Meet the Chairman of the Board
The first thing you notice when you get off the plane in Lima is the heat. It must have been at least 75 degrees. There was a smell of stale fish in the air and the traffic horns were noisy. This is a city of some eleven million people stretched out over a desert coastal strip surrounded by huge sand dunes. I'm told it hasn't really rained here since the 1970s. This is a city of many contrasts. I had lunch in a coastal restaurant called the Costa Verde. It was really...
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As I said last night I'm going to try and post something about Christmas each night for the next couple of weeks. This evening I want to tell you about a book written by Max Lucado, its called "He Chose the Nails"
We studied it during lent a few years ago. It had a profound effect on many in the congregation. So much so that we adapted one of the chapters and used it for our annual Christmas movie it must have been about three or four years ago now but it still has a...
I remember seeing this cover on the front of Time Magazine in June 1971 and thinking, God is doing something in our generation. It really was exciting times. These were the days of Christian outreach cafes and Christian rock concerts. Today we'd refer to this kind of stuff as "Emerging Church"
You may recall an article I posted in October 2007 about my past life as a singer with the Living Stones in the 60s and 70s. This was an interesting rock band because we...