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About roger willmore

I am a follower and a servant of Jesus Christ. It has been my privilege to serve as pastor of Southern Baptist Churches for over 40 years. Currently I am itinerant in ministry and have the joy of preaching in different churches as well as in Christian Life Conventions and Pastor's Conferences. I attended Samford University and Jacksonville State University. I hold a BA in English. I hold a M.Div and D.Min from Luther Rice Seminary. I was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by the University of Mobile and Judson College. I was mentored by the late Stephen Olford and Robert G. Witty. I had the privilege of serving two terms as president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention. I am involved in preaching missions around the world and I have preached at Keswick Christian Life Conventions in USA, India, Trinidad & Tobago, Haiti, Japan and Canada. I am married to my high school sweetheart, Sandra, since 1973. We have one son, Stephen Andrew. Roger Willmore rdwillmore@gmail.com

Christmas and Jesus

For some reason the Christmas season this year is stirring my heart more than usual to think about the real meaning of Christmas globally and personally.

On the global scene I have watched, in my 64 years of living, the gradual and sometimes not so gradual demise of the recognition of the  meaning of Christmas.  For many the loss of conscience thought regarding what Christmas is all about is innocent.  And by innocent I mean not intentional or malicious.  People just get lost in the rush and fuss of life. The frantic panic of Christmas shopping and Christmas parties and social events and family time can certainly crowd Jesus out of His rightful place in our hearts and in our “Christmas” activities.  I find it alarming that we can put on the grandest celebrations of Christmas (Celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ) and completely lose sight of the very One whose birth and life we celebrate.  How can such a thing happen?

But then there is the intentional rejection of Jesus Christ…and the intentional rejection of the Real Reason for the Season.  No public displays of the Nativity.  No more saying “Merry Christmas.”  No more talk about the exclusivity of Jesus Christ as the One and Only way of Salvation.  There has been a concentrated effort to marginalize Jesus and Christians in 21st century culture.  And the tragedy is that we Christians have been like the proverbial “frog in the kettle.”  We have become so accustomed to the politically correct requirements of a secular culture that we have contributed to the removal of the nativities and the Merry Christmas greetings and more.

This year I am at a place that the scales of my conscience are weighing what is truly important and eternal.  Living life…living life in the real world …has a way of sobering a person and challenging priorities and perspective.  This can a painful process…but it is a process that can produce wonderful results to the person who responds correctly to the process.  It is like the weeding of the garden, the pruning of the tree, the removing of the rocks from the new ground.  (Yes, I grew up in the country.)  Sometimes it takes circumstances to help us be honest with ourselves.  Circumstances can be like a mirror or like a true friend.  This honesty will enable a person to know what is really and truly important in life.

Well, none of us ever get to the end of the process.  We will be perpetual students in life.  But we can grow and we can learn.  And we should grow and we should learn.  We should become better persons…and better Christians….growing, maturing and transforming into the very likeness of Christ who indwells every true believer.

What is important?  First and foremost…our relationship with Jesus Christ.  If this part of life is wrong then nothing else can be right.  Stuart Briscoe once said, “God meets man on the level of his desire, man can have as much of God as he wants.”  I love this statement.  Do you have as much of God as you want?  Going deeper with Him requires a hunger and a thirst for Him.

What is important?  Family!  My dear friends don’t pursue a life that leaves your family behind.  Give your family the place God has designated in your life.  Family are the ones who love you unconditionally and stand by you in the good and the bad times.  You want your family at your side when you come to the finish line.  Don’t leave them behind.

What is important?  Friends!   Wow!  You are talking about life teaching you some hard lessons.  Life has a way of sorting out lots of things.  When life reveals to you who you true friends are you can say that you have made a marvelous discovery.  A friend is someone who walks into your life when the rest of the world is walking out of your life.  A friend loves, forgives, accepts, encourages …a friend will tell you the truth…a friend will love you unconditionally…a friend is treasure.

You have friend.  His name is Jesus.  He came to earth just over 2000 years ago.  Born of a virgin in Bethlehem.  He is the Son of God…the Savior of the world.  John said: “For God so love the world (me)that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

Christmas is about the greatest gift ever given!  The gift of Jesus is available to all who will come to Him and receive.  I pray that you have received this marvelous Gift.

