11:19 PM This week’s Christian Carnival is now online. It contains articles from many parts of the Christian blogosphere, including something by yours truly. 10:51 PM Every year at the BI the student body is a little different. I remember one class a few years ago that was very boisterous and demonstrative. That class had s…
10:42 PM End of a long day at the BI. I started by speaking to the staff at 8 AM. I shared from my heart about James 1:19 and some things the Lord has been showing me in my own life recently. Evidently the message had a big impact because Ric Garland told Larry Bollback this evening that the staff had been talking about my …
7:49 PM Greetings from the “Big Chief” cabin at Word of Life Bible Institute on the shore of mostly-frozen Schroon Lake, high in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. We arrived here safe and sound around 4 PM. Jack Wyrtzen (founder of Word of Life) used to stay in this cabin when he spoke at the Word of Life Ra…
A bright yellow banner we purchased in Beijing hangs in my office at the church. We found the banner at a Christian scroll shop tucked away in the “arts district” of Beijing. When we got there, the door was locked but we knocked and the owners let us in. The shop is so narrow that …
Sermon Series: Ponder This - 20055:46 AM Here are two new entries on the Crosswalk weblog: My Late-Night Super Bowl Pick Peter Drucker on Leadership…
1:30 PM Calvary in the news … The Winter 2005 issue of Leadership Journal contains an article called “When Gay Activists Came to Calvary,” based on the various protests and media coverage surrounding our services on September 26 when I preached on The Truth About Same-Sex Marriage in the morning services, and Ste…
7:12 PM Jim Bowman says Oak Park will ban abortion by 2025. I hope he’s right. 1:07 PM Here’s a Christian blog worth checking out: Smart Christian Blog 12:46 PM Today’s entry in the Crosswalk weblog is called Letter to a Gay Man….
5:26 PM Wednesday Shout-Out to Vickie Nelson, Patricia Saffold, Steve Zoller, Paul Ungaretti, Ken Aycock, and to Laura Green. 2:45 PM Calling all men! My topic tomorrow mornig at First Watch will be “Jesus on the Job.” We serve breakfast starting at 5:55 AM. 2:39 PM Here are a few examples of the “Church in many place…
10:59 AM Tuesday Shout-Out to Willie Woods, Gail Padilla, Dr. Andrew Jackson, Pastor Henry Nti-Boakye in Ghana, Dale Nolan, Derik Hines, Mary Harris, Glenda Clark, Don Lough, Danielle Byun in Seoul, Korea, Daniel and Cherise Ward, and to Joel and Sharon Eland….
9:37 PM The Amazing power of the Internet … Pastor Ray, Well, it is 1:15 Am Monday (1/31) morning for me, and yet I am very pumped as I watched my first live broadcast of a Calvary worship service from my room in the Parkview Hotel in Guangdong, China! Thanks to the internet and Calvary TV, I was able to spend time w…