Thank God for Rick and Kay Warren, and for Keith and Beth Moore. Beth says it better than I could, so let this woman of God be heard…”Sadness and Madness“

Been thinking a lot lately about the disasters that keep raging around us, the tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and devastation that have brought a tragic end to so many lives…

Hey, I’m down to the final week of the Walk in the Word Bus Tour. Albany (NY) on Tuesday night, Buffalo on Wednesday, and we finish in my homeland of Canada in Toronto, Ontario, on Thursday night. In every city, I have preached a message entitled, “Why Trials?” from the series When Life Is Hard. [...]

Last week when I challenged you to consider your trials joy, I said there would be more to come. Here it is. About the Faith Test “The testing of your faith” (v. 3). A trial is a test of your faith. I hated tests in school. I was way smarter than the grades I got, [...]

I’d like to nominate James 1:2 as one of the most outrageous statements in the Bible. “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds.” Count it all . . . joy? That is what James wrote, through the inspiration of God’s Spirit, but it doesn’t add up from our perspective. [...]

Hey, I am on the road today heading toward the first stop of a bus tour with Walk in the Word. You can follow the trip at WalkintheWord.com/bustour. Please join us at a stop on the tour if you live near one of those cities. Anyway, my message on the tour is about trials. Why [...]