Roger Willmore

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Selwyn Hughes, “Everyday With Jesus”

MEET A MAN WHO RICH BLESSES MY LIFE:

SELWYN HUGHES

Selwyn Hughes is a man whose ministry I missed in the early years of my Christian life.  I really don’t know how I did not connect with his writings many years ago.  Sadly, I did not.  A few years ago I served for a time on the LifeWay Christian Resources Board of Trustees.  During my tenure of service LifeWay, B&H publishers, was publishing the writings of Selwyn Hughes.  His devotional books were beautifully bound and contain comments and art by Thomas Kinkade.  I availed myself to the books at that time, but it was not until I put them into my wife’s hands and she began to read them that I was really introduced to Hughes.  My wife began to read the daily devotions and “every day”(a Hughes title) she shared with me nuggets of truth and insights she had gained in her quiet time.  I was so taken by what Selwyn Hughes writings were in her life I began to read for myself and what I found was pure gold.  My only regret in writing this testimonial is that B&H no longer publishes Selwyn Hughes writings.  I think they are missing out on providing a great resource to hungry Christians. 

Selwyn Hughes, a Welshman, was born on April 27, 1928.  He became known for his devotional writings under the title “Every Day With Jesus.”  How this all came about in his life is a fascinating story in and of itself. He founded  Christian ministry Crusade for World Revival. George Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, described Hughes as a “giant in the faith.”

Selwyn Hughes died on January 9, 2006.  However, He being dead…still speaks.

At the moment I am reading Everyday Light, Water for the Soul.  I am in the section on the Fruit of the Spirit.  I am reading this section because daily my wife is reminding me of truths she is gleaning.  Again, I discovered a gold mine.  No fluff…no cotton candy…nothing of the kind.  Every word is “meat.”  Every word is relevant and personal and biblical and TRUE.

Here are a few excerpts:

Day 244:  The fruit of the Spirit is just one aspect of the Spirit-filled life.  It is an over-simplification, but the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a Christian moves in tow important directions- to produce purity and to produce power.  The power aspect can be in seen in the study of the gifts of the Spirit and the purity aspect can be seen in a study of the fruit of the Holy Spirit.  Both are of equal importance.

Day 247:  Here Hughes describes some of the first characteristic of the Fruit of the Spirit: LOVE.  He says, The love which flows in our hearts  when we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit is not a general love but a specific one-the love of Christ.  This love dulls the edge of disappointment and enables us to be invulnerable to many things, not least a lack of appreciation. 

Day 248:  How can we ensure that the love which surges in the Heart of God surges also in us?  We must not strain to love, but allow the love of God to flow within us.  Dr. W.E. Sangster, the famous Methodist preacher, said that those who best manifest God’s love are those who have had a blinding realization of the love of God and whose own love flames in response.  (wow!  what an insight…so simple, yet so profound!  RDW)

Day 249:;  When we perceive how much God loves us, an amazing affect is produced in our personalities- we begin to love like Him.  We cannot help it.  Love- agape love- is not the fruit of labor; it is a response.  When we stand at the foot of Calvary, the place where the love of God is fully focused and caught up, the scales drop from our eyes and our own love flames in response.  We love Him because He first loved us.  ….Don’t try to manufacture love.  Linger in the shadow of the cross.  The love of God finds its most burning expression there.  Meditate on it.  Contemplate it. 

Have you read to this point?  I gave only a few nuggets…but oh how rich!!!

 

 

 

More Poems by Tracy Moore

I have received nice and positive comments both on the site and in person regarding the last post containing a Tracy Moore poem.  Tracy is a gifted writer and she has a very practical and Christian way of looking at life.  To know her is to increase your appreciation for everything she writes.  I am honored that she has given me permission to post some of her work.  Enjoy!        

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SOMEWHERE

By: Tracy Moore

Pine boughs
Silver Balls
Frost upon the glass
Somewhere you hear tinkling
And music from the brass

Feet rustle
People hustle
Back and forth they go
Somewhere thee is laughter
Amidst the crunch of snow

Warm bread
Hot Tea
Something rich and sweet
Somewhere people mill about
With plenty there to eat

But…

What of decoration
What music, laughter, food
No warmth, no place, no care
Just another day
Somewhere

TIME PASSES ON

By: Tracy Moore

How fleeting is this life we live
Each day is but a breath to give.
We say that this will always be.
What? Time? It passes on.

