We have just posted a new sermon called Create in Me a Clean Heart: A Serious Call to Sexual Purity. Here’s an excerpt:Purity is worth it because the pure in heart see God. They know him deeply, personally, intimately. They have an inner peace that others do not have. They see God and know the comfort of his presence …
I confess to never having thought about the question until a friend raised it in an email recently.Was Jesus mean? The answer, obviously, is no. I think the question is meant to highlight a deeper issue. Why are some of the followers of Jesus so mean if he wasn’t? I don’t know that I can adequately answer that q …
Currently Marlene and I are reading through Isaiah together. Our practice is that one of us reads a chapter and the other prays. Today Marlene read Isaiah 42 and I prayed. As she read the chapter, verse 8 caught my attenion. “I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not give my glory to anyone else.” There are many simi …
We have just posted a new sermon called Inside the Wedding Ring. Here’s an excerpt:I do not tire of quoting Jess Moody who said that people choose a church with their noses. They can smell the joy.That’s as good a summary as I’ve ever heard. People can smell the joy on Sunday morning. And they can smell th …
This afternoon I taped a radio interview regarding the spiritual warfare aspects of the shootings at Virginia Tech. You can hear the interview on WINA (Charlotteville, VA) this Saturday between 6-9 AM EDT on the morning program with Jay James.Tomorrow morning I am doing a live interview on the same topic on WFLA (Orlando, F …
Yesterday I was asked during a radio broadcast why bad things happen to good people. I answered by saying that no one really knows the answer to that question, that the best minds in history have grappled with the problem of evil, and that we can’t draw a straight line from our knowledge to a troubled young man with t …
This morning I received an email from someone in Virginia who has been reading Stealth Attack. As part of her message, she quoted a passage that I wrote a few months ago. It speaks to the Satanic nature of evil that has been let loose in the world.”I recently purchased your book Stealth Attack and Sunday night I read a bit …
The Chinese version of The Incredible Journey of Faith has just been released. For other Chinese translations, click here and here.
Yesterday Marlene and I had a wonderful time at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. I grew up in that area so it was a sort of homecoming for me even though I didn’t know most of the people in the congregation. Pastor Ron Ethridge is a personal friend so we felt enormously welcomed from the momen …
Tomorrow morning I am preaching at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. This is a special treat for a number of reasons. Muscle Shoals is only a few miles from Russellville, the small town in northwest Alabama where I grew up. Back in the late 60s, when we wanted to take our dates to “the big city,” we …