In my 27 years as a pastor, I am fairly sure that I never came up with any distinctively new approaches to sermonizing. However, somewhere along the way I developed one practice that, as often as I used it, always served me well. Before I describe it, I should say that it rests upon two assumptions.1) You don’t know a …
Dear Praying Friends, We’re in the middle of a busy travel season. Last week while Ray was in Florida […]
Chris Jacobsen and I answer questions submitted by the audience at Cannon Beach Conference Center, Cannon Beach, OR, on […]
I’ve never met Jerry Seinfeld. But he gave me a good idea nonetheless. It happened like this. A little over […]
Dear Praying Friends, Will you “walk across the room”? Recently we met some friends who told us that during a […]
I received an email from a man who asked a very particular question. He is a Christian, divorced, and in […]
Here’s the video of How Many Will Be Saved?, the message I preached yesterday at the First Baptist Church […]
The Bible instructs us to “give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” […]
This morning we’re beginning our longest trip of the year. We start by flying to Chicago for Nick and Sarah’s […]
Dear Praying Friends, These two pictures tell the story of our life at the moment: Nick and Sarah get married […]