This will be the last weblog entry I will post for five weeks. We all need a vacation from time to time, and the time has come for me. In three weeks Josh and Leah will get married in Vermont. Between now and then I will be speaking at two Bible conferences. Two weeks after the wedding, we are traveling to Chicago for a wed …
In January 2007 Marlene and I will be hosting a ten-day tour to Israel. When I was with Wood Kroll at Back to the Bible last month, he told me that he has been to Israel at least once every year since 1964. When I asked what tour operator he recommended, he immediately replied, “Maranatha Tours in Phoenix.” After talking wi …
It took Mark a little over three days to make it home from China so by the time he arrived at the Birmingham Airport a few minutes before 9 AM, he was pretty tired. He had flown with his team from Beijing to Los Angeles where he and the others who are returning to China for a second year spent a day doing their initial orie …
It is late in the evening as I type these words. I stepped outside a moment ago and heard a symphony of nighttime sounds in the forest. Crickets galore, and frogs, and various creatures moving around in the woods. Inside the cabin the dehumidifier drones on, erasing all the sounds of nature. Upstairs Marlene is in bed readi …
Peter Faulkner tells me that the Waffle House has the best chili anywhere. I don’t doubt it, but we’re eating breakfast with Mark, not lunch. By the way, did you know that since 1955, the Waffle House restaurants have served . . ..495,264,367 Waffles
957,041,599 Cups of Coffee
11,527,602,959.24 Eggs
22,217,4 …
I am writing these words about 2 PM on Tuesday afternoon. That means it is 3 AM Wednesday in Beijing, China, which means that Mark is in the air, on the first leg of his long trip home. He and his teammates fly to Los Angeles where they will say goodbye after spending a year teaching English in China. At some point tomorrow …
Mark comes home from China in three days. What a happy day that will be.A few days ago I wrote an entry called Between Trapezes. Today I received an email from Gail Blanke who has a website and a book called Between Trapezes. She sums up her message up this way: The mission of my book is to enable people to know that the “i …
Here are the four messages I preached at the MEF Bible Conference in Colorado Springs last week:Monday seminar: Praying For Your Prodigal
Tuesday night: God’s Freedom
Thursday night: If I Believe, Why Do I Doubt?
Friday morning: How to Help a CavemanOn Thursday afternoon Marlene and I led a seminar on forgiveness. You …
While studying Romans 9, I was struck by Paul’s question in verse 14: “Is God unjust?” In our hearts we […]
Text: Romans 9:6-18We do live in strange times. Someone has called this the Age of Anxiety, and it seems appropriate enough. Not […]
Text: 1 Kings 19