I am writing this note in the Atlanta airport on our way back home from NewSong Fellowship Church in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Most people know that Lancaster is the center of a large Amish community. However, we didn’t see a single horse and buggy. I learned that Lancaster County is home to over 600,000 people. That s …
Last night Jamie and Kris Mitchell took us to see the Lancaster Barnstormers play what turned out to the deciding game in the Atlantic League playoffs. Several years ago some farsighted businessmen banded together to bring minor league baseball to Lancaster. With help from the state and funding from private sources, they bu …
A big Saturday shout out to Linda Hale, Sam and Lovice Nicosia, Bruno Cavenecia, Craig and Megan Hammond, Mike Ferris, Greg Thornton in Chicago, David Woodard in Nashville, Tim and Jen Wolery in Lexington, KY, Dan Crum in KY, July Olic, Delores King, Dave and Marilyn Jensen in Tupelo, Michael Mangini, Tammi Nolt in Lancaste …
Steve Sjogren has written a forthright defense of what might be called pastoral plagiarism. He says that the best communicators in our generation get 70% of their sermon material from other preachers. He also says that it is crazy to suggest that pastors should spend 25-30 hours on their Sunday sermon. The best communicator …
This afternoon I sent a book manuscript by overnight mail to Moody Publishers in Chicago. This particular book started as a sermon I wrote in early February on Asymmetric Spiritual Warfare. When it is published sometime in the first half of 2007, it will be called Stealth Attack. Turning in a book manuscript always comes as …
Ever since the publication of An Anchor for the Soul in 2000, our number one request, received many times from many people, has been for a Spanish version of this simple presentation of the gospel. I am delighted to announce that after years of waiting and praying, the Spanish version has just been released. Here is a pictu …
I’m doing an interview on America’s Wake-Up Call, a nationally syndicated radio talk show, from from 2-3 PM CDT today. You can join the program by calling 800-600-4588 with your comments and questions.
I woke up happy this morning and have stayed that way all day. This happens to be my 54th birthday. That alone is a momentous event—Josh sent me a note the other day reminding me that the “big five four” was coming up. I didn’t know there was a “big five four” until then. I take it as a good sign for the year to come …
7:14 PM I’m no longer stuck in Modesto. At the moment I’m at O’Hare Airport in Chicago (the greatest big city in America, by the way). Coming in from LA, as we descended through a light cloud bank, the sun was shining on downtown Chicago. We flew over Lake Michigan, banked hard to the right so we got a bre …
Brian Bill preached a powerful sermon on Romans 5:1-2 called Making Peace With God.Phil Newton examines Christ’s message to the church at Sardis (Revelation 3:1-6) in his message Dead or Alive?I just posted a sermon on the Holy Spirit called The God We Hardly Know.