YO! It was 47 years ago when ROCKY was released in theaters. City officials declared Sunday, December 3, 2023 as 'ROCKY DAY' and the box office champ showed up personally! Frank had the honor thanks to his godmother, Judy to meet Sylvester Stallone at age thirteen after she won a RAMBO II contest in 1985 [...]
PRAISE GOD! Coach Deion Sanders received our ministry leadership award. The Lord impressed on us to bless him and we love to honor those who are doing it right. When God tells you do to something we must get moving. Respect and honor are lacking in our culture today but winners recognize others without being [...]
What an honor it was last week to be part of the Field of Dreams evangelistic outreach in Dyersville, Iowa on May 20-21, 2022. My dear friend, Bruce from Tampa connected me with his pastor friend in Iowa who was hosting this incredible event on the very baseball field that Kevin Costner and Hollywood made [...]
Earlier this year, Ruth and I had the privilege to attend Pastor Rodney Howard Browne’s Winter Camp Meeting in Florida and it was an honor to preach daily in the morning for their incredible River Bible Institute chapel. We were visiting in his office after one of the services and he asked me a question [...]
Kenny and "Chopper" were two brothers. They were adopted and frequented the church I came to faith in JESUS as a child. They were African American and I was born into a middle class white family. Together we were "ebony and ivory." We were brothers in Christ and I looked up to them in more [...]
HARD TO BELIEVE but it will be eight years this summer that I stepped out "By Faith" on July 27, 2007 and left the benefits, prestige and salary of Capitol Hill to preach the Gospel forsaking retirement, health insurance and job security to do the work of an evangelist. Ironically, I didn't have a single [...]
Two and a half months from now churches and Christians all across America will be able to share their faith with family, friends and complete strangers with the latest outreach from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Dr. Graham turns 96 in November and the world was blessed tremendously by his message "MY HOPE - The [...]
This is week ONE of a 7 post series. Come back every Monday starting Sept 12, 2011 REBOUND - Our Position - His Disposition In basketball, rebounding is an art. It's not glamorous but imperative to win games. Basketball bad boy and former Chicago Bulls Dennis Rodman was a little different. Ok, that brother was [...]
We all worry at times. Jesus embodies faith yet talked about us overcoming our fear. Constantly Christ commanded: "FEAR NOT!" Fear is False Evidence Appearing Real. When we worry we worship anxiety NOT the Almighty. The Bible notes: "Perfect PEACE whose mind is stayed on thee (God)." I have found that when we worship more [...]
Yul Brenner played the lead in the Broadway play - "The King & I." God has been way too good to me. I wasn't sure what to title today's post but I have always said our testimony is more important than titles. The only "title" we really need is REDEEMED. Therefore, I hope to [...]
