“Don’t tell God how big your monsters are; tell your monsters how big your God is.”…
Over the weekend we finalized plans for our first-ever Keep Believing Friendship Banquet on Thursday, October 1 in Chicago. In the weeks to come we’ll give you more details about the who, what, when and where, and how you can make your reservations. But for the moment just hold that date–October 1–for our Friendship Banquet.
In January I started my plan to read the entire Bible in 2009. That’s a worthwhile project but it is also a daunting endeavor. My particular version of the Bible has 1913 pages. Plus it contains 66 books written by many different authors over roughly a 1500 year period. And many parts of the Bible seem remote to life in the 21st century. So w…
The Digital Bible Society has just released an amazing CD called Chinese Treasures 5.0 containing 177 different Bible, books and other Bible study resources available free of charge. They will send you a CD free along with the permission to copy it for the purpose of giving it to Chinese-speaking friends around the world. Best of all, this CD is co…
A friend wrote a note saying that she was copying this part of my sermon What If and taping it on her computer as a reminder to pray for others:
A friend sent me this over the weekend and I thought I would pass it along. It’s not the whole story about being a pastor, but it’s definitely part of the story. Here’s another reason to pray for your pastor:This soul-weariness shines through a few lines of sarcasm one minister wrote in his journal: “If I wanted to drive a m…
I’m writing this update from a meeting room at our hotel in suburban Chicago. At the moment the KBM board (minus Peter Faulkner and Alan Pritchard who couldn’t be with us) is in the middle of our afternoon session. We’re a little behind schedule, mostly because we’ve had such excellent discussions that we didn’t want t…
Here is John Piper’s plea to President Obama to turn away from his support for abortion. This is powerful, prophetic preaching at its best. I am posting it today in light President Obama’s commencement address at Notre Dame tomorrow. …
In just a few minutes Marlene and I will be driving to Memphis to catch a flight to Chicago for the Keep Believing board retreat that begins tonight. This is the fourth time we’ve met together like this. In June 2006 the board came to Tupelo for a weekend retreat. That was back when we lived in the cabin in the woods, and we were so far out i…
The other day Marlene was chatting with a friend who asked her for some biblical help regarding a question she had. She wanted my wife’s insight because she had asked her boss and wasn’t satisfied with her boss’s answer. Her boss told her, “It’s like the Bible says, ’Birds of a feather flock together.’…