click on the link below.

Roger Willmore

http://www.preaching.com/common-lectionary/11550903/

The following article was published in the first issues of the Holman Christian Standard Minister’s Bible.  It was placed in the back with an assortment of other articles by a variety of pastors and teachers to give aid to the pastor in his daily pastoral duties.

Roger Willmore

http://www.lifeway.com/Article/Pastors-Church-Audience-Aim-Appeal-Altar-Call

The link below contains comments taken from a message given at Golden Gate Theological Seminary chapel.  The aim was to challenge the next generation of young men and women in the ministry to make their personal pursuit of God a priority

.http://www.ggbts.edu/news.aspx?item=6

Roger D. Willmore

The link below will take you to an article that references a message I gave in chapel at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.

http://swbts.edu/campus-news/news-releases/willmore-christe28099s-lordship-is-the-foundational-doctrine/

Dr. Stephen F. Oford

http://www.christianity.com/11547630/?p=0      This link will take you to an article by Roger Willmore.

http://www.uu.edu/audio/detail.cfm?ID=186

Message given Union University by Roger Willmore

http://www.christianity.com/theology/end-times/jesus-is-coming-11578602.html

These messages were given by Roger Willmore

One of my favorite places in the world is America’s Keswick in Whiting, New Jersey.  Since 1997 I have spoken a Summer Conferences with an emphasis on the Victorious Christian Life.  It is a place where God speaks to hearts and transforms lives.  The link below is a podcast that will give a sample of the ministry in the summer of 2014.  I am also adding the website address to America’s Keswick so you can visit and get acquainted with this historic ministry.  http://www.americaskeswick.org

http://discoveringvictorypodcast.com/tag/roger-willmore/

Enjoy!

                   Roger D. Willmore

The link below will take you to an article I wrote some time ago on a biblical picture of a pastor.  I believe one of the great struggles within the church today is that the office of a pastor is not viewed by church members through a biblical lens.  So often our understanding of the pastor and his God given role is determined by culture, inside and outside the church.  This problem is not just in the pew…it can also be in the pastor.

I am strong advocate for church life being governed by the Word of God and not by the opinions of man.  This article is my attempt to present a biblical portrait of a pastor.

http://www.sbclife.net/Articles/2006/01/sla8

Dr. W. Graham Scroggie

Dr. William Graham Scroggie, was born in 1877 in Great Malvern, England. He attended Spurgeon’s College in London in training for the ministry. As a result of his opposition to modernism and worldliness, he was turned out of his first two churches. During the following years he laid the mental and scholarly foundations for all his subsequent works. His pastorates included churches in Sunderland, Edinburgh, and Spurgeon’s Tabernacle in London where he served during World War II. Between 1914 and 1954 he had the exceptional privilege of giving 12 Bible Readings (teaching sermons) at the historic Keswick Christian Life Convention in the Lake District of England. The late Dr. Stephen F. Olford was a student of Graham Scroggie. One day Scroggie was teaching on prayer. Student Stephen Olford said to his teacher, “Dr. Scroggie, sometimes I don’t feel like praying,” to which Scroggie replied, “Stephen, pray when you feel like it…pray when you don’t fee like it…pray till you do feel like it.” I heard Dr. Olford tell this story many, many times as he urged pastors to place a high priority on their devotional life.

These words, used of the Athenians, “…for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim.” (Acts 17:23), are of universal significance.  Man is essentially a religious creature, and the instinct to pray is as widespread as the race.  I trust that the following may prove a means of help to many who yearn to live a true devotional life.

I. THE PROFOUND IMPORTANCE OF THE DEVOTIONAL LIFE

1. Its Meaning, or How It May Be Defined… Devotional life is much more than the sum of devotional acts; it is an essential atmosphere, an attitude, an energy.  Miss Havergal has a poem entitled, “Be a Prayer,” and that is much more than saying a prayer.  Acts of prayer should be but the focusing of a life-spirit and habit.

1 Its Relationship To The Whole Cycle of Christian Life…It must be central.  In every life there are things central and foundational, from and upon which everything else radiates and rests, and in the Christian life that should be devotion to God and His service.  If your life has anything else for center, it is a disarranged and disorganized life. “Your Devotions” should be the “large upper room furnished,” which covers and rules all the other rooms in the house of your soul.

3. Its Claim Upon Every Child Of God…It demands time.  Devotional acts, cold and calculating, may be pushed in anywhere, and with a scrupulous economy of time, but not so the devotions of a true Christian. Those who have spent most time in prayer have accomplished most.  Daniel prayed three times a day, and Ezra seven times, and religious history is full of illustrations of the need for, and fruitfulness of time devoted to prayer.  Time is necessary!

To be continued, next point 2, “The Careful Cultivation of the Devotional Life. (Taken from, “The Problem of Unanswered Prayer,”  W. Graham Scroggie.