Sometimes the most spiritual thing we can do is get some rest. In times of discouragement, it's easy to lose sight of our vision and God's promises, then we acquiesce to the circumstances around us. We allow the obstacles to become blockades rather than opportunities...
The unexpected detours in our lives can actually be providential distractions, if we are sensitive to the moment. In 2015, when I was battling stage 4 lymphoma, I told my family, "It's a ministry we didn't ask for, but it's a ministry nonetheless."As we made our...
I had the pleasure recently of talking with Tom Phillips, vice president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and one of the early team members there. During that time, Tom has been to 108 countries and all 50 states to spread the gospel by every effective...
DS: Tom Phillips follows Jesus as vice president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Charlotte, North Carolina. At BGEA, Tom leads and shares with supporters the Lord's vision, to spread the gospel by every effective means and to equip others to do the...
On Dec. 31, as I was on my back porch having a cup of coffee and a devotional time, I said, "God, I need a breakthrough." I was feeling the weight of a world, from the daily news to friends who are suffering and more. I was really saying, "God, we need a...
During day one of the Far East Wrestling Championships in 1974, I fractured my left elbow. I was a student at American High School in Japan and my coach and sensei (or master teacher) was Noriaki Kiguchi. He wrapped my elbow, put it on ice and checked on me throughout...
Long before my friend, Bishop Dale Bronner, was pastoring a large church in Atlanta, he began working in the family business. And he was only 12 years old!"I started handling payroll for our entire organization," he recalls. "We had up to 500 employees, and I was the...
Every boy and girl dreams for a chance at greatness. But life has its issues and we end up going through disappointments, pain and struggles. Too often we forget those dreams of our childhoods. We forget that we were born for more.At Risen Nation Church in Deer Park,...
"When I prayed, I saw a child running scared."My friend, Malaysian businessman Alvin Goh Eng Leh, was praying for an elderly gentleman who had issues with anger and resentment. "A car drove into the driveway, and this child ran and hid underneath the stairs. I...
What do a former drug dealer and a missionary doctor have in common?JJ Ramirez got into the drug scene in Bryan/College Station, Texas when he was only 13 years old. "I was looking for identity," he explains, "because in the 1960s, being a child born out of wedlock or...
Ronnie Baker grew up without a dad and not in the greatest neighborhood. He didn't have money to go to college—and certainly not to train as a premier athlete. But through divine providence, he just returned from Tokyo as a runner for Team USA in the 2021...
When the IRS came knocking on the door at Whitaker House Publishing, Bob Whitaker Jr. knew it was serious. But he did not know it was the beginning of an ordeal that would last for 14 years.I've had the privilege of being friends with the Whitaker family for many...
In 2012, Ken Harrison was ready to retire and live the good life, after serving for years as an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department then working in the business world."I retired and was planning on a life of doing what I wanted to do after a long life of...
On Father's Day 2013, when my daughter was 11 years old, she gave me a card that read, "On Father's Day, the world revolves around you. Tomorrow, it can go back to revolving around me, thus restoring balance and harmony to the universe."Then she wrote, "I love you,...