Well, I can't believe that tomorrow is a new year! It is hard to believe that 2007 is over. I hope that each of you had a nice Christmas! We had family on my dad's side to come to our house. That included 13 people and two dogs. We had a wonderful Christmas this year. It was much calmer than last year. Last year part of our family came down with the stomach virus and it was not a pretty sight. I enjoy family so much especially since I am an only child. This year we did not even cook at home. We ended up going out to eat both days which was a nice break for my mom.

Another highlight was my birthday was yesterday and I turned 30. Very hard for me to believe but I am excited for a new decade. This weekend I am having a party to really celebrate the momentous number!

I hope each of you have a wonderful new year and I know that I want to make 2008 the best year possible and do everything I can to serve the Lord more.

Well, this has been a busy week. Right now I am working on letter number 4 that we send out in December. Along with that we are sending out our christmas orders and other materials that people have requested. On top of everything I went with my parents to Dallas this past weekend for a conference and also to help with the taping we did on the topic of dating the book of Revelation. That went very well. It was so cold in Dallas and they almost got some ice. It was foggy and cloudy every day we were there.

This weekend my mom and I are singing in our choir for the christmas musical at our church and also we are trying to finish last minute details for Christmas. After this weekend we have one more taping we are doing as a follow up to the debate we taped this past weekend. That will be on Wednesday. So, needless to say it is going to be busy up until Christmas.

One thing that was very interesting this past weekend was that many people at the conference (which was a pre-trib conference) were there because of our program. It was so neat to hear all the stories of how our program has changed lives through the years.

Well, here it is a few weeks before Christmas. It is hard to believe that it is the end of the year. This year, my mom and I started early on shopping and we only have two people left. One of them happens to be my dad. I know that might be suprising but he is a hard person to buy for.

This weekend we are going to Dallas for a pre-trib conference that we are helping out with. We are taking some of our staff so I hope that you will pray for us as we go!

This is a busy time at the office. In the month of December we do three mailings and a gift ot our top givers. So, I am halfway through with all the mailings and gifts that we send out. That does not include the regular orders and christmas orders that we send out. The key is to stay on top of everything.

Well, I wish you well in shopping and all your plans for this wonderful Christmas holiday!

Can you believe that Thanksgiving is over? It is hard to believe that Christmas is a month away. Our Thanksgiving was very peaceful this year. We actually went out to eat because it was just our immediate family and no extended family. Overall it was a relaxing weekend and we even got half of our christmas shopping done. I have to hand it to the people who get up early and go on black Friday! I could not do that. My mom and I went shopping on Saturday and there were no people and there were bargains too! It was great!

So, we start another week. We covet your prayers for the ministry as we end this year. There are many exciting things to come and the Lord keeps opening doors up!

It has been over a year since my dad's surgery and he is doing well. He is much stronger and is able to do more things than before. I hope you will continue to pray for him and all the pressures he has upon him.

This past weekend I went with my parents and some of our staff to a conference that Southern Evangelical (Norman Geisler's school) did. There were about 4,000 people that attended. They had speakers such as Josh McDowell and his son, Erwin Lutzer, Gary Habermas and many others. My dad spoke on Saturday morning and the interesting thing was that many people had never heard of our ministry and it was their first time to come to this conference.

I enjoyed so much meeting the people at our booktable! It was a wonderful conference and there were people who gave their life to the Lord. That makes it all worth while.

On another note, it is Thanksgiving next week! Time has gone too fast! At our house, we are busy decorating for christmas. We have family on my dad's side that comes and it takes awhile to put up the decorations. I know that this year I have a lot to be thankful for! At this time last year my dad was about to go into surgery. I thank the Lord that he saved my dad's life and he is still around to do the ministry God has called him to do! He is doing very well and I hope that you will continue to pray for him and that he contiues to have the strength he needs for each day! There is a lot to do in running a ministry but we are thankful for what the Lord is doing.

We are also thankful that the Lord opened the door to go back on the Inspirational Network this past weekend! Many people that have not been able to see us can watch us once again! I hope that you have a wonderful thanksgiving and to be thankful for all the the Lord has done in your life and for your family. Thanks for your support in this ministry.

Can you believe how close we are to Christmas? Where has this year gone? This past weekend I went to Nashville with some friends from college. It was so much fun! It was so good to be together. That is one thing I miss about college is my friends because we are all spread out.

