Larry Alan Thompson

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An award-winning creative writer, Larry Alan Thompson has made a career out of distilling a message down to its simplest form—and making it memorable. Combine this experience with seminary training, a decades-long quest for knowing God, and ministry at one of the largest churches in the world, and you get a breakthrough book like Know Be Do. President and CEO of Eternity Communications, Thompson uses his wit and wisdom to create Christianity’s newest catchphrase: Know Be Do. His innovative perspective offers a whole new lens for reading the Bible and experiencing God.

Larry has been married to his wife Tina, also an author and Bible teacher, for 33 years. They have two married daughters. Larry and Tina live in Lexington, Kentucky in a 173-ye
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Larry Alan Thompson Know Be Do is a book that was 30 years in the making. Over this time of growing as a believer, God progressively showed me deeper and deeper levels of…moreKnow Be Do is a book that was 30 years in the making. Over this time of growing as a believer, God progressively showed me deeper and deeper levels of the Christian life. Eventually, I summed it all up in "Know Be Do." After sharing the concept in a brief devotional to our church staff, Dr. Adrian Rogers, the late pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church and founder of Love Worth Finding, asked me to preach the message at Bellevue, which I did. That was 15 years ago. As my life message, the idea has been in my heart and mind ever since, and God finally gave me opportunity to turn it into a book and Bible study. I share more about this faith journey in the book, and I unpack each facet of Know Be Do.(less)
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It’s been nearly three years since my last post on the Know Be Do blog. But I have been busy writing. I took a sabbatical from the blog to write my first book, which, “Surprise!”…is entitled Know Be Do: Turning the Christian Life Right Side Up. I spent about a year and a half researching and writing the book and another year and half getting it published (by WestBow Press, a division o

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“Knowing God supersedes everything else because it is the supreme cause. Everything else—being, doing, loving, believing, hoping, praising, worshipping, evangelizing, glorifying, enjoying—is an effect.”
Larry Alan Thompson, Know Be Do: Turning the Christian Life Right Side Up

“Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.”
Saint Augustine of Hippo

“Knowing God supersedes everything else because it is the supreme cause. Everything else—being, doing, loving, believing, hoping, praising, worshipping, evangelizing, glorifying, enjoying—is an effect.”
Larry Alan Thompson, Know Be Do: Turning the Christian Life Right Side Up

“Here are the sounds of Wear. It rattles stone on stone. It sucks its teeth. It sings. It hisses like the rain. It roars. It laughs. It claps its hands. Sometimes I think it prays. In winter, through the ice, I've seen it moving swift and black as Tune, without a sound.

Here are the sights of Wear. It falls in braids. It parts at rocks and tumbles round them white as down or flashes over them in silver quilts. It tosses fallen trees like bits of straw yet spins a single leaf as gentle as a maid. Sometimes it coils for rest in darkling pools and sometimes it leaps its banks and shatters in the air. In autumn, I've seen it breathe a mist so thick and grey you'd never know old Wear was there at all.

Each day, for years and years, I've gone and sat in it. Usually at dusk I clamber down and slowly sink myself to where it laps against my breast. Is it too much to say, in winter, that I die? Something of me dies at least.

First there's the fiery sting of cold that almost stops my breath, the aching torment in my limbs. I think I may go mad, my wits so outraged that they seek to flee my skull like rats a ship that's going down. I puff. I gasp. Then inch by inch a blessed numbness comes. I have no legs, no arms. My very heart grows still. These floating hands are not my hands. The ancient flesh I wear is rags for all I feel of it.

"Praise, Praise!" I croak. Praise God for all that's holy, cold, and dark. Praise him for all we lose, for all the river of the years bears off. Praise him for stillness in the wake of pain. Praise him for emptiness. And as you race to spill into the sea, praise him yourself, old Wear. Praise him for dying and the peace of death.

In the little church I built of wood for Mary, I hollowed out a place for him. Perkin brings him by the pail and pours him in. Now that I can hardly walk, I crawl to meet him there. He takes me in his chilly lap to wash me of my sins. Or I kneel down beside him till within his depths I see a star.

Sometimes this star is still. Sometimes she dances. She is Mary's star. Within that little pool of Wear she winks at me. I wink at her. The secret that we share I cannot tell in full. But this much I will tell. What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.”
Frederick Buechner, Godric

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