My friend Cameron used to call the business of raising a child "the 18 year project." If that's the case, then we've completed the project with our fo...
About a month ago, five of my daughter's friends were killed in a terrible accident. She might have been in the accident herself if she hadn't taken...
A few days ago I wrote a blog listing 12 reasons why making disciples is difficult. I did this in part to explain why it is rare and in part to show w...
Q: Does God ever lack the vocabulary to speak to a person? A. Yes, insofar as we are his vocabulary and we refuse to be available to him. How do...
Ten years ago I met Chris Montgomery and her husband in Costa Rica. It's been years since we talked, but she got a hold of The Art of Listening Prayer...
Discipling may not be dependent on having a great place to meet, but it sure does help to have somewhere to hang out and have an undistracted, deep co...
In this summer season of mission projects, a lot of people are being thrust into high pressure leadership situations in strange environments with peop...
On any given short-term mission project, two roles must be fulfilled. Because a lot of leaders have never been trained in either of these roles, they ...
Here's one of the best lessons I ever learned...
Anybody looking at my family might assume that life is hunky dory. But we've been going through a season of failure lately. Yesterday I got turned dow...
