About us
Who am I
I'm a British missionary, Living Hope Ministries' Chief Representative for Venezuela, a gorgeous country in South America. I'm also an aspiring author!
I am a budding author, having written four books previously and having one of them translated into Spanish. I try to write books that will inspire Christians to live godly lives and help others to come to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I have been living in South America with my beautiful Venezuelan wife since February 2023. We have a beautiful little boy and are actively involved in serving in the local church through preaching and teaching. I am also leading the evangelistic outreach here.
My emphasis in both my books and my preaching is that we have a great need of God's forgiveness through Christ, for our breaking of His holy law. The true grace of God in the life of the believer always inevitably leads to holiness and obedience to God—something that is lacking in many professing Christians.
My missionary work
Aside from writing, I am also heavily involved in the local church where I live. I live in a small community in Venezuela and attend an Independent Pentecostal church where I preach and teach on a regular basis—once every few weeks during the evenings, and I preach every fifth Sunday.
I also help with visiting another community near where I live on a rota basis on Tuesday afternoons. This is to help the community hear the word of God and have access to sound Christian teaching that they might not otherwise hear.
I am also the leader of the evangelistic outreach in our church. I am in charge of a group of about 10 people . We go out to different houses of non-believers to share with them the Word of God. The idea is that we want to share the gospel with people so they will get saved and then join our small church. I also have the task of visiting the houses of any non-Christian visitors that we receive to share with them the gospel.
I try to use the law to show people that their personal sins separate them from God and make them deserving of hell. But because God is rich in mercy, He sent us Jesus Christ, who died
on the cross, satisfying the demand for justice by His life's blood and then rising from the dead. I teach that if we come to God through Him, we can be completely forgiven and brought into His family. I also teach them that without repentance and a changed nature (2 Corinthians 5:17), being the evidence of that repentance, there is no real salvation. My main mission in preaching the gospel is to glorify Christ and to make Him known among the people with whom I live. I desire to make it clear that to become a Christian is not easy, and if someone becomes a Christian, they have enlisted as a soldier in the Lord’s army. There must be a commitment to Christ as Lord if we are to be radically saved by Him.
Statement of faith
It is vitally important that I make it very clear where I stand on certain crucial theological viewpoints. I feel the need to do this due to the severity afforded all teachers (James 3:1) and to give peace to those who would be my future audiences that I actually know the God that I proclaim in my books.
God
I believe in One God in Three Persons - God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit. I reject modalism as a heresy which teaches that God is only one God but takes different forms.
Jesus Christ
I believe in Jesus Christ as being fully God and fully Man. He was born to the virgin Mary into a physical body, God in a human form. He lived a perfect and sinless life. He physically died after being handed over to the Romans who crucified him. He literally and physically died. He went down to the realm of the dead. Was raised to life again physically and literally on the third day. He ascended to heaven where He sits at the right hand of God the Father and will bodily return to earth to set up a literal thousand year reign on this temporal earth.
I reject replacement theology as Christian antisemitism. I also believe in supporting Israel's right to exist as a fulfilment of Bible prophesy and God's love for Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and her right to defend herself. This does not mean, however, that I fully agree with all that Israel does or believe them to be above reproach. But I despise anti-Semitism in the modern church.
Man
I believe that all humans are made in the image of God, though that image has been marred by the fall and sin. Humans are sinful by nature and are under God's wrath.
Redemption
I believe that because humans are sinful and always do things that break God's eternal laws, they are subject to deserved punishment in hell. Because God is a just and holy God He will not violate His justice by not perfectly punishing those who do evil - which is every person. But God upheld His justice and His mercy at the same time by sending His Son Jesus Christ. Jesus, by living a perfect life, obeying God perfectly, went to the cross and suffered the punishment that we deserved by having our sins placed on Him, and dying in our place. That He rose from the dead signifies that the Father accepted His Son's payment on our behalf. Those that believe in Jesus have their sins completely and forever paid for as they are washed and made into new creatures - which has very observable evidences over time.
The Church
I believe that the Church is a called out group of people from every tongue, nation and tribe that have been saved from the wrath to come and are together members of the same body and the same bride - the church, regardless of denomination. That is if they stick with the essentials. I reject the idea that the Roman Catholic Church, the Mormon Church, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the seventh day adventists, among others are part of the true church. They are all false in my view.
The Gospel
The gospel of grace is to be preached, with reference to Matthew, Mark and Luke.
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. - Matthew 28:18-20
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. - Mark 16:15-16
Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. - Luke 24:46-47
We are commanded to: make disciples, baptise them, teach them, preach the gospel which includes repentance and remission of sins.
Anything else added to the gospel such as: works, social justice, inequalities, saving the environment, etc. is a false gospel. I also believe that people whose message focuses only on miracles and the supernatural will be found to be heretics in the end.
The Family
I believe that God created the family to be a loving and caring environment where children are brought up by a mother and a father. A man and his wife are to be a living and breathing picture of Christ and His church. I take a very complementarian view that both the man and woman have equally valued but different roles and functions in their relationship and that the husband maintains the headship.
I reject egalitarianism as unbiblical and feministic. I reject homosexual and lesbian marriage. I reject the idea that people can change their gender. I see people who fight against the patriarchy are rebellious and are resisting male headship in the home, which is God's design. And by male headship I do not mean that a man is to dominate his wife and family, but that he is to lovingly be the leader. As Christ is the head of the church so is the man the head of his wife. If anyone is contentious about this, I didn't write it, the Apostle Paul did.
Judgement
I believe in eternal judgement. Everyone will stand before God to give an account of what they have done in life.
Those who are saved will live with God and Christ on the new earth forever and ever in peace, justice and the perfect presence of God.
Those who are not saved and do not repent, whose names are not in the book of Life will be cast into the lake of fire, to be separated from God and everything beautiful, lovely and good, forever, with satan and his angels.
I reject the notion that everyone will ultimately be saved. I reject that people go into nothingness when they die without Christ. I reject partial judgement where people go to hell for a limited time and are afterwards redeemed or exterminated out of existence. I reject the Calvinistic idea that God has predestined certain people to hell.
I also reject soul sleep, which is that all believers sleep in death and all wake up and arrive in heaven at the same time - to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.