Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.20.09 in Devotional
A few years ago we led a tour of the Holy Land and Greece. Everything had gone smoothly until we arrived in the Athens airport. Then it happened. Two members of our group were detained by the Greek customs officials because their passports contained invalid visas. To those who never travel overseas that may not sound serious, but it is. A vi…
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 9.13.09 in Devotional
During my college years I worked briefly at a carpet mill in Chattanooga, Tennessee. My job was fairly low-tech, mostly pushing a broom and keeping the walkways clean. In my spare moments I loved to watch the huge carpet machines at work. As I stood in the back I could see huge spools of yarn—dozens of them, of every conceivable color—s…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.10.09 in Devotional
I received a letter from a friend in Florida who wrote to tell me about an unexpected change of plans in his life. Suddenly his future was not as certain as he thought it was. To make things worse, the change of plans was not definite. Things might change or they might not. But he wouldn’t know for a few months so he couldn’t do anythin…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.9.09 in Biking, Devotional, Personal
Last Sunday I received a note from Alice McQuitty in which she gave a quick update on how Andy’s treatments for colon cancer are progressing. I have written about Andy here and here. We have known Andy and Alice for 26 years and count them as dear friends. I wrote Andy a note saying that we were going to “dig in” and pray for him …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.25.09 in Devotional, Theology
Unless you are a fan of rodeo, you may not have heard about a fun event called “Bull Poker” in which three or four cowboys sit around a table in the middle of the arena with a bull let loose to wreak havoc. While the cowboys sit at the table playing poker, the bull roams freely. Eventually the bull is bound to charge the table, scatteri…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.12.09 in Devotional, Keep Believing Ministries, Prayer
*Last night I spent an hour talking with Peter Wang in China via Skype. As you can tell from the picture, he was wearing a brand-new Keep Believing t-shirt that we sent over from the States. For over three years Peter has been preaching my sermons to the house church he pastors. Only he doesn’t just preach my sermons directly. He studies the …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.11.09 in Devotional
I ran across this fine quote from Charles Spurgeon courtesy of our friends at Of First Importance:”The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. I can hear their trampings now as they traverse the great arches of the bridge of salvation. The…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.7.09 in Devotional, Keep Believing Ministries
Here’s the fourth thing you need to know about KBM:4. We encourage people everywhere to keep believing. Sometimes it’s hard to keep believing.I remember saying that–in an off-the-cuff manner–at a KBM board meeting several years ago. It happened at the end of a planning retreat, as I was giving my final comments just bef…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 8.5.09 in Devotional
Here’s a thought to remember the next time you are criticized . . . What your critics want most is to know that they have been heard, that someone took them seriously, that they weren’t put down or laughed at or ridiculed for whatever they are unhappy about. Just being heard is a big deal.Recently my wife and I lodged a complaint w…
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