This morning we are on the road again. This time we’re heading to New Jersey, more specifically to Whiting, New Jersey, about an hour east of Philadelphia, a few miles west of Toms River. We’re heading that direction for the Memorial Weekend conference at America’s Keswick, a beautiful and historic Bible conference center that is …
What will the evangelical churches do in response to the rising tide of the gay rights movement in our society? There is no use denying that long-held attitudes are changing in our culture. Is anyone out there prepared to guarantee that we won’t have gay marriage in every state in the next fifteen years? It might not happen, but that’s …
Here’s a video to stir your heart and prepare you for the day ahead. As you watch this video, sing along if you know the words. I found it uplifting to watch the vast crowd singing along with Darlene Zschech and the Hillsong praise team….
“Don’t tell God how big your monsters are; tell your monsters how big your God is.”…
Over the weekend we finalized plans for our first-ever Keep Believing Friendship Banquet on Thursday, October 1 in Chicago. In the weeks to come we’ll give you more details about the who, what, when and where, and how you can make your reservations. But for the moment just hold that date–October 1–for our Friendship Banquet.
In January I started my plan to read the entire Bible in 2009. That’s a worthwhile project but it is also a daunting endeavor. My particular version of the Bible has 1913 pages. Plus it contains 66 books written by many different authors over roughly a 1500 year period. And many parts of the Bible seem remote to life in the 21st century. So w…
The Digital Bible Society has just released an amazing CD called Chinese Treasures 5.0 containing 177 different Bible, books and other Bible study resources available free of charge. They will send you a CD free along with the permission to copy it for the purpose of giving it to Chinese-speaking friends around the world. Best of all, this CD is co…
A friend wrote a note saying that she was copying this part of my sermon What If and taping it on her computer as a reminder to pray for others:
A friend sent me this over the weekend and I thought I would pass it along. It’s not the whole story about being a pastor, but it’s definitely part of the story. Here’s another reason to pray for your pastor:This soul-weariness shines through a few lines of sarcasm one minister wrote in his journal: “If I wanted to drive a m…
I’m writing this update from a meeting room at our hotel in suburban Chicago. At the moment the KBM board (minus Peter Faulkner and Alan Pritchard who couldn’t be with us) is in the middle of our afternoon session. We’re a little behind schedule, mostly because we’ve had such excellent discussions that we didn’t want t…