Here is John Piper’s plea to President Obama to turn away from his support for abortion. This is powerful, prophetic preaching at its best. I am posting it today in light President Obama’s commencement address at Notre Dame tomorrow. …
In just a few minutes Marlene and I will be driving to Memphis to catch a flight to Chicago for the Keep Believing board retreat that begins tonight. This is the fourth time we’ve met together like this. In June 2006 the board came to Tupelo for a weekend retreat. That was back when we lived in the cabin in the woods, and we were so far out i…
The other day Marlene was chatting with a friend who asked her for some biblical help regarding a question she had. She wanted my wife’s insight because she had asked her boss and wasn’t satisfied with her boss’s answer. Her boss told her, “It’s like the Bible says, ’Birds of a feather flock together.’…
When I started my final message at Living Waters this morning, I commented that it seemed like I had just gotten there. Which, of course, was true given my travel problems on Monday. During the 30 hours or so I spent at Living Waters, I preached four times and enjoyed meeting some old friends and making some new ones. Camp Director Roger Black…
Here are a few pictures I took with my iPhone this morning and just before supper….
Good morning from the First Settlers Lodge in Weston, Maine. By God’s grace I managed the four-hour drive from Portland in reasonably good shape. Very grateful for satellite radio because that kept me awake. I was basically “flying low” once I left the interstate and drove through Lincoln. I think I passed 3 vehicle in the other l…
Detroit Airport5:43 PM It’s been a long day already and I’m not yet in Maine, though I should have landed in Bangor two hours ago. My troubles started before the trip when the computer wouldn’t let me choose seats. In Memphis the folks at the counter had trouble finding my reservations, and then they couldn’t assign seats eit…
I’m writing this note–hurriedly–from the Cincinnati airport. So far I have completed two legs of a five-leg journey that started at 4 AM in Tupelo and will end in Danforth, Maine this evening. By then I’ll be at Living Waters Bible Conference, a lovely spot on the eastern edge of Maine, just across the lake from New Brunswic…
Yesterday I happened across these three quotes that stuck in my mind . . .“If God used only perfect people, nothing would ever get done.” Rick Warren“When the tide goes out you find out who has been swimming naked.” Warren Buffet“I am trying to be a super hero. Thank God He already sent us a Savior so that I can …
This afternoon Marlene and I talked to Nancy Magnusson on the telephone. She and Kent have been dear friends since we met them soon after moving to Oak Park 20 years ago. Over the years we got to know them in many different ways. Kent served on the board of Oak Park Christian Academy, and he and Nancy spent untold hours helping the school go forwar…