I am writing this note very late at night–at least it feels very late to me. Even though it’s only 11:21 PM here in Oregon, that feels like 1:21 AM because part of me is still on Tupelo time. We’re having a wonderful time at Cannon Beach Conference Center this week. Soon after we arrived on Saturday afternoon, there was a knock on…
By the time you read this, we will on the road for our last major conference of the summer. This time we’re heading west and north, all the way to the Pacific Coast of Oregon, to spend a week at Cannon Beach Conference Center. When I say we’re going to the coast, I mean it literally. You couldn’t be much closer to the Pacific Ocea…
I opened my email yesterday and received this from my good friend Tom Davis, Academic Dean of Word of Life Bible Institute.He titled his email “Thinking of you!” which made me smile. Always glad when my friends see my name on a tombstone and think of me. Then there was that part about “Hope all is well!” Ah yes, all is well …
This letter from a prisoner in Mississippi arrived just before Father’s Day. It warmed my heart because Kevin’s life has obviously been impacted by reading An Anchor for the Soul. Letters like this keep us fired up about giving away copies of this little “gospel book.”…
*Last night I spent an hour talking with Peter Wang in China via Skype. As you can tell from the picture, he was wearing a brand-new Keep Believing t-shirt that we sent over from the States. For over three years Peter has been preaching my sermons to the house church he pastors. Only he doesn’t just preach my sermons directly. He studies the …
In a fascinating article published this week, Tom Hayes and Michael S. Malone argue that we have entered the era of the “ten-year century,” by which they mean that the pace of life has so rapidly accelerated that what used to happen in a century now happens in a decade. Changes that used to take generations—economic cycles, cultur…
I ran across this fine quote from Charles Spurgeon courtesy of our friends at Of First Importance:”The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. I can hear their trampings now as they traverse the great arches of the bridge of salvation. The…
You’ve probably never heard of David Platt. I hadn’t either until our son Nick told me about this amazing pastor at this amazing church attends in Birmingham called the Church at Brook Hills. After listening to several podcast sermons, I got a good idea why Nick likes the church so much. And now Christianity Today Online has published a…
Ten weeks from today we’re flying to Israel on the Keep Believing Holy Land Tour. You could be on the plane with us as we fly from Chicago to Istanbul and on to Tel Aviv. We’ll spend the first night in Netanya on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, then we’ll spend the next several nights in Tiberius on the Sea of Galilee. Then we…
Here’s the fourth thing you need to know about KBM:4. We encourage people everywhere to keep believing. Sometimes it’s hard to keep believing.I remember saying that–in an off-the-cuff manner–at a KBM board meeting several years ago. It happened at the end of a planning retreat, as I was giving my final comments just bef…