Haunted by the Prayer of Mother Teresa
A while back I had the privilege of joining Suzie Slonaker, Dr. Tony Campolo, Dr. Paul Louis Metzger, Clark Blakeman, and about 20 others for dinner at the Aquariva Restaurant just south of downtown Portland, Oregon. The funny thing about meeting at a hip restaurant on a Monday evening is -- you just about own the place. To say the least, we didn't have a problem hearing each other. And that's a good thing.
Eternity: Slow Train Comin' (Part 1)
It's not the kind of phone call you get every day. I had the privilege of doing an interview with Alexandra Alter with the Wall Street Journal. Alexandra called me to ask for feature story ideas. I asked her what kind of story ideas. She said she was looking for ideas for feature stories at the intersection of Christian faith and other spheres of life (besides business). I was intrigued....
Yahoo Atheist Claims God Has Disappeared
For 21 more hours, you can reply to a Yahoo atheist named "Jefferson S" by logging onto http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090424080059AAcKGvO.
Stopping America's Greatest Epidemic
"My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered away from God's truth, don't write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God" (James 5:19-20, Message).
The Greatest Temptation: "Losing" Our Faith
My father is an atheist, so I still remember having no idea what the Bible was, let alone that my first name appeared in it so many times.
As a teenager, however, I started reading God's Word from cover to cover, and before college I had memorized nearly 100 pages of Scripture. I've read through the Bible dozens of times. And I've discovered that only four chapters don't talk about sin and tempta...
Losing Everything
Have you ever lost someone near or dear to you?
I lost someone when I was eleven. My dad and mom and brother and two sisters and I were near Snoqualmie Pass, about fifty miles east of Seattle.
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