We are 20 hours into our 28-hour trip from Tupelo to Bangkok. At the moment we are in a two-hour layover at Narita Airport in Tokyo. I believe it’s about 7 PM on Monday but I’m not totally sure about that. The sun has gone down and that’s all I know for sure. At this point in a long trip, you end up feelin …
5:19 AM Sunday. I am writing this note in the darkness of our kitchen because two of Nick’s friends are asleep in the living room a few feet away. I can tell that Gary and Dudley know we’re about to leave for a trip. Those basset hounds are smart dogs. They started following us around yesterday as we were packin …
In twelve hours we leave for the airport to fly to Thailand. In an unusual quirk of scheduling, we can fly all the way from Tupelo, Mississippi to Bangkok, Thailand on Northwest Airlines. Our trip will take 28 hours en route, with stops in Memphis, San Francisco and Tokyo. We change planes in Memphis and San Francisco, but …
A few updates . . .1) We finally made it the conference at Rocky Mountain Renewal at 11:30 PM Monday night.2) That was the first time I have ever missed a speaking engagement because of travel problems.3) The conference center is actually a ranch called Rancho Mira Sol in the mountains outside Durango, Colorado. It is a pla …
At the moment we’re stuck in the Denver airport trying to catch a flight to Durango where I’m scheduled to start speaking at Rocky Mountain Renewal in about four hours. The problem started back in Chicago when a late flight into O’Hare caused the pilots to be late for our flight to Denver, resulting in an …
Today we are at Calvary Baptist Church in Normal, IL, a city in central Illinois on Interstate 55 between Springfield and Chicago. Normal is next to Bloomington, home of Illinois State University. We came at the invitation of Pastor Ralph Wingate, a good friend I met a few years ago. Several times we had lunch in Oak Park w …
We have just posted a new sermon called Trouble in the Church! Here’s an excerpt:Churches sometimes have difficulty getting enough members together to make up a quorum for a business meeting. But there’s one easy way to get far more than a quorum: Announce a moral scandal, a doctrinal controversy or an impending …
This week I received an email from someone I do not know asking for some advice. Recently they left the church they had attended for more than eight years. It wasn’t anything doctrinal and it apparently didn’t have anything to do with worship styles or mode or baptism or a new building program. They left because …
Today I’ve been working on recording the introduction and the closing segments for our brand-new Keep Believing podcast. Even though the total recording time is only 30 seconds for the opening and a little over a minute for the closing, it hasn’t gone as smoothly as you might think.For one thing, I’ve been …
The French edition of The Healing Power of Forgiveness has just been released. It is available fromEditions VidaChemin du Moulin VedelR.N. 113Mas des Rosiers30900 NIMESFrance