You have to be a little crazy to follow Jesus
I was reading my favorite devotional book today and saw this great thought: If the world is sane, then Jesus is mad as a hatter and the Last Supper...
Youth Ministry
Youth pastors choosing the road less traveled
Jesus called us to be radicals resisting a flawed religious order. It was flawed in his day and in many quarters, it is still in need of reform today....
Dealing with junk in our lives
Hurt people hurt people – the zombie phenomenon
I was sitting at a bar ordering lunch at a restaurant in a small airport in Texas when the lady behind the counter accosted me: “Whaddya want?” ...
Missions
8 lessons for aspiring missionaries
Tony Sheng chimed in on my last blog - so I checked out his blog. That's what we bloggers do. He points to another blog that gives eight lessons f...
My Life
Bless your mother
My 71 year-old Mom is traveling with my Dad to Afghanistan for a month-long mission to help the Afghans. I aspire to be a warrior at her age like she ...
My Life
Where is God in the midst of tragedy?
There are no great answers when tragedy hits. As a parent of a child who has been suddenly killed, you’re left sifting through the memories hopi...
Short-term missions
The future of short-term missions
Last month I wrote this article for a missions magazine on the future of short-term missions: Another good article in the same issue had advice for...
Discipling
My cyber-discipling experiment: an interim report
I’ve cleared the following report with my cyber-disciples (so called because we transacted everything by email). So, I’m maintaining the confident...
Reaching Your Destiny
How do you make big, scary life & death decisions?
This afternoon I got a call from one of our leaders who discovered that one of the participants on his trip was “seriously suicidal” and had been ...
Missions
Persecution up close and personal in India
Yesterday, I received word about my friend and ministry partner in India, Samuel Thomas, who was released from prison after being brutally tortured fo...
