After the service tonight, we attended a get-together at the home of Wayne & Ruthie Lewis. Near the end Wayne asked Don Lough to share his vision for the future of Word of Life. In three years Don will become the new Executive Director of the worldwide ministry of Word of Life. During his talk Don shared that when he was named to succeed J…
Twenty-four hours ago we were in Colorado Springs. Tonight we are at beautiful Word of Life Inn in Schroon Lake, New York. As Jack Wyrtzen liked to say, we are high in the Adirondack Mountains, north of Albany and south of Lake Placid. I first came to Word of Life in the summer of 1971 when I was a student at Tennessee Temple College in Chattanooga…
I am writing this note at 10:54 PM from our hotel room in Colorado Springs. We just returned from the final service of the MEF Bible Conference. Tonight we heard a deeply moving message on forgiveness from Tom Eliff and then Erwin Lutzer spoke on “Is God On America’s Side?” Plus we had music by Russell Newport,John Hall, Scott Cam…
Today I had the unique pleasure of giving my testimony at the MEF Bible Conference in Colorado Springs. It was unique because this year for the first time, they are asking the speakers to take a few minutes to share how they were saved. It was unique in another, deeper sense. Although I came to faith in Christ 39 years ago, I have rarely told …
Tonight at 9 ET (8 CT) PBS is running a special called Jesus in China. The show feature Chicago Tribune bureau chief Evan Osnos as he investigates the amazing growth of the Christian church in China. Check out this story he wrote called Jesus in China: Life on the Edge. The article includes this very impressive audio slideshow. Because the church i…
The MEF Bible conference always begins with a Monday seminar that runs from 9 AM-3:15 PM. Yesterday 500 people gathered in a local hotel for the seminar. Carol Kent spoke twice and held us spellbound with the story of how their son was convicted and sent to prison for first-degree murder. You can read about it in her book When I Lay My Isaac Down. …
We’re up early this morning because we’ll be traveling all the day, partly because we’ve got a long way to go and partly because there is no quick way to get from Tupelo to Colorado Springs. All week long we (I mean Marlene mostly) have been packing and getting things ready for this first leg of our summer conference schedule…
On June 4 I wrote an entry called We Need Another Miracle, Lord about our dear friend Heather Bosgraf who had surgery that day to remove a tumor at the base of her brain. Though the surgery was successful in removing the tumor, she never fully regained consciousness. An MRI late last week showed that the cancer was spreading and had returned to the…
If you are looking for updated and reliable news about the the persecution of Christians around the world, check out these websites: Christian Monitor, Compass Direct, Voice of the Martyrs, Christian Freedom International, Persecution.org, Persecution Blog …
Today I discovered a website called Wordle that takes any text (long or short) and creates a “word cloud” that gives greater prominence to the most frequently used words in the text. Here is the Wordle for An Anchor for the Soul: …