How do Jesus followers grow? For those of us who have taken Jesus at his words and want to follow through on his final assignment - to go and make dis...
Karen and I just returned from a week-long ministry trip to the other side of the world. It was exhausting and we're a little spent. It's at times lik...
Flying with Karen today to speak at the Youth Specialties Conference in Sacramento. If any of you blog readers are out there, let me know - I'd like...
Human beings are communal creatures. You need a context. You need people who get you and love you, warts and all. You need a tribe of people who sha...
From Seth Godin: A journalist asked me, "Most people have a better standard of living today than Louis XIV did in his day. So why are so many peopl...
It was almost two weeks ago that I posted a call to action to help clean up the areas that Hurricane Ike had devastated. This past week, we distribute...
We took off from the Phnom Penh airport and as I write this we're on a Korean Air 747 somewhere over the north Pacific. We spent four intense days deb...
A lot of us have read the Ephesians 6 passage about the armor of God, but we've never really put it on. We've never gotten it dirty or had to depend o...
How do you respond to panhandlers and beggars? Do they represent an interruption and an inconvenience in your day? I walked by one on my way to di...
Yeah, anybody invested in the market is probably a lot poorer than a month ago. My condolences - this is as bad a bear as we've had in our modern er...
