I got up at 3:45 this morning with this thought buzzing in my head: "Go ask someone who reads your blog to help you." I don't know if it was God or th...
As a junior in high school, my mom encouraged me to go on a two-month mission trip to Guatemala. That took a lot of effort on her part, because I was ...
To learn something, a coach really helps. A teacher may lay out the facts and the principles, a trainer may spell out the procedures, but it all comes...
The danger in America is that we become self-absorbed and miss God's heart for the poor that Bono pointed us to Isaiah 58 (in his address at the Natio...
“All men die, but how many truly live?” William Wallace asked in Braveheart. The paradox is that to live well, we must make our peace with death....
There are a hundred reasons why people don't do one-on-one discipleship. In England, I met a vicar who wouldn't meet on a regular basis with young peo...
What are we passing on to our children? Wealth? Values? Relationships? What an irony that in passing money on to their children, wealthy people may be...
In India, 70% of the orphans in a Hopegivers orphanage end up going to Bible School. And when they graduate, they take a martyr’s oath. Hopegivers ...
Recently as I was driving, I saw a mouse running along the bridge on the side of the road a couple of feet from where my tires rolled by at 55 mph. He...
I have seen people oppressed or even possessed by demons get set free. My first encounter came 16 years ago. The hair on the back of my neck stood on ...