We are in the midst of all our conferences and traveling quite a bit. Last weekend my parents were a part of a conference in Dallas where the topic was about Jesus and the media. This next weekend we are going to Charlotte, NC for an apologetics conference that my dad is speaking at.

I hope that you will continue to pray for our ministry and this time of year because we are starting on new stations both for radio and tv and for all our engagements that we are involved in.

I can't believe that it is almost the end of October. This week is a short week because I am leaving to go to Nashville to see some college friends for the weekend and my parents are going to Dallas for the weekend for a conference and also for a banquet that we are doing for the ministry. I hope that you will pray for my parents and for the trip they have this weekend! We also have some of our staff traveling and going with them so pray for their safety too.

One exciting thing we found out this week is that we have been given a one minute slot on Moody radio every day to promote the program. We are very thankful for this opening and we pray that new people will be able to find us. We are the only apologetics ministry out their where we answer the questions and defend the truth of christianity.

Well once again I am working on our appeal letter and getting the booktable together that we will be doing in Dallas the end of October. So, it is very busy around here.

The last weekend my parents and part of our staff will be in Dallas for a conference and they will also be doing a banquet. I hope that you will pray for them that weekend and for their safety as they go!

We had some good news happen this past week! Some very generous donors helped us to get back on INSP at a very good time. The time is at 9:30 p.m. eastern time on Sunday night! If you get INSP I hope that you will watch us on this new time. We thank the Lord for bringing this about! We also thank the Lord for wonderful people that help us on a daily basis. We could not do this ministry without them.

This week has gone fast - we are getting ready for conferences and booktables and letters to go out - this gets to be our busy time but one that is very fruitful too!

My parents are gone again this weekend for another business trip! This past week my dad along with his co-writer Dillon Burroughs did many radio interviews on their new book "What's the Big Deal About Jesus". We have some resources from those interviews on the website. That book is a great one to give people because my dad has put together many inerviews with the scholars on who Jesus is and who the media trys to portray him.

In the mean time, we are working out to hopefully have a three minute deal on the radio about our program that will air on Moody and hopefully some other stations. This is an answer to prayer and I hope that you will continue to pray that we can get on some more radio stations and help that expand like the t.v.

Our ministry is very small and the expenses are very big! We could not do it without faithful people who will give and help us to continue to defend the Word of God!

I can't believe that it is October 2 already. My parents just got back from a trip to CA. In the mean time, we are gearing up for the fall and for the different conferences coming up! Right now we are airing the series that we did with Lee Strobel. If you don't have this series, I hope that you will get it for yourself or for a friend. What I like about this series is that Lee Strobel was an editor for the Chicago Tribune and was an atheist right down the line. Because his wife got saved he started to investigate who Jesus Christ was. He explains this and also about how the media is destroying the person and character of God.

I hope you will pray for us and for my dad. He is doing very well but he still needs prayer for the conferences and programs that are coming up! I hope you will also pray for our staff and for the many responsibilities that we all have. Many of us are doing 5 different jobs because we are so small. If one person is out it slows us down. Thank you for supporting us and for standing with us. If you live near Charlotte or in Dallas I hope that maybe you can come to some of the conferences that we are apart of. There are more details on our website about what is coming up!

Don't the weeks fly by - once again we have started our monthly mailing here at the show and we have a busy fall coming up!

This weekend my parents are traveling out to California to visit some of our donors. I hope that you will pray for them as they go. We have some exciting events coming up this fall that we are doing or helping out with. It is amazing to see how the Lord works in situations.

Just to let you know, my dad and his co-author has a new book called "Defending the Faith" which will be coming out soon. A very good resource for churches and small groups to use. If you have not already bought our book "What's the Big Deal About Jesus" I recommend that you do! It is a combination of different programs with the best Jesus scholars in the world. It is a wonderful resource to use especially in witnessing to your friends and relatives.

Thank you for your prayers and I hope that you will continue to pray for our ministry as we defend the truth of the gospel.

It is hard to believe that 6 years has passed since the attacks on 9/11. When we went to New York last week, I was trying to fathom all that went on that day! It really gives you goose bumps when you go down to ground zero. We talked to several of the people working in the stores around there and they were not there on 9/11. They said that the terroists may have killed thousands of people but they did not change anything.

There could be more attacks to come but thanks to our security we have been safe! Whether you agree with the war going on or not, the terroists are all over the world and in their religion of Islam they don't care about life. Their mission is to kill and be rewarded for that!

