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…
A few months ago we opened a no-frills section of the website called Recommended Resources. I call it no-frills because there are no pictures or other fancy designs. If you click on the link, you will see what I mean. We have gathered on one page some of our favorite online resources. We start with a section called Bible Study Resources for those p…
We have just posted the report from our recent trip to the Philippines (March 26-April 7). During that time we visited Davao City and Bukidnon on the island of Mindanao and spent several days at at the end of the trip in Manila. We have packed the report with as many pictures as possible.As for the finances, we are grateful for those who gave to ma…
By now the whole inhabited world, by which I mean those who watch TV and follow the Internet, knows about Carrie Prejean who almost became Miss USA the other night but ended up in second place presumably because of how she answered a question from a strange fellow named Perez Hilton about gay marriage. Although Miss Prejean’s answer was not a…
I’m holding in my hands a lovely new book called “Blackberry Bend” by Debbie Hodson. It’s the story of two children who visit their Appalachian grandparents, along the way learning about the value of being rooted in a particular place. The book is beautifully illustrated with watercolor illustrations by Miriam Moyer. If you …
Not long after we moved to Oak Park in 1989, I met Don Gerig, my immediate predecessor as pastor of Calvary Memorial Church. He served with great distinction for ten years and led the church through the relocation process after the devastating fire in 1977. During all the years of my pastorate at Calvary and in the years since then, Don has b…
This afternoon I made a trip to the lodge where my books have been stored since October 2005. The lodge once housed a Christian conference center that flourished for a few years in the early 80s. When my brother Alan bought the property, it had been vacant for six or seven years. We lived in a cabin on the property for 20 months. Now that we’…
“I wouldn’t trust my best fifteen minutes to get me into heaven.”So said the preacher and I agree with him. In that one sentence he uttered a profound theological truth. I can think of five reasons why it must be true:1. Fifteen minutes isn’t long enough. 2. Fifteen of my “best” minutes can’t make up f…