November 2015

November 20, 2015 Dear Pastor & friends, Here in southern Ohio we have enjoyed the mildest autumn that I have ever experienced in these climes. Thank God for global warming! Of course, I haven’t been home much to enjoy it, but everywhere I’ve been it has been...

October 2015

October 21, 2015 Dear Pastor & friends, I am preaching a Fall Revival in Statesville, North Carolina. The weather is beautiful and the temperature brisk. Sunday’s services were an encouragement and I trust a harbinger of continued blessing. My plea for this...

September 2015

September 24, 2015 Dear Pastor and friends, Some people smilingly go through life assuming everything will turn out okay. Others, more savvy and cynical see nothing but gloom and doom. The ancient prophet, Isaiah, proclaimed; “When the enemy shall come in like a...

August 2015

August 24, 2015 Dear Pastor and friends, August has been an anniversary month for us. I preached the last Sunday morning of a week-long celebration of my father’s 60th year as pastor of Parker Memorial Baptist Church in Lansing, Michigan. Sandy and I observed our 45th...

July 2015

July 20, 2015 Dear Pastor & friends, I am sitting in the Detroit Airport heading home from a prayer conference I spoke at in Peoria, Illinois. If there ever was a need for God’s people to get under the burden of prayer – it is NOW! A time of personal prayer,...

June 2015

June 29, 2015 Dear Pastor & friends, The Lord is good and His continued presence presides like a divine buffer between the chaos of life and His peace that passes all understanding. The longer I live, the more distant I grow beyond the foolishness of American...