministry leaders must be able to tie relational knots to build a net that works. No knot, no net, no network,” said Dr. James…

Multiplication Impact of Ministry Training Hubs – Reaching 800 by 2030 – Essential to FINISH the Great Commission in this Generation With a mission to finalize the Great Commission by 2030, Global Church Network (GCN) has set a goal of establishing 800 leadership training hubs worldwide in order to mobilize one million new ministers at a time when there is a global shortage of pastors. With the grand opening of Hubs in both the Balkans and South Africa this month, GCN will have launched 200 Hubs on six continents, putting the ministry on track to exceed its goal within this decade. “Just like airline companies and major corporations have their…

Do you want to know why this world is in darkness? It is because people have refused the light. They cannot tell the difference between right and wrong because they are living in darkness and cannot see. Jesus is the number one issue because Jesus is God communicating with us. JESUS IS GOD CREATING A) Jesus is the Power of Creation -­ Not only is Jesus God communicating, but Jesus is God creating. Science states that the creation of the world was the result of a great cosmic accident called the big bang. They say billions of years ago there was a fortuitous concourse of some primeval life forms that…

What is the number one issue in the world today? Is it abortion, safe sex, homosexuality, or AIDS? Is it terrorism, ISIS or war? I submit the number one issue in the world is what we are going to do with the Lord Jesus Christ. On July 20, 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped off an aluminum ladder and planted his feet on the lunar surface of the moon. The President of the United States then addressed the nation and said, “The greatest event in human history occurred when man first put his foot on the moon.” I contend, however, that the greatest event in human history was when God put…

All who will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. If you’re not suffering any, it’s just a plain fact that you are not living godly in Christ Jesus. If you are a child of God, you’re living in hostile territory. We’re twice-born people in a world of once-born people and we’re going against the tide most of the time. What we believe and how we live starts at a different source and is headed toward a different conclusion. Yet, this is not the first time that has ever happened. It happened in the first-century Church. In 1 Peter 3:13-16, we read “Who is there to harm you if…

You hold in your hands the guidebook to Glory and the pathway to purity in a world of worldliness. I do not claim to have all the answers; but I do believe that while we live in an era of high apostasy, we are approaching the ultimate apocalypse. America has produced the highest level of the good life for the majority to enjoy over the longest period of time than any other nation. Christians have participated in this good life to its fullness. In the sixties, we were bathed in the ocean of love in Christian circles. In the seventies, we were drowned in the syrup of make-believe religion. In…

At the time that Jude was written in the early history of the church, apostates were already on the scene. In verse 4 he says, “For there are certain men.” They are already present. They are present today. Apostates exist today in Christendom. Apostates are in churches. Some are occupying pulpits; others are teaching in various ministries of the church. Some are in Christian institutions of learning, occupying professorships and chairs of religion. Some are in denominations. The apostates were on the scene in the New Testament era, and they are on the scene in the 21st century. At times, it is hard sometimes to detect apostates. Jude says in verse…

The Lord wants us to be able to distinguish false doctrine when we hear it or read it. It’s very important to be able to tell the difference. God has given us this little book in the Bible to help us understand the difference between that which is true and that which is false. It is a book that has to do with the subject of apostasy. In the first four verses Jude tells us why he has given us this book. He started to write on the subject of the common salvation, and yet the Holy Spirit impressed him deep within his heart that he was to write them…