China Cry

Tomorrow morning I’m headed on a plane to China along with the team from Hope Chapel. We will be teaching a house church and will stay for two weeks. Obviously I won’t be able to evangelize freely there, but I will be teaching the house church to do so. I will try to get something

5 Years After: No Faith Lift

A Barna Group study shows that despite an intense surge in religious activity and expression in the weeks immediately following 9/11 the faith of Americans is virtually indistinguishable today compared to pre-attack conditions. Click here to read the Barna report.

Monastery Madness 2

I had a great interview with Brother Lawrence Harms, one of the monks at the monastery my wife and I visited. After I get it transcribed, you will be able to read it here—it was a very encouraging interview. I will also be writing about my other experiences up there, including my rattlesnake bite, the

The End is Near?

One of our Associate Pastors, Mike Maffe, talked about the conflict in the Middle East last week-end, and how it relates to Biblical Prophesy. A local reporter from the Daily Breeze wrote an article about this subject. It pits Pastor Maffe’s view against the view of a Reformed Pastor. Both arguments are valid and fall

100 Ago in America

I can’t vouch for the authenticity of the facts from this email that was sent to me, but the sentences that I tacked on to the end are sure true…

Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1906:
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The average life expectancy in the U.S. was 47 years.

Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had a bathtub.