With a new year upon us, when we consider new goals for the next 12 months, here’s a worthy ambition to pursue – to get closer to Christ. That resolution would put you in the company of a good number of America’s founders.  When the great founding father Patrick Henry was dying, in his last Will and Testament, he wrote to his children, “This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear family, The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.”  The man who once declared, “Give me liberty or give me […]

As I write this, I have just returned from preaching the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where nearly 7,000 people surrendered their lives to the Lord, confessing their sins and trusting in Christ alone as their Savior. After all these years when God has given us wonderful opportunities to proclaim Christ crucified, buried and risen, I am still amazed at the ways the same Gospel message affects different hearers. When I give the invitation to receive Christ and look out over the crowd, I see some people with tears streaming down their faces as they […]

It took more than a year to finish. Sure, I read everything out loud and in the Spanish language, but usually after a couple of pages it was time to put it down until the next short tour of brutality. The annihilation by Attila the Hun, the cruelty of Genghis Khan, the exterminations of Joseph Stalin, the reign of Adolf Hitler and the savagery of Mao Zedong are some of the most documented horrific periods of mankind. But this is different, for it describes in painful detail a “religious civil war” of sorts that has spanned centuries. “The Book of […]

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