A few months ago we opened the Anchor Book Depot in Chicago to give away copies of a simple gospel book called An Anchor for the Soul. This is a continuation of a ministry that started seven years ago. Since then we have given away over 350,000 copies, mostly to prisoners across America. Sometimes the prisoners find the boo …
Evidently the organizers of the Summer Olympics in Beijing are afraid of the Bible because they have put it on the list of prohibited items for Olympic athletes coming from other countries. Here are several articles:The Olympic BibleChina Bans Bibles for Olympic AthletesIn addition, visitors to China are being warned not to …
Last Friday night the Keep Believing board met in Elmhurst, IL. We had two special visitors that evening. Ernie Schulz joined us to talk about the Anchor Book Depot, and Derek Taylor presented a plan for the brand-new Keep Believing website that will be introduced in January. Pictured from left to right around the table are …
I saw what looked like frost on the windows when I woke up this morning. When I stepped outside, it was colder than I expected. Laura just walked by and we decided that it is “wet chilly” this morning, which means the temperature is in the mid-30s with cloudy skies and high humidity. Of course, this is only a harbinger of t …
Tonight we are staying with Grant and Fern Brown at their home in Medford, Wisconsin. For the record, Medford is a beautiful little town in north central Wisconsin, about six hours north of Chicago. To get here we drove from Chicago to Rockford to Madison to Stevens Point to Wassau where you head west until you hit Highway …
Just before we left Tupelo yesterday, I remembered that today is Josh’s birthday. At the moment he and Leah are in China serving as team leaders and English teachers at a Chinese university. And this week his team is visiting another English teaching program in a different province.So with Marlene’s help, I dug …
This morning Marlene and I are driving to Chicago to begin our last major trip of the year. On Friday night we have a Keep Believing board meeting in Chicago, then we drive to Westboro, Wisconsin where I’m speaking on Sunday morning at Woodland Community Church and then taking part in Pastor Grant Brown’s ordina …
This is All Saints Day, one of the finest, most joyful days of the Christian year. It’s the day when we remember and give thanks for all true believers around the world, especially those who have gone before us into heaven. Evangelicals often pay little attention to the Christian year (for various reasons), but this i …
On October 31, 1517 an obscure monk named Martin Luther, desiring to spark theological discussion over the medieval practice of selling indulgences, nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. That happened exactly 490 years ago. The spark he set off ignited a flame that spread across Europ …
I am doing a live interview on KBJS (Jacksonville, TX) from 7:30-8 AM today. Click here to listen live.