Jim accepted the responsibilities of Senior Pastor at Lake in 1990 when the church was then meeting in a local junior high school. He and his wife, Olsie, have two daughters, Kristi and Juli, both married.
Though some think of Jim as a cerebral preacher, he is not your typical academic. True to his down-to-earth "country roots," he comes to the pulpit with a dead-on, look-you-in-the-eye, tell-it-like-it is prophetic style that never hesitates to go toe-to-toe with the conscience. As he himself describes his preaching philosophy, he strives in the pulpit "to herd biblical truth and the issues of life into violent collision at the intersections of the mind and heart." Jim models that old adage that sees the preacher's job as "comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable." He candidly explains that his ministry is not for "navel gazers, but for star gazers."
"This pulpit" he emphasizes, "is for those who are seeking to look up, to study God, to know Him, to understand His ways and His will and then to do it."
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