Dear Wake Up Family: Nearly 35 years ago, Larry and I signed the documents to begin a ministry proclaiming that Jesus is coming soon. The name we chose for this organization was Video Tape Ministries <grin> and neither of us anticipated it would have a long life! Within a year, we decided to change the…
Dear Wake Up Family: Last week, I listened to an interview with Colonel Douglas Macgregor and had to pause the video when he made this statement, “If our cause is just, why do we have to lie about it?” I thought he asked a good question. Although he was discussing politics and foreign policy in…
Dear Wake Up Family: Society is rapidly reaching a tipping point. Gas prices are skyrocketing, inflation is out of control, society is becoming more divided, families and friends are splitting apart, tempers are flaring, and hate is prevalent everywhere. News outlets exaggerate depressing stories, but the negative impact of events affecting each of us is…
Dear Wake Up Family: Winston Churchill once replied to a critic who had chastised him for ending a sentence with a preposition, “That is the sort of thing up with which I will not put!” His lighthearted response was a good one. As a public figure, Churchill probably deserved a great deal of criticism, but…
Dear Wake Up Family: Nearly twenty-five years ago, in July 1998, a small group of Bible students met in a classroom at scenic Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. They were attending a Wake Up “camp meeting” as Larry liked to call it. Four years earlier, planet Earth had reached a significant, relatively unknown, milestone…
Dear Wake Up Family: Last year, I began reading The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This massive tome is broken into three volumes of which I am currently on the second. Solzhenitsyn’s monumental and exhaustive accounts of one of the cruelest ideologies in history should be read by everyone everywhere. It’s astonishing what humans will…
