4 things I love about my mom: She's intrepid. She's currently in Afghanistan for a month with my Dad. This past week, she needed 2 kilos o...
So much of what we do is half-hearted. Our parenting is often half-hearted. We’re so busy with other things that we don’t really give our children...
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...
To have a “warrior moment” you have to first love something so much you’ll die for it. I know I love Karen and the kids that much. I love the Lo...
My point isn't to knock "Bill" below - it's to make a case for the rare people like Chad who will take Jesus at his word and live a life of radical ab...
The Christian establishment worked itself into a lather this past week over the movie “The Da Vinci Code.” Yes, it (and the book on which it is ba...
I need to apologize to those who felt I was attacking "Bill" in yesterday's email when really I was trying to get the would-be "Chads" of the world to...
