It’s 4:45 AM and we’re on our way to the airport. We’ll be meeting with Skip Olson in Detroit on one of the legs of our flight. 26 hours from now, we should be in Jeju Island at the brand new Word of Life Center there.
1945 was a long time ago. In the big scheme of things, that’s when World War II finally came to an end. In another corner of the world, that’s when a young woman named Eva Lodgaard began the adventure that became her life’s work. Recently graduated from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, she had been attending a small congregatio…
We leave in less than 18 hours.After months of prayer and planning, it’s finally time for us to travel to Korea and China. On Friday morning Marlene and I fly to Detroit where we will meet KBM board member Skip Olson who is going with us.This particular trip really started three years ago when our friends at Word of Life Korea asked if I…
A friend wrote with a question I’ve been asked before: “When you write a book, how do you start? Do you start with an idea first and ask God to fill it in or is it kind of the other way around?” He added that he would like to try writing a book whether it gets published or not. How should he begin? Here is the only advice I…
In early 2011 Moody Publishers will release the new edition of An Anchor for the Soul, the short “gospel book” that was first released in 2000. The front cover of the new edition includes a label that reads “Over 500,000 in print,” a number that includes the more than 400,000 copies that we have donated to ministries across …
Yesterday on the radio we asked callers to tell us who Jesus is to them. Not just what they believe in a technical sense but how they had experienced the Lord personally. The very first caller offered a beautiful testimony of what the Lord Jesus had done in his life. After mentioning how messed up he had been, he summed it all up with this one sent…
Several weeks ago Marlene hinted to me that she might buy a Kindle DX for my birthday, and was that something I really wanted? After deliberating for a while, I told her I thought it was a good idea. My main hesitation involved the smaller size Kindle vs. the DX, which has a larger screen (and a correspondingly larger price tag).The box from Amazon…
Over the weekend we remembered that it has been five years since our final service at Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, IL. At the end of all the goodbyes, we knew the Lord was moving us in a new direction. Little did we know that our family was about to expand and that we would eventually become grandparents. We didn’t know about the door…
Of all the questions that trouble the people of God, none is greater than the problem of human suffering. Why do bad things happen to good people? Or why do the wicked prosper while the righteous take it on the chin? Eventually these questions become very personal. Why did my husband leave me after 15 years? Why did God allow my daughter to die in …
In the last decade we’ve received over 10,000 letters from prisoners who received a free copy of An Anchor for the Soul and wrote to thank you. Nearly all those letter are handwritten, sometimes they are quite lengthy, often they ask for more literature, and sometimes they share how the book has helped them come to Christ. Each letter reminds…