An author I read recently was empha­siz­ing the impor­tance of hav­ing an alter­nate plan in case the orig­i­nal plan failed. He called it “Plan B.” That is good advice. We all expe­ri­ence fail­ure. No mat­ter how well we plan, we can­not be cer­tain our plans will suc­ceed. Sometimes I make plans, and for one rea­son […]

I don’t know any­one who does not enjoy a sus­pense­ful mys­tery. If the novel or movie is a really good one, the final “who­dunit” ques­tion is not answered until the last scene. Sometimes, the viewer may even be left guess­ing. The dic­tio­nary defines mys­tery as “any­thing kept secret, unex­plained, or unknown.” Another def­i­n­i­tion is, “any […]

Usually we think of the Good News of Christ, com­monly known as The Gospel, as that por­tion of scrip­ture in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the Epistles of the New Testament.  But the Good News of Christ can be found through­out the Bible, even in the Old Testament. Jesus con­firmed this when He said to […]

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for sal­va­tion to every­one who believes” (Romans 1:16). I was intro­duced to the Gospel as a young boy at the Baptist Church in Newton, Georgia, where my fam­ily attended. When I heard the Gospel, I believed that God loved me and […]

“…when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and proph­e­sied” (Acts 19:6 NKJV). I was recently vis­it­ing friends whom we have known since the early 70s. My cof­fee was served in a cup  that read, “Charismatic gourmet cof­fee. It tastes good on all my tongues.” We laugh […]

“ …  you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it.” –James 4:2 NLT My wife and I were in the Philippines ear­lier this year to attend WIM’ s Asia Conference. I wrote about it in another post. What I didn’t tell you was the story behind the story. Mary Nell […]

“I tell you, you can pray for any­thing, and if you believe that you’ve received it, it will be yours.” — Mark 11:24 NLT The year 2011 was not a good year finan­cially for many peo­ple. The reces­sion con­tin­ued, peo­ple lost their jobs, and some lost their houses. Giving to churches, mis­sion­ar­ies, and other char­i­ta­ble […]

It was about ten o’clock in the morn­ing that day in Tamazunchale, Mexico, when Brother Juan knocked on my door. He had walked two hours down the moun­tain from his remote vil­lage of Coatzontitla, where he pas­tored a church of about seventy-five peo­ple. On this day he had not come to talk about the church […]

“For the king­dom of God does not con­sist in talk but in power” –1 Cor 4:20 The Morris Cerullo School of Ministry in Monterrey, Mexico, lasted five days with about five hun­dred peo­ple in atten­dance. In the daily ses­sions the speaker taught on the “imper­ish­able seed” of the king­dom (I Pet 1:22–23)—a deep sub­ject for most of us. […]

“Proclaiming the king­dom of God and teach­ing about the Lord Jesus Christ…” –Acts 28:31 Mary Nell and I worked in Mexico dur­ing the eight­ies pro­claim­ing the king­dom of God and preach­ing Christ among the Nahautl and Hausteco indige­nous tribes. Their homes were small one– and two-room huts with grass roofs and dirt floors. To make walls […]