Today I discovered the online rare books collection from Dallas Seminary. Here you can read the text of several hundred books dating as far back as the 1500s. These are actual photo-reproductions of the original text joined with a unique page-turning technology that makes it feel as if you were holding a copy of the book in …
Tonight I broke down and did something I haven’t done in six years of watching American Idol. I picked up the phone and voted for Jordin Sparks. I hope she wins. After tonight’s performance, she certainly deserves it.
Do you remember where you were 25 years ago today—May 22, 1982? I didn’t until I talked with my sister-in-law Betty who told me that she and Andy got married 25 years ago today. I had no idea it had been that long. When Andy got on the phone, I commented that it’s hard to believe that 25 years have passed. “Yea …
This afternoon I did a one-hour radio interview with Kerby Anderson and Carmen Pate on a program called Point of View. Near the end we took a call from a man who said that he struggles with resentment toward others. He asked a very crucial question. “Is there a prayer I could pray that will help me forgive, and if so, how o …
Last Sunday I preached at Calvary Baptist Church in Tupelo on What is a Christian? I actually started thinking about the topic when Al Sharpton stirred up a theological kerfuffle during a debate with atheist Christopher Hitchens. During one exchange he said something that seemed to imply that Mormons don’t believe in …
The big news is that we bought a home in Tupelo this week. Marlene and I are both amazed at how God brought all the pieces together. Because we are here for only a couple of weeks, we wanted to get a contract before we left again. In just a few days . . .We found a realtor we liked,Marlene looked at a lot of homes, andI loo …
I am being interviewed today on Janet Parshall’s America from 3:15-4 PM (CT).
A few days ago Jerry Falwell penned his final “Falwell Confidential” column called Bible History, Prophecy, and World War III. The closing paragraph serves as a good summary of his life:With the world on the brink of pandemonium, it is our responsibility to point people -no matter their heritage, ethnicity or religion – to …
“You can be right about everything all the time or you can have friends. But you can’t do both.”That thought comes from this column by John Armstrong.
Jerry Falwell died today at the age of 73. He will be chiefly remembered for two enormous accomplishments:First, he led the fundamentalist movement out of the wilderness and won for it a seat at the table of public discourse. Looking back, it is hard to remember what things were like 35 years ago. Mainstream evangelicals ha …