No One like Jesus

Christmas is five days from today. It is celebrated by more people around the globe than any other holiday. Why?

Because no greater person ever walked the earth than Jesus Christ.

For the next few weeks I will re-publish the most important blogs I have ever done. They’re important because they focus on the one person who’s most crucial to our lives–both here on earth and also after we die. He is “the Way” in both realms.

There is no one like Jesus.

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If I Were the Devil

I’ve never been big on conspiracy theories though the blocking of the JFK assassination papers from the public makes me wonder what’s being hidden. Fortunately, in the the next life, everything will be revealed (Luke 12:3). I’m sure we’ll be shocked about “what really took place” in history.

I do believe in one conspiracy the Bible describes and is caricatured in C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters and Frank Peretti’s This Present Darkness:

The devil and his demons conspiring to destroy human beings.

During the past one hundred years, if I were the devil, what would I do?

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Keep Jesus At the Center

One of the blessings of keeping a lifetime journal is celebrating “special days” on my Life Calendar.

On July 19,1973, God spoke to me, a bewildered but passionate twenty-year old, to become a “teacher of his Word” as part of my calling. I have fulfilled that assignment for the past fifty years in many settings around the world.  

The most provocatively titled teaching I’ve ever given is called “The Secret of Happiness.” 

It has to do with putting Jesus at the CENTER of your life.

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