Several months ago we announced plans for a tour to the Holy Land next year. Here’s the latest update:*We’re still planning to go in late October 2009.*We should have brochures ready later this summer.I invite you to join us for this trip of a lifetime. You will see Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Capernaum, Caesarea, Tiberias, Nazareth, Jericho,…
We have just posted a new podcast, a new sermon, and radio interview on Bible prophecy. The podcast is called Think on These Things from Philippians 4:8. Click here to read the print version. The sermon is called By Faith from Hebrews 11:1-2.Last Friday I joined Kerby Anderson on American Family Radio for an hour-long broadcast on Bible prophecy. We …
Last night I happened to watch a few minutes of Tony Evans preaching from Galatians 5:19-24 on the works of the flesh versus the fruit of the Spirit. Near the end he made one point I had never heard before. It begins with the observation that Paul contrasts two different categories:Works of the flesh (v. 19)Fruit of the Spirit (v. 22)Tony noted the…
*Yesterday my new laptop computer arrived. It’s a Micro Express IFL 9025 that got a good review on the PC World website. It’s amazing how far the technology has come since I bought my last laptop 20 months ago. *One thing you forget is how long it takes to set up a new computer. I’ve spent hours last night and today transferr…
A man wrote to say that he had purchased a copy of An Anchor for the Soul to give to his friend “Joe” who lives in a distant state. He and “Joe” have had many conversations about the Lord. Now he plans to send him a copy of the book with a prayer that God might use it in bringing “Joe” to salvation. This is …
Tomorrow I’m speaking three times at two different churches in Tupelo. I’m speaking at the Church at Trace Crossing at 10:30 AM and at Harrisburg Baptist Church at 5 & 6 PM.
A good friend shared with me some of the wisdom he has learned about life lately. He mentioned one thing that stuck in my mind. “No is a complete sentence.” There is life-saving truth in those five words. When faced with various choices, sometimes we get in trouble because we talk too much. Because we want to fit or w…
The phone rang at two minutes after eight this morning. It was Nick calling on a satellite phone somewhere above 13,000 feet on the upper slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. We only talked for a few seconds and then the connection ended. Our intrepid climbers are evidently doing well so far. Marlene discovered that if you have Google Earth, you can not on…
Welcome to the “new” Keep Believing website. I put the word “new” in quotes because most of the site looks exactly as it did before. The weblog is the one page that looks different than before—we have rearranged things to give more prominence to comments from our readers. You now have the ability to sign in using …
Late last night I received an email from Michele Hoekstra saying that our dear friend Heather Bosgraf is having surgery today to remove a tumor at the base of her brain. When we were in Chicago ten days ago, we heard that Heather had not been feeling well, but it didn’t sound serious. “So much has happened today,” Michele said whe…