Is it faith or just desperation?
The children of Israel are fleeing Egypt when Pharaoh changes his mind and pursues them. We've seen this in the Cecil B. DeMille film - they're backed...
The Holy Spirit is on the move
Astounding growth in the church worldwide
As I said in an earlier blog, the world is getting brighter, not darker. Haiti was an example. What we thought was just a horrific event has been tr...
How to Disciple
Does your church train you?
I grew up in a Midwestern church that cared about its people. I went to Bible studies and attended a good Christian college. If teaching were enough, ...
Living Free
I don't do binary
It's either black or white yes or no democrat or republican good or bad Or not. Consider the future, for example: Will technology contribute ...
Haiti
$10 goes a long way in Haiti
The rainy season has started in Haiti. The issues of just scraping out a living there just got more complicated. Families in the flood plains are stil...
Haiti
Hope and despair in Haiti
I've written before about the nationwide prayer meetings we saw in Haiti. God's Spirit continues to be poured out on that hungry land even as the ...
Living Free
Your pain is real
Most people have a hard time with reality. They are victims whining about it. They are neurotics coping with it in abnormal ways. They are OCD, trying...
Living Free
Self-reliance is counterproductive
Where are you going spiritually? Are you moving toward isolation and self-reliance or toward greater dependence on God and others? True confessio...
Haiti
Please, take my child!
Jenni Weir told me this story after she returned from Haiti: It was my first full day in Haiti. I was excited to go to Pastor Christians church in ...
Missions
Here's a controversial Bible passage
Guy Muse wrote this. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciple...
