Here are the answers to the Trivia Time questions from April 30, 2010. It’s amazing that somehow I managed to post them four years in advance. 1. Georgia (57,918 square miles) is the 20th largest state but the largest east of the Mississippi River, coming in just ahead of Michigan and Illinois. I read this in a Lewis Grizzard book. He said yo…
I welcome all the new visitors to the Keep Believing website. Marlene and I had a wonderful time at the Love INC conference this weekend. After the very moving concert and communion service last night, a woman came up and said, “You’re part of the family.” That’s exactly how we feel—like we’re part of the …
Marlene and I flew to Minneapolis yesterday for the Love INC national conference. I met Robert Odom, the president of Love INC, when he attended Calvary in the late 90s. Originally Love INC was part of World Vision, but since 2003 it has functioned as a separate organization. Robert says this is the largest conference they …
It is late at night and I am looking intently at a picture. A group of men has gathered round a man and a woman to pray for them. They are following a tradition that goes back thousands of years, back to the days of the Old Testament when blessings were conferred by the laying on of hands. On the left side of the picture, a …
We have just posted the latest sermon from the series “Understanding God’s Plan” (Romans 9-11):God’s FreedomA dear friend sent along this prayer that touched my heart: “Lord, please do things we are not used to, and when you do, please cause us to respond the way your Son Jesus did, with 100 percent faith and 0 …
On Easter Sunday evening, Dr. Robert Rayburn of Faith Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, Washington preached a remarkable sermon about a Lutheran minister named Henry Gerecke who served as a Army chaplain during World War II. Before the war, he served as a pastor in St. Louis and then became the director of the St. Louis Luther …
I just got through watching Thorpe Schoenle win $464,000 on the hit game show Deal or No Deal. On his way to winning the most money anyone has ever won on the game, Thorpe twice turned down the most money anyone had ever turned down. I’m glad Case # 2 didn’t have $1 million in it. Thorpe would have been walkin …
Brian Bill began a new series on the Da Vinci Code this morning with a message entitled Separating Fact From Fiction.Today I received an email from a friend asking about Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is edited by the readers. The English version contains over one million articles that are constantly being upd …
5:21 PM 642 miles.9:42 AM The blogosphere is now 60 times larger than it was 3 years ago. Technorati.com now tracks 35 million blogs, with a new blog being created every second. 9:38 AM The Boston Globe says blogging is good for your career. The article offers eight benefits of blogging. I love the last one: “Blogging makes …
(While perusing my archives, I came across this column written almost two years ago. Our son Nick is now 21 and continues to be in excellent health. The little girl in the piece died about a year ago. I reprint it here because the message is timeless. Whatever you’re going to do, do it soon.)Last night my wife started …