Peter Faulkner tipped me off to an amazing website called WorldMap.org. Their goal is simple and yet daunting. They want to create maps showing people groups and languages for each country of world while showing the progress of the gospel in that area. I particularly liked the world map showing the progress of evangelical Christianity in every nati…
Each week we receive an email update from Greg and Carolyn Kirschner, our dear friends who are serving as medical missionaries in Jos, Nigeria during the last half of 2009. I was struck by their comments at the end of the update about the importance of prayer. When questioned about the most important commandments, Jesus basically told his followers…
To put matters in perspective, 24 hours ago I was at Cedar Springs Conference Center in Sumas, Washington. Tonight I’m writing this entry from my office at home in Tupelo, Mississippi. Between then and now I’ve had approximately two hours of sleep, mostly because I had to get up at 3:15 AM to make my flight from Bellingham to Seattle. I…
I’m writing this near midnight from my room at Cedar Springs Lodge in Sumas, Washington. It is a serene place, a hidden jewel that is truly hidden. Sumas (pronounced Soo-Mass, I learned) isn’t exactly a destination. It’s really a little town across the border from Abbotsford, British Columbia. I never got to visit Sumas because we…
This morning I’m starting a long journey that begins in Tupelo and will end late this afternoon in Sumas, Washington. If you’ve never heard of Sumas, well, that’s not surprising because it’s a tiny town located on the northern edge of Washington, just across the border from Abbotsford, British Columbia. To get there I’…
A few years ago we led a tour of the Holy Land and Greece. Everything had gone smoothly until we arrived in the Athens airport. Then it happened. Two members of our group were detained by the Greek customs officials because their passports contained invalid visas. To those who never travel overseas that may not sound serious, but it is. A vi…
Here’s a beautiful version of “Give Me Jesus” recorded by Fernando Ortega as a tribute to Ruth Graham. If you need to steady your soul after a hectic week, watch this video and let its truth wash over your soul….
**I’m writing this note from our hotel room in Birmingham, Alabama. We drove over from Tupelo this afternoon so we could have dinner with Nick and Elizabeth. Tomorrow we plan to visit the Alabama State Fair in nearby Pelham–if it ever stops raining. It seems like we’ve had rain for two weeks, and the current forecast calls for mor…
I am finally back in my hotel room after the most amazing Wednesday night service I’ve ever attended. Earlier this evening I spoke to about 150 people at the Couples Class at Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. As soon as we were finished, Pastor H. B. Charles, Jr (you should check out his blog) hustled me upstairs so…
The other day I received a newsletter in the mail from the First Baptist Church of Russellville, Alabama. That in itself is not a remarkable event since I’ve been receiving those weekly newsletters for 39 years. And I suppose during all that time I’ve never given much thought to it, but each week, regular as clockwork, the First Baptist…