I am writing this note on Sunday evening from our room at Cannon Beach Conference Center on the Pacific Coast of Oregon. We’re here for a Senior Adults Conference that starts on Monday night and runs through Thursday morning. Coming back to Cannon Beach reminded me of something I heard here this summer.I was having a conversation with the fat…
This week we have added a brand-new Resources section to the Keep Believing website. Right now it’s pretty plain vanilla and it’s buried at the bottom of the page, next to the buttons for “Contact Us,” “About Us” and “Donate.” I think we’ll eventually move it up higher so people can find it easi…
Overnight I received the following message:Thank you so much for your online material. I was just speaking with a friend about having trouble forgiving a family member. That exact family member ended up coming to work at my location. I knew when I saw them God was speaking to me to deal with my own heart and let go of the hurt, anger and …
Mark Driscoll has a powerful word about the “curious paradox” of the cross:The curious paradox of the atoning death of a bloody Jesus rising above the plane of human history with a mocking crown of thorns is that he is offensive in an attractive way.It is the utter horror of the cross that cuts through the chatter, noise, and nonsense o…
We have just posted this morning’s “Fire Away” interview on “The Bible and money.” We had a very lively hour that began with a discussion (with co-hosts Tim Wildmon and Marvin Sanders) about last night’s vice-presidential debate. We dissected that for a bit and then Tim asked me to summarize what the Bible says ab…
From 10-11 AM Friday I am doing a nationwide radio interview on “Fire Away,” a monthly discussion program on American Family Radio. This month’s topic will be, “The Bible and Money,” a timely topic in light of the current economic mess. To hear the broadcast, go to the American Family Radio site and click on “Lis…
If you want to feel good about America in these troubled times, check out this video called Hero. I’ve never seen anything quite like it.I wanted to stand up and cheer when it was over. …
Are you in the center of God’s will for your life? The answer is no because there is no such thing as the “center” of God’s will.The Bible never talks about the “center” of God’s will. That’s an expression we’ve made up to describe a perfectionistic view of life that no one this side of heaven c…
Check out the brand-new blogroll on the left-hand side of this page. Scroll down past the five main buttons, then Authors, then Popular Topics, and then you come to Blogroll. At the moment there are almost 60 different blogs listed. Here are a few quick notes:1. I have tried to include blogs from many different parts of the evangelical world.2. I d…
Check out this video by Andrew Peterson. You’ll never read the story of Abraham offering his son Isaac in the same way again. (HT Brian Bill)…