Several weeks ago Paul Bubar asked if I would speak last Wednesday night at a church about an hour north of Word of Life. During the drive to the church, Paul and I talked about his fifty years of service with Word of Life. At one point he mentioned that in the early 70s, he had invited Dr. Lee Roberson, noted pastor and founder of Tennessee Temple…
If your heart needs some encouragement, check out this YouTube video of David Phelps singing “No More Night.” …
Check out Comfort Cafe, “an ezine and resource center offering women facing difficult life challenges hope, help and healing.” This month’s theme is “coping with divorce.” Ruth Wood, the editor, told me they are featuring three of my messages. …
All week long, at the beginning of every class session on Galatians, I haev been repeating this statement:When we are wrong about the gospel, two terrible things happen:Sinners are not saved, andGod is not glorified.That’s the heart of the message of Galatians. We can’t afford to be wrong about the gospel.Today when I finished my final …
Yesterday during the second hour I recruited two students to help me explain the difference between the law and the promise in Galatians 3:17-18 because it’s not the easiest concept to understand. What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the p…
This week I finally decided to start Twittering. Note the capital “T” because Twitter refers to the latest and greatest social networking craze. If you Facebook, think of Twitter as the status line at the to of the page that tells what you are doing at the moment. When you Twitter, you write down (in 140 characters, words and spaces) wh…
Today I taught through Galatians 2:11-3:14 to my very enthusiastic class of students at Word of Life Bible Institute in New York. Besides all the obvious benefits of teaching students, I enjoy going through Galatians year after year because this little book (only six chapters—you can read it in 30 minutes or less) is filled with spiritu…
We finished a great first day at Word of Life Bible Institute . . . This morning I taught from 10 AM-1 PM, covering Galatians 1:1-2:10 in three fifty-minute sessions . . . To me it feels bitterly cold here . . . At the moment the temperature is around 5 degrees . . . But the students pointed out that it was -31 last Thursday night . . . We are in P…
By the time you read this we will be on the road again, this time to upstate New York. Our trip takes us from Tupelo to Columbus, Mississippi where we fly to Atlanta, change planes, and then fly to Albany, New York. Someone will pick us up and drive us 75 miles north to Pottersville, home of Word of Life Bible Institute. Tomorrow I start my first o…
We would like to invite you to join the KBM prayer team. Here’s what you need to know. As God continues to open new doors, we feel the need to build a strong base of praying friends who will uphold us in prayer. We know that many people pray for us already. Now we want to go to the next step of giving those friends regular updates so they wil…