I hope that today you will say a prayer for our military, our president and the other leaders for all that they are doing!

I remember in school when I never heard of islamic terroists. Bin Laden was never named. Now, all of this is a threat and will continue to be until the Lord returns.

Well, we just got back from our trip up north! We went to a conference in New Jersey called America's Keswick. It is a wonderful bible conference that my dad spoke at for their final weekend of summer events. One thing they do there that nobody else has done is they have a place called the Colony where men who have had problems with drugs and alcohol can come and be under a strict regiment everyday and also hear the word of God spoken each day. The men are on a waiting list and they also go through an interview before they are let in. It is a wonderful program and so many stories of how men have come to know the Lord and also how they have regained their life once more.

After the conference we went to New York. We walked all around and went to a show. We also got to go down to where the WTC used to be. Right now it is under construction to rebuild the subway system and they will eventually rebuild some buildings and make a memorial to the victims of 9/11. It is hard to believe that those buildings are gone. It was a very moving sight and to know what went on that horrific day! I hope that we as Americans will never forget 9/11. I think we are starting too! I know that the New Yorkans have not forgotten and they have been forever changed!

Just wanted to update the fact that our taping went well on Thursday! We taped Lee Strobel who use to be a former atheist and now is a christian and was explaining the evidence that he came to about who Jesus was! It was a great day hearing from him! We will start to air those programs the week after Labor Day.

Pray for our family this weekend! We are going to be going up north where my dad is speaking at a conference. We are also going to take a little vacation in New York City too! I am very excited to go! The last time we were in New York was a few days before 9/11.

We have many conferences coming up that I will let you know about! My dad is feeling good and I am glad that he can speak in different places coming up! Continue to pray for the ministry and all that we are doing1

I wanted to share with some of you that over the past couple of weeks I have talked to some people who have really been impacted by the series that we are doing on creation! I had quite a few women who called and said that the program was an encouragement to their husbands because of circumstances they were in at the moment. I also had a lady call from Colorado who said that her son was glued to the tv and she was ordering two so that he could have one and also so she could give one to his science teacher.

You never know the impact the programs have on people. Plus, we will never know all the stories of how people were impacted by the John Ankerberg Show.

This week we are taping a new series with Lee Strobel. He was a former editor of the Chicago Tribune and a former atheist. Because of the evidence he found he became a christian. We are going to be talking to him on his experience and also on his new book that he has out. This will start airing in September after Labor Day! I hope that you will join in and watch.

It is so hot here this week as it is in so many other places. Today it is going to be 98 and the heat index will be well over 100 degrees! This is the time of year I feel bad for people who drive delivery trucks because they have no air!

I found out some bad news this past week. I have a friend who her husband was in the Army 7 years ago. He has been out but just last week they called him up to train and possibly go to Iraq. He was trying to get into the Navy as a chaplain but the Lord must have a different purpose for his life right now! I hope you will pray for him and for the other ones who are being called up! I know most people do not like the war and yes I would like for our soldiers to come home, but there is a job to do and we can not let the insurgents come over again to our country. I think that most people do not realize how much that the Muslims are taking over not only our country but around the world. Even in our city we have a mosque. We are definitely getting close to the end times.

Here at the ministry we are now showing the creation series we taped with Hugh Ross. It is so interesting to see our world and how it came about! I hope that you will tune in to watch!

I love talking to so many of our viewers. I talked to a lady just yesterday from South Africa who watches our program on Daystar and this weekend was the first time she had seen the program! How wonderful to know that when you send your donations to us we are helping people around the world!

First of all I want to say that I am praying for those people who have lost loved ones or ones that are missing in Minnesota. I have never seen anything like that before where the bridge just crumbled beneath those people. It is so sad how not a day goes by that something does not happen!

On another note, I was very saddened to hear about Robin Robert's breast cancer. My grandmother has breast cancer and so far she has been in the clear. Robin seems like a neat woman and is very kind and sensitive. We need to take it on ourselves to pray for her and what she is going through.

We are busy here at the ministry. We are getting ready to tape Mr Lee Strobel on his new book that is out. That will be the end of August. We are also planning the fall and my dad is going to be speaking at several places. He spoke at our church this past Sunday and that is really the first time he has preached since his surgery. He is doing better and goes again to get his checkup! He still needs prayer for strength each day!

