If you live anywhere near Tupelo, MS, you are invited to our first-ever KBM Friendship Gathering this Thursday (January 21) from 7-9 PM at the home of Bert and Danna Duncan, 1876 Pecan Grove in Tupelo. This is a home version of the Friendship Banquet we had in Chicago in October. We’ll start with some refreshments, then we’re going to h…
A friend alerted me to an article by R. T. Kendall called ’God Told Me’ . . . Really? that says something I’ve thought for a long time but have never been able to put into words. Kendall is talking about tendency of evangelicals in general (and charismatics in particular) to say “God told me” when they think they have …
Heavenly Father, we come to you, O Lord, because you are the Almighty God and nothing is too hard for you. We come because you are the maker of heaven and earth, and you hold each of us in your hand. We come because you have told us we can come, and in Jesus Christ the way is now open to pour out our hearts to you. Father, my friend has wandered fa…
Over a year ago we organized a China Task Force to begin work on translating my sermons in Chinese so that KBM could reach the 1.1 billion Chinese-speaking people around the world. It turned into a very complicated project involving many technical issues regarding how to properly display Chinese characters on a website built for the English languag…
By now everyone has heard about the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti around 5 PM on Tuesday. At this writing no one knows the full extent of the damage. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called it a catastrophe of “biblical” proportion. That seems like an apt description for the earthquake that struck the poorest nation in the …
On Christmas morning our whole family gathered in the living room to open presents. By long tradition Nick picks out the gifts under the tree and arranges them in piles by each person. We then take turns opening one present at a time. This year that took a little while because there were seven of us–Ray, Marlene, Josh, Leah, Mark, Vanessa, Ni…
In November John Piper visited Angola Prison in Louisiana. Long considered one of the most violent prisons in America, it has been transformed in recent years under the leadership of Warden Burl Cain. His motto is, “I will be as nice as they let me, as mean as they make me be.” You can read more about what God is doing at Angola Prison …
I had breakfast with a friend who told me that working in the church is like “moving the elephant.” He explained that moving an elephant can be quite difficult, especially if the elephant doesn’t want to be moved. You can get in front and pull on the trunk or you can stand behind and push with all your might. Eventually if you pul…
A wise man gave me some advice on how to make good decisions:Don’t ask, “Lord, what do want me to do?” or “Where do you want me to go?"Instead you should ask, “Who do you want me to go with?"Most of the time the “who” matters more than the “what” or the “where.” Not that …
On Sunday Brit Hume made headlines when he said that Tiger Woods needs to convert from Buddhism to Christianity because Buddhism doesn’t offer forgiveness and redemption from sin. As a simple statement of fact, that happens to be entirely correct. Buddhists don’t believe in “sin” in the sense that “all have sinned and …