Posted by Ray Pritchard on 3.16.10 in Books
Have you ever heard of Librivox?It’s a net community where thousands of people around the world come together to create free audio books. To date, we have completed over 3000 projects. Most are books, but there is some poetry and drama mixed in for variety. We read only from public domain sources so that there are no restric…
Posted by Ray Pritchard 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…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.9.10 in Books, Radio
I’m on the radio this morning from 10-11AM CDT on American Family Radio. We’ll be talking with award-winning musician and author Michael Card about his new book A Better Freedom: Finding Life as Slaves of Christ. The book provides a new look at what it really means to call Jesus “Master.” To listen online, go to the AFR m…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.8.10 in Books
Recently I was asked to submit a list of my top ten books of the last decade. I forget how the request was worded, but the upshot was that they wanted me to give them a list of ten influential Christian nonfiction books of the last decade. Well, you can go a lot of different ways with a list like that. Do you want the “best” books …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.16.09 in Books
Recently bestselling author John Grisham came through Tupelo to talk about his brand-new collection of short stories called Ford County. While here, he gave a brief interview offering advice for aspiring writers. Among other things, he says you shouldn’t be worried about getting published. Write the book first and worry about getting publishe…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 11.6.09 in Books, Dudley, Podcasts, Travel
*We’re on the road again, this time to New Jersey. Marlene and I are flying to Philadelphia where our good friend Pastor Paul Barreca will pick us up and drive us to Vineland. I first met Paul several years ago at Word of Life in New York. Then I spoke for him at Faith Bible Church in Vineland. This weekend we’re speaking at Faith for a…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.15.09 in Bible Study, Books, Prayer
A few years ago I wrote a book on the Lord’s Prayer called “And When You Pray.” When I finished writing it, I came away deeply impressed with how profound this little prayer is. If someone asks, “What does Christian prayer look like?” the answer is, “It looks like the Lord’s Prayer.” Everything that i…
Posted by Ray Pritchard 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…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.18.09 in Biking, Books, Devotional, Keep Believing Ministries
**I’m writing this note from our hotel room in Birmingham, Alabama. We drove over from Tupelo this afternoon so we could have dinner with Nick and Elizabeth. Tomorrow we plan to visit the Alabama State Fair in nearby Pelham–if it ever stops raining. It seems like we’ve had rain for two weeks, and the current forecast calls for mor…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.3.09 in Books, Theology
On today’s edition of “The Christian Life Today” on American Family Radio, we discussed the whole question of doubt and the Christian faith. The topic seemed to touch a nerve with many people because we had many phone calls from listeners. One woman said she was glad to know that it was okay to talk about your doubts. I’ve a…
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