On the night that I resigned as pastor of Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park in September 2005, God spoke to Tim and Elsa McKee. I didn’t know it at the time, but in retrospect it is clear that God spoke to them as clearly as he ever spoke to anyone. I knew nothing about it because our hearts were filled with emotion …
We have just posted a new sermon on the website called Will We See Our Loved Ones Again? Here’s an excerpt:Many of us have had the sad experience of going to a funeral and paying our final respects to someone we knew and loved in this life. Perhaps you laid to rest a dear husband or a sweet wife. Or perhaps you had th …
The Afrikaans edition of The Healing Power of Forgiveness has just been released. It is available fromChristian Art20 Smuts Ave.PO Box 1599Vereeniging 1930South Africa
For the last few weeks I’ve been devising in my mind my top ten favorite Civil War sites. The only governing rule was that they had to be sites that I’ve actually visited, which rules out many famous places. And they don’t have to be battlefields, just notable places connected to the Civil War. So here is …
Lately I’ve been reading Jon Meacham’s book Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship. I keep coming back to one moment in June 1942 when during a visit to the White House, Prime Minister Churchill received the devastating news that the British garrison at Tobruk on the North African coast …
Last Sunday Mark preached at Trace Crossing Church in Tupelo on The Great Commission: Making Failure Impossible Since A.D. 33. God gave Mark a very encouraging perspective on this familiar passage. Click here to listen online.
Several weeks ago I printed the text of a message called Curing the Itch Mites that Marlene and I shared at the Couples Conference at Word of Life. When Nancy Eckardt of Sheboygan, WI read it, she wrote me this testimony about her marriage of 58 years. I loved it because it is a touching tribute to a godly man who is now in …
We just wrapped our final major trip of the year. This one took us from Tupelo to Chicago to Westboro, WI to Chicago to Montreal to Chicago and back to Tupelo. Here are some key resources we came across on our trip.On our last day in Montreal we met Pastor Joseph Hovsepian, pastor of Temple Baptist Church. He has written fi …
Tuesday 7:24 AMAt the moment we are on I-57 in southern Illinois, somewhere south of Effingham and north of Mt. Vernon. When we landed in Chicago last night, we intended to drive all the way to Tupelo, but after about four hours on the road, we realized that we needed a few hours of sleep. So we checked into a motel at 1 AM …
Twice in our detailed schedule for the weekend, the words “Dodo Time” appear. I had no idea what it meant until Sarah told us that it is an endearing expression that parents use when it is time for their children to go to bed. It is a happy thought, not just going to bed but slipping between the sheets with a smile on your …