A day turns into three, six, five
Just one more year to be alive.
What was it that I meant to do?
Well, time?  It passes on.

One year now, it turns to ten.
Tomorrow? Well, maybe then.
It’s always when we meant to start.
But time?  It passes on.

Year by year, the time goes by.
Slow it down?  Don’t even try.
Pretend to simply let it be.
And time?  It passes on.

We have the little things we say.
To get us through, right now, today.
But left undone is so much more.
For time?  It passes on.

It robs what it never had.
You miss it then, it’s just too bad.
We know where it goes now.
How time, it passes on.

Time is not a friend you see.
Takes from you, takes from me.
It simply steals with no regard.
Still, time?  It passes on.

Don’t leave behind. Don’t forget.
Don’t live now what you will regret.
For memory serves no mercy here!
Time?  It passes on.

I hope you have found these two poems thought provoking and encouraging…and maybe a bit admonishing.  Provoke to thought!  Isn’t that poets do?  Thank you Tracy.

 

 

 

 

 

CHRISTMAS POEM by Tracy Moore

One of the great blessings in Christian ministry is the blessing of meeting God’s special and choice servants who are actively working in various parts of the Lord’s vineyard.  Ministry happens in many places and through all kinds of people.  At the moment I have in mind two special friends, Todd and Tracy Moore, who serve the Lord faithfully at the John Croyle Big Oak Ranch for girls.  The better I get to know these two, the more I love and respect them.  Tracy is a gifted poet.  When I was her pastor I got to see her writings from time to time, especially her Easter and Christmas poems.  I asked her permission to share the following Christmas poem.  I know you will be blessed as you read them.  Please enjoy:

 

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Todd and Tracy Moore

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR JESUS

There are lights on the tree
There’s a fire in the den
Gifts are piled in one corner
It’s Your birthday again.

Happy Birthday dear Jesus
What did You get this year?
Was it something You wanted?
Or did it leave a tear?

Happy Birthday dear Jesus
Did Your gift come with a bow?
Was it Love for all men,
Friend, family, or foe?

Happy Birthday dear Jesus
Was Your story even read?
Did they X out Your name?
“Season’s Greetings” instead?

Happy Birthday dear Jesus
There was food for the poor
But what of the others?
All 364?

Happy Birthday dear Jesus
I’m so glad that you came
For this day is special
I wish all were the same.

Happy Birthday dear Jesus.

By Tracy Moore

More to come.  Please share Tracy’s poem with others.  She has gift of writing and her poetic words help us to have the right understanding of Christmas.

 

 

 

 

Prayer Conference in Trinidad

I have just returned from ministry in Trinidad & Tobago.  I have been there many times since my first visit in 1994, when I went down to preach in a series of Keswick Christian Life Conventions.  In the beginning I felt an immediate connection with the country, the culture and the people.  At that time I was very involved with the young people. I went to school assemblies and spoke to several hundred students at a time.  It was wonderful.  From the first children and teens called me “Uncle”  Roger.  Many still do.  I have lots of nieces and nephews now.

When I return home from my ministry trips to Trinidad I do so always with the same thoughts on my mind.  I think of the pastors and church leaders who serve so faithfully.  Their material resources are limited, but their faithfulness to God is strong.  They do so much…so often, with so little.

My connection with Trinidad & Tobago began as a result of my friendship with Dr. Stephen F. Olford, the world renowned expositor and “Keswick Convention Speaker.”  Almost fifty years ago Dr. Olford was instrumental in launching Keswick in T & T.  For  35 years, until his death in August of 2004, Dr. Olford was my friend and mentor.  I am indebted to him for many of the opportunities to preach the Word of God globally.  He suggested me to the Keswick Committees in T & T.  I am forever thankful.

Pastor Mitch John had a heart to give leadership to an annual prayer conference retreat held at Camp Ridgewalk in Lily Trace, Siperia, Trinidad.  He invited me to be the speaker.  I gave a series of messages on the topic of prayer.  I addressed What Prayer Is; What Prayer is Not; Who Can Pray?; Conditions for Answered Prayer; How to Pray; and Hinderances to Prayer.  It was a good time well spent.

In addition the study, there were also seasons of prayer where all participants were called upon to pray for specific things.  I remember the season of prayer for the country, for the government workers and leaders.  Much prayer was offered for the President and the Prime Minister and those who work with these leaders.  It was a time of serious prayer.

