At the end of March I will be speaking at an Effective Communications Seminar in Dallas. Click here for information. Or Here

Satan wants to destroy believers. He hates everything about us. He wants to make us defeated and ineffective. If he can’t have us in hell he will try to introduce elements of hell into our lives here on earth. He will torment us and try to separate us from fellowship with our Father. I know this because the word clearly teaches it, but I also know it because it has been my personal experience. Even now the evil one is trying to destroy me, defeat me, damage my testimony, and …

Here is a good article about what to do when you have a wayward loved one.
Here is another version with a little more detail.
This one includes comments and thoughts from Dad.
It was sweet to be at the Desiring God Pastor’s Conference early this month with three of my sons and hear Abraham Piper introduce his Dad who would do a biographical message on his grandfather, Bill Piper. Take hope all who pray for wayward loved ones.

God has gifted Lois and I with four sons and four daughters. He has also gifted me with a strong protective instinct. You have to be very careful with a strong protective instinct. It can get you in trouble if you’re not careful.

Notes for Sunday Morning’s Message: Justification by Faith
Notes for Sunday Evening’s Message:
Justification with Works
You can listen to these messages by clicking here.

One evening we took a drive through the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, near the birthplace of my wife. We went to the southeast into the mountains from Wolfe County to Breathitt County on our way to Jackson. It was a clear night and the moon was rising full. That night we had a delightful experience. We noticed something we had never seen before. Because we the mountains were rising and falling beneath us our perspective on the moon – the angle from which we viewed it was constantly changing. It …

Here are some thoughts I have written after reading “If Grace is True” and “If God is Love” by Philip Gulley and James Mulholland.
I think Phillip Gulley has a kind heart and a clouded mind. Philip Gulley is a nice guy with a great sense of humor who has written some wonderful books-but he stopped. He didn’t stop writing well and he didn’t stop getting books published. While the quality of his writing as continued, perhaps even improved, his theology has become corrupted in dangerous …

This made me cry.

Have you seen the Nooma videos? They are hip, but are they helpful? They are cool, but are they correct? They are trendy, but are they true?
Shepherds at heart are always on the alert for danger and there is nothing as dangerous as spiritual danger. The virgin birth matters. The authority of Scripture matters. A right understanding of the atonement matters. A clear undersatnding and presentation of the Gospel matters. Truth matters. Truth must trump style. For those of you who have an interest in truth and discernment here are …

In 1978 I was twenty years old. Shortly after Thanksgiving that year I was travelling across Texas with a singing group from my college. One evening I was enjoying the hospitality of a church family, watching the movie, Orka, the Killer Whale, when I was overcome with pain in my abdomen. They took me to Spring Branch Memorial Hospital in Houston. The Hispanic doctor asked; “Have you had Mexican food this evening?
“Yes, quite a bit,” I said.
“Have you ever had Mexican food before?”
“No, this is the first time.”
“Well I’m …