Please pray for my preparation to preach this Sunday morning at Community Fellowship in West Chicago. I intend to open Ezekiel 37:1-10 in a sermon titled “How Dead Bones Live.”

Tuesday morning, before the sun rose, Fr. Claude left the rectory at 5 am for the five-hour drive northward from Evansville Indiana, followed by a five-hour taping. “The main reason we made it is not for publicity,” said Fr. Claude; “we just wanted it to be a video that defended our mother, the Church.”

I just learned from my friend, Frank Beckwith, that you can now browse portions of Journeys of Faith, a book for which I am one of the four main contributors. It is accessible on the HarperCollins website…

Join us to hear Tullian Tchividjian, Pastor, Author, and Grandson of Billy Graham, in his very first visit to Wheaton. Tullian’s sermon, Dry Bones Live: Developing Gospel Renewal, promises to lift our sights above the horizon of life’s hopelessness to behold the promise of God’s redemptive love in Jesus Christ.

The most tentative and enfeebled preacher possesses power to speak life into dead bones. Why? Because Jesus Christ swallowed up death, the Savior who shed his blood and rose victoriously from the grave.

Matthew Barrett and the boys at Credo Magazine have put together a great volume. Enjoy!

Adding an addendum to Billy Collins’ prose, feels like putting a bumper sticker on a Mercedes, but it’s a necessary one. Here it is: While the sobering sense of grey now threatens to crowd out the color of my son’s youth, there is a sure and living hope …

Why would we love something that is strange? All the things I love are eminently familiar to me: my family, my church, my pillow.

Since Angela and I met Ester Montefalcone in 2006, we have affectionately called her “the female version of the Apostle Paul.” Ester’s gospel-centered vision and drive is inspiring, as the following overview of her ministry illustrates. Please join us in praying for our dear Sorella