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ghost of Ted Danson

07.22.2007 – Spiritual Formation – 2 Comments

Looking for the ghost of Ted Danson

My sister Christy spotted Ted Danson in the lobby of the Stanley Hotel this past week and I couldn’t help wondering w…

Swaziland

07.21.2007 – Eswatini / Swaziland – 3 Comments

How Swaziland stretched my faith to the limit

Nothing made sense about interrupting my life to do a massive project in Swaziland in the summer of 200…

mask

07.20.2007 – Dreaming – No Comments

Dreaming it and doing it

A generation is dreaming that they can be different from the status quo, and they are actually doing it. They are re-…

Swaziland

07.20.2007 – Eswatini / Swaziland – 1 Comment

How I got involved in Swaziland

When the idea to take on the worst AIDS problem in the world came, it required that I basically take a …

not being a victim

07.19.2007 – Leadership – 5 Comments

All leaders are pilgrims

This is my letter to the leaders of the World Race, but I’d like to think that it could be a letter to leaders in the…

Stop being a victim

07.18.2007 – Better Living – 2 Comments

Stop being a victim!

The other day I shared one of Linnea Molgard’s stories. She, along with her husband Scott, is one of my favorite Worl…

Questions to Ask in 2021

07.17.2007 – Mobilization – 2 Comments

Mobilize a Generation: How to reach the millenials

As part of mobilizing a generation to find their identity in Christ and change the world, we’re launching an online c…

interrupt a suicide

07.16.2007 – Wounded healers – 7 Comments

How to interrupt a suicide

Every week thousands of people try to kill themselves because they’ve lost hope. If you were to stumble across someon…

mask

07.15.2007 – Eswatini / Swaziland – 3 Comments

Swaziland ’07 – AIDS Crisis Peaks

We saw the consequences of the numbers last month in the haunted eyes of a two year old who walks from her home by he…

Scott Molgard

07.14.2007 – Portraits of Disciplers – 8 Comments

Why I’m a fan of Scott Molgard

Scott is easy to underestimate. Not one to blow his own trumpet, he works hard to keep your expectations low. He call…

dad's role

07.13.2007 – Fathering & Men’s issues – 10 Comments

A dad’s role with his daughter’s suitors

In the Christian school our kids attended, they sometimes stood out. Once when I discovered that one of our daught…

generation

07.12.2007 – Mobilization – 5 Comments

A generation that has been lied to

The sad thing is that my generation doesn’t seem to realize that it has been doing the lying. Young people inevitably…

not being a victim

07.11.2007 – Ask Seth – 198 Comments

What do you do when God is silent?

Yesterday was a good day. Frankly, sometimes I get tired of writing this blog. I wonder, “Does anybody care about thi…

Poverty

07.10.2007 – Poverty – No Comments

Poverty up close and personal wrecks you

Four years ago, I tracked down Kari Miller, a Minnesotan school teacher who is spending her summer with wid…

Questions to Ask in 2021

07.09.2007 – Church – 2 Comments

Too white, too safe, too bad

Homogeneity is a problem in the church. It’s a term that means that everybody in a group is pretty much the same. …

Comfortably numb

07.08.2007 – Simplicity Liberates You – 6 Comments

Comfortably numb

In case no one’s asked you a provocative question lately, I’ve got four of them for you. Take your pick: When was …

Raising the dead

07.07.2007 – The Holy Spirit is on the move – 7 Comments

Raising the dead in India

J. Lee Grady, the editor of Charisma, puts out a regular email that energizes my faith. I recommend subscri…

mask

07.06.2007 – Orphans – 4 Comments

No mommy

I read lots of World Racer blogs every day. Other guys play golf – I read these blogs. I do it because I love these g…

young people

07.05.2007 – Mobilization – 2 Comments

A moral tsunami sweeping young people out to sea

Having spent the past month in Africa with the World Racers, this idea of abandonment has really become a reality. Th…

not being a victim

07.04.2007 – Radical Living – 2 Comments

Getting started in Matamoros

During the summer of 1993 some of our staff joined me in investigating the new field of Matamoros, Mexico. Such pione…

Questions to Ask in 2021

07.03.2007 – Short-term missions – 7 Comments

Our petty complaints

Short-term missions can have an incredible impact on the participants, if they are truly broken of their western ethn…

World Racer

07.02.2007 – Spiritual Formation – 2 Comments

A World Racer talks about real hunger

Last month, World Racer Amanda Dums, who was ministering in a world of hunger in Africa, wrote this: The word …

not being a victim

07.01.2007 – Mobilization – No Comments

Voice of a movement

Each month, thousands of people are visiting Wrecked for the Ordinary, an online magazine for radical Christ-follower…

Questions to Ask in 2021

06.30.2007 – Community and Covenant – 4 Comments

John Eldredge on community living

I just came across this article by Eldredge in House2House, a house church resource. In reading it, I realized how th…

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