Are you a fan or a follower of Jesus?
Saw this blog by Gerrard Fess, a Canadian minister. The question: Are you more of a fan or a follower of Jesus? There seems to be this debate of wh...
Missions photos
Photo Contest: Some awesome entries already
With 274 submissions to our photo contest in the first two weeks, we're off to a good start! There are three judges. They are all-stars. One of them i...
Fathering & Men's issues
3 Questions only a father can answer
If you want to get to the core of a person, probe his or her relationship with their father. You may look like a success on the outside, but if your...
Leadership
How do you hire great people?
In general, in ministry, we do as bad or worse in hiring people as those in business do. If we followed Jesus' model of walking with people before s...
Fighting your enemy
Demonic attacks like computer viruses
People sometimes ask me about if I ever expected AIM to grow as it has and how did it happen? On a practical level, one of the keys has been the brill...
Parenting
An out-of-control mom
A lot of parents need to get a life. Some are WAY too involved in their children's lives. It leads to crazy dysfunctional behavior when they become ad...
Leadership
Self-management is key in this economy
Economists forecast that by next year, the unemployment rate in America will be well over 10% while the rate of under-employment (people working part-...
A broken world
Losing a friend to AIDS
Pastor Gift works in the most AIDS-devastated place in the world - in Nsoko, the worst part of Swaziland. This past week was a hard one for him. He sh...
Provoke me to dare more boldly
Uche Izuora is a Nigerian missionary to the Sudan. That's a tough place to minister, but Uche is tougher. He and I have been corresponding for sev...
Justice issues
The reality of Slumdog Millionaire
Did you see Slumdog Millionaire? I just saw on the news last week that the kid who starred in it had his house in the slums bulldozed. The sad truth i...