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I recently ran into a friend from the '90s and asked if I'd sent him the recording of the memorial service of Mac Nelson, whom we both knew back in those days when all three of us attended The Lamb's Church of the Nazarene on Times Square.  

Mac and I met soon after I moved from a 70-acre f...

Joyce and I both had articles run today on www.HeadlinePrayer.org, and we didn't plan this balance, but mine is "A Nation Divided by Movies," and Joyce's is "How Unity Leads to Effective Prayer." 

I'll start by addressing division:

Lord, as our culture becomes more divided, in...

On May 29 I did this teaching on 2 Timothy 4:1-4 from North Carolina. I didn't have time to post it at the time, but it came up several times when we were in Europe: A new friend from Northern Ireland sent me a post referencing it with a story about John Wayne saying, "...John Wayne g...

Joyce had a new epiphany while digging into her life verse, which became our marriage verse: Jeremiah 29:11. This morning at Westchester Chapel she covered verses 5-14. It's a great word to everyone in this volatile season. 

Joyce's article posted to www.HeadlinePrayer.org on Saturday:

Lord, teach us how to repent in the fullness this great gift allows. Change us into the image of Christ.

If you pick up a modern French dictionary — one sanctioned by the Institut de France — the government academy that arbitrates matters c...

Joyce and I both had articles post on www.HeadlinePrayer.org while we were in Paris. 

Here's Joyce's article on Smyrna, "Overcoming the Times We Live In": 

Lord, we live in increasingly hostile conditions. Teach us how to live in faith and not in fear. In Jesus’ Name.

During th...

... you know Eric Liddell refused to run the 100m because one of the heats would be run on a Sunday. Instead he preached in the Scots Kirk Paris, where I performed my one-man play about him 100 years later. 

What you may not know is that there were other races he wouldn't run because a heat woul...

If you've watched my performance of Beyond the Chariots at the Singapore Expo it's missing one of my favorite scenes. We had to trim the play to fit a larger service, and we needed to do that again at Summer Madness in Northern Ireland at the end of June. This time I got to perform the scene separat...

I'm posting this a bit out of order, but today, as I was making my way through Paris, I heard one of our pastors at Westchester Chapel preach on Jonah. It reminded me that I hadn't posted my report about my performance of my play about Jonah in Frankfurt on Independence Day: 

Today was definitely a once in a lifetime event! We got to share Beyond the Chariots at The Scots Kirk Paris, where Eric Liddell preached one hundred years ago today, instead of running the 100m heat at the 1924 Paris Olympics. We added a once only scene to the play: 

This annual Christian youth festival has been running since 1987. Here's our report before the Madness begins...

Here's our schedule: