We will never forget last night’s “Celebrate the Nations” concert at the Missions en Fete conference in Montreal. Here is the program (translated into English):Worship by the Reconciliation ChoraleAnnouncements and OfferingChildren’s ChoirCongolese ChoirCambodian ChoirLatino ChoirFilipino ChoirHaitian ChoirChine …
Friday 1:09 PMO’Hare AirportWe were supposed to land in Montreal about 30 minutes ago, but we’re still in Chicago because at 5:30 this morning I suddenly woke up and said to Marlene,”Did we bring the passports with us?” I asked even though I already knew the answer. No, we didn’t bring our passports with u …
This morning I decided to go to Panera Bread to pick up some bagels for breakfast. I ended up coming back with bagels plus a few other goodies, enough for maybe 8 people, certainly more than Marlene and me and Dave and Lynette. But that’s part of the fun. You start looking at the display case and you end up buying mor …
We have just posted a new sermon on the website called If I Believe, Why Do I Doubt? Here’s an excerpt:In times of trouble, keep going back to what you know to be true. When I hit my 50th birthday five years ago, I realized that I believe less now than I did 30 years ago. Back then I thought I had everything totally f …
A few months ago we opened the Anchor Book Depot in Chicago to give away copies of a simple gospel book called An Anchor for the Soul. This is a continuation of a ministry that started seven years ago. Since then we have given away over 350,000 copies, mostly to prisoners across America. Sometimes the prisoners find the boo …
Evidently the organizers of the Summer Olympics in Beijing are afraid of the Bible because they have put it on the list of prohibited items for Olympic athletes coming from other countries. Here are several articles:The Olympic BibleChina Bans Bibles for Olympic AthletesIn addition, visitors to China are being warned not to …
Last Friday night the Keep Believing board met in Elmhurst, IL. We had two special visitors that evening. Ernie Schulz joined us to talk about the Anchor Book Depot, and Derek Taylor presented a plan for the brand-new Keep Believing website that will be introduced in January. Pictured from left to right around the table are …
I saw what looked like frost on the windows when I woke up this morning. When I stepped outside, it was colder than I expected. Laura just walked by and we decided that it is “wet chilly” this morning, which means the temperature is in the mid-30s with cloudy skies and high humidity. Of course, this is only a harbinger of t …
Tonight we are staying with Grant and Fern Brown at their home in Medford, Wisconsin. For the record, Medford is a beautiful little town in north central Wisconsin, about six hours north of Chicago. To get here we drove from Chicago to Rockford to Madison to Stevens Point to Wassau where you head west until you hit Highway …
Just before we left Tupelo yesterday, I remembered that today is Josh’s birthday. At the moment he and Leah are in China serving as team leaders and English teachers at a Chinese university. And this week his team is visiting another English teaching program in a different province.So with Marlene’s help, I dug …