12.30.2024 – Better Living – 1 Comment on God Will Give All of Us a Life Review God Will Give All of Us a Life Review In 1986, I met a man who died, met Jesus and got a chance to review his life – all during the half hour he was te…
12.27.2024 – Debriefing – 3 Comments on How to Process Your Past Year: Here’s What Works for Me How to Process Your Past Year: Here’s What Works for Me Let’s be honest – 2024 was a crazy year. I don’t want to repeat it, so I don’t want to miss anything it has to te…
12.12.2024 – Wounded healers An example of God helping process trauma Almost all of us have experienced trauma of one kind or another. And many of us may never get around to trying to f…
12.10.2024 – Refugees & Crisis Trauma Processing Can Begin As Wars End The photo above is a shot of the citizens of Syria looking for food or a chance to leave their country as it is b…
12.03.2024 – Dreaming Your Art Needs a Frame: The Power of Structure in Creativity The picture above is of an old church in Sorrento, Italy. Its priest, my friend Rito Maresca, has a dream of a co…
International Refugee Day is Today Refugees & Crisis I was flying home and turned on the movie The Good Lie – a story about refugees from Sudan moving to Canada. The movie moved me. I was sitting there in m…
The dangers of dependency on a mission trip (part 2) Short-term missions Second in a series on the issue focuses on dangers to the host church. The reasons for going to a new location for a missions project are largely base…
Fear of storms in life A broken world Katrina was such a catastrophic event, leaving a whole city homeless, that three years later, New Orleans is properly respectful and apprehensive o…