A friend asked me for a blog entry on a very important topic:Write a blog entry for me (and everyone who is facing death for someone that they love). Tell me what the Scriptures are that you read in the hospital when someone is dying. Where do we find hope? What gives comfort to the sick and the family? I remember people reading from Revelati…
Next Tuesday night PBS will broadcast a special program called Jesus in China about the amazing growth of the Christian movement in China. The program airs in most places at either 8 PM or 9 PM.…
This Sunday I’m going to be visiting your church for the first time. I’ve heard good things about it, and I’m coming to see for myself. Here are a few things that you might like to know about me before this Sunday: Remember that I don’t know what to expect and am probably a bit nervous about your church. A friendly “Hell…
This is “get ready to hit the road again” week. After a few happy days at home in Tupelo, we are about to begin our summer schedule. Starting this Sunday, we’ll be on traveling more or less nonstop until the middle of August. Here is our schedule:June 23-27 MEF Bible Conference, Colorado Springs, COJune 28-July 5&nb…
Josh and Leah will be leaving China in the next few days to return to the US so that Josh can begin his studies at Dallas Theological Seminary this fall. You can read about their last few days in Nanchang (including some pictures of the students at Blue Sky University and pictures from a recent trip to the Chinese countryside) at their bl…
It’s always a challenge to rightly relate natural disasters like the current flooding in Iowa, Missouri and Illinois to the larger themes of the Bible. Last Sunday Eric Schumacher, pastor of Northbrook Baptist Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, gave a fine sermon called The 500-Year Flood and the Kingdom of Christ. I commend it…
If I have seemed partly distracted for the last week, I blame it mostly on a new program on my laptop computer, the Logos Bible Software Scholar’s Library. Last fall a friend urged me to get this program because, he said, it would make the job of sermon preparation so much easier. After working with Logos for a week, I can see what he me…
I am writing this note at 11 PM, having just arrived back home after a very long day. A little over 12 hours ago, I left Tupelo with B. J. Lundy who graciously agreed to come along for the ride. All told we drove almost 10 out of the 12 hours, from Tupelo in northeast Mississippi, driving almost the full length of the state, all the way to Saraland…
This morning I received the following message from a young man in Uganda:To Dr. RayDear brother in Christ,I am so glad to tell you how much you have blessed and inspired me. I believe the lord is using you to reach to people in different situations, to people like me. I am 19 years old, I love the Lord, I first heard you preach on our local Ch…
After hearing the sad news about the untimely death of Tim Russert, I ran across this comment from Howard Fineman of Newsweek magazine:”Tim Russert Did Not Pursue False Gods, He Pursued the Real One” As far as epitaphs go, that one will do just fine. …