Over the weekend I received a note from a pastor who serves in a distant land. He told me about a strange illness that has afflicted his daughter. For years his daughter was confined to a wheelchair. After sixteen operations she now walks only with difficulty and in much pain. To this point the doctors have offered no clear diagnosis.With that back…
It happened almost 40 yeas ago. During my third year of seminary, I was invited to preach at a church in Oxford, Mississippi. The church at the time was without a pastor so I was asked to preach at both the morning and evening services. That morning I preached what I regarded as my “best” sermon, a message on the parable of the seed and…
This week we added two new sermon libraries to our Recommended Resources page.The first is called Discipleship Library that I believe has been compiled by the Navigators. It contains a fantastic assortment of messages preached over the last 60 years by many of the greatest Bible teachers. As they point out, Messages presented by many outstandi…
Here’s a prisoner letter we received not long after An Anchor for the Soul was published. I happened to see it this weekend for the first time in many years. Now that we are 600,000 books down the line, I thought this letter would help you understand why we donate copies of this little “gospel book” to ministries across America.&n…
What do we do now?Sometimes it seems as if society has completely lost its moral compass. Where do Christians fit in? How do we speak the truth in love when basic values are under attack? I’ve been thinking a lot about that lately, and for me the answer comes back to three simple words that describe what we need at this moment in history:Tena…
Last night I happened to find a digital copy of an old book called The Gospel of Forgiveness, published in 1878 by Scottish theologian Robert Candlish. It is essentially a 19th-century “gospel book,” written to convince sinners to come to Christ. Within its cover the reader finds a great deal of warmhearted gospel appeal. One get the se…
First of all, buy an iPad.That’s not what this blog entry is all about, but go ahead and do it. The method of Bible listening I’m going to recommend works best with a smartphone or an iPad.Last January I started using two iPad apps in my daily Quiet Time. I use YouVersion for my Bible reading and Bible.Is for my Bible listening. I start…
Several years ago we began a partnership with The Mailbox Club in order to reach inmates of the Chattanooga (TN) jail system. The chaplains (and ministry volunteers) give out copies of An Anchor for the Soul along with a printed invitation to take a Bible correspondence course from the Mailbox Club. Recently one of the inmates who has found the Lor…
In the last weeks 100,000 copies of An Anchor for the Soul arrived at our new Book Depot in Pontiac, IL. For the last few years we used a storage facility in Chicago where Ernie Schulz spent hundreds of volunteer hours preparing boxes of books for free shipment to ministries across America. When we printed 100,000 copies of the edition of Anchor in…
The Korean translation of Stealth Attack has just been released. Here is how the publisher describes the book:The war on terror is out of balance. Billions of dollars and cutting-edge weaponry pitted against faceless zealots. Cunning foes who fight dirty. Though inferior in strength, they remain surprisingly deadly. In spiritual terms, this conflic…