Derek Taylor, the KBM webmaster, has just installed a program on our website that turns all Scripture references into hyperlinks with a “hover” window that contains the complete verse.Simply put your cursor over any Bible reference (it also puts them in bold) and watch what happens! Try it out in the paragraph below.Lately I’ve be…
The word arrived via email from a friend that Don Gerig died last night. I felt glad and sad when I heard the news, glad for Don and sad for the rest of us. Not quite a year ago Don started a blog called Gerig’s Musings detailing his journey through brain cancer treatment. If you read the entries, you get a good sense of how a Christian fac…
This week we are starting a five-part podcast series called “Samson: A Man for the 21st-Century.” In January and February of 1990 I preached these messages at Calvary Memorial Church in Oak Park, Illinois.Probably no sermon series from my early years in Oak Park made such an impact. For years afterward people would say, “I re…
My friend Rich Bonham told me about an exciting prayer initiative timed to coincide with the 40 days of Lent. The Pray Europe movement challenges Christians to . . . 40 days of prayer for40 counties in Europe for 40 seconds a day.Now that’s an idea we can all get our hands around. Once you go to the website, you find links for all the countri…
Mike Huckabee will be in Tupelo today speaking at a luncheon for a congressional candidate. We’ll interview him at 11:05 AM CDT on “Today’s Issues.” We will also talk with Bill Federer about the famous evangelist Billy Sunday and Ron Carlson will help us understand the spiritual significance of Lent. I’ll be on t…
This is Day 1 of Lent, the forty days of preparation leading up to Easter. A quick check of the Wikipedia entry will give you some helpful background. Note that in the Western tradition, Lent starts today with Ash Wednesday and continues until Holy Saturday, the day before Easter. Sundays are not counted as part of the forty days because each …
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 26, “Unconscious Decay."A man growing better does not measure the stages of his progress, nor does a man becoming worse realize the headway of his descent. Men who live nearest to the heart of God do not prate of their visions nor boast of the light in t…
I’ll be on the radio four times this week. Today I’m co-hosting “Today’s Issues” along with Marvin Sanders from 10AM-12Noon CDT. During the first hour our guest will be Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, author of the mega-bestseller Love and Respect. When I wrote about my Top Ten Books of the Last Decade, I included “Love a…
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 25, “Eagles, Race-horses and Plodders.”The high art of walking is one which the minister must master. He must have a genius for plodding. The clergyman who is able to trudge bravely through the years, filling the months with quiet honest work, pressing h…
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 24, “Near to Men Near to God.” A man may be a pagan alone, he cannot be a Christian. A preacher of Christianity must live as close as possible to men. Isolation to him is fatal. If he has a disposition which shrinks from the society of others his disposit…