I encourage you to pray for pastors and churches in Trinidad & Tobago.  RDW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revival Meeting in Pamplico, SC

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I had the marvelous privilege of pastoring the First Baptist Church of Weaver, Alabama for seven years.  It was one of the happiest periods of my life.  The people were loving, supportive and caring.  Weaver was not a large congregation, but it was a congregation with a big heart and a big vision.  One of the things I dreamed of doing was hosting a “Great Preachers Event.”  The church gave full support and we launched an event we called, “Great Preachers in America” which was held each fall.  We saw and heard some of the greatest biblical expositors of my lifetime.  To name a few who preached in this event:  Dr. Stephen F. Olford, my friend and mentor for 35 years; Dr. David Olford, president of Olford Ministries International; Dr. Lewis Drummond, was, at the time Professor of Evangelism at Beeson Divinity School; Dr. Eric Alexander, Glasgow Scotland, a noted Keswick Speaker; Dr. John Phillips, Bible teacher and author of Exploring the Bible Commentaries; Dr. Fred Luter, pastor of the famed Franklin Ave. Baptist Church in New Orleans. Fred came to Weaver many times and became a great friend to our church family.  Dr. Ben Haden was the first preacher to preach in the Great Preachers series and probably drew the largest crowd.  Dr. Paige Patterson, president of  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; Dr. Ted Traylor, pastor of Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, and Dr. Tom Elliff, then president of the Southern Baptist Convention. And there were more…

In that period of time there were many young people in the church who were being drawn to a closer walk with the Lord…and to Gospel ministry.  One of those young people was J.D. Weed.  J.D. was an exceptional student, with a brilliant mind and a heart for God. He went to University of Mobile and then to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.  He is now pastor of the Union Baptist Church in Pamplico, SC.  I will have the joy and privilege of spending a few days with J.D., his family and his congregation in October.  I am praying that the Lord will abundantly bless our days of ministry together.

Pray for young men and women of our day who have given themselves to the Lord and His work.  We live in difficult times.  Those in the Lord’s work need renewed strength and courage everyday.

RW

Evan Roberts and the Welsh Revival

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The Welsh Revival, 1904-05, is one of the most powerful demonstrations of God’s power to bring revival to His people.  Over one hundred thousand souls came to Christ in Wales in less than nine months.  As the revival spread it made global impact ushering thousands more into the Kingdom of God.

On the human side of the story a young man, Evan Roberts, was a principle instrument.  At the very early age of 13 he developed a heart burden for revival and for ten years he prayed for revival.  Revival came.

Evan Roberts gave four requirements for revival that became associated with the Welsh Revival and it’s continuing influence.  The requirements Roberts listed then are relevant today:

  1. Confess all known sin
  2. Repentance and restitution
  3. Obedience and surrender  to the Holy Spirit
  4. Public Confession of Christ

These may seem like simple things, but in God’s way of thinking and acting each of these is a very important requirement for revival.  God’s blessings are conditional.  If you and I desire to experience the blessings of God upon our lives then we must live by his principles and His biblical standards.  If you desire to have a closer walk with Christ the four requirements listed by Roberts is a good place to start.

RW

John Wesley and Spiritual Accountability

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John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, led a very disciplined life. He was particularly disciplined in matters pertaining to his walk with God.  With a strong emphasis on personal holiness he devised a list of questions to be used in mentoring members of “The Holy Club”.  These questions were first seen in 1729 or 1730, but they are still relevant today.  Read them and decide how you are doing spiritually.

  1. Am I consciously or unconsciously creating the impression that I am better than I really am?  In other words, am I a hypocrite?
  2. Do I confidentially pass on to others what has been said to me in confidence?
  3. Can I be trusted?
  4. Am I a slave to dress, friends, work or habits?
  5. Am I self-conscious, self-pitying, or self-justifying?
  6. Did the Bible live in me today?
  7. Do I give the Bible time to speak to me every day?
  8. Am I enjoying prayer?
  9. When did I last speak to someone else of my faith?
  10. Do I pray about the money I spend?
  11. Do I get to bed on time and get up on time?
  12. Do I disobey God in anything?
  13. Do I insist upon doing something about which my conscience is uneasy?
  14. Am I defeated in any part of my life?
  15. Am I jealous, impure, critical, irritable, touchy or distrustful?
  16. How do I spend my spare time?
  17. Am I proud?
  18. Do I thank God that I am not as other people, especially as the Pharisees who despised the publican?
  19. Is there anyone whom I fear, dislike, disown, criticize, hold resentment toward, or disregard?  If so, what am I doing about it?
  20. Do I grumble or complain constantly?
  21. Is Christ real to me?

