“I’m Not Done With You Yet”

Posted by on 8.28.10 in An Anchor for the Soul

The picture shows the beginning of a handwritten letter from an inmate in Virginia. Here is the rest of his story: I was put in jail with no hope left for my life. I had no hope in God. No hope in anything. I thought my life was over. I tried to kill myself. I didn’t have the will to live anymore. God intervened again. He spoke to me and said…

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How Do You Do This?

Posted by on 7.2.10 in An Anchor for the Soul, Keep Believing Ministries

Here’s a neat story from this week at Cannon Beach. On Monday I mentioned that Keep Believing Ministries supplies free copies of our little “gospel book” called An Anchor for the Soul free of charge to prison ministries, military ministries, relief agencies, crisis pregnancy centers, street ministries, rescue missions, and for mis…

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Miracle at Kwale Prison

Posted by on 4.21.10 in An Anchor for the Soul, Missions, Travel, Word of Life

On Tuesday Peter took us to Kwale Prison to minister there. On this particular day 100-150 men voluntarily came to the meeting while many others who could not come listened from a nearby building. We brought soap and toilet paper, two items the prisoners desperately need. After Peter introduced our team, Jim King gave a spirited testimony. Then Pet…

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Wednesday Scattershooting

Posted by on 2.10.10 in An Anchor for the Soul, Books, Marriage and the Family, Personal

Odds and ends, a little of this and a little of that . . . *Just got off the phone with Ernie Schulz who said they just got a ton of new snow in Chicago. Ernie runs our Anchor Book Depot, which means that when we ship boxes of An Anchor for the Soul, Ernie is the one who actually makes the mailing labels, goes to the warehouse where we store the bo…

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Q&A with John Piper at Angola Prison

Posted by on 1.11.10 in An Anchor for the Soul, Video

In November John Piper visited Angola Prison in Louisiana. Long considered one of the most violent prisons in America, it has been transformed in recent years under the leadership of Warden Burl Cain. His motto is, “I will be as nice as they let me, as mean as they make me be.” You can read more about what God is doing at Angola Prison …

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Saved on Christmas Eve

Posted by on 12.9.09 in An Anchor for the Soul, Evangelism, Keep Believing Ministries

His life changed on Christmas Eve.Scot is serving time in a Michigan prison. When fellow inmate gave him a copy of “An Anchor for the Soul,” he decided to see what the book was all about since his friend had read it and like it. “After I started reading it, I couldn’t put it down.” On Christmas Eve he developed a sever…

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Help Wanted for Anchor 10th Anniversary Edition

Posted by on 10.14.09 in An Anchor for the Soul, Books, Keep Believing Ministries

Next year marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of An Anchor for the Soul. Well over 400,000 copies of that little “gospel book” written in “Wal-Mart English” are now in print. God has allowed us to give away hundreds of thousands of copies to prisoners across America and to soldiers serving in the Armed Forces. Plu…

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Readers Theater Audio Now Online

Posted by on 10.5.09 in An Anchor for the Soul, Keep Believing Ministries

The KBM banquet last Thursday night featured a Readers Theater that highlighted letters we have received. Most of the letters came from prisoners who read An Anchor for the Soul, but we included one letter from a soldier in Afghanistan and another letter from from a young lady whose life was changed by reading Stealth Attack. Amber Cussen, Dina Kre…

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We Support Gospel Outreach Through the Book Depot

Posted by on 8.6.09 in An Anchor for the Soul, Evangelism, Keep Believing Ministries

The third thing you need to know about KBM is . . .1. We support Gospel outreach through the Book Depot.This part of the story goes back almost 12 years, long before the formal beginning of Keep Believing Ministries. Shortly after I wrote a book called What a Christian Believes, we began partnering with Prison Fellowship to give away copies of the …

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Letter from the Fairfax County Jail

Posted by on 7.6.09 in An Anchor for the Soul, Evangelism

Recently we received a letter from a 27-year-old prisoner at the Fairfax (VA) County Jail. He wrote to tell us that he had read my book An Anchor for the Soul. Here is the heart of what he wrote:I thank you for your book “An Anchor for the Soul”, it was very inspirational for me. Today’s the day I finally let go, finally stopped h…

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