It has been a month since I had my up close and personal encounter with lightning. These last 4 weeks have been filled new experiences. Some of those were mentioned in Donna’s update a couple of weeks ago. Others have been harder to articulate. About a week after the…
Eric Schumacher, pastor of Northbrook Baptist Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has asked us to pray for those who are suffering due to the storms and floods in his state. Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Teams are on the ground seeking to minister. Pray that the Gospel of Christ will…
UPDATE: It has been confirmed that Pastor Pollock and his 13 year old son died when his plane went down in western North Carolina. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 Pastor Forrest Pollock of Bell Shoals Baptist Church has been missing since leaving Brandon, Florida Sunday afternoon in his private plane for…
Several people have contacted me off line about my response to Tom Brady’s comments in his recent 60 Minutes interview and have promised to pray for him. Since New England is playing Saturday night for an undefeated season, and doing so in front of what could be a record…
Dr. Morris Chapman, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee, called on Southern Baptists to pray during his report to the excom earlier this week. Specifically, he said that we need to be praying for God to bless us with “His wisdom, His glory, His holiness and His…
Octavius Winslow’s Morning Thoughts and Evening Thoughts are two of my favorite devotional books. His August 1 and August 2 morning readings are good reminders of how much pastors need the prayers of their people. I have often thought that if my people really knew how weak I am…
On May 3, 2007 the Florida Senate passed a resolution calling on the residents of our state to pray “that God would have mercy on our state” as we approach another hurricane season. Not only Florida but nearly the whole Gulf Coast region and much of the Atlantic Coast…
One of the controversies bubbling up in the Southern Baptist Convention has to do with “private prayer language.” Steve McCoy recently revealed that NAMB is now asking about this in their applications for scholarships: “Do you speak in an unknown tongue (glosolalia) or have a private prayer language?” Well,…