The struggle for intimacy
To know others deeply and to be known is to put an exclamation point on our humanity. It is to meet the second highest of Maslow's Hierarchy of Ne...
To know others deeply and to be known is to put an exclamation point on our humanity. It is to meet the second highest of Maslow's Hierarchy of Ne...
We're far too critically-minded in the States. We need to be born again again. We are members of "the faith," but we're often lacking in the faith de...
Sometimes, I look at the poverty in places like Swaziland, and I despair of ever seeing hope reborn. Children are abused, teenagers are p...
This issue of trust is huge. We Americans may not recognize it because we live in a high trust culture. We are taught to respect the value of a han...
A number of years ago, while ministering in Lima, Peru, Ric Jacobs and I and two students were invited into the home of an older couple. Their home wa...
For 30 years there was no witness in many parts of Cuba. The worst region was Matanza. In 1988, a great revival came to the town of Madruga. It spread...
Visiting the town of Madruga in 1995, I saw a church which still has the same fire it had in 1988. It is a church that understands the power of prayer...
In yesterday's blog I described my visit to the town of Madruga, a place where a great revival had broken out in 1988 and where healings continued to ...
Over the years, I've wasted a lot of time doing things with good intentions, but that in the end, may have had few results. I began my overseas career...
Three years ago I was in a meeting with the King of Swaziland and a friend of mine who is a well-known Christian leader. I thought we were there to he...