I hadn’t planned on addressing this question until I was asked about it recently. My answer is a simple yes.Evangelical Christians are free to vote for a Mormon if they desire. I say this notwithstanding the great gulf between what we believe and what Mormons believe. There are serious and deeply-felt differences between evangelical Christian…
Here is the info on this week’s China broadcasts:Monday, September 17 The Only Thing That Matters (Galatians 5:1-12)"Our hope is in the Lord alone. All that we need comes from him.” Wednesday, September 19 Risky Business (Galatians 5:13-15) “Christian freedom is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin."Friday, September 21…
A few months ago I wrote to a friend not long before her father died. Over the years she had shared her faith with him, but she had no assurance that he knew the Lord. Her dilemma raised an important question. What should we say when a loved one dies and we are not sure about their ultimate destination? Here is an edited version of what I wrot…
A friend who serves in leadership at his church called to talk about some big decisions the leadership team is facing. The details don’t matter except to note that the decisions will have a big impact on my friend and his family and on the church he serves. Several times during the conversation (at least four times, I think) he mentioned the …
A few days ago we received this letter from a chaplain in California who was asking for more copies of Anchor, which we will gladly send.We are happy to know that prisoners in “the hole” are reading Anchor. When you are in isolation, you have lots of time on your hands. We pray that many of those prisoners will come to Christ as a resul…
I am learning many things from Knox, our fine grandson who turned two a few days ago.He was playing with his toys and throwing a ball and singing and running across the room (he does this all at the same time because he is a very smart boy–and busy too) when suddenly he stopped, looked at me, and said, “Wristwatch,” or something v…
Here are four eBooks you can download for free from the Keep Believing website:He’s God and We’re NotIn the Shadow of the Cross And When You Pray Fire and Rain: The Wild-Hearted Faith of Elijah All four books are available in Kindle, Nook and PDF formats. Just download the file you want, hook up your ereader to your comput…
Here are two things I’ve learned (or more accurately, re-learned) about the will of God recently:1. No one else can make your decisions for you.2. No one can guarantee how things will turn out.Last week before we accepted the offer on our home in Tupelo, and as we pondered our own future, I told Marlene that I realized I really wished two thi…
This was in our attic.More accurately, this is part of what was in our attic.Now that we have sold our home in Tupelo, the packing has started in earnest. While Marlene worked on the guest bedroom, I started hauling things down from the attic. After watching many episodes of “Storage Wars,” I was hopeful of finding something extremely v…
People are easily distracted.Preachers need to remember that.During my years pastoring three different churches, I discovered it was easy to get the attention of people in the congregation, but it was almost impossible to hold that attention for very long. We would announce some great new initiative, and for fifteen minutes it was like the second …