Jesus wants more of his followers to see the world's pain, horrible though it may be. This is not a happy thing for most of us. It produces a sense of...
Writing in Sojourners, Troy Jackson declared that it's time to declare a moratorium on short-term mission trips. He makes the following points: A...
Some of you figure you've been dealt a pretty poor hand in life. Maybe you've got debts piling up, or you've had bad luck in relationships, or you can...
Jesus was an activist. He stirred things up. He made people mad. He took on the existing social order. Following him was often a stressful proposition...
It's sickening to see 13 year-old girls recruited by their parents to become prostitutes. It's disgusting that a culture would be so sex-obsessed th...
I was talking to some businessmen tonight who faced messy situations in a business that had been run into the ground. It was losing money and had so m...
My kids are grown up and in their 20's, but the growing up part wasn't easy. Karen and I had to let them go through a lot of stuff and were continuall...
For most of my life, I've been trying to separate the Americanized Jesus I grew up with from the Jesus I keep reading about in Scripture. The American...
I was picking ticks off of Whimsy tonight. Three small ones and two that had begun to grow. It was gross, but had to be done. Little things, unex...
What does it take to reach your destiny? I think it takes a white flag of surrender. You need to reach the end of your own resources and realize that ...