The last thing I want to share is our family found out some exciting news. My cousin is going to have a baby in March which will be the first one. That will definitely change things when we go on vacation as a family next summer! I am so excited for her!

Well, I think I am back in the swing of things. The four hour time difference has really thrown me for a loop! It usually does not take me this long to get back into the right time! What is strange is to see darkness because for two weeks I never saw it!

Next year, we are planning on taking a trip to Rome and do a cruise from Rome and we will be going to Florence, Naples, Monte Carlo and Pompeii just to name a few places. This will be in July and the airfare is included with the cruise. I hope that you will consider coming. You can get more details on our website or we will be glad to send a brochure to you. I hope that you will consider this.

Can you believe how fast the summer is going? I am shocked that we are almost into August. I think with being gone that has made the summer go faster. As my friends say I am never home and they wonder where in the world I am now! We are getting ready for the fall and my dad is planning some speaking engagements. I hope that you will continue to pray for him as he needs continued strength each day!

Well, we just got back from our trip to Alaska! What a beautiful state to see God's creation. We did a cruise that left from Vancouver and went to Ketchikan, Juneau, Sitka, Icy Point Strait and we saw the Hubbard Glacier. The cruise was a week and we had 15 people in our group that went.

It rained and was pretty cold but it definitely gave us the flavor of Alaska. Did you know that as of right now they are losing 5 minutes a day of sunlight? They have only 3-4 hours of light in the winter time and the rest it is completely dark. This is the best time to go because in the winter it can be 50 below zero and snow is all around.

After the cruise we went from Anchorage up to Denali National park by train which took 8 hours. It was so much fun. The scenery was beautiful! We were able to eat breakfast and lunch on the train. In Denali park, we went on a tour that was about 8 hours where we went through the park and got to see a lot of wildlife. We saw grizzly bears, moose, caribou, a wolfe, rabbits, the state bird, eagles and on and on I could go. We were also able to see the bottom and the summitt of Mt. McKinley. It was beautiful! After being in Denali we left and went back by train to Fairbanks and did some touring there before we flew home.

We were very thankful that we made all our planes on time and there were no big delays. Our bags did not get home with us until the next day but at least we were home! If you ever get the chance to go to Alaska you need to take the train out of Anchorage or Fairbanks that goes to denali park. That shows Alaska in all its glory. Alaska is so unique and is so different from the rest of the US. You almost feel like you are in another country.

Now that we are back, it is time to get in the swing of things again. I will let you know more of what is coming up next week!

So, I am busy getting ready to leave for our trip to Alaska! I am very excited about it! It is always figuring out what to take to wear! Some places we are going will be warm and other places will be cold! I think that it will actually be very cool for us since we have been use to 90 degree weather and humidity. We have a great group of people going and it will be nice to have a small group to tour Alaska with.

We have some exciting things coming up! We are trying to set up new proga,s that are relevant and my dad has several books that will be coming out in the next year! The one book we are excited about is called "What's the Big Deal About Jesus?". This will come out the first of August. There are many things my dad put in the book that he has not aired and I hope that you will get it and read it and also share the book with friends and family.

Well, that is it until we get back which will be in about two weeks. It is hard to believe that next week is the Fourth of July! Time is going quickly!

I am sure that many of you saw the sad story of the mother in Ohio who was killed. They came out with the fact that her boyfriend had been drinking and after he left the bar he was at he went to her house to kill her! On the Today Show, there was a girl that I saw who had a relationship with the same guy and she talked about how dangerous he was and how he stalked her. I think it is great how the community came out and helped to find this girl, but I also see a sad situation where this girl could still be alive. This world is getting to be more and more scary to live in because of people! We are just passing through and this world is so not our home! What a great truth! I know that we should pray for this girl's family and aslo for her boyfriend that he might see the truth.

This week we are getting ready to leave for our trip to Alaska. We actually don't go until next Tuesday, but there are many things to be done! I am so looking forward to our trip! There will be much to tell when we get back!

This week we have some good news to tell. My dad's co-author, Dillon Burroughs, is now working here at our office full time. He was living in Indiana but the Lord worked it out for him to move his family here to Chattanooga and to be apart of our staff full time. It is so wonderful since there are many books they are writing that will be coming out soon!

