Seen but not heard! Last month, Donna spoke to about 80 women at the annual retreat at the Isola Conference Center on how to carve out personal times with God and also establish a group of three ladies to regularly share their spiritual progress. “A Moment of Silence, Please!” seemed like a good title for the conference....Keep Reading
Ever since we arrived at Penn State, we have been praying and working for the day when the gospel comes within arm's reach of every grad student and professor on campus SO THAT we can help the gospel come within arm's reach of every person on the planet. Our hearts don't just beat for grad students and professors at Penn State. Our hearts beat for the world. We want to go to the world and send students and professors to the world....Keep Reading
We've always encouraged Christian professors to identify themselves as Christians on the first day of class. It's often a great act of faith for a professor to do this. Because I've feared directly talking about Jesus in class, it's in office hours that I am much more direct; I will talk about Jesus or things I'm learning in Scripture, and this is where most of my spiritual conversations with students happen....Keep Reading
We trust that you have had a blessed time celebrating the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ! The Hilton Baptist Church gathered together on Thursday night for a half night of prayer. We meditated, prayed, praised the Lord as we followed the sequence of events from the Last Supper to the arrest of Jesus. On Friday morning the community of faith gathered again to celebrate the death of Christ on our behalf. Our Easter celebration concluded with a Sunday morning service focusing on the resurrection. Following the service, three ladies were baptized. It was awesome!...Keep Reading
Dear Wake Chapel Family, Happy New Year! We are praying that God continues to direct your paths as you trust in Him in the year of 2015. We are anticipating God accomplishing great things this year....Keep Reading
May this season bring to your home wonderful times of Joy, family reunions, happy reflections and the awareness God is at work in you and around you!...Keep Reading
And so it begins at PSU - 40,000 undergrad students, 6000 grad students, 3500 professors and one God who loves them all and knows each one by name. ...Keep Reading
After my recent visit to Melbourne there is little doubt that the church in Australia is struggling, but as the church in Craigieburn, Victoria demonstrates, there is hope moving forward to the future....Keep Reading
Life Is Buzzing: We have begun a new term at the Bible College. The buzz of student life is back...the momentary quiet of the Spring holiday is gone. Students studying, asking questions, laughing and sometimes crying, praying, preparing sermons, singing songs, playing soccer, discussing life and theological concepts,...this is life during the school term. Sometimes living becomes very messy as campus life overflows into family life but it is never dull. I remember vividly reading a book about bringing up adolescents...the author reminded me to look at every "disruption", every "crisis" as an opportunity to build into lives and to grow as the person God wants us to become. I have found that advice to be true in all of life...God always has a purpose. Pray that we can remember this even when things are "messy"....Keep Reading
Monday we stood in the Raleigh-Durham airport and said good-bye to our dear friends, Ryan and Joy Owen (www.owenambition.org). By now the Owens have already arrived in their new country, Ghana, and are trying to get acquainted to their new life in Western Africa. Ryan and Joy went to college with my wife and I and we worked together for several years at Marshall Baptist Church. We joined Baptist Mid Missions together and Ryan and I were ordained together. ...Keep Reading