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There is an implied criticism for short-term missionaries when would-be supporters sometimes ask this question:"Why do you want to go overseas? There ...
Here's a good poem that Ma Teresa had on her wall. I don't know how she did it. All those needy people constantly asking for a piece of her. And I ...
In this age of the constantly firing microscopic synaptic connection and interlocking neural networks, information cascades ceaselessly into our lives...
The earthquake in China and the cyclone in Myanmar seem like they're a world away. These New York Times pictures do a great job of bringing these t...
For a number of years now I've been working on a practical how- to book on discipleship. Dennis McCallum has beaten me to the punch with Organic Disci...
Life can be a bully pushing us around. I discovered this while parenting. Periodically one of my children would come to me with some tale of woe. Thei...
Karen asked me a question about how to find your spiritual focus as we sat in a restaurant in Panajachel, Guatemala, waiting for coffee early one morn...
The FYM program (First-Year Missionaries) gives college students a chance to spend a a year-abroad being discipled. We started it several years ago an...
Sometimes, it seems melodramatic to say it, but there is no escaping the fact that Swaziland is dying. The official numbers show a relentless pande...
Here's a guide, a one-stop shop , to what's going on in Lakeland, Florida. Some are calling it the the beginnings of a global revival; others say it's...
