We’ve just completed the first day of our Front Line Shepherd’s Conference in Dakar, Senegal sponsored by CLC and Global Advance.  In addition to Chris and me, we’re also thrilled to have Evangelist Rick McNeely participating as one of the speakers for this conference.  He’s a missions veteran, and it really showed on this opening day in [...]

Amazing how the mind works, to forget the ‘joys’ of international travel.  But after a 4-hour layover at Washington Dulles (with a Fuddrucker’s burger to sweeten the wait) and an 8-hour flight in the most-confining airline seat ever invented, we arrived safely in Dakar this morning (just after midnight on Tuesday morning in Chicago).
Walked off [...]

Chris and I are headed to O’Hare this morning for a flight to Washington, DC and then on to Dakar, Senegal.  It’s actually our first trip there since dedicating the headquarters church built with CLC funds back in 2006, so I’m looking forward to seeing all our CAPRO friends and the other pastors we’ve come [...]

I was a little impatient in posting, as Pastor Shanna Neal just sent more details about the incredible service in South Bend today, and it was too good to keep to myself:
“Well,  first we had an a great intercessory prayer time, and God spoke through that, but we didn’t plan on it spilling over….

Chad opened [...]

I don’t even know where to start…..
This was one of the most amazing weekends of my life.
It started with my only daughter’s wedding yesterday morning.  Many of you in attendance told me afterwards that it was the most beautiful and most ’spiritual’ weddings you’d ever attended, and many others told me you cried with me [...]

Today is the day for which you’ve waited several months.  Actually, it’s a day you’ve dreamed about for years.
Savor every moment.
Enjoy the people who surround you on this, your wedding day.
Smell the coffee.  (By that, I mean take in every detail – it’s all for YOU!)
We’ll capture it all in pictures, so you can re-live [...]

A faithful CLCer writes, “I would like to know if I have the legal right/authority to repent on behalf of members of my immediate family that have not committed their lives to Christ?”
If I’m understanding the question, or more importantly, the desire behind it – the answer is ‘no’.  Turning from sin and receiving Christ [...]

Today is normally my day off.  Chris & I usually run some errands, eat out, sit at Borders with some books, or perhaps take in a movie.
Not today.
Today we’ll welcome our friends, Pastors Gordon & Derozette Banks, who will be officiating at our daughter’s wedding this Saturday so I get to focus on being the [...]

I was asked about our multiple campuses and their history on Sunday, so let me explain.  More & more churches are going multi-site these days, and the ‘experts’ say that trend will only continue in the future.  It only makes sense, because we can reach more people for less money, by leveraging the resources we [...]

That’s a question we hear often…sometimes from skeptics or scoffers, but sometimes even from genuine believers who are hurting.  It’s a question I’ve tried to answer many times over the years.
That’s why I was excited to learn that best-selling author Randy Alcorn has just released a book by that title.  I got a copy in [...]