In our community group, Amie Bokelman had surgery that left her incapacitated, yet with her little ones still running around. Fortunately, my w...
So you're meeting regularly with a group of believers who call themselves "church." But you can't shake the sense that the atmosphere has gone stale, ...
The World Race team we coach just arrived in Thailand en route to Viet Nam and then Cambodia. One of the things they'll be doing is ministering to...
We're too safe in America - too tepid. You can believe anything; just don't believe it too strongly. According to Barna, we prioritize our childre...
A big part of becoming an adult is learning how to deal with life's three great temptations - money, sex, and power. As teenagers, we can't begin to...
For the last two Sundays we posted the names of those in this blog community who are fighting for life. I'll post the names one more time here, but ...
I just got this report from Athol Barnes, an AIM staff member: The damage is very similar to Katrina and the New Orleans Gulf coast area. W...
Partly it's our puritanical drive for efficiency. Partly it's our microwaved McMuffin approach to life. We want to cut corners on discipleship whe...
This is a continuation of my earlier blog. Sex I have four daughters of marriageable age. Having been an adolescent boy with sex on the brain I kn...
Loving my own five kids came naturally to me. They had my DNA, were in my home and wanted my attention. We had affinity, proximity, and need. It w...