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REVIVAL: Evan Roberts- 1878-951 from revival-library

Evan Roberts – 1878-1951

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The story of Evan Roberts and the Welsh Revival of 1904-5 is the most thrilling, but also the most sad and sobering in all revival history. On the one hand we see one hundred thousand souls in Wales coming to Christ in just nine months, from November 1904 to August 1905. This was the beginning of a world-wide revival that ushered hundreds of thousands more into the Kingdom of God. On the other hand, we see Evan Roberts, the principle revivalist of this move of God, becoming deceived, deluded and finally suffering a nervous breakdown which took him out of the public limelight to live the life of a recluse. Furthermore, the fruits of the revival in Wales (but not world-wide) were soon lost through criticism, fears of deception and a Welsh theology which suppressed the assurance of salvation. Within a generation there were no signs that a revival had ever occurred. Surely there are some important lessons for 21st Century Christians to learn here?

Evan Roberts was born and raised in a Welsh Calvinist Methodist family in Loughor, on the Glamorgan and Carmarthenshire border. As a boy he was unusually serious and very diligent in his Christian life. He memorised verses of the Bible and was a daily attender of Moriah Chapel, a church about a mile from his home. Even at 13 years of age he began to develop a heart for a visitation from God. He later wrote “I said to myself: I will have the Spirit. And through all weathers and in spite of all difficulties I went to the meetings… for ten or eleven years I have prayed for revival. I could sit up all night to read or talk about revivals. It was the Spirit who moved me to think about revival.”

After working in the coal mines and then as a smithy, he entered a preparatory college at Newcastle Emlyn, as a candidate for the ministry. It was 1903 and he was 25 years old.

It was at this time that he sought the Lord for more of His Spirit. He believed that he would be baptised in the Holy Spirit and sometimes his bed shook as his prayers were answered. The Lord began to wake him at 1.00 am for divine fellowship, when he would pray for four hours, returning to bed at 5.00 am for another four hours sleep.

He visited a meeting where Seth Joshua was preaching and heard the evangelist pray “Lord, bend us”. The Holy Spirit said to Evan, “That’s what you need”. At the following meeting Evan experienced a powerful filling with the Holy Spirit. “I felt a living power pervading my bosom. It took my breath away and my legs trembled exceedingly. This living power became stronger and stronger as each one prayed, until I felt it would tear me apart. My whole bosom was a turmoil and if I had not prayed it would have burst…. I fell on my knees with my arms over the seat in front of me. My face was bathed in perspiration, and the tears flowed in streams. I cried out “Bend me, bend me!!” It was God’s commending love which bent me… what a wave of peace flooded my bosom…. I was filled with compassion for those who must bend at the judgement, and I wept. Following that, the salvation of the human soul was solemnly impressed on me. I felt ablaze with the desire to go through the length and breadth of Wales to tell of the saviour”.

Needless to say, his studies began to take second place! He began praying for a hundred thousand souls and had two visions which encouraged him to believe it would happen. He saw a lighted candle and behind it the rising sun. He felt the interpretation was that the present blessings were only as a lighted candle compared with the blazing glory of the sun. Later all Wales would be flooded with revival glory.

The other vision occurred when Evan saw his close friend Sydney Evans staring at the moon. Evan asked what he was looking at and, to his great surprise, he saw it too! It was an arm that seemed to be outstretched from the moon down to Wales. He was in no doubt that revival was on its way.

He then felt led to return to his home town and conduct meetings with the young people of Loughor. With permission from the minister, he began the meetings, encouraging prayer for the outpouring of the Spirit on Moriah. The meetings slowly increased in numbers and powerful waves of intercession swept over those gathered.

During those meetings the Holy Spirit gave Evan four requirements that were later to be used throughout the coming revival:

1. Confession of all known sin
2. Repentance and restitution
3. Obedience and surrender to the Holy Spirit
4. Public confession of Christ

The Spirit began to be outpoured. There was weeping, shouting, crying out, joy and brokeness. Some would shout out, “No more, Lord Jesus, or I’ll die”. This was the beginning of the Welsh Revival.

