Video of Governor Sarah Palin’s Stand for Christ
We need to pray for Governor Sarah Palin and her family. God has elevated her to an extraordinary place of influence through her selection by Senator John McCain as his running mate for Vice President. (My article in this week’s edition of Rick Warren’s Ministry Toolbox, titled The Law of Divine Elevation, sure seems to apply to Governor Palin!) This video was taken from the Wasilla Assembly of God Church in Wasilla, Alaska. The church’s website has been taken down due to heavy traffic after Governor Palin was selected...
read moreBotswana Mission Report
Hello everyone! We are back from Botswana. Thank you for your prayers during our mission trip to Gaborone, Botswana, Africa. It was an amazing time! I had the privilege to teach several worship seminars to both college students and worship leaders in that country. Also, I got to do an open-air concert at Open Baptist Church. Close to 1200 people attended and 7 trusted Christ as Savior that evening! We have a backlog of posts to do on our blogsite, so look for ‘em to start coming your way beginning next week! Worshipping Him, Dwayne ...
read moreC.S. Lewis’ Prophetic Words Speak to Our Economic Woes
The following is a quote from C. S. Lewis’ book, Mere Christianity (HarperCollins, 1952). It needs no preface or explanation… There is one bit of advice given to us by the ancient heathen Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest — what we call investment — is the basis of our whole system…Three great...
read moreTeenagers Stand In Cold To Worship at Easter
Below is an excerpt from a newspaper article that just came out this morning. It is an encouraging and powerful story of how love for the risen Christ is still more important to some young people (and older people!) than their own personal comforts. Go here to read the entire article. BANGOR, Maine – The early arrival of Easter this year may have numbed the bodies of Maine’s Christians, but it did not chill their spirits as they gathered in churches, on hilltops, along riverfronts and in school gymnasiums to celebrate their risen...
read moreHidden Away Working on Final Edits!
Dear friends, Sorry I’ve not posted anything in the past few days. I’ve been hidden away in the hills of Tennessee going back through every week of the worship study. Group Publishing’s senior editor has requested that we get our final edits to her by this weekend. (Group is releasing our worship study, Praise More Powerful, under the new title, Pure Praise, this coming December, 2008.) Thus, Elizabeth Jones (my literary agent’s editorial director) and I have been busy tweaking every word and phrase. God has...
read morePraise Singer’s Young Son Has Cancer
One of my church’s praise team members’ son has just been diagonosed with a dangerous bone cancer in his leg. Tucker Beam is only 7 1/2 years old. He is already a cancer survivor from when he was 1 year old. However, the doctors have told his parents that this recurrence may be even more dangerous. Incredibly, Jason, Tucker’s dad, continues to sing every Sunday with our praise team. Jason told me on the phone the other day that since the diagnosis and the onset of this horrible storm in their lives, he wants to sing praise...
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