Philip Bliss, beloved gospel musician and good friend of D. L. Moody, wrote this great hymn shortly before his untimely death in 1876, in a train wreck near Ashtabula, Ohio. In his last public meeting Mr. Bliss conducted a service for 800 inmates at the Michigan State Prison. Many of them wept in true repentance as he sang the verses of “Hall…
Today’s video features a congregation singing Charles Wesley’s famous hymn “And Can It Be.” I may be wrong in calling it famous because many Americans don’t know the hymn at all. A friend told me that it was mostly unknown in the US until after Billy Graham’s 1954 London Crusade at Harringay Arena. Cliff Barrows …
As we make our journey through Holy Week, walking with Jesus as he moves toward the cross, we will feature a different video each day to prepare our hearts and center our thoughts on the great sacrifice our Lord made for us. Today’s video features Selah singing “There is a Fountain.”…
I believe this is the best local church video I’ve ever seen. I love it because it doesn’t start by talking the church. It starts with the gospel. Watch it and see for yourself. You may find yourself saying, “I’d love to be part of a church like this.”…
Have you ever heard of Librivox?It’s a net community where thousands of people around the world come together to create free audio books. To date, we have completed over 3000 projects. Most are books, but there is some poetry and drama mixed in for variety. We read only from public domain sources so that there are no restric…
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…