Starting this week we are posting a brand-new podcast series called “The Healing Power of Forgiveness.” These messages became the basis for my book by the same title. I preached this series at Word of Life Campground in New York in July 2003. This week’s podcast is called Healing the Hurt We Never Deserved.In later weeks we’…
If you would like something to make you smile, check out this video. I found it on Randy Alcorn’s weblog….
Much has been written about Notre Dame inviting President Obama to be the speaker for its upcoming commencement service, at which time the university will award the president an honorary degree in recognition of his various accomplishments. John Armstrong weighed in today with a fine statement about the whole controversy. He notes that Obama is the…
Before the week gets too far gone, I want to say thank you to Randy Faulkner and the congregation of Metropolitan Baptist Church for their hospitality during my whirlwind visit over the weekend. I use the word advisedly because I more or less blew in (along with the rain that came on Saturday), preached four times on Sunday, and then flew home yest…
Tonight I’m in Oklahoma City preparing for a one-day Bible conference tomorrow at Metropolitan Baptist Church. Several years ago I shared the platform at Word of Life with Randy Faulkner, pastor of the church. We struck up a friendship and have stayed in touch ever since. I’m very glad it worked out for me to be here this weekend. …
This morning I’ll be on American Family Radio from 10 AM-12 Noon CDT. In the first hour Kerby Anderson joins us to discuss “A Biblical View of Capitalism and Socialism.” During the second hour we’ll have a trivia contest. When I asked the producer about it yesterday, Cindy was a little vague on the details. So as my co-host …
This morning I’m co-hosting “Today’s Issues” on American Family Radio from 10 AM-12 Noon Central Time. During the first hour our guest will be Gloria White-Hammond talking about the crisis in Darfur as part of Genocide Prevention Month. In the second hour we’ll be talking with Tullian Tchividjian, author of Unfashionab…
The white dots represent evangelical Christians on this map produced by the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, this map shows the distribution of evangelical Christians around the world. You can find a variety of reports from their Global Research Department. This counter records The Unfinished Task. It is a sober…
It’s Sunday morning and I’m sitting in the lobby catching up on my email and other details. In about an hour our family gathers for a final breakfast and then we will go our separate ways. It has been a fine weekend in every way. Yesterday we got Dave and Laura Kate started on their marriage adventure with a beautiful ceremony in the st…
We have come to Rome, Georgia, a beautiful town about an hour northwest of Atlanta, nestled into the rolling hills that will become the Smoky Mountains up around Gatlinburg, further north into Tennessee and North Carolina. We’ve gathered for Dave McKee’s wedding. We have known Dave and his family for a long time, partly because they att…