In early March I traveled to Rochester, New York to speak at a “John 17” conference for pastors sponsored by Koinonia Fellowship. In every respect it was a most remarkable occasion. We evangelicals talk a lot about what separates us. It was refreshing to see pastors from very different backgrounds talk about what unites us. Here are thr…
An email arrived from someone who wonders if their past is so bad that God will not forgive them. Have they sinned so much and so greatly that their sin is quite literally unpardonable? The answer is not hard to find. There is such a thing as the unpardonable sin. Jesus spoke of it in Matthew 12:30-37. And in answer to the question, I can say …
My friend Jim Warren died yesterday after a long illness. Most people knew him as the founder and longtime host of Prime Time America on the Moody Broadcasting Network. For many years he was the voice of afternoon drive-time radio, speaking to the nation from the studios on the 8th floor of Crowell Hall at Moody Bible Institute.I knew him as a pers…
I write this on the eve of Judgment Day, the one predicted by Harold Camping and his followers. The prediction relies on a complex set of assumptions and mathematical calculations regarding Bible chronology that the rest of us recognize for what it is. Nonsense.No one knows the day or the hour. No one knows for certain how close the return of Chris…
Yesterday at 4 PM I met for an hour Here are the different messages I preached at Reno:When You are Falsely Accused Did I Make a Mistake? The Whole Bible in Thirty Minutes Overcoming Self-Importance How Much Sin Will God Forgive? …
This morning while reading Deuteronomy 17, I came across a paragraph about how to deal with idolators in the midst of the people of God. Because God ordered that they must be stoned to death (v. 5), he also ordered a key safeguard put in place:On the testimony of two or three witnesses a person is to be put to death, but no one is to be put to deat…
“Bob Leland said you would know what to do with this."With those few words, the young man handed me the piece of paper and walked away. He gave it to me just before the start of one of the services at New Brunswick Bible Institute. Looking at the paper, I saw that it was folded and stapled, with “Pastor Ray Pritchard” writte…
This morning Marlene and I are flying to Reno, Nevada for the Spring Bible Conference at Sierra Bible Church. This is our fourth time to visit this fine congregation. It all started almost ten years ago when I spoke for the Dallas Seminary Week at Mt. Hermon Bible Conference in California. Someone from the church in Reno heard me and invited me to …
This morning when I cleaned off my desk I found a piece of lined yellow paper on which I had scribbled some notes. It appears to be a page of notes for a talk I gave somewhere, but in looking at it I can’t recall the occasion. I did notice that halfway down the page, I jotted down a prayer that I vaguely remember having seen somewhere:”…
Over the weekend we released our free ebook version of “He’s God and We’re Not”. You can download the ebook in Kindle format, Nook format, or in PDF format.Please note that the free version is only available at the KBM website. If you go to the Kindle store or the Nook store, you’ll have to pay for it. But we believe s…