Check out Steve Tanner’s 25 Days of Christmas Music. Here is his explanation: Starting December 1 through December 25, I’ll be posting a new song each day that you can download, no strings attached. It’s all FREE, FREE, FREE! Songs will be in MP3 format — so you can listen via any media player or your iPo …
Mark has posted some new pictures from China. Josh has posted pictures of Thanksgiving at the cabin. Look for the November 28 entry.Andy McQuitty’s weekly note references something I wrote about the date of Jesus’ birth and draws some helpful application. Ryan Whitley writes a blog called Just One More.Check out …
Tim Keller explains how to preach hell in a tolerant age. If we are going to faithfully preach the gospel, we must preach about hell to people who don’t want to hear about it. The loss of the doctrine of hell and judgment and the holiness of God does irreparable damage to our deepest comforts—our understanding of God& …
This morning I am speaking at the Birmingham Baptist Pastors Conference. Each year the Southern Baptists set aside time for their January Bible Study, focusing on different books of the Bible. Last year it was Nehemiah; this year it is the letters of John, known in the English Bible as 1 John, 2 John and 3 John, generally r …
“The sin underneath all our sins is the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and that we must take matters into our own hands.” Martin Luther
Here is the sermon I preached last Sunday at Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan: Don’t You Believe in Miracles?
I’m sitting at my desk looking out the window at the lake next to our cabin. The rising sun fills the tops of the trees, chasing away the darkness. The sky is clear-blue with not a cloud in sight. And there is no wind to speak of. A clear, calm, cool morning in northeast Mississippi. A little while ago I drove down t …
Just in time for Thanksgiving Anthony Bollback has posted the November edition of China Clippings, focusing this month on the burgeoning Back to Jerusalem movement. Thousands of Chinese Christians have dedicated themselves to carrying the gospel outside China, through the Muslim countries to the west, all the way back to Je …
Phil Miglioratti of the National Pastors Prayer Network took last week’s sermon on The Agape Factor and turned it into a unique concept called Uncommon Prayer—The Twelve Stations of Love.. This is an excellent example of how preaching and corporate prayer can complement each other. By the way, recently Phil was inter …
This has been one of the satisfying days of my pastoral ministry. It all started twenty-three years ago when I became the pastor of Northeast Bible Church in Garland, Texas. The church was a year old when Marlene and I moved from Downey, California to Garland where I became the first pastor of the new church. For the few we …