What is the most difficult thing you do? Not the most impossible, frightening thing you could ever imagine being forced into, but the single most difficult task you must undertake regularly, frequently or occasionally. Mine is to think. But everyone … Continue reading
3 Parables: Two brothers grow up in the same home, half-brothers, actually. They had different fathers, biological fathers only, and were raised by the same single mom. Each had a different reaction to their situation, neither understanding why. Neither ever … Continue reading
If I were technologically astute, from where I sit as I write I would show you a panorama view of the inside of my office which is, in fact, a replica of an old cowboy bunkhouse. Here I sit on … Continue reading
About ten years ago I jotted down a phrase that came to me summarizing the heart of my ministry of the previous 25 plus, now more than 35 years. That phrase, of course, is Revival Yearnings. It says everything I … Continue reading
(Or is Revival just history now?) Over the last several years I may have mentioned once or twice that I love to read the histories of Revivals. OK, maybe I’ve mentioned it more times than even I can remember. But … Continue reading
None of us has perfectly pure motives for anything we do. We talk about “agape,” God’s kind of self-sacrificing love, but we never quite achieve it. Whether it is doing something for someone who can do nothing for us in … Continue reading
(I started writing this article 3 years ago, but abandoned it for fear of being misunderstood. I’m older now and I’m OK with being misunderstood.) Perhaps your initial response is to recoil at the rather unusual title of this article. … Continue reading
This newsletter will not go out for a week or two, but it is important to me that I write it today, March 13, 2012. Fifty years ago today, I was born again. My parents had not been raised in … Continue reading
You who have been reading my newsletters over the years, have no doubt noticed a recurring theme: REVIVAL. You know this is not just a hobby for me. Nor is it a hobby horse I ride occasionally. Nor is it … Continue reading
Remember the prisoners as if chained with them—those who are mistreated—since you yourselves are in the body also. Heb. 13:3 If you had a close family member that had been falsely accused, arrested without evidence and incarcerated without a trial, … Continue reading
