Last week I sent out a sermon called Who is Jesus Christ? In response a friend in Seattle wrote down his thoughts. I foudn them very moving. Who is this person Jesus Christ? It’s as simple a question as it is deep. This is where God took my thoughts on your question. Who is Jesus Christ to me?He is the tissue that wipes away my tears.He …
At the beginning of the weekend, I had a long list of things to do before we left for the Holy Land. Writing this blog entry is the final item on my list. We’ve talked to all our kids, Alan came by and picked up the basset hounds, we’ve packed our bags (mostly because Marlene took charge of that), we have the phone list, the list of fol…
Recently I picked my copy of Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students and happened to open it to a chapter called Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance. The whole essay will repay careful study but I simply call your attention to the first few sentences:If I were asked – What in a Christian minister is the most essential quality for securi…
After my adventure at the dentist yesterday–I got a tooth pulled–I came home feeling pretty rough. Because I couldn’t eat any solid food, Marlene made one of my favorite meals last night, baked potato soup. It’s a recipe she’s had for almost 25 years. And on countless cold winter nights, this comfort food has fed our f…
A few years ago I wrote a book on the Lord’s Prayer called “And When You Pray.” When I finished writing it, I came away deeply impressed with how profound this little prayer is. If someone asks, “What does Christian prayer look like?” the answer is, “It looks like the Lord’s Prayer.” Everything that i…
Next year marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of An Anchor for the Soul. Well over 400,000 copies of that little “gospel book” written in “Wal-Mart English” are now in print. God has allowed us to give away hundreds of thousands of copies to prisoners across America and to soldiers serving in the Armed Forces. Plu…
We had a fantastic weekend at the Fall Foliage Conference at Word of Life in Schroon Lake, New York. The weather could not have been more perfect, and the fall colors were at their peak.Yesterday I happened to meet Drs. Gabriel and Bose Toma, physicians from Jos, Nigeria. When I mentioned that we had visited the ECWA Hospital in Jos and that we kne…
I’m writing this note at 4:58 AM. In about 15 minutes the alarm will go off, meaning it’s time to get up. I’m up before the alarm, something that often happens on travel days. My internal clock wakes me up early and won’t let me go back to sleep. In a little while we’ll drive a mile to get to the Tupelo airport to catc…
This morning we’re interviewing Louie Giglio, founder of the Passion conferences that draw thousands of college students for three days of Bible teaching and life-changing worship. We’ll be talking with Louie about his recently released “Heart of Passion” DVD recently four of his most popular talks: “Indescribable,&rdq…
I was asked recently about Paul’s statement in 1 Corinthians 5:9-11 that there are times when we should not even eat with a sinning believer:I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case yo…