In the mean time, we are busy with letters and programs going out because our family will be going to Alaska in two weeks that we are doing for the ministry. I am looking forward to it. I have been to Alaska but there are parts we are going to that I have not been to before! We are planning a trip to Rome next year and brochures will be coming out soon! I hope that if you have never been with us on a trip, that you will consider coming next summer with us. We have a great trip planned for an affordable price. What is exciting is to meet the people that support our ministry and to get to know them and have some fun and bible teaching at the same time.

On another note, I am going to get political for a second. I am not a fan of Hillary Clinton, but this week she came out with a theme song to get people to come to her website. On it, she and her husband, did a spoof off of the sopranos. It was very well done and it gets people to come to her website and learn more about her campaign. This is going to be an interesting election. It is one where the christians need to stand for what they believe. The next president has a lot to deal with because the world is coming closer to the rapture. Nobody yet thrills my soul for president and I hope that one will stand up for the values of this country and also show the leadership that we need as a country.

Well, hope everybody had a great weekend! We just started a brand new series called Every Man's Challenge and later we will do Every Woman's Challenge. This is such a great series for anybody who is single or getting ready to be married or is already married! We had three wonderful guests on the program who shared their life stories and what they learned.

I really do love summer as long as the humidity is not too bad! It has been very warm here and we have had no rain! But, this week is suppossed to be hotter. I know that summer is here because down on the river here in Chattanooga they have a festival called Riverbend and they bring in top people that sing. This year we have people like Vince Gill and Ricky Skaggs. Each year they have different people that come in! It is too crowded for me and too hot! Always when Riverbend is on it rains at the beginning and the rest of the week is hot!

One exciting note is that our other writer, Dillon Burroughs, is moving his family down this week and will start working for us full time starting next Monday! We are so glad that he will be with us at our office and it will make writing easier. Continue to pray that everything goes well with their move and that their transition will be smooth.

Sorry I have not written lately. We just got back from a vacation with my dad's side of the family. We went to the beach and it was so wonderful that I did not want to come home! This was a great time to go because it was cooler and I actually was cold sitting on the beach! We have 12 of us altogether and we all stay in one house! Some people can not imagine doing that but it is so fun and we all get along! We rent a house with a pool and one that is walking distance to the beach. It was fun to catch up with our family and it is so neat to see how God is working in the lives of my cousin. Just to give you an example, my one cousin is in Canada at a bible school and is loving it. He did so well in Greek that he helped the professor last year grade papers. He is wanting to start som small ministries and it is so neat to hear him pray too. He sounds like a preacher. Some of the stuff he is learning is over my head but the knowledge he has is incredible!

Back at the ranch, I am trying to catch up on work. We are doing a taping with Erwin Lutzer this week. This Sunday we will be starting a new series on the challenges that young men and women face and also that married couples face. I believe it is going to be an excellent series and I hope that it will touch many people in areas that they need as far as relationships are concerned.

My dad continues to gain strength each day and I hope that you will continue to pray for him and that he will continue to keep his strength up! He is writing books and working on the taping coming up!

That is it for now and I will update you later.

I want to recognize a very special person. This past weekend my parents went to Nebraska to celebrate his cousin's graduation from law school. She got top honors and she is now studying for the bar exam which will be later this summer. I was not able to go but I congratulate her and all the studying she has done!

I want to say another word on the passing of a great evangelical Jerry Falwell. My dad knew him and was very sad to hear of his passing. There may have been statements that we did not always agree with Dr. Falwell on but he stood on the Word of God and preached the Word of God! He also started a wonderful school called Liberty University! A school that has grown so much because of the publicity on tv. I almost went to school there but the Lord had me go elsewhere. I hope that you will join me in praying for the Falwell family and as they take a new direction of leadership!

On a last not I have talked about the show Lost and how much I enjoy watching it. I heard that they are going to continue the series until 2010. My dad decided it would be a good idea to do a book on the show and all the implications that is brings out! I think what makes it so successful is the fact that there are so many twists and turns and what you think may happen does not happen! Plus, I love the characters on the program and how they go back to their past and show what they did before they got stranded. Anyways, if you have not watched it is something to start doing1 I think it is worth it!

Yesterday, I was so fascinated with the queen coming to the white house and all the preparations for the dinner last night! I love to dress up every once in awhile like what they did! It made me think about how we look at people with royalty but we have royalty because we are a child of God! That is so wonderfull and reassuring. I can only imagine what Heaven will be like. More beautiful than anything here and something that will last forever!

