Brian Bill explains why every church should be a House of Prayer.
This morning one of the pastors at Grand Ledge told me about a website called Sleeping in Airports. The site rates various airports on how comfortable they are if you have an layover and have to take a nap. Readers rate various airports worldwide, offering comments and voting for the best and the worst. Readers have voted S …
Before leaving Grand Ledge this morning, I had breakfast with Andrew, Brian and John—the three staff pastors at Grand Ledge Baptist Church. Andrew I have known for 17 years but I just met Brian and John this weekend. The church recently voted to go to a unique three-way co-pastor system in which the three pastors will toge …
Tonight I preached my final message at Grand Ledge Baptist Church. This was the closing weekend of a month-long emphasis on missions. This evening we began with a live video interview via the Internet with a missionary couple serving in Bolivia. This is an example of how technology has made the world smaller. Not many years …
Tonight I am in Grand Ledge, Michigan (just west of Lansing) where I am speaking this weekend at Grand Ledge Baptist Church. Almost seventeen years ago I met Andrew Ford when he was a student at Moody Bible Institute. He and his wife Jill attended Calvary Memorial Church during their student days in the early 90s. After gra …
Peter Odanga handing out An Anchor for the Soul at a prison in KenyaLast night I received a phone call from my friend Peter Odanga, who serves on staff with Word of Life Kenya. I first met Peter about five years ago at the Word of Life Campground in New York. Since then he has married and moved back to his native Kenya. He …
Here are some recent articles on China:Anthony Bollback has posted the latest edition of China Clippings.The Christian Post reports on the rising generation of young Chinese worship leaders.Josh and Leah recently visited the Wal-Mart in Nanchang, China. Check out these pictures. It looks like it’s a lot more crowded t …
Here are two pictures from the Couples Conference at Word of Life last weekend. It was a first for us in several ways: our first time to speak at a couples conference, and our first time to teach in a side-by-side dialogue fashion. Marlene told me not to worry, that it would go well, and she was right as she almost always i …
This morning I did an interview with Charlie Engram & Keith O’Neil on KLFC in Branson, Missouri. The program is called “Good Morning, Ozarks.” We were talking about my book Stealth Attack. We started by discussing spiritual warfare in an age of terror and the importance of Christians being ready for the attacks of the …
10:39 AM Albany (NY) AirportIt’s Monday morning and we’re on our way home to Tupelo after a fantastic couples conference at Word of Life. Marlene and I were both nervous going into it—no, that’s not true—I was nervous, she wasn’t, she told me it would go fine, and it did. As we were preparing, it o …