Yesterday during my morning message at the Pastors Conference in Oklahoma, I mentioned going “all in” for Jesus. Today the men gave me a CD from Kenny Rogers featuring his song “The Gambler.”I have been to a number of pastors conferences, but I’ve never met a more lively bunch than those guys in Oklahoma. They really …
I just discovered a new blog called PrimeTime Jesus, a group effort featuring key evangelical professors, writers and thinkers who engage the media and the culture about the person and work of Jesus Christ. Key contributors include Darrell Bock, Dan Wallace and Daniel Burer from Dallas Seminary, Craig Blomberg from Denver S …
We have posted a new sermon called Why You Need Your Enemies and Your Enemies Need You—Part 1. Here’s an excerpt:Nothing seems more natural than to hate those who have mistreated us. But here we learn a better way. After I had preached on this topic, a man came to me afterwards and said, “Everything the world says ab …
We are having more and more problems with people not receiving the weekly sermon emails. That’s a growing problem with everyone who uses email both on the sending and receiving end because of the proliferation of spam. Last year spam messages increased by 100%, which anyone can attest by checking your email for fraudu …
This morning I’m on my way to my first-ever speaking engagement in Oklahoma. About a year ago I received an email from Randy Wilson, pastor of Bethany Free Will Baptist Church in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (a suburb of Tulsa) asking if I would speak at the Oklahoma Free Will Baptist Pastors Conference. He became acquainte …
I was thinking recently about some goals for my life, and one of them was that I wanted to do some intentional reading in 2008. I read a lot, all the time really, but not very much of it is what you might call intentional or planned or with a purpose. I’ve always been a “jump reader,” meaning that I jump from one book …
For over a year we have been working on a major overhaul of the Keep Believing website. We started talking about it in February 2007, discussed it in detail last July and again in September, and in November we hired Derek Taylor of Taylor Design Studios to rebuild the KBM website from the ground up. I am glad to report th …
I heard about a Chinese pastor who said he often asks his congregation, “What is the biggest number in the world?” People usually say something like a trillion times a trillion times a trillion. The largest number anyone has ever given a name to is the googolplex. The pastor then points out that the biggest number in the wo …
A pastor told me the following story. It seems that in his congregation there was a very rich man who decided to leave the church because the pastor was preaching through Romans and the rich man thought the book was “too difficult.” He didn’t like the pastor preaching on such a “difficult book” and so he decided it wa …
For those wishing to know more about the church in China, these three books are a good place to begin.Jesus in Beijing by David Aikman Before writing this book David Aikman served as the Beijing bureau chief for Time magazine. If you want the most up-to-date treatment of the Christian movement in China, start with this book …