Currently Marlene and I are reading through Isaiah together. Our practice is that one of us reads a chapter and the other prays. Today Marlene read Isaiah 42 and I prayed. As she read the chapter, verse 8 caught my attenion. “I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else.” There are many simi …
We have just posted a new sermon called Inside the Wedding Ring. Here’s an excerpt:I do not tire of quoting Jess Moody who said that people choose a church with their noses. They can smell the joy.That’s as good a summary as I’ve ever heard. People can smell the joy on Sunday morning. And they can smell th …
This afternoon I taped a radio interview regarding the spiritual warfare aspects of the shootings at Virginia Tech. You can hear the interview on WINA (Charlotteville, VA) this Saturday between 6-9 AM EDT on the morning program with Jay James.Tomorrow morning I am doing a live interview on the same topic on WFLA (Orlando, F …
Yesterday I was asked during a radio broadcast why bad things happen to good people. I answered by saying that no one really knows the answer to that question, that the best minds in history have grappled with the problem of evil, and that we can’t draw a straight line from our knowledge to a troubled young man with t …
This morning I received an email from someone in Virginia who has been reading Stealth Attack. As part of her message, she quoted a passage that I wrote a few months ago. It speaks to the Satanic nature of evil that has been let loose in the world.”I recently purchased your book Stealth Attack and Sunday night I read a bit …
The Chinese version of The Incredible Journey of Faith has just been released. For other Chinese translations, click here and here.
Yesterday Marlene and I had a wonderful time at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. I grew up in that area so it was a sort of homecoming for me even though I didn’t know most of the people in the congregation. Pastor Ron Ethridge is a personal friend so we felt enormously welcomed from the momen …
Tomorrow morning I am preaching at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. This is a special treat for a number of reasons. Muscle Shoals is only a few miles from Russellville, the small town in northwest Alabama where I grew up. Back in the late 60s, when we wanted to take our dates to “the big city,” we …
These are exciting days at Keep Believing Ministries . . .* We recently completed the first phase of our Anchor for China project that will allow us to equip 50,000 Chinese pastors and house church leaders will copies of the Chinese version of An Anchor for the Soul.*We received permission to post the Chinese version of An …
Don Imus, the hugely popular radio shock jock, made headlines last week for using a racial epithet to describe the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. There is no need to repeat what he said here. Everyone has read it and heard it numerous times. And there is no need to attempt a defense for the indefensible. …