This morning I met with these men at Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles. After eating breakfast together, we spent 2 1/2 hours talking about preaching. In the photograph the man to my immediate right (in the striped shirt) is Pastor H. B. Charles, Jr. It was at his invitation that I came to Los Angeles this …
I just found a helpful Bible study website called Biblos.com that offers a simple way for you to compare many different Bible translations of a particular verse. This morning I’m working on a sermon on Mark 8:22-26. Just type in, say, Mark 8:23, and the verse pops up in 13 different translations. Plus it offers numero …
Recently I came across a website based in Australia called JesusChristOnly.com. It is a remarkable because it is focused exclusively on one person—Jesus Christ. Everything on the website is meant to help the reader know who Jesus is and how to know him personally. I heard about it through one of the men running the site, P …
This Sunday I’m preaching at Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California where H. B. Charles, Jr. is the pastor. He is one of my favorite pastors in America and has been for several years. I say that even though we have never met in person. Back when I was pastoring in Oak Park, he somehow found me …
At 6:30 AM I posted the following announcement: “I’m doing a radio interview on WBCL in Ft. Wayne, Indiana from 8-9 AM CDT. Click here to listen live.” We were supposed to be talking about Stealth Attack, my book on spiritual warfare.But when the time came, I didn’t get a call from the radio station. When I pick …
10:24 AM PDTSan Francisco AirportWe made it back to the USA and now are waiting for our flight to Memphis and then the flight to Tupelo. We left Bangkok about 18 hours ago and will be home in about 8 more hours. We are tired but very happy to be back in the United States. Few things in life are as sweet as when the immigrat …
By the time you read this, we will be somewhere in the air over the Pacific Ocean. We leave Thailand on Tuesday at 6 AM, which is 6 PM Monday in Tupelo. So with the time change and the 28-30 travel time, we should be somewhere in the air when you read this entry.Let me add one final note about our trip. On Sunday I preached …
Last Wednesday we visited the Bangkok Women’s Prison, an enormous facility holding 5500 inmates. The women live in very close quarters, in stifling heat, many of them sentenced for breaking Thailand’s extremely strict drug laws. Conditions are difficult, to say the least. For at least 30 years Lourdes Holmes has …
6:55 AM SundayBack in BangkokWednesday-Friday we traveled to a resort near the mountains in the rain forest east of Bangkok to help train 250 Christian workers from Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam for the L.I.F.E (Learning Intensive Free English) camp being held at the same location next month. These 250 counselors wil …
Somewhere east of BangkokIn the Rain forestHot and Muggy—Unbelievably hot and muggy and stickyStill having a wonderful time in Thailand . . . Feel like we’ve come to the front lines of the Christian movement . . . Such a privilege to speak to these servants of the Lord who have just incredible zeal . . . Most are und …