Hank Speaks Out Archive

“Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?” (1 Corinthians [...]

The tragedy in Haiti is all over the news, and it is a stark reminder that life is paper-tissue thin. Last week I participated in the funeral of a friend, and each day the obituary column is replete with new fresh faces—some very young—and a reminder that the tragedy of life is not to die [...]

As we start out the broadcast today, I want to say just a couple of worlds about the Legacy Reading Plan. We’ll be talking about this a little more tomorrow, but this reading plan is an innovative approach to reading through God’s 66 love letters one book at a time and to do so for [...]

I want to spend just a few moments talking about the word “Advent.” We’re celebrating the advent season. Very few people seem to know when I talk to them what Advent means. It actually literally means coming. As such, Advent is a season in which the Christian church celebrates the “coming” in flesh of our [...]

as we approach Christmas—we’re getting closer and closer every day—we are attempting to get people to prepare their hearts for Christmas, just as they so often prepare their homes.   Today, I want to spend just a few moments at the opening of the broadcast talking about the word “Immanuel”. In Christ, all the fullness [...]

I was at a debate this past weekend that featured Christopher Hitchens, and during the debate he made a big point of the notion that miracles such as the virgin birth should be discounted because they are absurd in the age of scientific enlightenment.   Miracles are not only possible but necessary in order to [...]

I was thinking the other day about the early 90’s, and being with Chuck Colson in Chicago when he was receiving The Templeton Award, and he talked about the enduring revolution of the cross. In his message and acceptance speech, he mentioned the myth of a coming Utopia. Of course, this is the myth that [...]

Within my “Legacy Study Bible Reading Plan,” we are now in November and staring to read the book of Romans. You want to get into Romans, one of the great pieces of literature in general, but from the perspective of a Christian, this is the infallible repository of redemptive revelation.   You see in Romans [...]

At the Christian Research Institute, it’s Christmas a couple of months early, and the reason for this is not just because we want to you get a book this year; rather, we want you to experience a tradition, and I want to start that tradition today by talking just a little bit about Immanuel.   [...]