In the beginning I was not a believer. At first I thought Facebook for was the kids, meaning the college-age crowd, which is in fact where it started out. Somewhat reluctantly I joined the Facebook revolution not quite two years ago. As of this moment, I have 4037 friends. That’s impressive, I suppose, until I look at the list and r…
I am not surprised that “The Help” has turned out to be a huge hit at the box office. As of August 23, the movie has earned $77 million, making it the sleeper hit of the summer.A friend called several days ago to ask how the movie is being received in Mississippi. I can tell you this much. When Marlene and I saw it last Friday nigh…
The brand-new KBM mobile website launches today. If you have an iPhone or an Android or some other smartphone, you can access it by typing in m.keepbelieving.com. There is also a link at the top of www.KeepBelieving.com that can be seen only by smartphone users. Using a mobile site means that we have optimized the font size and the margin…
“May the past be a rudder, not an anchor."That’s what Joe Jordan said to Don Lough, Jr. as Don became the new Executive Director of Word of Life last Friday night.It was an apt metaphor.Leaders in every organization struggle to find the right balance between holding on to the past while moving into the future.Not long ago I heard …
Gregg Doyel thinks so.You don’t have to take my word for it. Doyel, national columnist for CBSSports.com, says so in his column called Unbelievable–Tebow Believes Faith Equates to Starting in the NFL. This is Doyel’s conclusion:Tebow has been a great billboard for Christianity – just as Muhammad Ali has been a great bil…
Several months ago we received a request for Anchor books to be used on a missions trip to Uganda led by Pastor Charlie Butt from the First Baptist Church of Amery, Wisconsin. This morning we received the following note:Ray:Just a quick note to say thank you for the books that you provided for our mission trip to Uganda and Sudan. We di…
This afternoon I saw my first brown leaf.In a month or two the ground will be covered with withered, dead leaves. Today’s leaf was the first of many to come. In the Bible the withered leaf pictures both our sinfulness and our human frailty. “Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind.” (Is…
This question comes from a strange incident in Exodus 4:24-26.At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him. But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. So the LORD let him alone. (At that ti…
While going through a stack of mail this morning I read a letter from a prisoner in Illinois that powerfully illustrates why Keep Believing Ministries is committed to providing free copies of An Anchor for the Soul to prison ministries in the US.I am 35 years old and currently serving a 9-month sentence at Centralia Correctional Center.
The Spanish translation of The Incredible Journey of Faith has just been released. Here is how the publisher describes the book:The life of faith is a journey with God that begins the moment we trust Christ and continues until the moment we die. The title of this book suggests that living by faith is an incredible journey, and that is certainly …