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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008We receive books on a daily basis that publicists and authors hope we will review. I just received a pre-publication copy of Young Jesus by Jean-Pierre Isbouts, a professor of some note.
According to the promo, “Dr. Isbouts’ revolutionary biography … offers several startling revelations” about Jesus. Among them is one prefaced with this phrase: […]
Radio Clip Touches Many
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008A remarkable phone call from a young boy to Houston radio station KSBJ FM 89.3 provides a touching analogy for the sacrifice of God’s Son. Click here to listen.
TV You Can Do Without
Monday, January 14th, 2008Here is my second installment in my “TV to Avoid” series:
Sitcoms (most): Sitcoms were really the first televised avenue of heightened sexual innuendo. Now it is no longer just innuendo; it is in-your-face immorality. I remember when sitcoms began to become uncomfortable to view. They have continued to stretch the envelope. So much of the […]
TV to Avoid
Sunday, January 13th, 2008The scripture says, “it is written, ‘Be holy, for I am holy’” (1 Peter 1:16, NKJV). There is an awful lot of television content that just doesn’t measure up to this biblical admonition. This will be the first of several lists I will be maintaining on my blog. I will add entries here on my […]
Burkina Faso
Saturday, January 12th, 2008Our managing editor, Kirk Noonan, is on assignment in the West African Country of Burkina Faso. It has been four years since I had the privilege of traveling there to do a story for our World Missions Edition. I look forward to Kirk’s upcoming article, which will update the remarkable move of God occurring there.
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When Missionaries Itinerate
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008Steve and Patti Gray, missionaries to Padua, Italy, whose ministry we wrote about in TPE WME, recently sent out their newsletter. I thought I would share an excerpt so you can have a perspective on what we call the itineration period.
We thank God that we have been able to travel the USA and worship in […]
Alaska
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008We recently received this email from Howard W. Marshall, an Assemblies of God minister:
Thanks for the great radio (podcast) interview [listen to it here] and the recent Pentecostal Evangel report on Alaska [read it here]! My wife and I made our first “missionary” trip to SE Alaska in 1995 and have been going ever […]
2,231 Salvations in 2007
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008One of the first items in my stack this morning, as I began the first workday of 2008, was a report on the total number of salvation responses we received in 2007. And what a great way to start the year! We had almost 400 more salvation responses last year than our previous best year.
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