White House Press Secretary Tony Snow reflects on Cancer’s Unexpected Blessings. Here is an excerpt:The moment you enter the Valley of the Shadow of Death, things change. You discover that Christianity is not something doughy, passive, pious, and soft. Faith may be the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of th …
The following story comes from my friend Dave Burchett. It seems that a young pitcher for the Texas Rangers had just been called up from the minors. He got his big chance because he had shown a fearless ability to throw strikes no matter who was at the plate. Finally the night came when he was going to pitch in the major le …
Let’s suppose you’re a pastor and you’re preaching this Sunday. That’s six days away. To the man or woman in the pew, that seems like a long time, but it’s not. Perhaps you’ve heard of the Preacher’s Calendar. It goes like this . . .MondayTuesdaySundayThat’s the way it feels t …
We have just posted a sermon called In God’s Waiting Room: Lessons From the “Down Times” of Life. Here’s an excerpt:Here’s an insight you may never have considered. When God puts us in a position of waiting on him, the answer almost always surprises us. Consider the situation in Acts 1. The Lord Jesus told …
Mark and Vanessa—the day before the wedding Practicing in the Gazebo Marlene and Maria (Vanessa’s mother) being seated.Sarah (Vanessa’s sister) and Nick entering the gazeboPanoramic view of the wedding Mark and Vanessa at the receptionThese are not the official wedding pictures. Those won’t be available …
Congrats to Digitrail Blaze for winning the Inspirational Blogger Award.
We received this note from a woman in Hong Kong:I wanted to let you know that I have given your book, Anchor for the Soul, to several inmates in prison here in Hong Kong. I have been visiting prisoners since moving back to Hong Kong last year and have been blessed by it. I visit those with no family—-a Vietnamese (in for m …
We are still in California. After leaving Merced on Monday afternoon, Marlene and I plus Josh and Leah and Nick traveled east, passing through Yosemite National Park for a three-day stay at Mammoth Lakes, a renowned ski area in the winter and a biking, hiking, mountain climbing, skateboarding vacation spot during the summer …
Robin Brooks, a missionary serving in New Zealand, sent me the following story:Tracey is a university student in New Zealand. She claimed to be an atheist, but had some very unusual life goals. One of them was to attend a church sometime in her life. In February, a week before university started, Tracey advertised for a &ld …
Things are winding down in California. Most of the people who flew in for the wedding have left already. We’re hitting the road ourselves in another hour or two. Late last night as I crawled into bed, dead tired, I thought about how impossibly crammed the last four days have been. Our wedding trip has been an unqualif …