This morning Marlene and I are driving to Chicago to begin our last major trip of the year. On Friday night we have a Keep Believing board meeting in Chicago, then we drive to Westboro, Wisconsin where I’m speaking on Sunday morning at Woodland Community Church and then taking part in Pastor Grant Brown’s ordina …
This is All Saints Day, one of the finest, most joyful days of the Christian year. It’s the day when we remember and give thanks for all true believers around the world, especially those who have gone before us into heaven. Evangelicals often pay little attention to the Christian year (for various reasons), but this i …
On October 31, 1517 an obscure monk named Martin Luther, desiring to spark theological discussion over the medieval practice of selling indulgences, nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. That happened exactly 490 years ago. The spark he set off ignited a flame that spread across Europ …
I am doing a live interview on KBJS (Jacksonville, TX) from 7:30-8 AM today. Click here to listen live.
Brian Bill explains why every church should be a House of Prayer.
This morning one of the pastors at Grand Ledge told me about a website called Sleeping in Airports. The site rates various airports on how comfortable they are if you have an layover and have to take a nap. Readers rate various airports worldwide, offering comments and voting for the best and the worst. Readers have voted S …
Before leaving Grand Ledge this morning, I had breakfast with Andrew, Brian and John—the three staff pastors at Grand Ledge Baptist Church. Andrew I have known for 17 years but I just met Brian and John this weekend. The church recently voted to go to a unique three-way co-pastor system in which the three pastors will toge …
Tonight I preached my final message at Grand Ledge Baptist Church. This was the closing weekend of a month-long emphasis on missions. This evening we began with a live video interview via the Internet with a missionary couple serving in Bolivia. This is an example of how technology has made the world smaller. Not many years …
Tonight I am in Grand Ledge, Michigan (just west of Lansing) where I am speaking this weekend at Grand Ledge Baptist Church. Almost seventeen years ago I met Andrew Ford when he was a student at Moody Bible Institute. He and his wife Jill attended Calvary Memorial Church during their student days in the early 90s. After gra …
Peter Odanga handing out An Anchor for the Soul at a prison in KenyaLast night I received a phone call from my friend Peter Odanga, who serves on staff with Word of Life Kenya. I first met Peter about five years ago at the Word of Life Campground in New York. Since then he has married and moved back to his native Kenya. He …