Karen and I celebrated 25 years of marriage in December. She’s been a great partner. We’ve shared so many adventures together. I’ve watched many...
The danger in America is that we become self-absorbed and miss God's heart for the poor that Bono pointed us to Isaiah 58 (in his address at the Natio...
To learn something, a coach really helps. A teacher may lay out the facts and the principles, a trainer may spell out the procedures, but it all comes...
As a junior in high school, my mom encouraged me to go on a two-month mission trip to Guatemala. That took a lot of effort on her part, because I was ...
I got up at 3:45 this morning with this thought buzzing in my head: "Go ask someone who reads your blog to help you." I don't know if it was God or th...
Discipling is about relationship - it's spiritual fathering, a relationship where one person sees Jesus in another person and says, "Oh, that's what h...
There are a hundred reasons why people don't do one-on-one discipleship. In England, I met a vicar who wouldn't meet on a regular basis with young peo...
What are we passing on to our children? Wealth? Values? Relationships? What an irony that in passing money on to their children, wealthy people may be...
In India, 70% of the orphans in a Hopegivers orphanage end up going to Bible School. And when they graduate, they take a martyr’s oath. Hopegivers ...
