Last October Marlene and I spoke at a Couples Conference at Word of Life Inn in Schroon Lake, New York. Recently the Bible Broadcasting Network asked if they could use those messages as part of their Building Blocks for the Family program. They are broadcasting our first message today at 1:30 PM (Central Time). Click on thi …
When we arrived home last night from our trip to Chicago, Mark and Vanessa greeted us with the good news that Vanessa has been accepted as an incoming student at Dallas Theological Seminary. That means we will have four members of our family moving to Dallas this summer.It happened like this. Sometime last fall Mark began t …
Here’s a slideshow of our visit to Village Bible Church yesterday. If the slideshow doesn’t start automatically, hold down the Crtl button while clicking on Refresh. You can click on each picture to see my comments and then click on Resume Show to go the next picture.Flickr Photo GalleryYesterday we spent most o …
I am doing an hour-long interview with Nancy Turner on WMBI-FM at 10 AM (Central Time) this morning. We are going to do an Open Line conversation with listeners so I hope you will tune in and then call in with your questions and comments. You can hear the program over the Internet by clicking on WMBI-FM and then going to “ …
The Keep Believing board met at 9:30 AM yesterday at the Hoy’s home in Elmhurst, Illinois. We spent most of our time with Derek Taylor talking about the new website and further features we hope to add in the next few months. We plan to focus on ways we can create a Keep Believing community so that people from around t …
Last night we held a home meeting in Oak Park for some friends of Keep Believing Ministries. Mark and Pam Compasio graciously opened their home and we had folks who braved the Friday evening traffic to join us for an evening of fellowship, laughter and encouragement. Here are a few pictures of the evening: We filled up the …
I am writing this note from the basement of Dave and Lynette Hoy’s home in Elmhurst, a western suburb of Chicago. We arrived here on Thursday afternoon in record time—10 hours and 15 minutes. The boys say they can make it in nine hours, but I can’t see how they do it. We ran into some serious rain in southern I …
I just heard on the radio that today is National Siblings Day. In this spirit of this noble occasion, here is a picture of the four Pritchard brothers, taken in 2003 at my brother Andy’s home in Florence, Alabama. Left to right, that’s Ron, Alan, Ray, Andy. Ron lives in Little Rock, AR, Alan and I live in Tupelo …
A few notes, quickly, before going to bed for a few hours . . . 1) After working on my taxes all day, I remembered why I had put it off as long as possible.2) We are still having trouble getting the sermon email delivered. A few weeks ago I mentioned that we were having trouble with AOL treating them as spam and blocking th …
A friend asked me for some advice about how to speak at a funeral for someone you don’t know. That sort of thing happens to pastors occasionally. I can remember a few times speaking at a funeral where my first glimpse of the person was in the casket. Those situations put the pastor in a difficult situation because you …