Nanci and I had a wonderful time last weekend with the people of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. What a wonderful church family, with great Christ-centered worship.

In this video, Randy Alcorn welcomes visitors to our website. He talks about what is on our website, including books and thousands of resources on various subjects.

One of my lifelong loves has been reading great books. I lament the decrease in the number of Christians who are avid readers. We seem to be more interested in television, movies, popular culture, and all kinds of trivia than in great books. And we are leading our children and grandchildren into functional illiteracy, shallowness, and superficiality.

My friend Todd Dubord passed on these insights from the book Celebrating Failure by Ralph Heath. I look back at the past year and see several things I would do differently, in relationship to my church, and other challenging things I faced.  

Since writing my novel Safely Home, which is set in China and involves religious persecution, I’ve received innumerable confirmations of the persecution of Chinese Christians.   

Those who follow me on Facebook might remember some pictures I posted at the end of last year, from a trip I took to Los Angeles to do some filming with Don Miller about my books Heaven and If God Is Good. 

Randy Alcorn, Dan Franklin, and Diane Meyer at Good Shepherd Community Church.

Randy Alcorn, Dan Franklin, and Diane Meyer discuss the sanctity of human life at Good Shepherd Community Church. Diane Meyer tells a story of abortion and healing in January 2010.