Thomas Hobbes said, "Life is nasty, brutish, and short." When we're born, this is what we're up against. So early on we begin the quest to minimize pa...
Yesterday I wrote about why it's hard to disciple adults. Today, I'd like to illustrate my point with an experience trying to disciple a man I'll call...
Mark Oestreicher is an old friend and a great thinker (that's him in the box, but usually he's thinking outside it - I thought the picture was nicely ...
Keith Green was 29 when he died in 1982. He was not only a forerunner in the Christian music scene, he also had a clear sense of Jesus' radical call a...
There’s something in all of us that loves the easy chair, that wants to sink back into the Jacuzzi, that melts when massaged, that delights in havin...
Leaving and cleaving. We do it when we marry, but how do we leave the world behind and cleave to Jesus? This first task of leaving is a tough one. Lu...
I had the wonderful experience of being misquoted in the national press with an article coming out tomorrow. Ugh!! The reporter's name is Jeff MacDona...
This issue of abandon is not necessarily one of physical leaving. It is about your heart. Where is your treasure? Are you motivated by things of the k...
At a Christian high school graduation ceremony last week in Louisiana, The valedictorian (a gifted young man headed to an Ivy League college) spoke el...
Outtakes from yesterday's interview Question: To the critics of short-term mission trips, what do you say to those who are concerned that these are m...
