7:04 PM Last year we donated copies of An Anchor for the Soul to the Glory to Thee missionary boat. Recently Scott and Doreen Mahlstedt visited the boat in Florida and sent along this report:Hi Pastor Ray and “Anchor Guys”, While we were in Florida for vacation, we thought perhaps the “Glory to Thee Missionary Boat…
9:50 AM Back home, unpacked, and glad to be home again. Turned out to be a very busy but very rewarding week. Lots of teaching, lots of time spent with key leaders, excellent interaction with the students. Most of the teachers at the BI use overheads or Power Point. I use neither. I give them a 22-page handout that contains…
11:16 PM The snow started falling last night and continued all day long, transforming the campus and the surrounding mountains into a winter wonderland. This afternoon we saw lots of students frolicking in the snow. The BI runs on a hectic schedule during the winter quarter. Students attend classes Tuesday-Friday, then get …
11:19 PM This week’s Christian Carnival is now online. It contains articles from many parts of the Christian blogosphere, including something by yours truly. 10:51 PM Every year at the BI the student body is a little different. I remember one class a few years ago that was very boisterous and demonstrative. That class had s…
10:42 PM End of a long day at the BI. I started by speaking to the staff at 8 AM. I shared from my heart about James 1:19 and some things the Lord has been showing me in my own life recently. Evidently the message had a big impact because Ric Garland told Larry Bollback this evening that the staff had been talking about my …
7:49 PM Greetings from the “Big Chief” cabin at Word of Life Bible Institute on the shore of mostly-frozen Schroon Lake, high in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. We arrived here safe and sound around 4 PM. Jack Wyrtzen (founder of Word of Life) used to stay in this cabin when he spoke at the Word of Life Ra…
A bright yellow banner we purchased in Beijing hangs in my office at the church. We found the banner at a Christian scroll shop tucked away in the “arts district” of Beijing. When we got there, the door was locked but we knocked and the owners let us in. The shop is so narrow that …
Sermon Series: Ponder This - 20055:46 AM Here are two new entries on the Crosswalk weblog: My Late-Night Super Bowl Pick Peter Drucker on Leadership…
1:30 PM Calvary in the news … The Winter 2005 issue of Leadership Journal contains an article called “When Gay Activists Came to Calvary,” based on the various protests and media coverage surrounding our services on September 26 when I preached on The Truth About Same-Sex Marriage in the morning services, and Ste…
7:12 PM Jim Bowman says Oak Park will ban abortion by 2025. I hope he’s right. 1:07 PM Here’s a Christian blog worth checking out: Smart Christian Blog 12:46 PM Today’s entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called Letter to a Gay Man….