The meetings then moved to wherever Evan felt led to go. Those travelling with him were predominately female and the young girls would often begin meetings with intense intercession, urging surrender to God and by giving testimony. Evan would often be seen on his knees pleading for God’s mercy, with tears. The crowds would come and be moved upon by wave after wave of the Spirit’s presence. Spontaneous prayer, confession, testimony and song erupted in all the meetings. Evan, or his helpers , would approach those in spiritual distress and urge them to surrender to Christ. No musical instruments were played and, often, there would be no preaching. Yet the crowds continued to come and thousands professed conversion.

The meetings often went on until the early hours of the morning. Evan and his team would go home, sleep for 2–3 hours and be back at the pit-head by 5 am, urging the miners coming off night duty to come to chapel meetings.

The revival spread like wildfire all over Wales. Other leaders also experienced the presence of God. Hundreds of overseas visitors flocked to Wales to witness the revival and many took revival fire back to their own land. But the intense presence began to take its toll on Evan. He became nervous and would sometimes be abrupt or rude to people in public meetings. He openly rebuked leaders and congregations alike.

Though he was clearly exercising spiritual gifts and was sensitive to the Holy Spirit , he became unsure of the “voices” he was hearing. The he broke down and withdrew from public meetings. Accusation and criticism followed and further physical and emotional breakdown ensued.

Understandably, converts were confused. Was this God? Was Evan Roberts God’s man or was he satanically motivated? He fell into a deep depression and in the spring of 1906 he was invited to convalesce at Jessie Penn-Lewis’ home at Woodlands in Leicester.

It is claimed that Mrs Penn Lewis used Evan’s name to propagate her own ministry and message. She supposedly convinced him he was deceived by evil spirits and, over the next few years co-authorised with Evan “War on the Saints”, which was published in 1913. This book clearly delineates the confusion she had drawn Evan into. It left its readers totally wary of any spiritual phenomena of any kind or degree. Rather than giving clear guidelines regarding discerning satanic powers, it brought into question anything that may be considered, or that might be described, as Holy Spirit activity. Within a year of its publication, Evan Roberts denounced it, telling friends that it had been a failed weapon which had confused and divided the Lord’s people.

Evan stayed at the Penn-Lewis’ home for eight years, giving himself to intercession and private group counselling. Around 1920 Evan moved to Brighton and lived alone until he returned to his beloved Wales, when his father fell ill in 1926. He began to visit Wales again and eventually moved there in 1928 when his father died.

Nothing much is known of the years that followed. Evan finally died at the age of 72 and was buried behind Moriah Chapel on Jan 29th 1951.

May his life be both an example and a warning to all those who participate in revival to maintain humility; keep submissive to the Spirit; be accountable to godly men and women; remain true to their calling; use the gifts God has given, but be wise in the stewardship of their body.

Bibliography An Instrument of Revival, Brynmor Pierce-Jones 1995, published by Bridge Publishing (ISBN 0-88270-667-5).

Tony Cauchi
November 2007

Evan Roberts was used of the Lord in a remarkable way to bring revival to nation and to many parts of the world.  I is my desire that this brief history and testimonial will be a blessing to you.

Roger Willmore

Christian Life Convention

IMG_2055I have just returned from Summer Conference Week Five at America’s Keswick in Whiting, New Jersey.  This is my seventeenth year to be involved in this New Jersey based ministry.  Summer months are devoted to the preaching of the Victorious Christian Life Message which has become such an integral part of the Keswick Ministry.  Though not officially connected with the English Keswick, America’s Keswick is built solidly on the foundation of proclaiming the message of Fullness of Life in Jesus Christ.  The banner theme at America’s Keswick is “Where God speaks to hearts and transforms lives.”  And He does transform lives.

Each of the Summer Conference weeks saw very good attendance and all of the speakers got good reviews.  This is a good thing.  There was a great evidence of hunger to hear the word of God on the part of those in Summer Week Five.  This encouraged me greatly.

You can visit America’s Keswick website at http://www.americaskeswick.org and see the videos of each session.  Check the media view tab on the top toolbar and click to see the videos and list of the speakers.

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America's Keswick, August 2015

America’s Keswick, August 2015