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.’…
When I started my final message at Living Waters this morning, I commented that it seemed like I had just gotten there. Which, of course, was true given my travel problems on Monday. During the 30 hours or so I spent at Living Waters, I preached four times and enjoyed meeting some old friends and making some new ones. Camp Director Roger Black…
Here are a few pictures I took with my iPhone this morning and just before supper….
Good morning from the First Settlers Lodge in Weston, Maine. By God’s grace I managed the four-hour drive from Portland in reasonably good shape. Very grateful for satellite radio because that kept me awake. I was basically “flying low” once I left the interstate and drove through Lincoln. I think I passed 3 vehicle in the other l…