For over 25 years our family has made it a practice to pray for pastors, missionaries and other gospel workers on Saturday night. We stop and think about the fact that on Sundays, more than any other day of the week, the Word of God is being preached. Those…
In many ways the family in which I grew up would be considered by modern psychologists as “dysfunctional.” Most of the difficulties that we had stemmed from my father and the demons that he fought his whole life. Like every other father who has ever lived, Dad was a…
This morning I received a moving letter from a young pastor in Haiti who has recently become involved in our church’s theological training efforts down there. Since the 2010 earthquake God has opened a wide door for us to minister to Haitian pastors, churches and orphans in an increasingly…
is founder of Benny Hinn School of Ministry, now with more than 11,000 students, offering a cooperative relationship with Liberty University in college-level…
One of my avocations is coaching a homeschool girls varsity basketball team. It is a fun break from my regular responsibilities and gives me an opportunity to invest in the rising generation in ways that I would not otherwise have. I have written about some of my experiences and…
One of my longstanding concerns about American Christianity is that it tends to be more American than Christian. While it is easy for Christians to stand around and lament our decaying culture in the West I fear that in doing so, too often we secretly take comfort in the…
On January 12, 2010 an earthquake measuring 7.0 magnitude struck Haiti and killed more than 200,000 people while injuring more than 300,000. Over 15% of Haiti’s 10 million people were left homeless. My vocabulary is not adequate enough to describe the devastating effects of that event I have seen…
Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was perhaps the greatest preacher in the 20th century. His ministry was used by God to help call attention to the desperate need for reformation and revival in evangelicalism. Iain Murray’s 2 volume biography is one of the most important works that I have ever…
This poem by John Piper has been put into a video to make it more memorable. It is moving in it’s depictions of a mind and heart gripped by grace. Some may be offended or put off by the title. I suppose that can’t be helped, but John Piper…
Thirty-five years ago this month I began serving my first church as pastor. The Rock Prairie Baptist Church in College Station, Texas took a major risk on a senior Texas A&M student by issuing me a call to be their pastor. It was my happy privilege to serve them…