This past weekend I went back to my university in Greenville, SC. For those of you who don't know I went to Bob Jones. It brought back so many memories and the school is so beautiful! They have fixed all the buildings and the grounds are immaculate. I went with a friend and we toured the school a little and saw the play they did! At the end of every year, the school puts on a Shakespeare play! This year they did Henry IV. It was so good and so professional. I think if I had to take a class again I would take a Shakespeare class. I love his work and his plays are so well done!

It is hard to believe that summer is right around the corner! When I was in school, time went very slow and now that I am out it is going too fast! Probably because I am getting older!

Can you believe it is the end of April already? In school I use to love this time of year because of graduation and most of the time it was beautiful! Our weather here is beautiful today but it has been rainy and windy some too. It will be interesting to see what the summer brings.

Our summer is going to be busy between family vacations and our trip to Alaska. In the mean time I am hoping to see some friends from college also.

If you have not seen the program lately, we are airing our series we did with Jimmy DeYoung on prophecy and in June we will be going to our series on relationships and issues that single people and married people deal with. It was a great series that was taped and I hope that you will be able to watch it.

I hope that you will continue to pray for my dad. He had hurnia surgery last week and is very sore but overall he is on the mend. Pray for strength for him and also as he is working on other programs and writing books. He just had his heart surgery in November but is not up to the task of doing a lot of things quite yet! That will come in time.

What a sad week this has been after the tragedy at Virginia Tech. We have some friends whose son teaches at VT in computers I believe. He was fine but we have not talked to him since everthing happened. Of course today is the anniversary of columbine's shooting. When I was in school I never worried about someone coming in and shooting. It is very scary how we send kids to college and even high school and instead of being concerned about learning they have to worry about security.

Personally, I believe that the school should have expelled the shooter after he set his dorm room on fire. Of course, he probably would have come back and killed people anyways. Anyways, it should have been a policy that they should have followed through with. If someone is trying to burn their room and dorm I think that is a serioues problem.

Anyways, I feel very bad for the parents and friends and siblings of these students. Life can go on but they will never be the same. The school that I went to (Bob Jones University) sent a banner which all the faculty and students signed. I hope that other schools will support and pray for VT and that we as a nation will too. They definitely need it!

This past weekend I went to Atlanta to see our family with my mom. We went to celebrate my cousin's birthday. We surprised her and we had a good time of shopping and eating! It was very cold here this weekend! I know that I can not complain because many of you live in the northeast and really are getting the snow and rain! Crazy weather for April but it is not due to global warming.

This week we have our taping on Thursday so we are getting ready for that! My dad finally finished his cardiac rehab and is now excercising on his own. Even though he had the surgery you still have to exercise and be careful what you eat so you don't have to go in again a second time. The one thing he learned is that he does not want to go through that again! He looks good and is getting more strength. I hope that you will continue to pray for his health.

I wanted to say a word about the trip to Alaska. That will be in July and there is limited space now. It is going to be a great trip and if you would like to go I hope that you will call us and let us know. I have been to Alaska and it is beautiful. It will be a great time in July because it will be cooler during the day and especially at night! We are going to visit some unique places and the cruise ship will be nice also. I hope that you will look at our borchure online and come with us. We always have a great time on our adventures and I hope that you will consider this.

Well, I can't believe that Easter is over. Our family had a nice Sunday. We went out to eat which was nice. The only thing was that it was the coldest morning on record for Easter. It was colder than Christmas morning. That is so hard to believe. Crazy weather that has been going on!

On another note, my dad finished up his rehab and he is continuing to get better. Next week he will be doing another taping so he is trying to get ready for that. I hope that you will pray for him and that he continues to have strength.

Right now we are airing a series that we did with Darrell Bock on The Lost Tomb of Jesus where they said they found the bones of Jesus. Darrell is the main man that is interviewed on all the major networks and specials when these things come out against Jesus. It was a great series of programs and I hope that you will watch them both on t.v. and also on the internet.

Well, that is it for now. I will let you know what the taping will be on and some other things going on. Continue to pray for our ministry and all that we are doing for the Lord.

Well, we have done two tapings in the past two weeks and my dad survived them. This past Friday we had Darrell Bock on about the Lost Tomb of Jesus that has come out. We will be airing this program on Easter Sunday! He is such an intelligent man who is the foreman when anything comes out about Jesus. He has been interviewed by Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBC just to name a few! I hope you will watch this program because it answers so many questions.

