It’s Just a Truck…

Most of my life, I have driven old cars…usually over 10 years old. So, it was not unusual that in 2006 I was driving a 1995 Jeep. It was closing in on a couple hundred thousand miles and so I began the search for a replacement, and I was looking for a good deal on [...]

He is Not Here…Or There…

“So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There they crucified him… John 19:16-18 (ESV)
In 1884, General Charles Gordon, visiting friends in Jerusalem, arose one morning to see a “skull” etched into a cliff just outside [...]

Where have you been?

My deep apologies for being so absent. I haven’t been home much this year.
The first week in January, I was at Sea Island, Georgia, debating Michael Novak on the “Secularization of America”. Next, I was in Vero Beach, Florida at King’s Baptist Church where the pastor and leadership have taken the entire church through the [...]

The Institute…Trends

One of the greater joys that God has granted to me at this time in my life is the privilege of teaching college students. Each semester, 88 of them make their way from all over the U.S. and internationally to attend the semester-long Institute at Focus on the Family.
I know that the word “transformed” [...]