Tonight I’m in Oklahoma City preparing for a one-day Bible conference tomorrow at Metropolitan Baptist Church. Several years ago I shared the platform at Word of Life with Randy Faulkner, pastor of the church. We struck up a friendship and have stayed in touch ever since. I’m very glad it worked out for me to be here this weekend. …
This morning I’ll be on American Family Radio from 10 AM-12 Noon CDT. In the first hour Kerby Anderson joins us to discuss “A Biblical View of Capitalism and Socialism.” During the second hour we’ll have a trivia contest. When I asked the producer about it yesterday, Cindy was a little vague on the details. So as my co-host …
This morning I’m co-hosting “Today’s Issues” on American Family Radio from 10 AM-12 Noon Central Time. During the first hour our guest will be Gloria White-Hammond talking about the crisis in Darfur as part of Genocide Prevention Month. In the second hour we’ll be talking with Tullian Tchividjian, author of Unfashionab…
The white dots represent evangelical Christians on this map produced by the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, this map shows the distribution of evangelical Christians around the world. You can find a variety of reports from their Global Research Department. This counter records The Unfinished Task. It is a sober…
It’s Sunday morning and I’m sitting in the lobby catching up on my email and other details. In about an hour our family gathers for a final breakfast and then we will go our separate ways. It has been a fine weekend in every way. Yesterday we got Dave and Laura Kate started on their marriage adventure with a beautiful ceremony in the st…
We have come to Rome, Georgia, a beautiful town about an hour northwest of Atlanta, nestled into the rolling hills that will become the Smoky Mountains up around Gatlinburg, further north into Tennessee and North Carolina. We’ve gathered for Dave McKee’s wedding. We have known Dave and his family for a long time, partly because they att…
A few months ago we opened a no-frills section of the website called Recommended Resources. I call it no-frills because there are no pictures or other fancy designs. If you click on the link, you will see what I mean. We have gathered on one page some of our favorite online resources. We start with a section called Bible Study Resources for those p…
We have just posted the report from our recent trip to the Philippines (March 26-April 7). During that time we visited Davao City and Bukidnon on the island of Mindanao and spent several days at at the end of the trip in Manila. We have packed the report with as many pictures as possible.As for the finances, we are grateful for those who gave to ma…
By now the whole inhabited world, by which I mean those who watch TV and follow the Internet, knows about Carrie Prejean who almost became Miss USA the other night but ended up in second place presumably because of how she answered a question from a strange fellow named Perez Hilton about gay marriage. Although Miss Prejean’s answer was not a…
I’m holding in my hands a lovely new book called “Blackberry Bend” by Debbie Hodson. It’s the story of two children who visit their Appalachian grandparents, along the way learning about the value of being rooted in a particular place. The book is beautifully illustrated with watercolor illustrations by Miriam Moyer. If you …