Mel Gibson’s, The Passion of the Christ is one of the most controversial films to be produced in a long time. There is a reason for this—it is one of the most anointed and powerful films produced in a very long time.

I watched it with a small group of invited guests a few weeks ago. It was by far the hardest movie that I have ever watched, but was also the most powerful and impacting. After watching great movies, I often wake up the next day thinking about them, and will often think about them...

In every country I visit I usually have at least one meeting with pastors, business and government leaders. In the last few months, I think I have been asked one common question in every one of these meetings. The question is concerning what I think about the situation in Iraq—if I think it was a just war, and what I think the future is going to be there.

First, let me preface this by saying that I do not feel qualified to answer this question with authority from either my country, the United States, or from the Lord. Please consider...

Hosting conferences is one of our primary callings as a ministry. To date we have hosted about fifty. However, I have never felt the kind of anticipation that I had for Harvest Fest 2003, which was held last week. I was not disappointed. It surpassed all of my expectations. I have no doubt that it was the most significant meeting of any kind that we have ever hosted.

I want to personally thank all of you who attended, and those who could not, for your prayers for us during that time. I talked to one young man who arrived near...

With our upcoming Harvest Fest, we will have hosted about fifty conferences altogether. Our whole team is basically on autopilot for them now, and sometimes we do not start getting ready until a couple of days before the conference. I was surprised when I started feeling an uncommon sense of anticipation for this one many months ago. This caused me to start inquiring of the Lord about it then. I was immediately told that this was going to be the most important conference or event we have ever hosted. Even so, I have only recently been shown why.

I am...

A couple of years ago the media coverage of a few shark attacks made it seem that the waters were churning with killers on a rampage. Millions fled the beaches out of fear and a great many have not yet returned. What really happened is that there were fewer newsworthy stories that summer than normal. The shark attacks caught the public’s interest, so the media rode this story for as long as they could, dramatizing every attack more than what normally would have been covered. The perception that was the result of the magnified coverage was that shark attacks had...