Experimental Religion?

(I started writing this article 3 years ago, but abandoned it for fear of being misunderstood. I’m older now and I’m OK with being misunderstood.) Perhaps your initial response is to recoil at the rather unusual title of this article. That would be a natural and...

March 13, 1962

This newsletter will not go out for a week or two, but it is important to me that I write it today, March 13, 2012.  Fifty years ago today, I was born again. My parents had not been raised in church.  They might have been to a funeral or wedding in a church building,...

The Progress of a Pilgrim

You who have been reading my newsletters over the years, have no doubt noticed a recurring theme: REVIVAL. You know this is not just a hobby for me. Nor is it a hobby horse I ride occasionally. Nor is it a dead horse I continue to beat. It might even be accurate to...

Eritrea

Remember the prisoners as if chained with them—those who are mistreated—since you yourselves are in the body also. Heb. 13:3 If you had a close family member that had been falsely accused, arrested without evidence and incarcerated without a trial, you would be...

What I Learned from Facebook

Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, and revive me in Your way.                                    –Psalm 119:37 Early this summer I finally gave in and entered the 20th Century. I got on Facebook as a ministry tool. I had been told of the...

Buckhorn to Autlan

FROM 33*01’59.01”N   108*41’29.5W  (4743 ft.) TO 19*4601.51”N  14*21.57.94’W  (3012 ft.) TO 39*54’15 17”N  116*24.26.69”E  (159 ft.) In other words, from Buckhorn, New Mexico to Autlan de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico to Bejing, China. I just got back from a month...

Revival: all the fullness of God

Until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is counted as a forest.   Isaiah 32:15 So tremendous has been this sense of awareness of God, that I have known men out in the fields, so overcome that...

The Richest Man in the World

It’s difficult to convince an African preacher in the bush that I’m not rich. After all, they reason, I had the money to fly around the world to get there. Yes, I explain that God’s generous people provide for me to come there and that it’s not my...

My Greatest Fear

Compare these two sets of quotes. “I asked Jesus into my heart when I was a child.” “I accepted Jesus as my personal Savior.” “I prayed a prayer after my pastor.” “I went forward during a revival meeting.” “I...

Madala

In the last couple of years, I’ve had the privilege of preaching the Gospel in public and private schools in The Philippines and several countries in Africa. This is in addition to work in Mexico. I’m constantly amazed at the openness and receptivity of...