Last year I discovered a daily email called Of First Importance that each day sends a free email to your inbox that contains a quotation from a classic Christian writer relating to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Think of it as a kind of spiritual Vitamin B12 for the soul. Many days I find the quote is just what I need to focus my heart on the Lord Jes…
When we moved the KBM website to a new server a few weeks ago, we temporarily lost the ability to add video the website. I’m happy to say that we now have video capability, which we plan to use in greater ways in the future. Back when we were trying various ways to add video, I found a video clip of Billy Graham preaching in Madison Square Ga…
On June 20 the Bible Broadcasting Network carried a message called Angry Man Alert that I gave at the Word of Life Couples Conference last October. After it aired we received a number of phone calls and emails asking for copies of that message. Starting in three weeks we will begin podcasting all the messages from the Couples Conference …
Happy days are here again . . . 1) Marlene and I arrived in Tupelo about 3:30 PM, wrapping up a sixteen-day trip that took us to Colorado, New York and North Carolina. We are tired tonight and grateful for the open doors for ministry that God gave us as we traveled. When we woke up this at 5:30 AM this morning in Cary, NC, Marlene smiled and said, …
The answer is, nothing has happened except that I haven’t sent one out in about two weeks, mostly because we’ve been on the road. In looking back I realized that for the last two years, I’ve taken a break from the weekly sermons during part of the summer because that’s my heaviest travel schedule of the year. This year I&rsq…
I just discovered an apparently unending Bible quiz game called BibleApps. When a verse from the King James Version pops up, you have 30 seconds to decide which of three books of the Bible it comes from. You can check your scores against other players, and discover your rank, all the way from “Bible Noob” to “Front Pew,” to …
“He who looks upon sin merely as a fiction, as a misfortune, or as a trifle, sees no necessity either for deep repentance or a great atonement.He who sees no sin in himself will feel no need of a Saviour. He who is conscious of no evil at work in his heart, will desire no change of nature. He who regards sin as a slight affair will think a fe…
8:03 AM At the moment we are sitting at the Delta terminal at Kennedy Airport in New York waiting for our flight to Raleigh, NC. This is the final stop on our trip that began two weeks ago when we left Tupelo for the MEF Conference in Colorado Springs (that seems like a long time ago) and then on to Schroon Lake in upstate New York for a very busy …
Tonight I met a pastor who shared a thoughtful insight with me. Sometimes in our attempt to reach out to the prodigals we know, we can intervene too soon. Do remember what happened to the prodigal son in Luke 15? After he had wasted all his inheritance in wild living, he ended up feeding the pigs. As Eugene Peterson puts it, “He was…
We are having a busy, productive week at Word of Life in upstate New York. During my morning sessions I decided to preach from 1 Corinthians 13. It has been personally challenging to meditate on phrases such as love “does not envy, does not boast, is not proud, is not rude, does not seek its own, and is not easily provoked.” On Monday I…