Messages Of Hope

       After becoming a Christian at age 15, I developed a tremendous passion to help people. It has been my privilege to do so through various methods and means. These have included one-to-one, public seminars, radio, television and print.

In addition to conducting Revival Crusades and Discipleship Seminars, I am also available to hold Fitness Seminars ( I am a Certified Master Fitness Trainer). If you would like information please contact me. 

My wife, Rebecca (who is also a gifted author and dynamic speaker), and I reside in Wilson, North Carolina. We are the extremely proud parents of two beautiful daughters and have been blessed with four marvelous grandchildren.

A number of years ago, after speaking at the Central California Camp Meeting, I was approached by one of the leaders and asked, "Dan, will you tell me what you are?" At first it caught me off guard, and then I recalled that he had heard my testimony. I smiled, placed my arm around his shoulder and responded:

"My brother, first of all, I am a Christian, because the Bible says unless I am born again, I cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

Next, I am a Baptist Christian, because I believe the Bible teaches that after a person accepts Jesus as Personal Saviour, he or she should be baptized just as deep as possible and come up walking in newness of life and serving Christ as Lord.

Next, I am an Adventist Baptist Christian, because Adventists are looking forward to the soon return of Christ and my heart's cry is, "even so come quickly my Lord."

Next. I am a Lutheran Adventist Baptist Christian, because Martin Luther was used of God to bring about a revival of "the just shall live by faith," and I so much want the faith of Jesus to be my faith.

Next, I am a Methodist Lutheran Adventist Baptist Christian, because John Wesley taught a vibrant message of holiness and separation from the world and things of this world.

Next, I am a Pentecostal Methodist Lutheran Adventist Baptist Christian, because I sincerely believe that if the early Church needed the Baptism of God's Holy Spirit in the beginning, we need the same Baptism of God's Holy Spirit at the end-time.

Next, I am a Presbyterian Pentecostal Methodist Lutheran Adventist Baptist Christian, because I believe the Bible teaches that all things should be done "decently and in order" and there can be virtue in leadership.

Next, I am a Seventh-day Presbyterian Pentecostal Methodist Lutheran Adventist Baptist Christian, because I have discovered from a study of God's Word that the Seventh-day Sabbath was never abolished or negated by Christ or His early followers. Rather, it was changed later as an attempt to appease men.

Next, I am a Catholic Seventh-day Presbyterian Pentecostal Methodist Lutheran Adventist Baptist Christian, because the word "catholic" means "universal" and I'm just foolish enough to believe if it's good enough for me it's good enough for the whole world.

When I finished, the man looked at me with his lower jaw dropped and asked, "What are you again?" I went through it once more and when I finished he almost shouted, "That’s what I want to be! That’s what I want to be!"

While I do not ascribe to the philosophy of the "ecumenical movement," I am convicted in my intellect and convinced in my emotions that the body of Christ (His church) encompasses more that just our individual, particular denominational identity. Some of us may actually be surprised when we arrive in Heaven and discover who will be our neighbors for eternity :).

Rebecca and I have had to deal with many questions from family and friends concerning our determination to allow the Bible and not tradition or denominational creed and dogma to be the final Authority for practice. As I began to question the why and wherefore of what I was taught as a youngster and later in Bible College and Seminary and placed every doctrine and article of believe under the most powerful microscope my spirituality and academia would allow, there were two statements of two giants of the faith that became a constant companion on my journey to be a recipient of the A.U.G. degree ("Approved Unto God" - II Timothy 2:15) when Jesus returns in glorious fashion.

Charles Spurgeon: "I say of the Baptist name, let it perish, but let Christ's Name last forever. I look forward with pleasure to the day when there will not be a Baptist living. I hope they will soon be gone. I hope the Baptist name will soon perish; but let Christ's Name endure forever." (Spurgeon Memorial Library, Volume 1, page 168). I prayed that the spirit of Spurgeon concerning his "denominational tag" would become my spirit concerning my "denominational tag" - not that I hated or disprespected the denomination of which I was a member, but I did not want a set of interpretations (articles of faith) to block seeing more clearly what God's Word says on every issue.

Martin Luther: "I pray you leave my name alone and call not yourselves Lutherans, but Christians. Who is Luther? My doctrine is not mine. I have not been crucified for anyone. Saint Paul would not let any call themselves after Paul, nor of Peter, but of Christ. How then does it befit me, a miserable bag of dust and ashes, to give my name to the children of God? Cease, my dear friends, to cling to these party names and distinctions: Away with all; and let us call ourselves only Christians after Him from Whom our doctrine comes." (The Life Of Luther, by Stork, page 289).

Our journey of being seekers continues, and our prayer is that we will be kindred spirits of the Bereans. "And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so." (Acts 17:10,11).