At a recent meeting for preachers at Camp CoBeAc, guests had the opportunity to rummage through several boxes of books donated by a retired pastor. Anything found to be of interest was free for the taking. I selected a biography of early 20th century evangelist Billy Sunday. After I brought the book back to my…
He was teaching Sunday school at age eleven. He was known in L.A. as the boy preacher by age sixteen. Before age twenty he had a nervous breakdown. At age 53 he was pastoring one of the leading fundamental churches of his day? All of this was possible because of God’s amazing… Grace. Grace allowed…
Below is a conversation that took place when our two daughters were little and there was a tornado warning that required we all go to the basement: Laynie (our oldest): “Are we going to be alright?” Me: “We’re in the basement so we can be safe.” Laynie: “Is our house going to get hit by…
“No margin, no ministry.” I heard that first from my good friend Walt Brock who has built a remarkable Christian Camp in Southern California. He is right. You cannot run a financial deficit and have a ministry very long. However, the real ethical concerns are about how we meet the financial demands of ministry. The…
“In case you hadn’t noticed, it has somehow become uncool to sound like you know what you are talking about,” bemoans the modern poet Taylor Mali. His performance of his poem entitled, “Totally Like Whatever, You Know?” is worth the search on YouTube.1 Taylor Mali is by no means a Christian—in fact, he is a…
From the Ed Nelson Evangelistic Association Facebook page: “Absent from the body… present with the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:8 On March 9, 2022 at 6:33 am, Edward John Nelson entered eternity. The God he served his entire life has finally called him Home. He fought the good fight, he finished his course, he kept the…
Parenting is something like a glorious agony. If you have been a parent for any length of time, you can understand what I mean. I have two children, a boy and a girl who are twins. They truly are blessings from the Lord as the psalmist wrote, but every moment of parenting has not been…
There is military unrest in many parts of the world just now. This actually is nothing new. Over the last 3,500 years in our world, there have been only 268 in which peace reigned. Hundreds of millions of people have died in war, or as in the case with the current war in the Ukraine,…
Where did wisdom go? We are not seeing much of it in the news these days, from anyone. Putin is in an all-or-nothing holy war in Ukraine. He is 69 years old and thinking about his legacy. Some are even claiming that Putin’s war is a “Christian” war against woke Western Culture. Narratives are spinning…
In my last article I discussed the matter of reading, memorizing, and meditating on Scripture. Our spiritual nourishment for a healthy life is feeding daily upon the milk and meat of God’s Word. This is the first basic of the Christian life we must get back to. Second, we need to get back to the…