On another note, I am a fan of College basketball and really like the girls more than the guys. Last night the Tennessee Vols played North Carolina and it was a wild game. So many turnovers and fouls called. Tomorrow night they will play in the championship with Rutgers College. It should be a good game. I really do like Pat Summitt. She is a tough coach but one who loves her players and really teaches the game to them! I always appreciated hard teachers in college and even in high school. They were the ones that taught me the most and ones that I definitely never forgot.

To end, this is Easter week! What a special week this is to remember all that God has done for us. I pray that we will all take time to sit down and write our testimony out of how we were saved and what the Lord has done in our life since we got saved. This I think will help us to remember this Easter season a little bit better.

I can't believe that next week will be the last week of March. This week has been busy because we are getting ready for our taping on Prophecy tomorrow. It is going to be with Jimmy DeYoung. I am not sure what the name of it will be because that is yet to be determined. I hope that you will pray for the taping and that the right words will be said.

On another subject I have some tv programs that I don't miss because they are so good. One of which is 24 and the other is Lost. My dad is going to do a book based on Lost coming soon. This is the first season that I have watched 24 and I am hooked. I have missed the other seasons and hope to catch up. It is scary how relevant the story is to what could happen and is trying to take place in our country. Now grant it, it is funny how Jack can be someplace overseas in the morning and go to about five different places in one day. Also, in downtown LA you can not get anywhere fast and in the story they can get places in 5 minutes. Anyways, I love the writing and the quick pace the story takes. It is well done and if you have not watched it I don't want to give things away.

Next time I will update you on the taping and some other things that are coming!

How many of you have been watching American Idol?

Now I know that some of you are not interested and some are. I personally never really get into it until you get down to the final 12. This year will be interesting to see what happens. The ones I liked and actually had good voices got kicked off. This is a singing contest not one where we see how cute a person is or his personality.

It is amazing to see how many millions of people watch each week. It is also intersting to note that when Idol started they went to many of the networks to get on and they all refused Idol. Who else but Fox picked up and look how well they have done.

What a great opportunity to get a record deal and try to make something of the talent you have. I think if the christian community would step up in this type of atmosphere what we could do to change the world. It would not have to neccessarily be singing but even someone like a Larry King who would have a christian viewpoint!

Time is running out and we need to step up to the plate and do things to change our world!

We have some new programs coming up. Next week we will be taping a new series on prophecy and what is happening with such countries as Iraq, Iran and Israel to name a few. Again we will have the experts in prophecy Dr. Jimmy DeYoung and Dr. Renald Showers on the program. I hope that you will pray for this series and that people will be opened to this information.

Well, here it is March already! Time is flying by. This month my dad will be taping for the first time again. He is going to be doing another prophecy series with Jimmy DeYoung and Renald Showers. It is going to be more of an updated program. There are so many things happening right now with Iran and even with the war in Iraq.

Then, next month we will be taping another new series. In the mean time, my dad is working on some other books. We have a new one that will be coming out in June called "What's the Big Deal About Jesus?". I think this will be a hit and one that all christians and non christians should get and read. Continue to pray for my dad's strength in the mean time.

I am sure that some of you have heard about the documentary that James Cameron has done on the Lost Tombs of Jesus. It aired this past Sunday night on discovery and we have put up articles by some of the well known evangelical scholars about this program. Of course, this is false information about the life of Jesus. We also know that Jesus is not buried in the grave, HE IS ALIVE! I am not going to go into much detail because we have put up articles on this that you can read for yourself and examine for yourself.

We put out programs to help you in your christian walk but you need to examine and discover truth for yourself. This is something recently that I have begun to discover for myself. It is like when you go to church and the pastor puts the words from the Bible on the screen. You need to take your Bible and read what he is reading. Don't take what someone else is reading. You need to see it for yourself. That is what I hope that you do with this series that has come out showing false evidence on Jesus.

Well, this is my first day back in the office. We just got back from the National Religious Broadcasters Convention that was in Orlando. It was a great convention but very very cold while we were attending. I thought I was going to Florida to warm up but that was not the case. Lots of good contacts were made while we were there.

Today was an exciting day here in Chattanooga. The President came to town to talk about healthcare at one of out largest hospitals. My mom and I saw the motorcade and we also saw the plane take off when they left. What a beautiful and large plane. It was very special to have him in town today.

