I don't have any institutional mantra to offer for the new year. I don't have any new program or corporate vision statement that I want everyone to sign on to for 2013. What I do have is a burden that is on my heart – a burden for God to rend the Continue Reading
January 3, 2013
“Rend the Heavens and Come Down!” My Burden to Pray for Revival in 2013—Part 1
I don't have any institutional mantra to offer for the new year. I don't have any new program or corporate vision statement that I want everyone to sign on to for 2013. What I do have is a burden that is on my heart – a burden for God to rend the Continue Reading
February 11, 2012
When God Comes Down (Isaiah 64)
spodzone /Free Photos“The greatest threat we face as a nation is a unawareness of our own condition. So many in our nation fail to realize that we really are at war.” What a Pentagon official told me could be said about the Church. Many have Continue Reading
June 3, 2010
Israeli Bashing, International Mindlessness, and Isaiah 58:1: “We have a problem”
Daniel Henninger wrote in the Wall Street Journal on June 2 2010 about the almost unimaginable display of international hypocrisy and Ostrich-like response by an increasingly weakened West and radicalized Middle East. Daniel Henninger's insights and the Continue Reading
March 17, 2010
“We Were Made to Go: The Goal of the Gospel for the Entire World” (Acts 13.47b)
This message was the second in a two part series preached at the World Missions Conference at the Scherer Memorial Presbyterian Church in Lake Wylie, South Carolina on March 14th, 2010. Isaiah 49.6; Acts 13.47a Introduction to the Reading I bring Continue Reading
June 10, 2007 Leave a Comment
God Knows Your Name
The following was delivered, in Albanian, to the adolescent orphans at the Hope for the World orphanage in Tirana, Albania. I have previously posted the Albanian version, and I now offer it in English. It is my great honor to be with you this evening. My Continue Reading
June 8, 2007 Leave a Comment
PERËNDIA E DI EMRIN TËND (God Knows Your Name)
I delivered this message to teens in the Hope for the World Albanian orphanage in Tirana, Albania in late May of 2007. I sought to identify my own childhood as an orphan with theirs. And I gave this message in thier langugae. Oh that it was the language Continue Reading
May 10, 2007 1 Comment
Reuben Thibodaux’s Mother: Thoughts on Mother’s Day 2007
Reuben Thibodaux was a really odd duck. I lost track of Reuben in about the seventh grade. He stopped coming to school and the last I heard of him, he was pulling turnips. Reuben used to do some really weird things. For instance, Reuben rode to school on Continue Reading
