I have a good friend who emails me from time to time with thoughts about forgiveness. They are really just bullet points about lessons he has learned from his own personal journey. This morning he sent five thoughts. The following two really stuck in my mind:1. “If you have forgiven a person, that means that you don’t make them pay in t…
This morning Al Mohler spoke to the December graduates at Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, KY on the theme Start Something You Cannot Finish based on Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 3:6, “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.” I love this challenge because it reminds me that someone was here before I …
His life changed on Christmas Eve.Scot is serving time in a Michigan prison. When fellow inmate gave him a copy of “An Anchor for the Soul,” he decided to see what the book was all about since his friend had read it and like it. “After I started reading it, I couldn’t put it down.” On Christmas Eve he developed a sever…
In my time I’ve seen some beautiful displays of Christmas lights, but I’ve never seen anything like this. Richard Holdman combined 45,000 lights with 176 channels of computer control to coordinate a techno version of “Amazing Grace” with the lights. The result is astonishing….
Each day I receive a quote by email from a ministry called Of First Importance. Each quotation comes from a noted Christian leader past or present and each focuses on some aspect of the gospel. If you haven’t subscribed yet, I recommend “Of First Importance” to you. Wednesday’s selection stayed in my mind because it gave me …
This video features Celtic Woman singing “O Come, All Ye Faithful.” I found myself deeply moved as I watched these amazingly gifted women singing a greatly beloved Christmas carol. If you need something to wash over your soul and point you to higher things, watch this video. It builds and builds to a grand climax of worship and praise….
We have made a new addition to our Recommended Resources page. For the last few years Paul Apple has been putting together a series of excellent preaching outlines covering many different books of the Bible on a website called BibleOutlines.com. This is a great gift to the busy pastor who enjoys preaching through books of the Bible. Basically you d…
Seventeen years ago Jim Warren shared a principle with me that I have repeated many times. In last week’s message I mentioned it again. And on Wednesday night when I gave that message at the First Baptist Church of Tupelo, I noticed people writing it down. When I shared it at the Men’s Bible Study on Thursday night, the same thing happe…
This morning I woke up thinking about the dangers of speaking when you are angry. Yesterday I chatted with a friend in Nashville who said that he had been meditating on Proverbs 11:17, “Your kindness will reward you, but your cruelty will destroy you” (NLT). Some Bible passages need explanation; others, like this verse, speak for themse…
Because I subscribe to Google Alerts, each day I get an email letting me know whenever my name pops up somewhere on the Internet. Most of the time the references are to my own blog entries, but today was different. I clicked on the alert to see the following headline repeated four times:Ray Pritchard Obituary NoticeEach headline carried a touching …