Our series is still continuing on creation. It is doing very well and there is some great material that is discussed. We have many things coming up that I will tell you about later that is happening in the ministry.

This week we started our new series on Creation which is an excellent series. I hope that you will watch the series on t.v. or watch it online. Our guests were Dr. Hugh Ross, Dr. Fuz Rana and Dr. Ken Samples. We are also offering a dvd called Journey Toward Creation that Dr. Ross did and it goes back to the beginning of time showing what happened and how God made everything come together. It is very fascinating to me.

This week is a short week because the National Religious Broadcasters Convention is this week in Orlando. We are going and taking some of our staff. This is the main convention where all the broadcasters in radio and tv come together. Pray for our safety as we go.

My dad is improving and the doctor says he is coming along well. That is why he can travel this week. He is not up to speaking for things yet, but going places is fine. Continue to pray for his health and healing.

Can you believe that it is the first week of February? Hard to believe. I really do like the month of February not just because of Valentine's Day but because it is national heart month. This month gives new meaning to our family because of what my dad has gone through! Speaking of which he is doing well and progressing more and more. We are planning to do a taping in March which will be the first he has done in awhile.

Many of you have heard that my dad is suppossed to speak at Founder's Week which starts this week. Well, he will not be speaking because the doctor did not give him permission to do that yet! So, maybe next year!

While I am thinking about it I wanted to do a commercial for Precept Ministries that is run by Kay Arthur. Their ministry is here in Chattanooga too and I went to a conference in October of last year called "Youniquely Woman". Precept is doing it again this year in April. I encourage anyone who is single or married and is from age 25 - 45 to attend. It covers all issues from marriage to children to keeping a goldy household. The speakers are Kay Arthur, Emilie Barnes and Donna Otto. It is almost a week conference and packed from morning to night! It is so worthwhile. I hope that the women who are reading this will think about going.

Well, first of all I would like to say that our family likes football and we especially like the Chicago Bears being from Illinois and we also like the Indianaoplis Colts because my mom grew up in Indiana and Peyton Manning use to play for the Vols. So, the Super Bowl will be a good game I believe. Both games yesterday were nail biters but they were played really well over all.

Speaking of football, I went to see We are Marshall. What a great movie. A very sad beginning but a story of how they overcame having no team and rebuilding. Of course, this happened before my time, but this is something to see especially for those of you who may have been at Marshall or lived near by or just heard about it.

My dad continues to do well. I know that many of you have heard that he is speaking at Founders Week for Moody. He is not going to be able to go because he is not up to speaking yet. So, maybe next year he will be able to go. Continue to pray for him. He is making good progress but we don't need any set backs.

Well, here it is another week. It is hard to believe that we are about halfway through January. My dad continues to improve. Still doing his cardiac rehab. Each week they give him a little more to do as far as machines are concerned. Our family is very impressed with the people that work at the rehab place. He is in a class where he has to listen to tapes and after that they work on the machines.

We are starting to change our diet and exercise even more. Now that I have two people in my family with heart disease and a line of it in my family, I am watching what I eat. I have been exercising and I have also had a trainer.

I hope and pray that you will continue to pray for my dad as he continues to heal and improve each week.

I hope to have some pictures to put up from Christmas so that you can see our whole family.

Happy New Year! I wanted to give an update on my dad and the ministry of what is going on right now. My dad continues to recover very well. He is in rehab three times a week. He has not come back to work yet because his strength is not where it should be which is understandable. We as a family are starting to learn what to eat and what not to eat. He is on a pretty rigorous diet but it is good for our whole fam.

We had our whole family here for Christmas. It was very nice until christmas night my aunt and cousin came down with the stomach flu and they were stuck in our house. Not good when dad is recovering. Thankfully, with a lot of prayer, we have all avoided the flu so far.

For New Year's Eve we took our staff up to Whitestone Inn near Kingston TN. What a beautiful place. It is a bed and breakfast that is right on a lake. The rooms are beautiful and spacious. The food is wornderful. The bset I have ever had. Anyways, we had a fun weekend.

At our office, we made it through December. What a month of letters and orders going out! Right now we are airing again our Islam series because it is so relevant with what is going on in the middle east and with Iraq. I hope that you will watch and continue to support our ministry as my dad is out and recouperating.

We have many new things planned for this year! I hope that you will continue to pray for us as we go throughout this year!