It's a little after 11 pm at night. Karen is doing the bills and I've been booking flights on line. We both hate this detail work. It leaves us exh...
Andrew Shearman has this message he preaches called "The 42nd Generation." I first heard him share it in Brownsville, Texas about 14 years ago. The po...
A few years ago, I heard about General Russ Weiskircher, who had helped liberate Dachau concentration camp. He lives 40 minutes from us. He is sti...
Karen asked me a question about how to find your spiritual focus as we sat in a restaurant in Panajachel, Guatemala, waiting for coffee early one morn...
Life can be a bully pushing us around. I discovered this while parenting. Periodically one of my children would come to me with some tale of woe. Thei...
For a number of years now I've been working on a practical how- to book on discipleship. Dennis McCallum has beaten me to the punch with Organic Disci...
The earthquake in China and the cyclone in Myanmar seem like they're a world away. These New York Times pictures do a great job of bringing these t...
In this age of the constantly firing microscopic synaptic connection and interlocking neural networks, information cascades ceaselessly into our lives...
Here's a good poem that Ma Teresa had on her wall. I don't know how she did it. All those needy people constantly asking for a piece of her. And I ...
There is an implied criticism for short-term missionaries when would-be supporters sometimes ask this question:"Why do you want to go overseas? There ...
