June 17, 2026
Dear Friends,
This week two men prayed with me according to the pattern of Luke 18:13 & Romans 10:9.
The first is a young man working in a materials science startup company in Houston. He graduated from MIT one year ago with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He started coming with some others from this small company. First, he came with them to our home to watch the Super Bowl. Then he started coming to the college lunches. Then he began attending the college Bible studies and the following lunches. I ask him about his upbringing and whether he attended church. He said that he had attended until about age 12, then his entire family stopped going. So I told him, “Next week I would like to sit with you after lunch and explain to you the gospel so you properly understand Christianity.” He said, “I’d like that.’ So we met the following week. I took him through the gospel, and he immediately received. He committed to the daily 15-minute Bible reading each morning, and to the weekly Bible study in Growing in Christ. Chuck Lloyd assigned him a mentor.
The next is an 83-year-old retired physician who had practiced for over 50 years, and he wrote:
Dear Doctor Tour,
You and Dr. Stephen Meyer are my heroes. His books and your YouTube videos combined with the glorious documentary, “The Story of Everything” have changed my life. I have been an agnostic for my entire 83 year old life, not about God, but about Jesus’ resurrection. The evidence of Intelligent Design you two present is so strong that I now envision a series of Miracles leading from the Big Bang to Jesus coming to Earth, with Fine Tuning, the creation of DNA, photosynthesis, the K-T extinction event, the mammalian evolution leading to Homo sapiens as God’s planned preparation for Christ. As a physician with a BA in Chemistry, the evidence is overwhelming, but I am still sceptical about the Resurrection. His body stolen from the tomb by his disciples or by Joseph of Arimethea to “fulfill” the promise of resurrection is a notion I struggle with. My mother was a Methodist choir director and devout Christian and is in heaven waiting for me to get it straight and I am running out of time. Can you help me Dr. Tour?
Blessings,
_____________________, MD
This is a man longing to have the truth about the resurrection explained to him. We met, and one hour later, he was proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus and His resurrection from the dead. After we finished speaking, he explained to me what had put him over the finish line to believe: “The evidence is overwhelming.” Many people have never heard the evidence for the resurrection, and when they do, they are inevitably convinced. This old physician was truly filled with joy. He was finally home, and he knew it. He wrote:
Dear Dr. Tour,
I was blessed beyond measure to be chosen to spend the hour with you yesterday. My life has been changed forever. I have begun my assignment and look forward to meeting my mentor.
Respectfully, ___________________
Acts 16:30, 34 “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”…“He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God.”
Acts 13:48 “As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of God. As many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”
Acts 8:8 When they heard the gospel and believed, “There was great joy in that city.”
God bless,
Jim Tour
