God made you to be great. But you will never walk in the greatness he made you for until you've left your hometown. Hometowns are places of familiarit...
Last night we lost a friend and one of our best kingdom warriors. Kathy Lucas showed me a lot in the decade that I knew her. She knew the stakes and...
We come out of a culture that prizes efficiency and systems. We apply that mindset to spiritual formation and assume that all we have to do to g...
Cowboys are at home, not with people, but out on the range, with deer and antelope. Descended from revolutionaries who declared independence,...
Some people say that we shouldn't do short-term mission trips because our track record is poor - we can do so much damage. The critique is fair - a l...
When winter comes, I have a love-hate relationship with the indoors. Baby it's cold outside. But I know that if I sit around the fireplace too long, c...
As I debriefed 2016 with a friend, we reviewed one of our greatest disappointments. We sent a team off with high expectations. For a while they thrive...
Years ago, two leaders who reported to me struggled to trust one another. Because they started with a trust-deficit with each other, they tended to w...
In life we will suffer. We are born hurting - screaming out our pain as we enter the world. And some of us will die that way too, in car accidents, vi...
We are approaching a season of graduations. Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, had the chance to share his best advice at the school he dropp...
