Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 3, “The Man of Macedonia.""A student on emerging from the Seminary sometimes experiences a chilling surprise. The world does not seem glad that another laborer is now ready to enter the vineyard.""What shall the young man do? He cannot d…
*I’m writing this note at 11:45 PM on Friday night. In just a few hours I’ll be on my way to the SIM Missionary Village in Sebring, Florida. It’s a lovely spot established for missionaries who have returned to the States after 30 or 40 or 50 years on the mission field. I’m the speaker for their Bible conference that starts o…
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 2, “A Mirror for Ministers.""Probably no other man in the town is subjected to such a constant stream of criticism as the minister, and possibly no other man profits so little by criticism as he.""Those who make the fiercest onslaughts o…
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 1, “Wherefore All This.""Ministers as a body are I think the best men living on the earth.""But ministers to be as good as other classes of men must be better than they. No other set of men make such assumptions or bind themselves to suc…
In 1898 Charles Edward Jefferson became the pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in Brooklyn, New York. He stayed as pastor for 33 years of fruitful growth and expanding ministry. He had the “longest run on Broadway” of any of the church’s pastors. During his time thousands of people packed the sanctuary every Sunday to hear him prea…
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 …