12:05 PM Yesterday I answered another stack of prisoner letters from men and women who had read An Anchor for the Soul and wrote to say thanks. Many said they had trusted Christ as a result of reading it. Here is a montage of comments from various prisoners in Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, New York and New Jersey: “…
1:39 PM Dan Brown’s bestselling book, “The Da Vinci Code,” has sold millions of copies. Though a work of fiction, the book claims that Christianity is based on a lie. Erwin Lutzer has written an excellent answer called The Da Vinci Deception. Chapter titles include “The Da Vinci Code at a Glance,” “Jesus, Mary Mag…
10:24 AM Robert P. George & Gerard V. Bradley explain why the Catholic Church is justified in withholding communion from Catholic politicians who advocate abortion. By the way, in referencing articles about the Catholic position on communion, I don’t mean to gloss over the profound differences between the Catholic doctrine …
11:30 PM Another very good, very long day. I feel like I’ve been talking nonstop since I got up. After I finished preaching at 10:30 AM this morning, I didn’t get back to my room until 12:15 PM because one man after another wanted to talk and pray with me. Everywhere I went, men stopped and talked and told me their stories….
10:38 PM Notes from the Faithful Men Conference, Word of Life Inn, opening service … 300 men gathered from all over New England for the conference … Lots of laughter and chatter before the service … My favorite moment: When Mike Bush asked who had come the farthest, one man pointed a man on his left and…
9:53 PM Marlene called to say I should watch MSNBC and I would see one of my friends on TV. Turns out that Pastor Erwin Lutzer of Moody Church in Chicago was part of a four-way interview regarding “The Da Vinci Code.” He has a new book out called “The Da Vinci Deception.” 9:21 PM All is well as the week rolls along …
7:05 PM I met a student named Daniel who told me he comes from Timbuktu, in the country of Mali, in Africa. 5:46 PM “The twenty-first Century has begun with the shattering realization that there is no safe place on earth.” John Piper 5:34 PM I’ve met several students at the BI whose parents asked them to say hello, incl…
9:46 PM John Kerry and Communion–Part 2. Part of the problem stems from expectations. How is a priest or a pastor supposed to know the beliefs and attitudes of every person who takes communion? Note how I phrased it – “every person who takes communion,” because in almost every church, so many come and …
10:53 AM Just about ready to leave for the airport to fly to New York. I fly to Albany where someone from Word of Life picks me up. The Bible Institute is located in Pottersville, a tiny town about 75 miles north of Albany, on the southern edge of Schroon Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains. Usually I’m there in January or Fe…
GOD’S HIDDEN SMILE by Ray Pritchard “The LORD said to him, ‘Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD ?’”
Sermon Series: Ponder This - 2004