GOODGOODNEWSGOODNEWSGOODNEWS! I am going to be a Grandfather by Christmas!
At about five o’clock I got a call from Kyle. He conferenced in Lois and announced to us that Elizabeth is going to have a baby before Christmas. We have been praying EVERY DAY that they would have a baby. I am going to be a grandfather! This is serious business. It is now the “wise sage” season of my life. God is good to each of us, but he has been especially good to …

This is the church I am always pastoring… just before I wake up.

I visited Gettysburg today with Holly, Heidi, Hannah, and Monica Huber. It was a beautiful day. Very sobering to think what happened here. I thank God for our great nation.

I have enough ties with me to preach nine times…

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9)
Last night just before the service started the power went out and I preached in the dark. We are preaching and living and raising our children and grandchildren in the deepening darkness in our culture and in our time. Spurgeon had a sense of the waning spiritual …

Dan studies in ‘Narnia.’ Scroll down for more photos
Let me tell you a little something more about myself than you probably want to know. I have a wonderful study lined with books as nice as almost anyone’s I have ever seen. It is not big enough for all the books with which I have been blessed over the years (including huge parts of two men’s libraries who blessed me – Larry Whiteford and Ron Ayres).
When I first came to the Character Inn I found …

If you live anywhere near here we would love to have you in our meetings this week, Monday through Thursday at 7:00 p.m. each night.

This is the Mongul Church where we sang and preached on Sunday morning.

This is the Orrstown Church where the rest of the meetings will be.

Our dear friend Monica Huber drove an hour from her home to join us for most of the day. (She is the one without the glasses).
We are in beautiful south central Pennsylvania this week to sign and speak for Spiritual Renewal …