Several days ago H. B. Charles Jr. reprinted a poem by Portia Nelson called Autobiography in Five Short Chapters. In reading it for the first time, I was struck by its profound simplicity. It says a great deal in only a few sentences. Here it is . . .
Last night I happened to see this note on the kitchen windowsill at a friend’s house. I still remember the first time I heard about this prayer. Many years ago I had lunch with a man in Chicago who told me his life had been changed by this simple prayer. “As soon as I wake up in the morning, I say this prayer, and it has changed my atti…
Do you Facebook?If you don’t, you’re probably not reading this blog entry. As of March 2012 Facebook had over 900 million users, with that number expected to reach 1 billion in the next few months. One billion people on Facebook.That’s amazing and mind-blowing. When Facebook first started, it was mostly for college students, …
“Break the jar while those who go with you are watching” (Jeremiah 19:10).This is a visual warning of what God will do to Judah and Jerusalem. He will smash the nation so that it is broken into a thousand pieces.No one will be able to repair it.No one can avoid it.No one can stop it.Why?"They were stiff-necked and would not listen…
The answer is no.We are not saved by saying particular words or by praying a particular prayer. We are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. When we trust in Jesus, we are saved on the basis of his death and resurrection. Salvation comes as we gladly welcome the Good News that Christ has paid the debt we owed so that salvation i…
On March 26 we began broadcasting into China three times a week (M-W-F 7 PM China time, which equals 7/6/5/4 AM in the US). In order to keep you fully posted on what we’re doing, here are the key China links all in one place:1. An overview of the KBM China project.2. Our 2012 broadcast schedule.3. Our Mandarin language website. 4. Where…
I am writing this from our hotel room in Seattle. We arrived here late last night after a longish day that started with me preaching my final message at the MEF conference in Colorado Springs. Later this morning we’ll board a cruise ship for an Alaskan cruise sponsored by Camp Forest Springs in northern Wisconsin. This starts the third l…
Last week I spoke at Cannon Beach Conference Center in Cannon Beach, Oregon. On Friday morning we had a question and answer session based on questions we had received from the audience. During the Q&A time Timothy Greenidge served as moderator. This turned out to be one of the best sessions of the week. Over the next several days I will…
Ken Berding of Talbot School of Theology has posted a blog entry called A Truly Rockin’ Prayer from Clement of Rome. It contains a prayer from a book called 1 Clement, written late in the first century from Clement, the Bishop of Rome, to the church at Corinth. This is one of the earliest Christian prayers outside the the New Testament. Note …
This morning we’re traveling from Tupelo to Cannon Beach, Oregon for a week of ministry at Cannon Beach Conference Center. If I counted right, this is my tenth time since 2006 to speak at a Cannon Beach event. I was first invited to speak there as part of Moody Week. Since then I’ve been back at least once every year.This time we’…