04.18.2024 – Story telling – 1 Comment on Raising the Dead on the World Race (#4) Raising the Dead on the World Race (#4) Jesus gave his disciples authority to raise the dead (Matt. 10). But those kinds of experiences are so rare in ou… Read Post
04.17.2024 – Story telling – 3 Comments on Dream of a Generation Fully Alive (#5) Dream of a Generation Fully Alive (#5) When we started the World Race, it burned as a dream in my heart before we even launched it. I felt God asking … Read Post
04.16.2024 – Story telling – 2 Comments on Kristen Sees God Heal Fea (#6) Kristen Sees God Heal Fea (#6) Have you ever been disappointed when God didn’t heal? I’ve waited 30+ years for God to heal my daughter. Why does G… Read Post
04.09.2024 – Story telling – No Comments on A Ukrainian Orphan Who Deserved a Name (#7) A Ukrainian Orphan Who Deserved a Name (#7) We continue with the countdown of the top 10 World Race stories of the last 18 years. In this story coming in at … Read Post
04.08.2024 – World Race – 1 Comment on The First World Race Ends With a Bang! (#8) The First World Race Ends With a Bang! (#8) Counting down the top 10 WR blogs. #8 is a summary of the first race in 2006. The first World Racers finished th… Read Post
04.04.2024 – Story telling – 4 Comments on Deafness Healed at Training Camp (#9) Deafness Healed at Training Camp (#9) We’re counting down the top 10 stories of the last 18 years of the World Race. Here is one that occurred during t… Read Post
04.02.2024 – Story telling – 2 Comments on The Top 10 World Race Stories The Top 10 World Race Stories Since starting the World Race 18 years ago, we’ve seen God show up in dramatic ways. So many of us have loved fol… Read Post
03.27.2024 – Amazing God Stories, Courage – 10 Comments on Ministering to Girls Caught in Sex Trade Ministering to Girls Caught in Sex Trade It was 1995, I took a team of about 40 young people from Omaha to Tampico, Mexico on a mission project. We arrive… Read Post
03.18.2024 – Improving yourself – 19 Comments on Free Book: How to Identify Your Super Power Free Book: How to Identify Your Super Power What if God created everyone with a latent superpower that just needed to be developed? What if there are seeds o… Read Post
03.12.2024 – Culture and Faith – 2 Comments on Why GenZ Doesn’t Read Books Anymore Why GenZ Doesn’t Read Books Anymore Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash Jean Twenge is a professor of psychology at San Diego State Univ… Read Post
03.03.2024 – Parenting – 6 Comments on Children Need Risky Play to Thrive Children Need Risky Play to Thrive Photo by Mariana Brussoni Are you a parent trying to help your child navigate the complexity of a world that seems… Read Post
02.27.2024 – Better Living – No Comments on We never arrive We never arrive That’s a picture of me at 21 on my journey from Virginia to Honduras – my first assignment in my first real job. … Read Post
02.21.2024 – Fighting your enemy – 7 Comments on Hurt People Hurt People Hurt People Hurt People Brad Dourif is an actor who, as a young man, played Billy Bibbit, a mental hospital patient in the 1975 fil… Read Post
02.08.2024 – Faith & risk – 3 Comments on Jerome Walks Across America with Nothing & Miracles Happen Jerome Walks Across America with Nothing & Miracles Happen Jerome Beers has an amazing testimony of God providing for him as he has lived a Matthew 10 lifestyle for eight y… Read Post
01.25.2024 – Comfort and Pain – 4 Comments on Gen Z Needs To Be Trusted More Gen Z Needs To Be Trusted More To grow, you need pain. Muscles need resistance (pain) to grow larger. Learning new skills requires the pai… Read Post
01.22.2024 – Better Living – 6 Comments on What Does ‘The Way, the Truth, and the Life’ Mean? What Does ‘The Way, the Truth, and the Life’ Mean? Most of us are familiar with the Bible verse where Jesus says, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one c… Read Post
01.14.2024 – My Life – No Comments on Do Not Fear Do Not Fear Maybe the most afraid I’ve been was when I was 11 years-old. I was backpacking through the Wind River Mountains w… Read Post
01.11.2024 – Journeys – 3 Comments on Looking For a Chance to Try to Do What Jesus Did Looking For a Chance to Try to Do What Jesus Did What do you think, in such a complicated world, is it possible to give young people the chance to do what Jesus d… Read Post
01.09.2024 – Better Living – 3 Comments on Wisdom From Charlie Munger Wisdom From Charlie Munger So many of my mistakes as a younger man came because I didn’t have the patience or humility to look for someone w… Read Post
01.04.2024 – Leadership – 8 Comments on The Main Thing is to Make the Main Thing the Main Thing The Main Thing is to Make the Main Thing the Main Thing It’s 2024 – I hope you’ve finished your debriefing of 2023. Just coping with the work of living day-to-day often … Read Post
12.30.2023 – Debriefing – 3 Comments on Why Reflection is Essential For Health Why Reflection is Essential For Health Reflection is a rear-view mirror helping us look at our lives to see if we’ve been living healthily and to make a… Read Post
12.28.2023 – Debriefing – 51 Comments on How to Debrief Your Last Year – a Free eBook How to Debrief Your Last Year – a Free eBook 2023 was such a full year – so much to debrief! I lost my best friend from college to brain cancer, but gained a … Read Post
12.21.2023 – Dreaming – 13 Comments on What Do You Do With Your Broken Dreams? What Do You Do With Your Broken Dreams? I have struggled with my dreams. Which should I hold onto even though they seem impossible? Which to let go? … Read Post
12.17.2023 – Parenting – 7 Comments on How Fathers Can Learn To Play With Their Kids How Fathers Can Learn To Play With Their Kids Kids need fathers who play. Playing is good for their souls. Playing bonds dads with their kids. My theory is tha… Read Post